Terrestrial Biodiversity Adaptation Research Network

The NCCARF-TB Network offers up to $3000 in funds to facilitate collaborative research in PhD students. Successful projects address terrestrial biodiversity adapation to climate change.

Find reports of completed projects linked in the table below.

PhD collaborative travel projects funded

Student	University	Project	Visit	Report
Round 1 - July 2009
James Camac	University of Melbourne	The interactive effects of fire and climate change on vegetation in the Australian Alps	ANU –Cary Lab
Yui Osanai	University of Tasmania	The effect changes in botanical dominance on soil nitrogen dynamics	Visit UQ – Schmidt Lab
Anett Richter	University of Canberra	Determing the response of the insects in grassland fragmentation and extreme drought	Rochfort -Victoria
Stuart Irvine-Brown	University of Queensland	Carbon stock assessment under rehabilitated and native land ecosystems	CSIRO Adelaide – Baldock Lab
Round 2 - November 2009
Christine Adams-Hosking	University of Queensland	Regional Conservation Network Planning for Widely Distributed Species: A Koala Phascolarctos cinereus Case Study	American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station, Arizona
Subhashni Taylor	University of New England	Mapping and Modelling Lantana Distribution – Effects of Environmental Gradients and Climate Change	Hearne Scientific Software in Canberra
Gabriele Caccamo	University of Wollongong	Cross-scale analysis of the relationship between moisture and fire behaviour in the Sydney basin	Professor Dar Roberts Geography Department University of California
Rohan Wickramasuriya	University of Wollongong	Exploring habitat loss and fragmentation in amenity landscapes through agent-based land use modelling	University of Waterloo, Canada
Jeremy Little	James Cook University	Climate change impacts on fire and the distribution of vegetation communities of the Wet Tropics	Uni Tas, David Bowman
Round 3 - March 2010
Sophie Arnall	University of Western Australia	Predicting species survival under climate change: Using biophysiology to model the translocation variability of Australia’s rarest reptile, the Western Swamp Tortoise.	Dr Michael Kearney, University of Melbourne
Scott Groom	Flinders University	Pollination by native bees in the face of habitat fragmentation and climate change	Dr Mary Taylor- Fuji
Martin Breed	Adelaide University	Restoration genetics in Murray Mallee and Neotropical Forests: implications for management and planning	Bryan Finegan, Costa Rica
Ernest Dunwoody	University of Southern Queensland	Development of Resolution Dependent Scaling Factors for Landscape Function Analysis Indices for Measurement of Ecosystem Adaptation	Around Australia Lab CSIRO and QDPI
Brad Evans	Murdoch University	Climatic impacts on forest ecosystems in the southwest of Western Australia	Thomas Hinkler and Nicloas Coops
Kyran Staunton	James Cook University	Carabid Distributions within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area	Dr Michael Kearney, University of Melbourne
Round 4 - July 2010
Clay Trauernicht	University of Tasmania	The utility of the Northern Cypress Pine, Callitris intratropica, as an indicator of ecological integrity on the Arnhem Plateau	Stephen Ellner, Department of Ecology, Cornell University USA
Anne Cochrane	Australian National University	Population variation in seed and seedling ecology along a climate gradient: assessing plant species persistence in South West Western Australia under a changing climate	Guy Midgley, South African National Botanical Institute, Cape Town South Africa
Kiara O’Gorman	Monash University	Multi-trophic relationships between Australian Mistletoe and their hosts and herbivores: the role of allelochemicals	Dr. Min An – Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
Round 5 - April 2011
Martin Breed	University of Adeliade	Restoration genetics in Murray Mallee and Neotropical Forests: implications for management and planning.	Uppsala University, Sweden Two UK universities
Carina Wyborn	ANU	Collaborative cross-scale governance as a climate adaptation strategy? The science and values of large landscape conservation.	Dr Matt McKinney, University of Montana
Anna Bruniche-Olsen	University of Tasmania	Evaluation of temporal and spatial changes in genetic diversity of the Tasmanian devil.	Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Welcome Trust Sanger Institute
Anna Pintor	James Cook University	Plasticity and geographic variation in fundamental Niche traits- consequences for predictive models.	Michael Kearney. University of Melbourne
Bronwyn Fancourt	University of Tasmania	Drought, disease or destiny? Identify causes of decline of the eastern quoll.	Brooke Bateman, JCU
Sarah Maunsell	Griffith University	Associations of leaf-miner tropics networks and climate within Australian subtropical rainforest.	Dr Becky Morris, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford,UK
Jessica Roberts	University of Melbourne	Predicting the climate niche of kangaroos and their response in a changing climate.	Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Prof. Warren Porter, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin USA
Mathew Vickers	James Cook University	A mechanistic model to study the capacity for behavioural thermoregulation to buffer climate change in small ectotherms.	Prof. Ray Huey, University of Washington, Seattle Prof. Donald Miles, Ohio University
Round 6 - August 2011
Laura Sonter	University of Queensland	Qualifying impacts of climate change policies on Terrestrial Biodiversity and Future Land Use.	Pro Britaldo Soares, Uni Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Simon Kilbane	University of Western Australia	Towards a National Green Infrastructure: Testing the theory of an interconnectioned landscape system.	Alterra at Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Sarah Butler	University of Queensland	Resilience of fragmented ecosystems in agricultural landscapes: interactive effects of exotic grass invasion and land-use history along climate gradients.	David Bowman, Kerry Bridle and Louise Gilfedder at Uni of Tasmania, DPIEW.
Round 7 - April 2012
Lisa Xian	University of Queensland	Functional responses of Triodia in Australia’s arid zone	Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority (WA), University of Western Australia
Martin Breed	University of Western Australia	Restoration genetics in Murray Mallee and Neotropical Forests: implications for management and Planning	Plant Genetics Institute, National Research Council, Italy; Plant Ecology Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden
Andrew Nield	Murdoch University	Dispersal and persistence of large-seeded species by the emu under global environmental change.	George Perry, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Sophie Arnall	University of Western Australia	Ecoenergetics of the Western Swamp Tortoise: Modeling the future translocation viability of Australia’s rarest reptile.	Dr Michael Kearney, University of Melbourne and Dr. S.A.L.M. (Bas) Kooijman, University of Amsterdam.
Veronica Briceno	ANU	The maternal effect on stress tolerance in alpine plants from Mt. Kosciuszko.	Prof. Gilbert Neuner, Research Group Stress Physiology and Climate Resistence, University of Innsbruck.
Victoria Marshall	Adelaide University	Mapping and modelling the distribution of invasive weed species, Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) using remote sensing methods.	Stephen Yool, The University of Arizona.