Renewed Grants for 2007/2008
| Category |
Investigators |
Project Title |
Hosting Institution |
AmountAUD ex GST |
| Fungi |
Dr Teresa Lebel |
Revision of Australian truffle-like fungi genera in the order Boletales (Basidiomycota) |
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne |
$22 000 |
| Dr Jose Liberato |
Powdery mildew fungi (Erysiphaceae) of Australia |
Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries |
$43 243 |
| Dr John Pitt |
The fungal family Trichocomaceae in Australia: from discovery to description |
Food Science Australia |
$5 000 |
| Dr Malcolm Ryley |
A monograph of the plant-infecting members of the Order Clavicipitales in Australia |
Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries |
$31 000 |
| Algae |
Dr John Huisman |
Name That Seaweed - A multimedia approach to the identification of marine plants |
Murdoch University |
$30 000 |
| Assoc. Prof. Brett Neilan |
A taxonomic assessment of cyanobiont diversity in Gunnera and cycad species in Australia, their co-evolution and their potential use as biofertilisers |
University of New South Wales |
$10 000 |
| Lichens |
Dr André Aptroot |
The lichen family Pyrenulaceae, a treatment for the Flora of Australia |
Adviesbureau voor Bryologie en Lichenologie, Netherlands |
$25 000 |
| Bryophytes |
Dr Josephine Milne |
A taxonomic treatment of Australian genera in the family Pottiaceae, subfamily Pottioideae |
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne |
$57 848 |
| Flora |
Dr Barbara Rye |
Preparation of revisions, flora treatments and an electronic key for Baeckea, Astartea, Scholtzia, Thryptomene, Micromyrtus and related genera |
Western Australian Herbarium |
$41 997 |
| Dr Ian Thompson |
A taxonomic review of tribes Rubieae and Anthospermeae (Family Rubiaceae) in Australia |
University of Melbourne |
$27 000 |
| Fauna |
Mr Mark Adams |
Taxonomic revision of the Australian freetail bat genus Mormopterus (Chiroptera: Molossidae) |
South Australian Museum |
$6 000 |
| Dr Belinda Alvarez de Glasby |
Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) of northern Australia and phylogenetic implications for sponge classification |
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory |
$50 000 |
| Ms Marion Anstis |
Tadpoles and frogs of Australia |
Unattached |
$10 000 |
| Dr Claudia Arango |
Systematics of Australian sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida): Taxonomy, diversity, and phylogenetic advances |
Queensland Museum |
$7 000 |
| Prof. Andrew Austin |
Systematics of the Australian spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) |
University of Adelaide |
$37 000 |
| Dr Barbara Baehr |
Revision of the Habronestes species of Queensland (Araneae: Zodariidae). An example for species richness and variation |
Queensland Museum |
$4 000 |
| Dr Jennifer Beard |
Taxonomy and systematics of Australian Laelapidae and Leptolaelapidae |
Queensland Museum |
$25 000 |
| Mr David Cartwright |
Revision of the Australian species of Hydrobiosella Tillyard (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) |
Unattached |
$10 000 |
| Dr Gerasimos Cassis |
Systematics, biogeography and host associations of the lacebugs of Australia (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingidae) |
University of New South Wales |
$40 000 |
| Dr Faye Christidis |
Systematics and biogeography of the Australian Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera) |
James Cook University |
$60 000 |
| Dr Les Christidis |
Systematics, biogeography, genetic differentiation and conservation of the grass wren Amytornis complex (Aves) |
Australian Museum |
$10 000 |
| Dr Donald Colgan |
Morphological and molecular investigations of the systematics and phylogeography of the speciose landsnail genus Gyrocochlea (Mollusca: Charopidae) |
Australian Museum |
$33 000 |
| Dr Thomas Cribb |
Opecoelidae (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of Australian tropical marine fishes: systematics and host-specificity |
University of Queensland |
$20 000 |
| Prof. Steve Donnellan |
Systematic revision of the Australo-Papuan hylid frogs based on a comprehensive molecular genetic framework |
University of Adelaide |
$31 000 |
| Dr Gregory Edgecombe |
Systematics of Australian scutigeromorph centipedes and the phylogeny of the Scutigeromorpha based on morphological and molecular data |
Natural History Museum, London |
$37 000 |
| Dr Volker Framenau |
The systematics of Australian orb-web spiders of the subfamily Araneinae (Araneae, Araneidae) |
Western Australian Museum |
$57 000 |
| Dr Susan Fuller |
A comprehensive molecular systematic analysis of Australian mosaic-tailed rats (Melomys: Rodentia) |
Queensland University of Technology |
$15 000 |
| Dr Michelle Guzik |
Systematics of the Australian Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) |
University of Adelaide |
$12 000 |
| Mr Rudolf Kohout |
Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis; part 1—subgenera Cyrtomyrma, Hagiomyrma, Hedomyrma, Myrma, Myrmatopa, Myrmhopla, Myrmothrinax and Polyrhachis |
Queensland Museum |
$6 000 |
| Dr J.K. Lowry |
Australian benthic marine Amphipoda: Monograph and illustrated interactive identification systems |
Australian Museum |
$20 000 |
| Dr Jane Melville |
An integrative approach to the revision of four genera of Australian lizards (family Agamidae, subfamily Amphibolurinae) |
Museum Victoria |
$30 000 |
| Prof. Dr Gerald Moritz |
Lucid3 electronic identification and information system (PC and MAC) to Australian Thysanoptera (Insecta) |
University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
$5 000 |
| Dr Adam Slipinski |
Interactive keys to the Australian ladybird beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Part III: Subfamily Scymninae |
CSIRO Entomology |
$25 000 |
| Dr Erich Volschenk |
Systematic revision of the endemic Australian scorpion genus Urodacus (Scorpiones: Urodacidae) |
Western Australian Museum |
$60 000 |
