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ABRS Grants awarded

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Research Grants

Capacity-Building Grants

Research grants awarded for the 2019–2020 round

Algae

Recipient: Griffith University, QLD
Principal Investigator: G.Diaz-Pulido
Project Title: Australian reef building coralline red algae
Amount: $99 000 (incl. GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019

Bryophytes

Recipient: The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust (Sydney), NSW
Principal Investigator: M.Renner
Project Title: An integrative systematic revision of Australian Aneuraceae (Jungermanniopsida)
Amount: $11 000 (incl. GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019

Vascular Flora

Recipient: The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust (Sydney), NSW
Principal Investigator: T.Wilson
Project Title: A new key for Australia’s Bugle Subfamily (Ajugoideae: Lamiaceae): a phylogenetically informed taxonomy assisted by next generation sequencing methods
Amount: $99 000 (incl. GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019

 

Terrestrial and Freshwater Fauna

Recipient: The University of Adelaide, SA
Principal Investigator: E.Fagan-Jeffries
Project Title: Systematics of Australian microgastrine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A key group of caterpillar parasitoids
Amount: $99 000 (incl. GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019

Recipient: The Trustee for the Australian Museum Trust, NSW
Principal Investigator: F.Köhler
Project Title: Evolutionary systematics and conservation biology of the land snails of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island
Amount: $99 000 (incl. GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019/p>

Marine Fauna

Recipient: The University of Queensland, QLD
Principal Investigator: S.Cutmore
Project Title: Cold blood killers: Taxonomy and life-cycles of blood flukes of Australian poikilotherms
Amount: $99 000 (incl. GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date:12 March 2019

Capacity-building grants awarded for the 2019–2020 round

Non-salaried researcher grants

Vascular Flora

Recipient: Unattached, ACT
Principal Investigator: A.Orchard
Project Title: Publication of a catalogue of plant specimens collected by Allan Cunningham, October 1816–September 1822
Amount: $5 500 (incl. GST)
Term: one year
Approval date: 12 March 2019