Research grants awarded for the 2020–2021 round
Bryophytes
Recipient: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, ACT
Principal Investigator: C. Cargill
Project Title: The phylogeny and taxonomy of Australian members of the liverwort genus Riccia
Amount: $53 556 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Fungi/Lichens
Recipient: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
Principal Investigator: G. Kantvilas
Project Title: Flora accounts of Australian lichen genera
Amount: $46 750 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Recipient: Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, SA
Principal Investigator: T. Lebel
Project Title: Investigating eastern Australian Agaricus (Agaricaceae) species diversity and evolution
Amount: $53 961 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Terrestrial and Freshwater Fauna
Recipient: Australian Museum Research Institute, NSW
Principal Investigator: J. Rowley
Project Title: Australia’s unknown frog diversity revealed by citizen scientists: targeted species discovery using FrogID bioacoustic data and integrative taxonomy
Amount: $198 000 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Recipient: Australian National University, ACT
Principal Investigator: M. Pepper
Project Title: Uncovering diversity in the ‘dead heart’ of Australia: systematics and taxonomy of arid zone geckos
Amount: $209 000 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Recipient: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, ACT
Principal Investigator: A. Zwick
Project Title: Integrated taxonomic revision of Australian leaf blotch miner moths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
Amount: $214 946 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Recipient: Murdoch University, WA
Principal Investigator: V. Framenau
Project Title: Taxonomy and systematics of the Australian ‘backobourkiine’ spiders, a new Australian subfamily of orb-weavers (Araneae, Araneidae)
Amount: $296 463 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Recipient: Queensland Museum, QLD
Principal Investigator: J. Worthington Wilmer
Project Title: Taxonomic significance of extensive cryptic lineage diversity within two ‘species’ of Lerista
Amount: $33 000 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Early Career Research grants awarded for the 2020–2021 round
Terrestrial and Freshwater Fauna
Recipient: South Australian Museum, SA
Principal Investigator: J. Marsh
Project Title: Taxonomy and Systematics of the tube-web spiders (Araneae: Segestriidae) from South Australia and Victoria, including the genera Ariadna and Gippsicola
Amount: $22 000 (includes GST) over two years
Term: two years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Postdoctoral Fellowship grants awarded for the 2020–2021 round
Protists or other taxa
Recipient: The University of Queensland, QLD
Principal Investigator: E. Sampayo
Project Title: Systematic and taxonomic analyses of eastern Australian Symbiodiniaceae: the unification of research on coral-algal mutualisms
Amount: $330 000 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Vascular Flora
Recipient: The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, NSW
Principal Investigator: J. Clugston
Project Title: Building the eFlora: generic and species-level resolution in Fabaceae tribe Mirbelieae using next-generation sequencing
Amount: $330 000 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Recipient: The University of Adelaide, SA
Principal Investigator: T. Hammer
Project Title: Delineating the diversity of Dilleniaceae: a revisionary synthesis of Hibbertia for the Flora of Australia and investigations into its taxonomy, systematics, evolution and biogeography
Amount: $330 000 (includes GST) over three years
Term: three years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Honours Scholarships awarded for the 2020–2021 round
Terrestrial and Freshwater Fauna
Recipient: James Cook University, QLD
Principal Investigator: M. Connors
Project Title: A phylogenetic revision of the Australian Iridopterygidae (Mantodea) with particular focus on the genera Neomantis, Kongobatha and Ima
Amount: $6224 (includes GST)
Term: one year
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Masters Scholarships awarded for the 2020–2021 round
Vascular Flora
Recipient: The University of Melbourne, VIC
Principal Investigator: A. Webb
Project Title: Phylogenetic inference of Caesia and Corynotheca (Asphodelaceae) and taxonomic clarification of an Australian species complex, Caesia parviflora
Amount: $10 885 (includes GST)
Term: one year
Approval date: 5 March 2020
PhD Scholarship Support grants awarded for the 2020–2021 round
Terrestrial and Freshwater Fauna
Recipient: The University of Adelaide, SA
Principal Investigator: A. Delaine
Project Title: Systematics of the chalcid wasp genus Psyllaephagus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae): parasitoids of lerp insects
Amount: $22 000 (includes GST) over two years
Term: two years
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Non-salaried Researcher grants awarded for the 2020–2021 round
Bryophytes
Recipient: N/A
Principal Investigator: D. Meagher
Project Title: Taxonomic revision of the bryophyte family Pterobryaceae (Bryophyta: Hypnales)
Amount: $11 000 (includes GST)
Term: one year
Approval date: 5 March 2020
Recipient: N/A
Principal Investigator: R. Seppelt
Project Title: Illustrations of mosses of the Australian Wet Tropics — new illustrations and annotations to existing plates
Amount: $11 000 (includes GST)
Term: one year
Approval date: 5 March 2020