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ProfessorMark Hovenden

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Professor

Biological Sciences

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  • Professor
    Biological Sciences
  • +61 3 6226 2698 (Fax)
  • School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Biological Sciences, PO Box 805, Sandy Bay, TAS, 7005, Australia

RESEARCH SUMMARy

Expertise
Prof Hovenden leads the Plant Ecology research group at UTAS. His main interest is in improving understanding of ecological processes. In particular, he is interested in how an understanding of plants, their interactions and responses to the environment can be used to improve our ability to predict the way that ecosystems actually function. His major projects focus on the functional response of various species to global climate change and how physiological responses lead to population, community and ecosystem changes.

Research Themes
Mark's research is directly aligned with the University's research theme of Environment, Resources and Sustainability. Specifically, Mark's research concentrates on how plants function, the interactions among plants and between plants and the environment in order to determine how ecological processes give rise to the function of the ecosystem. Thus, Mark's research interests are directly aimed at question two of this research theme, 'How are local and global influences affecting biological diversity, ecosystem services and human society?' Mark's research is typically based in the field but he supports field research with both glasshouse and laboratory-based studies. Mark's main interest lies in understanding how environmental changes affect the way that plants function in the ecosystem and how things like the community composition influence the impacts of the changing climate on terrestrial ecosystems. To this end, Mark has established a diverse set of field experiments and collaborated with scientists from across the world. Mark's main research projects for the past 25 years have been directed at understanding how the various changes in the environment interact to influence how terrestrial ecosystems function. Mark has a particular interest in terrestrial ecosystem productivity and carbon and nutrient cycling.

Collaboration
For the past three decades Mark has collaborated most closely with researchers from the Australian National University, the University of Canberra, AgResearch, New Zealand and with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy. These collaborations concentrate on how plant communities and ecosystems respond to the changing climate and have led to a string of research grants and the publication of many papers in the leading journals in the area. Importantly, this research has also influenced government policy and land management practices.

Current projects
Carbon cycling in sub-alpine Australia - Across sites in Tasmania's Central Plateau and in the Australian Alps, Mark is leading a team investigating current and future ecosystem carbon cycling using a range of methods, locations and experiments. At the moment, this includes the use of three OzFlux flux eddy-covariance flux monitoring sites, two in Tasmania's Central Plateau and one in Kosciuszko National Park.

The Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF) - Mark is a founding member of AMRF amrf.org.au and manages the Tasmanian nodes as well as contributing to research on the mainland sites, particularly relating to carbon cycling.

Forest density experiments –With colleagues from Forestry Tasmania we have a set of four experiments in which eucalypt trees were sown at a range of densities. This research aims to understand impacts of tree density on the growth, productivity, carbon sequestration and biodiversity of the forest.

The Australian Forest Evenness Experiment (AFEX) – In the Styx Valley we hand-sowed a mixture of four forest trees in different mixtures. This is a long-term experiment that we will follow for 20 years, recording plant density, biomass, nutrient cycling and biodiversity in order to determine how community evenness affects important ecosystem processes.

Fields of Research
Global change biology (319902)
Plant physiology (310806)
Terrestrial ecology (310308)
Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation (410102)
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology) (310302)
Carbon sequestration science (410101)
Forestry management and environment (300707)
Agronomy (300403)
Tree nutrition and physiology (300710)
Ecosystem function (410203)
Ecological physiology (310303)
Soil biology (410603)
Plant biology (310899)
Sustainable agricultural development (300210)
Crop and pasture biochemistry and physiology (300404)
Horticultural crop growth and development (300802)
Ecological applications (410299)
Landscape ecology (410206)
Conservation and biodiversity (410401)
Agro-ecosystem function and prediction (300402)
Crop and pasture nutrition (300407)
Environment and resource economics (380105)
Microbial ecology (310703)
Agricultural land management (300202)
Crop and pasture biomass and bioproducts (300405)
Surface water hydrology (370704)
Evolutionary impacts of climate change (310406)
Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science) (410604)
Agricultural systems analysis and modelling (300207)
Forest biodiversity (300702)
Greenhouse gas inventories and fluxes (370203)

FUNDED PROJECTS

  • GRANT
    Preserving Tasmanias subalpine meadow ecosystems through hydrological restoration
    1 Jan 2027 - 1 Jan 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chadderton M,
    • Hovenden M,
    • Wandrag E
    Project Total: $9,960; This project will test whether simple hydrological restorations can mitigate the impacts of artificial drainage on Tasmanias highland meadows. The capacity for highland meadows to sustain their remarkable diversity and ecological function is utterly dependent on moist peaty soils, maintained by cold wet conditions that slow decomposition. Concerningly, the historical land management practice of artificial drainage causes rapid drying and degradation of peaty soils, with the potential to drive ecosystem collapse. Through an experimental approach, this project will investigate the capacity for minimal-impact interventions to restore the natural hydrology of highland meadows. The project will integrate measurements of hydrology, plant communities and carbon cycling to understand whether hydrological changes can enhance the health and vitality of highland meadow ecosystems and the species they support. Our recent research in highland meadows shows the impacts of experimental warming and drought are buffered by moist soils. Thus, increasing the soil moisture through hydrological restoration has the potential to enhance ecosystem resilience under climate change. Funded by: Mountain Air Foundation - Research Grant Program ($9,960); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    TERN West Coast Ecosystem Processes sites
    1 Jul 2026 - 30 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M
    Project Total: $300,000; The Ecosystem Processes section of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, funded through the Commonwealth National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, is offering $300,000.00 in funding to support the establishment of two ecosystem processes monitoring sites on Tasmania's West Coast. This funding is to augment investment by: 1. the School of Natural Sciences through an insurance settlement from a previous installation; and 2. the University via the Capital Expenditure program. The funding will facilitate excellent, impactful programmatic research involving key personnel in two of the University's research powerhouse Schools; a research program that is organised around ensuring sustainability. The proposal strongly aligns with two of the pressing transitions we need to make in Tasmania identified in the 2025 Strategic Refresh, namely Climate and Productivity. The primary aim of the research is to measure the exchange of carbon and water between the land and the atmosphere in a forested ecosystem key to Tasmania's current net-zero strategy that is identified as being under the greatest threat from climate change-induced alterations of rainfall. The technology developed at the site for measuring and modelling responses to climate change can be expanded to study productivity of any ecosystem including agricultural landscapes. Once established, the sites will be incorporated into TERN's Ecosystem Processes network and receive ongoing direct financial support in terms of staffing and logistics and in-kind support in terms of equipment maintenance and replacement. TERN Ecosystem Processes is administered via James Cook University so the contract will be administered via JCU, operating under the TERN umbrella agreement with JCU. This project is to receive the TERN EP contributions to the establishment of sites. Funded by: National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy; Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network; James Cook University; University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Safeguarding highland meadow plant communities through hydrological restoration
    1 Jun 2026 - 31 May 2029
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chadderton M,
    • Hovenden M,
    • Wandrag E
    Project Total: $8,495; Highland meadows support exceptional levels of floristic diversity, including many locally endemic species with highly restricted distributions. These plant communities are entirely dependent on peaty soils maintained by cold, wet conditions that retard decomposition and allow peat to accumulate. Throughout the Australian highlands, meadows have been extensively altered by artificial drains, historically installed to improve pasture quality. These drains cause rapid water loss and degrade the peaty soils, potentially converting meadows into woodlandimpacts which are exacerbated by climate change as temperatures rise and precipitation declines. Whilst drainage impacts have been investigated in similar systems overseas their consequences for these unique, incredibly diverse meadows of Australias highlands remain unknown. This knowledge gap is becoming increasingly critical under climate change and limits our ability to implement effective restoration techniques. Therefore, concentrating on Tasmanian highland meadows, this project will investigate: How drainage intensity and extent influences plant community composition.The mechanisms eroding plant community integrity through drainage-induced loss of soil moisture and peatiness.Test whether hydrological restoration can preserve peaty soils and hence maintain plant community integrity. During the funded year, I will establish a replicated manipulative experiment comparing relationships between soil, hydrology and plant communities across intact, drained and restored (drains removed) meadows. This will enable me to ascertain how drainage alters plant communities and associated soil properties. On completion, my PhD will identify the mechanisms degrading meadow communities and the peaty soils they depend on, evaluate restoration efficacy and provide the framework required to preserve these ecosystems. Findings will directly inform the management of the Australian highlands through collaboration with our industry partner, the Tasmanian Land Conservancy, and contribute to global efforts to conserve highland meadows under climate change. Funded by: Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - Grant-Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment ($8,495); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Protecting Australian high-country peaty soils by hydrological manipulation
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2029
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Wandrag E,
    • Nicotra A,
    • White D
    Project Total: $1,188,459; This is a resubmission of DP25 full application. The peaty soils of Australia's high country are vital to ensuring future water security but are under threat frommultiple factors. This project aims to produce the knowledge required to safeguard peaty soils in Australia's highcountry by using a multi-disciplinary approach combining vegetation function with the measurement of fluxes andstorage pools of carbon and water, enhancing outputs from new infrastructure. Importantly, this project will assesshow well subalpine peaty soils can be protected through relatively simple interventions. Expected outcomesinclude an enhanced ability to predict the resilience of the vital water-storage and filtration services provided bythese systems as well as intervention options for improving these. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Discovery Project - EOI ($1,188,459); University of Tasmania ($90,609).
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    AMRF Tasmania infrastructure support from TERN via ANU
    1 Mar 2024 - 31 Dec 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M
    Project Total: $1,209,684; We have been offered funding to support the operation of the Tasmanian node of the Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF). AMRF was originally established through an ARC LEIF grant (LE190100039, RDO reference N0026033), a multi-organisation bid led by ANU in which UTas was a major contributing partner. AMRF infrastructure provides environmental data streams across an array of sites at strategic locations and is designed to provide monitoring capability to track environmental change and to support research projects. It is not a research project in its own right but has been used over the past five years to support one funded ARC DP, one current application, two PhD projects and several Honours and undergraduate research projects in UTas. In 2024, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), funded via the Commonwealths National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), offered to support the continuation of the AMRF infrastructure. This was enacted via an Umbrella Agreement with ANU with a proportion of funds to be allocated to UTas to support the infrastructure in the Tasmanian node of AMRF. Thus, UTas will need to enter into a contractual agreement with ANU to receive the funds. That is what this project is for. Funded by: National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy; Australian National University; University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Warming effects on carbon cycling in a high-altitude Tasmanian grassy peatland
    Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering1 Jul 2022 - 27 Mar 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Nyberg M
    Project Total: $4,125; This project will investigate the key environmental drivers of the carbon balance of a high-altitude grassy peatland and determine experimentally how warming affects carbon fluxes in this ecosystem. Specifically, with AINSE support, I aim to determine 1.) how warming affects the turnover time of carbon in the soil, and 2.) whether it affects the age of carbon being decomposed. These results will reveal how warming affects the time it takes for carbon inputs to cycle back into the atmosphere, as well as whether respired carbon is derived from the large, older soil C store, or relatively new C inputs. Funded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering - Award-Research ($4,125); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Carbon in - carbon out: can carbon inputs keep up with losses in peatland?
    21 Jun 2022 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • De Kauwe M
    Project Total: $416,597; This project aims to quantify the current and predict the future carbon balance of a high altitude, carbon-dense ecosystem, namely sub-alpine grassy peatland, by measuring how environmental variables including experimental warming control the fluxes of carbon and water into and out of the system. In this way, this project will produce new knowledge on the susceptibility of high-altitude peaty soils to climate change. Expected outcomes include an enhanced ability to predict future carbon accumulation rates and the resilience of the vital water-storage and filtration services provided by these systems. This project will enhance outputs from new infrastructure and assist planning for future flood and drought management across SE Australia. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Discovery Projects ($416,597); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    How influential are plant neighbourhood interactions in community responses to extreme climatic events?
    27 Sep 2021 - 17 Feb 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Gerwin M
    Project Total: $17,563; In Australia and globally, high-altitude ecosystems are vulnerable to the direct effects of climate change owing to dispersal limitations, and native and exotic species invasions. The subalpine grasslands of Tasmania are of particularly high conservation value as they are important areas for carbon storage and are host remarkable levels of floristic diversity. To protect this diversity and the ecosystem services that it sustains, my research will investigate plant interactions networks in a Tasmanian subalpine grassland to ascertain the community response to experimentally induced extreme future climate scenarios. Funded by: Australian Flora Foundation - Grant-Research ($17,563); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    How influential are plant neighbourhood interactions in community responses to extreme climatic events
    2 Sep 2021 - 1 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Gerwin M
    Project Total: $15,615; In Australia and globally, high-altitude ecosystems are vulnerable to the direct effects of climate change owing to dispersal limitations, and native and exotic species invasions. The subalpine grasslands of Tasmania are of particularly high conservation value as they are important areas for carbon storage and are host remarkable levels of floristic diversity. To protect this diversity and the ecosystem services that it sustains, my research will investigate plant interactions networks in a Tasmanian subalpine grassland to ascertain the community response to experimentally induced extreme future climate scenarios Funded by: Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - Grant ($15,615); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Sustainable pathways to CN30
    22 Jul 2021 - 1 Nov 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Harrison M,
    • Christie-Whitehead K,
    • Hovenden M
    Project Total: $4,185,917; Background: The CN30 Pathways Consortium is a coordinated, multi-party, multidisciplinary national collaborative effort designed to explore biophysical, economic, environmental and social pathways to a carbon neutral red meat sector by 2030. CN30 Pathways foci include carbon storage and sequestration, integrated management systems and leadership building to support growth in capacity and competency among individuals and organisations. Products: Through application of self-contained, nationally-distributed scalable Modules for research, development, extension, adoption and commercialisation (RDEA&C), the Consortium will develop Products including knowledge and practices required for (1) enhancing soil C and woody biomass sequestration through improved grazing management, (2) improving the accuracy and reducing the cost of measuring soil C on grazing lands, (3) restoring environmental stewardship through activities such as planting of trees, shelter belts and perennial legumes, (4) quantifying and enhancing on-farm natural capital and biodiversity, enabling co-benefits for livestock productivity, (5) establishing trade-offs between GHG emissions, carbon sequestration, profitability, liveweight and timber productivity in silvopastoral systems (SPS), and (6) determining the impacts of future climates including extreme events on pasture production, soil C and GHG emissions. One of the seven consortium Modules will be led by UTAS. Extension and adoption: Extension will be conducted across at least ten agro-ecological regions representing the majority of the national herd and flock through facilitated workshops, face-to-face training and industry publications to ensure international peer-review, scientific credibility, industry confidence in project outcomes and public recognition of CN30 research conducted by the Consortium. A series of adoption packages with practical steps to simplify user uptake will be developed and conducted to ensure research products achieve impact. Uptake of Consortium Products will be measured through a dedicated self-contained monitoring and evaluation program. Leadership and governance: The Consortium governance structure includes a Steering Committee (SC) for guidance and oversight, and a Consortium Leadership Group (CLG) responsible for implementation of component Modules, sharing project information across activities and for review of project progress, milestones and outcomes. Outcomes and impact: Key outcomes include improvement and implementation of management approaches and technologies for increasing soil C, woody biomass and biodiversity on farm across Australia, enhanced sustainability and animal welfare through environmental stewardship, greater understanding of the co-benefits of trees and shelter-belts on farm, advanced, low-cost scientific measurement and modelling approaches for GHG emissions mitigation through soil or woody C quantification, emissions mitigation or whole of farm system effects, predictions of pasture production and net farm emissions under future climates and a series of practical packages facilitating adoption by the industry. Collectively, these outcomes will maintain or increase profitability and sustainability while moving the industry towards net zero GHG emissions. Funded by: Meat and Livestock Australia - Grant ($4,082,641); Integrity Ag & Environment ($103,276); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Australian Mountain Environmental Research Infrastructure Facility
    Australian Research Council4 Jul 2019 - 3 Jul 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Nicotra A,
    • Hovenden M,
    • Borevitz J,
    • Rohling E,
    • Cary G
    Project Total: $1,120,000; Australia's iconic high mountains provide critical water supply, clean energy, unique biodiversity, recreation and education opportunities. They face an ecological crisis from climate and land use change. The Australian Mountain Environmental Research Infrastructure Facility will bring together leading institutions and researchers across 4 jurisdictions to produce world-leading ecosystem, evolutionary and biophysical science to guide adaptive management of High Mountains across Australia. It will support research to assess the extent and effects of changing climate, water and fire regimes on ecosystem processes and their feedbacks and provide a structure for integrated research, management and governance of Australia's mountains. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Linkage Infrastructure; University of Tasmania ($40,000).
  • GRANT
    Understanding the water relation dynamics of neighbour interactions in an experimental forest
    Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment1 Jul 2019 - 26 Aug 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Brodribb T,
    • Britton T
    Project Total: $19,290; My project will utilise the Australian Forest Evenness Experiment (AFEX) in the Styx valley, SE Tasmania to determine the local-scale drivers of tree growth and mortality. Thus, allowing accurate modelling and predictions of tree growth and community dynamics in a juvenile forest system. This will be achieved by exploring species-specific interactions and the underlying mechanisms by which these interactions occur. Funded by: Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - Grant ($19,290); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Lags and legacies: antecedent effects on grassland biomass response to CO2
    Australian Research Council14 Feb 2019 - 30 Sep 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • De Kauwe M,
    • Ogle K
    Project Total: $461,000; This project aims to assess how past conditions influence grassland responses to the rising atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. High CO2 concentrations should stimulate productivity but in grasslands this is rarely realised because other, mostly unknown, factors constrain the response. By synthesising data from past experiments, using a targeted field experiment and sophisticated Bayesian statistical modelling, this project aims to determine exactly why grasslands fail to realise the full productivity benefits of increased CO2 and when this will happen. This should have long-lasting scientific impact by improving predictions of carbon exchange and indicating the best direction for climate change adaptation measures. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Discovery Projects ($461,000); University of Tasmania ($40,041).
  • GRANT
    Taking advantage of rising CO2 to maximise ecosystem productivity
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M
    Project Total: $315,700; The rising atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide provides an opportunity to increase ecosystem productivity, especially in agricultural systems, but to what extent is highly uncertain, particularly when combined with changing temperature and precipitation. Recent research has demonstrated that seasonal water supply is the strongest controller of the productivity response to high carbon dioxide concentrations of grasslands. This project will elucidate the processes governing this response and develop simple models that will allow the conditions required to maximise the productivity benefit from rising carbon dioxide concentration to be calculated. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Discovery Projects ($315,700); University of Tasmania ($35,000).
  • GRANT
    Increasing Soil Carbon Storage in Extensive Grazing Systems in Temperate Regions
    Department of Agriculture15 Jun 2012 - 31 Oct 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bridle K,
    • Duddles J,
    • Broderick K,
    • Schlig S,
    • Hovenden M
    Project Total: $430,942; Funded by: Department of Agriculture - Grant-Carbon Farming Futures -Action on the Ground ($430,942); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Ecological Factors Affecting Carbon Stocks of Tasmanian Native Forests
    Forest & Wood Products Australia Limited1 Aug 2011 - 1 Aug 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Riley I
    Project Total: $51,000; Funded by: Forest & Wood Products Australia Limited - Scholarship-Postgraduate Research ($51,000); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Understanding Energy Flow Through Ecosystems: an Ant-centric Approach to Ecosystem Health and Productivity
    University of Tasmania1 Jan 2011 - 30 Jun 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Nicol S,
    • McQuillan P,
    • Hovenden M,
    • Lucieer A
    Project Total: $15,430; Funded by: University of Tasmania - Grant-Cross Theme; University of Tasmania ($15,430).
  • GRANT
    Devising Ecologically Sustainable Restoration Programs for Degraded Rural Landscapes by Integrating Landscape Ecology, Conservation Genetics and Ecophysiology
    Australian Research Council1 Nov 2009 - 30 Jun 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bowman D,
    • Potts B,
    • Hovenden M,
    • O'Grady A,
    • Close D
    Project Total: $730,000; Restoring the ecological function of degraded rural landscapes is a national priority, yet achieving this goal remains a major challenge. Combining approaches from different ecological disciplines the project will: (a) identify priority areas for tree plantings; (b) determine which tree species can establish in degraded landscapes, and have the capacity to grow in the predicted hotter and drier climates in the late 21st century; (c) evaluate whether local species or races are necessarily better than non-local types; and (d) understand the trade-off between tree growth, carbon storage and water use. This research will provide an urgently needed scientific framework for proposed large-scale restoration of degraded Tasmanian rural landscapes. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Linkage Projects Round 2 ($530,000); Greening Australia (TAS) Ltd ($200,000); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Soil Organic Carbon Balances in Tasmanian Agricultural Systems
    Department of Agriculture1 Jun 2009 - 1 Jun 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doyle R,
    • Gracie A,
    • Hovenden M,
    • Oliver G,
    • Cotching B
    Project Total: $600,000; Funded by: Department of Agriculture - Grant-Climate Change Research Program ($600,000); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Developing a Cross-faculty Climate Change Focussed Research Centre at Utas
    University of Tasmania1 May 2009 - 31 Dec 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Crowley K,
    • Nolan G,
    • McNeil D,
    • Forbes L
    Project Total: $19,990; Funded by: University of Tasmania - Grant-Cross Theme; University of Tasmania ($19,990).
  • GRANT
    How Does Warming Prevent Soil Nitrogen Availablility from Declining in Response to Elevated Co2?
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2009 - 30 Jun 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Newton P,
    • Pendall E,
    • Rillig M,
    • Mele P
    Project Total: $450,000; The availability of nutrients, particularly nitrogen, in the soil is tightly linked with the productivity of ecosystems through biogeochemical processes. Global changes are affecting biogeochemical cycles and experiments show that increasing atmospheric CO2 reduces available soil N. It has recently been shown that the addition of warming to elevated CO2 prevents this from occurring. This project will elucidate the processes involved in this response by examining how elevated CO2 and warming affect nutrient cycling directly, and via changes in, botanical and soil community composition. The project will determine how two important global change drivers affect the sustainability of one ecosystem and identify the processes that affect others. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Discovery Projects ($450,000); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Investigating Pollinator Syndromes in Threatened Caladenia Species
    Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania30 Nov 2008 - 31 Jul 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M
    Project Total: $11,000; Funded by: Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania - Grant ($11,000); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Exploring the Impacts of Elevated CO2 on Biodiversity in Australia's Natural Terrestrial Ecosystems
    Department of Climate Change1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M
    Project Total: $33,000; Funded by: Department of Climate Change ($33,000); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Impacts of Climate Change on Productivity of Australia's Temperate Pastures
    Department of the Environment and Water Resources20 May 2007 - 30 Jun 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M
    Project Total: $140,000; Funded by: Department of the Environment and Water Resources - Agreement ($140,000); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Ecosystem Level Impacts of Climate Change on a Temperate Grassland
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2011
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hovenden M,
    • Newton P,
    • Rillig M,
    • Pendall E
    Project Total: $178,000; Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Discovery Projects ($178,000); University of Tasmania.