Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Adam Frew receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the British Ecological Society.

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Michael Cunliffe received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project MYCO-CARB and currently receives funding from the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme for the projects MARCO ...

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