Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP190103636
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Illuminating the evolutionary history of Australia’s most iconic animals. This project aims to pinpoint the nature and timing of key steps in macropod history and to test how these link with major climatic and biotic changes. Macropods (kangaroos and relatives) are widely considered the marsupial equivalents to hoofed mammals on other continents, but we have a weaker understanding of how their evolution was shaped by environmental change. This project will combine palaeontology, anatomy and genetics to address questions such as how and why ancestral macropods descended from the trees and evolved bipedal hopping, and the upper size limits of the kangaroo “body plan”. This should improve our understanding of the long-term effects of climate change on marsupials, and provide a test of key placental-based evolutionary models.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2019
End Date: 04-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $445,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Speciation and Extinction | Evolutionary Biology | Biological Adaptation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Understanding Australia's Past | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |
