Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100690

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150100690

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Size matters: evolution of body size of species in deep time. Global warming is predicted to form 'sick seas' and cause widespread stunted growth of taxa and ecosystem-wide dwarfism. Exactly how this works requires substantiation of both short-term empirical and experimental research as well as evidence from the deep-time fossil record. Using the high-resolution marine fossil record from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction ~252 million years ago, the most severe in the history of animals, this project will investigate how body size of marine species and communities evolved in response to the mass extinction and rapid global warming. It is expected that the project findings will help better understand the links between global warming, anoxia, hypercapnia, euxinia, ocean acidification, and species adaptation and evolution.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-2015

End Date: 12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $315,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeontology (incl. Palynology) | Palaeoecology | Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Geology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Marine Environments

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