Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140100307
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Fire, air, water and earth: Using fossils to discover the evolution of Australia’s open vegetation. How Australia came to be dominated by open, tough-leaved vegetation is an old but still highly controversial question, especially with recent developments in molecular biology that challenge paradigms established from the fossil record. The project will test this new molecular paradigm with innovative use of characteristics of fossil leaves to identify the timing and drivers of the evolution of Australia’s open vegetation. The integration of new and rigorous evidence derived from living and fossil plants will provide the clearest evidence yet for the origins of Australian environments. This has ramifications for understanding plant responses to past and future climate changes.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 03-2014
End Date: 07-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $347,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Palaeontology (incl. Palynology) | Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Evolutionary Biology | Biological Adaptation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Rural Water Evaluation (incl. Water Quality) |
