Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0343404
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Why our biota is unique: ecophysiological response, adaptive radiation and changing environments in Cainozoic Australia. We seek to resolve Cainozoic diversification and extinction patterns leading to the modern Australian biota. We propose a broad-scale, multi-disciplinary approach involving systematic palaeontology, palaeobiology, biostratigraphy, molecular and morphological systematics and physiology of modern organisms. For the first time, we will synthesise data on past climatic and environmental influences on the evolution of Australian plants, animals and community structure through time. This will provide a solid historical basis to develop management strategies for the Australian biota under different, future, climatic scenarios, and will also provide a biostratigraphic framework essential for high-resolution mineral and hydrocarbon exploration.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2003
End Date: 12-2005
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $125,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Biology | Palaeontology | Plant Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Plant Physiology
