Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150100264
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Faunal responses to past climatic and human impacts in eastern Australia. The Wellington Caves in central eastern New South Wales are Australia's most historically significant fossil locality and preserve one of the world's most complete records of vertebrate life spanning the past 4 million years. To date this unique archive has been vastly under-exploited as a source of information on how faunas respond to increased aridity and climatic variability, as well as human activities over the past 50 000 years. This project aims to elucidate how climate change drove the evolution of the modern fauna of eastern Australia by analysing changes in diversity, diet and community structure over time. It may also help break the 130-year climate-versus-humans deadlock over what drove the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 10-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $295,900.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Palaeoecology | Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | 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 |
