Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100220

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE140100220

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

How do time, climate change and adaptation shape the assembly and evolution of a diverse continental biota? This project will use new statistical techniques for analysing patterns of biological diversification to test how time, environmental change and evolutionary adaptation shape the accumulation of biodiversity in a continental setting. A supermatrix of genetic and ecological data for Australia's most diverse terrestrial vertebrate group (lizards and snakes) will be compiled. This will allow the testing of the macroevolutionary responses to key environmental changes through the Cainozoic (rapid climatic transgressions and aridification), the relationship between lineage age and species diversity and the effects of major ecological shifts on rates of speciation, extinction and morphological diversification.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-2014

End Date: 07-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $375,149.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Speciation and Extinction | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Climate and Climate Change not elsewhere classified | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |

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