Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0985473
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Distinguishing among patterns of extinction and speciation through geological and climatic change: a molecular modelling approach. This research will enhance our understanding of the ancient origins of Australia's unique floral heritage. By developing new molecular modelling methods, it will strengthen Australia's position at the cutting edge of evolutionary phylogenetics. When Australia separated from Gondwana by continental drift 32 million years ago, the changed ocean circulation patterns triggered global climate change. The result was turnover of biota world-wide and dramatic changes within Australia. We will develop new insights into the rate and mode of these changes that will have international significance. Understanding the long-term turnover of flora from previous global climate changes will help to predict the impact of current and future climate change.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 12-2012
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $280,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Biogeography | Plant Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Global Change Biology | Evolutionary Biology
