Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140101319
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Palaeo-vegetation, biodiversity and early human dispersal though island Southeast Asia. This study will use newly developed and fully validated isotope techniques to obtain robustly dated proxy records of vegetation change from the thick deposits of cave guano that occur extensively throughout island Southeast Asia (Sundaland). This project will test the hypothesis that during the Last Glacial Period, there was a substantial contraction of the rainforest towards the equator into refugia. This led to the development of an open ‘savannah corridor’ connecting savanna north and south of the equator. The project will shed new light on the palaeoclimatology of the region and provide a major contribution to explaining modern biogeographic patterns across Sundaland, as well as the trajectories of early human dispersal through the region.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 12-2016
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $306,666.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archaeological Science | Quaternary Environments | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Isotope Geochemistry
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Global Effects of Climate Change and Variability (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. Social Impacts) | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |
