Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0878741

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0878741

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Insights into macroevolution using a model adaptive radiation of lizards (Lerista). Australia has arguably the greatest diversity of lizards in the world. This research will investigate how this diversity arose, using Lerista, a radiation of skinks with over 80 species spanning fully limbed to totally legless forms. We will investigate how development, geographic distribution and morphological features have influenced the evolutionary diversification of Lerista. We will also map the biodiversity of Lerista across Australia using (and thus testing) several alternative methods of quantifying biodiversity. Such knowledge is important as many hotspots of Lerista diversity are coming under increasing human pressure (e.g. mid-coast of WA), and many species have very localised ranges.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $264,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biogeography | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Evolutionary Biology | Animal Anatomy And Histology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (flora and fauna) | Biological sciences | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified |

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