Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101879

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140101879

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Dispersal, diversity and survival: lessons from the fossil record. The ability of organisms to spread their genes may be key to their long-term survival. For example, birds survived the mass extinction of 65 million years ago, but their non-flying dinosaurian relatives did not. This project will use the fossil record to establish whether swimming or flying are key traits in long-term survival. This will be done by producing the first family tree for all extinct terrestrial vertebrates onto which geographic data will be mapped before a novel computational analysis shows how species moved between continents over the last 400 million years. The results may inform modern conservation issues, as changing climate means an organism's survival could be dependent on its ability to physically track shifting environments.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-09-2014

End Date: 31-10-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $309,660.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Biogeography and Phylogeography | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |

Other Keywords

Biogeography and Phylogeography | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Palaeoecology | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis

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