Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100035

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160100035

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Why are biodiversity hotspots found where they are? This project aims to develop a method to study how evolution within species shapes the broad-scale distribution of unique biological diversity across landscapes and continents. The distribution of biological diversity is strikingly uneven, with much diversity found only in small ‘hotspots’. What factors determine the locations of these hotspots of endemism? This project aims to answer this question by using three biologically diverse areas as test cases. It plans to use a new model to simulate processes of evolution over time, including range shifts, niche evolution, isolation and extinction, to determine how dynamics of divergence evolving within species contribute to broad-scale patterns of diversity. The project intends to improve understanding and management of biodiversity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 27-06-2016

End Date: 25-08-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $374,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Biogeography and Phylogeography | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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

Other Keywords

Biogeography and Phylogeography | Evolutionary Biology | Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity

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