Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180101558

Funded Activity Summary

The biodiversity consequences of evolutionary innovation. This project aims to increase knowledge of how evolutionary innovations affect biodiversity. This project will focus on a classic example of evolutionary innovation, the specialized throat jaws found in many fish groups, including damselfishes, wrasses, and cichlids. These unique jaws may explain why these fish groups contain so many species and are such successful invasive species in Australia and elsewhere. This project proposes an integrative combination of methods and functional experiments to reveal the biodiversity consequences of evolutionary innovation. It will also enhance Australian biosecurity through the production of new ways to assess invasion risk from aquaculture and aquarium trade species.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 08-03-2018

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $365,058.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Speciation and Extinction | Invasive Species Ecology | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Border Biosecurity (incl. Quarantine and Inspection) | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Border Biosecurity (incl. Quarantine and Inspection) | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Invasive Species Ecology | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Speciation and Extinction

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