Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220101296

Funded Activity Summary

Diving into deep-time: macroevolutionary patterns of aquatic tetrapods. This project aims to compare and contrast the broad-scale evolutionary patterns of the disparate lineages of aquatic tetrapod (e.g. whales, penguins, plesiosaurs). This project expects to generate new knowledge by utilising cutting-edge methods from several fields, e.g. three-dimensional scans, phylogenetic comparative methods and functional morphology. Expected outcomes include multiple high-quality publications and the development of new local and international collaborations. This will provide significant benefits, including revealing aquatic tetrapod evolution on an unprecedented scale and a better understanding of how some of Australia’s most iconic animals respond to global change, helping inform eco-tourism and conservation policies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-09-2023

End Date: 31-08-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $397,908.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Evolutionary Biology | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Biological Adaptation | Evolutionary Biology | Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis

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