Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0453262

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0453262

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Time frame for the evolution of Australia's extraordinary mammals. This Project will refine a national biostratigraphic framework integrating growing understanding about the history of Australia's unique mammals, climate change and geological events. Increasing precision in correlating Australia's phylogenetic, palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological events will clarify how these act synergistically to change environments and biodiversity. Increased precision in the biostratigraphic framework will also serve evolutionary genetics which needs age data to calculate molecular rates of divergence, economic geologists needing to know the age of Cainozoic sediments, biologists trying to understand the origins and nature of biodiversity and conservationists using divergence dates and relative branch lengths to help determine conservation priorities.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 30-06-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geochronology | Biostratigraphy | Geology | Palaeontology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmental education and awareness | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas | Earth sciences

Other Keywords

Biostratigraphy | Earth sciences | Environmental education and awareness | Geochronology | Geology | Palaeontology | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas

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