Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0557828

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0557828

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Fossil evidence for the evolution of Australia's modern vegetation. This project will provide Australian scientists and public with a better appreciation of the origins of our modern flora by providing evidence of landscape and community change over the past 40 million years, the nature of major extinction and diversification events and the response of the vegetation to climate change. The project will raise our understanding of the changing role of fire in the Australian landscape. It will also revise our understanding of the geological evolution of southeastern Australian basins and provide better genetic modelling of Victoria's brown coal deposits. Importantly, the project will provide postgraduate research training opportunities for a new generation of palaeobotanists and coal petrologists.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2005

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $180,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Biology | Palaeoecology | Palaeontology | Botany Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Biological sciences | Earth sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Botany Not Elsewhere Classified | Climate change | Earth sciences | Palaeoecology | Palaeontology | Plant Biology

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