Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0663875

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0663875

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Testing Theories of Historical Divergence using South Eastern Australian Reptiles. The processes that serve to create species diversity must also be preserved in order to allow evolution to continue. My study will clarify the number and distribution of water skink species in south eastern Australia, a biologically diverse, yet under studied area of Australia. I will also be looking at processes, such as dispersal, that determine patterns of species distribution over time. These lizards are also found on mountain tops and may be affected by global warming. Understanding how climate change has affected these lizards in the past may help us to predict how climate changes will affect them in the future and better enable us to conserve these and other species in the future.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-02-2006

End Date: 31-12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $318,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biogeography | Population And Ecological Genetics | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (flora and fauna) | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Global climate change adaptation measures |

Other Keywords

Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Biogeography | Evolutionary Biology | Global climate change adaptation measures | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Population And Ecological Genetics

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