Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0774015

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0774015

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Uncovering the evolutionary history of Australasian marsupials: combining molecular phylogenetics and ecological inference. Marsupials are symbolic of the uniqueness of Australia's biological systems and there is widespread public interest in their natural history. Yet we know little of the evolutionary mechanisms that have shaped their biodiversity. This is a critical problem when considered in the context of Australian marsupials having suffered the highest extinction rate of any continental mammal fauna over the past 200 years. This project will make a major contribution to understanding the origins, timescale and ecological nature of Australasian marsupial evolution. In doing so, it will inform conservation strategy, promote Australasian marsupials as a model system for studying faunal coevolution and develop widely applicable bioinformatic tools.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-07-2007

End Date: 11-11-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $320,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Biological sciences | Climate change | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified | Evolutionary Biology | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Palaeoecology

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