Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0881279

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0881279

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Constructing a temporally-constrained palaeoecological model of Quaternary faunal evolution and extinction in eastern Australia. Increased climatic variability and human-induced environmental degradation have had severe impacts on biodiversity, socio-economic sustainability and possibly our own future survival, thus attracting global attention. This study will help unravel the causes of the extinctions of Australia's large-size animals (megafauna) during the periods of last glaciation and earliest human colonisation of Australia. Investigating the causes of megafauna extinction is essential for an understanding of how those prehistoric events shaped the modern biota, and for the development of conservation strategies for our endemic faunas in an era of increased climatic and environmental variability and vulnerability.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 31-05-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geochemistry |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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

Other Keywords

Climate change | Conservation And Biodiversity | Geochemistry | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Global climate change adaptation measures | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Palaeoecology

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