ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT0992161

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT0992161

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Quantifying the Tree of Life's Diversity with the Paleobiology Database. The Paleobiology Database is the Internet's key source of scientific data on the fossil record. It records names and classification of fossil organisms and the ages, locations, and environments of the places that yield these fossils. It has often been used to estimate the number of species existing at different points in geological time. Macquarie will house the Database as it is expanded to record evolutionary relationships of many species. This information will help to estimate dates of origination for major groups such as mammals and birds. It will also help to show whether mass extinctions tend to target old groups with few surviving species, which will help to predict which groups will survive the current mass extinction.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-05-2010

End Date: 31-12-2014

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $788,800.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Information services not elsewhere classified | Biological sciences | Earth sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Biological sciences | Conservation And Biodiversity | Earth sciences | Environmental Science and Management | Information services not elsewhere classified | Palaeoecology

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