Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130101728]Researchers: Gavin John Prideaux (Future Fellowship ) , Gavin John Prideaux (Future Fellowship )
Brief description Resolving how five million years of dramatic climatic changes shaped Australia's unique fauna. Australia’s biota is a product of its unique heritage, tectonic history and most especially its climate. Over the past five million years it has been beset by a series of intense climatic shifts driven by a combination of global and regional factors. This project will be the first to track faunal responses to environmental changes across this critical interval. It will establish the dynamics of the origin of the modern southern vertebrate fauna, analysing changes in diversity, diet and community structure. By exploring associations between phases of faunal turnover and key climatic transitions, it will bring a Southern Hemisphere perspective to evolutionary models of Cenozoic faunal change largely generated to date from Northern Hemisphere data.
Funding Amount $727,300
Funding Scheme ARC Future Fellowships
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130101728
- ARC : FT130101728