Megafauna and mega-extinction: assessing palaeocommunity change using dental complexity and shape analyses

巨型动物和大规模灭绝：利用牙齿复杂性和形状分析评估古群落变化

• 批准号: DP0880120
• 负责人: Prof Alistair Evans
• 金额: $ 42.51万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0880120
• 关键词: Megafauna; mega; extinction; assessing; palaeocommunity

This research will address an important issue of national interest - the causes of the extinction of the Australian megafauna. By furthering research on the causes of this historic event, valuable insights will be gained into possible causes of current extinction events and the future impact of climate change. It will bring to Australia new technologies and methods developed overseas by an Australian researcher, and put Australia at the forefront of several areas of research including 3D scanning and analysis. This project will form part of an international collaboration called the MorphoBrowser, an exciting advance in the study of biological diversity. This will help maintain Australia as a pre-eminent country for palaeontology research.

这项研究将解决一个事关国家利益的重要问题——澳大利亚巨型动物灭绝的原因。通过进一步研究这一历史性事件的原因，将对当前灭绝事件的可能原因和气候变化的未来影响获得有价值的见解。它将为澳大利亚带来一位澳大利亚研究人员在海外开发的新技术和方法，并将澳大利亚置于包括3D扫描和分析在内的几个研究领域的前沿。这个项目将成为国际合作项目“形态浏览器”的一部分，这是生物多样性研究中令人兴奋的进步。这将有助于保持澳大利亚在古生物学研究方面的卓越地位。