Island fauna evolution through deep time: the Flores experiment

岛屿动物群的深层演化：弗洛雷斯实验

• 批准号: DP190100164
• 负责人: Dr Gerrit van den Bergh
• 金额: $ 22.69万
• 依托单位: University of Wollongong
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-06-20 至 2023-06-20
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP190100164
• 关键词: Island; fauna; evolution; through; deep

This project aims to reveal the evolutionary patterns of insular fauna, including hominins, as exemplified by the island of Flores. Through multidisciplinary analyses of securely dated fossils, artefacts and environmental data spanning 1.4 million years, the project expects to provide a deep and broad reconstruction of faunal adaptations to insular conditions and environmental fluctuations through deep geological time. The significance of this research includes the first comprehensive testing of hypotheses associated with island dwarfing (where megafauna, over time, become smaller), and providing the first palaeo-ecological context for the only known insular hominin, Homo floresiensis.

该项目旨在揭示岛屿动物群的进化模式，包括人类，以弗洛雷斯岛为例。该项目通过对140万年来可靠定年的化石、人工制品和环境数据进行多学科分析，预计将深入广泛地重建动物群对岛屿条件和地质年代深处环境波动的适应。这项研究的意义包括首次全面测试与岛屿矮化（随着时间的推移，巨型动物变得越来越小）相关的假设，并为唯一已知的岛屿人类，弗洛雷斯人提供第一个古生态环境。