Resolving how five million years of dramatic climatic changes shaped Australia's unique fauna

解决五百万年的剧烈气候变化如何塑造澳大利亚独特的动物群

• 批准号: FT130101728
• 负责人: Prof Gavin Prideaux
• 金额: $ 50.72万
• 依托单位: Flinders University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2018-12-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT130101728
• 关键词: Resolving; how; five; million; years

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.

澳大利亚的生物群是其独特的遗产，构造历史，特别是其气候的产物。在过去的500万年里，它一直受到一系列强烈的气候变化的困扰，这些变化是由全球和区域因素共同驱动的。该项目将是第一个跟踪动物对这一关键时期环境变化的反应的项目。它将建立现代南方脊椎动物区系起源的动态，分析多样性、饮食和群落结构的变化。通过探索动物区系更替阶段与关键气候转变之间的关联，它将从南半球的角度来看待新生代动物区系变化的演变模型，这些模型主要是从北方半球数据中产生的。