Faunal responses to environmental change and isolation on an Australian land-bridge island

澳大利亚陆桥岛上动物对环境变化和隔离的反应

• 批准号: DP120104435
• 负责人: Prof Gavin Prideaux
• 金额: $ 27.17万
• 依托单位: Flinders University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP120104435
• 关键词: Faunal; responses; environmental; change; isolation

Establishing how faunas responded to past isolation and environmental changes offers great potential for predicting long-term impacts of habitat fragmentation. By combining novel methods we will track extinction rates, diet and body-size shifts on Kangaroo Island, the only known land-bridge island with a fossil record spanning the past 100,000 years.

确定动物群如何应对过去的隔离和环境变化，为预测生境破碎化的长期影响提供了巨大的潜力。通过结合新的方法，我们将跟踪袋鼠岛上的灭绝率，饮食和身体大小的变化，袋鼠岛是唯一已知的大陆桥岛，拥有过去10万年的化石记录。