Objectif Knowledge of the evolution of the grassland biome throughout the Earth's environmental history is important for the reconstruction of links between diversification/extinctions events and climate. Biomes are now being impacted by anthropogenic environmental change on an unprecedented scale, and one mean of understanding how component species will react is to study the effects of past environmental changes. Hence, understanding the evolutionary history of grassland ecosystems in the context of past biotic and abiotic changes is relevant to the way we will manage them under future environmental change. A new perspective on the history of the grassland biome is beginning to emerge from key developments in palaeontology and molecular phylogenetics that will be integrated interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in the present project for the first time. GRASSLANDS aimed at understanding the timing and nature of grasslands' most important components, the grass (Poaceae) and daisy (Asteraceae) families, through the combination of fossil data, molecular phylogenetics and computational approaches. The potential contribution of GRASSLANDS to our understanding of the evolutionary history of these families and grassland ecosystems in general is significant and will certainly provide new insights into the rise of flowering plants as the dominant components of almost every terrestrial ecosystems. Champ scientifique humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencespalaeontology Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Thème(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF - Marie Curie Action: "International Incoming Fellowships" Appel à propositions FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF Voir d’autres projets de cet appel Régime de financement MC-IIFR - International incoming fellowships (Return phase) Coordinateur CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS (CONICET) Contribution de l’UE € 15 000,00 Adresse GODOY CRUZ 2290 C1425FQB Buenos Aires Argentine Voir sur la carte Type d’activité Research Organisations Contact administratif Viviana Barreda (Dr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée
