GRASSLANDS

The evolution of the Grassland biome: exploring past events to predict future scenarios

Coordinatore	ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW    more  Organization address address: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW city: RICHMOND postcode: TW93AB contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Felix Cognome: Forest Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 8332 5396 Fax: +44 20 8332 5310
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	231˙283 €
EC contributo	231˙283 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF
Funding Scheme	MC-IIF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-08-01   -   2015-07-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW  Organization address address: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW city: RICHMOND postcode: TW93AB contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Felix Cognome: Forest Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 8332 5396 Fax: +44 20 8332 5310	UK (RICHMOND)	coordinator	231˙283.20

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'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.'