GRASSLANDS

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

 Coordinatore CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS 

 Organization address address: AVENIDA RIVADAVIA 1917
city: BUENOS AIRES
postcode: C1033AAJ

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Viviana
Cognome: Barreda
Email: send email
Telefono: 541150000000
Fax: 541150000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Argentina [AR]
 Totale costo 15˙000 €
 EC contributo 15˙000 €
 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-IIFR
 Anno di inizio 2015
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2015-09-01   -   2016-08-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS

 Organization address address: AVENIDA RIVADAVIA 1917
city: BUENOS AIRES
postcode: C1033AAJ

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Viviana
Cognome: Barreda
Email: send email
Telefono: 541150000000
Fax: 541150000000

AR (BUENOS AIRES) coordinator 15˙000.00

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phylogenetics    biome    families    ecosystems    molecular    grassland    environmental    history    evolutionary    grasslands    components    past   

 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.'

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