Palaeo-vegetation, biodiversity and early human dispersal through island Southeast Asia (Old ID 20779)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
This study will use newly developed and fully validated isotope techniques to obtain robustly dated proxy records of vegetation change from the thick deposits of cave guano that occur extensively throughout island Southeast Asia (Sundaland). We will test the hypothesis that during the Last Glacial Period, there was a substantial contraction of the rainforest towards the equator into refugia. This led to the development of an open ‘savannah corridor’ connecting savanna north and south of the equator. The project will shed new light on the palaeoclimatology of the region and provide a major contribution to explaining modern biogeographic patterns across Sundaland, as well as the trajectories of early human dispersal through the region.
Date
01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2016
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
aeoenvironment;stable isotope;Quaternary
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Amount
306666
Project Team
N/A