Welcome to the GitHub organisation page of the project. The aim of EDiTH is to reconstruct the evolutionary history of marine biodiversity hotspots throughout the Cenozoic, and test for any general rules governing their emergence, maintenance, and ultimate decline. The project focuses on using scleractinian corals as a biological model taxa and is supported by a large international team of collaborators to faciliate an interdisciplinary approach by combining Earth System Modelling with palaeontological data to perform a suite of macroevolutionary and macroecological analyses.
The project is led by Lewis A. Jones at University College London.
- Dr Nadia Santodomingo, Natural History Museum, UK
- Prof. Francesca Bosellini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Prof. Martin Zuschin, University of Vienna, Austria
- Prof. Ann Budd, University of Iowa, USA
- Prof. Daniele Silvestro, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Dr Alexander Farnsworth, University of Bristol, UK
- Dr Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney, Australia
The EDiTH project is funded by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through an Independent Research Fellowship awarded to Lewis A. Jones (project no. UKRI185).
Additional funding from the following organisations has also supported elements of this project:
- The Paleontological Society via a Norman Newell Early Career Grant
