Novel species interactions arising from synergistic environmental changes

协同环境变化引起的新物种相互作用

• 批准号: DP1094413
• 负责人: Prof Richard Hobbs
• 金额: $ 32.04万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP1094413
• 关键词: Novel; species; interactions; arising; synergistic

Synergistic environmental changes, including climate and land use change, are altering Australia's ecosystems and creating novel species assemblages. We know little about how these assemblages develop and function, and yet they are likely to become more pervasive and provide a significant conservation and restoration challenge. We aim to improve our understanding of the factors affecting the creation of novel plant assemblages (through invasions and changes in species' ranges) in the York Gum woodlands of Western Australia. We will examine how novel assemblages function, improve the ability to predict potential ongoing changes in assemblages and provide guidance for the management of these and other internationally important plant communities.

协同作用的环境变化，包括气候和土地利用的变化，正在改变澳大利亚的生态系统，并创造新的物种组合。我们对这些组合如何发展和发挥作用知之甚少，但它们可能会变得更加普遍，并提供重大的保护和恢复挑战。我们的目标是提高我们的理解的因素影响创造新的植物组合（通过入侵和物种的范围的变化）在西澳大利亚州的约克胶林地。我们将研究新的组合功能，提高预测组合中潜在持续变化的能力，并为这些和其他国际重要植物群落的管理提供指导。