Comparative genomics to improve conservation planning in Australian deserts

比较基因组学改善澳大利亚沙漠的保护规划

• 批准号: DE230100014
• 负责人: Dr Mitzy Pepper
• 金额: $ 30.62万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2023-08-21 至 2028-08-21
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE230100014
• 关键词: Comparative; genomics; improve; conservation; planning

This project aims to locate hotspots of diversity in Australia’s vast, flat deserts and to quantify how well these areas are captured under the National Reserve System. I will establish a network of international and national collaborators and improve knowledge on how animals responded to past environmental change. The anticipated outcome of this project is to improve our ability to understand, measure and preserve our unique desert biodiversity and the evolutionary processes that sustain it, using our remarkably diverse reptile fauna as a model system. In the face of current, rapid environmental change, this has never been more important, and will provide a tool for biodiversity survival.

该项目旨在确定澳大利亚广阔平坦的沙漠中多样性的热点，并量化这些地区在国家储备系统下的捕获情况。我将建立一个国际和国家合作者网络，并提高动物如何应对过去环境变化的知识。该项目的预期成果是提高我们的能力，以了解，测量和保护我们独特的沙漠生物多样性和维持它的进化过程，使用我们非常多样化的爬行动物群作为模型系统。面对当前快速的环境变化，这一点从未如此重要，并将为生物多样性的生存提供一个工具。