Change ecology - gaining broad-scale, timely biodiversity knowledge in a time of uncertainty

改变生态——在不确定的时期获得广泛、及时的生物多样性知识

• 批准号: DP0984170
• 负责人: Prof Ralph Mac Nally
• 金额: $ 30.48万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0984170
• 关键词: Change; ecology; gaining; broad; scale

Australians are confronted daily with the consequences of changes wrought by human over-exploitation of natural resources. Our capacity to track and respond to change is very limited and slow. Thus, rapid deterioration of ecologically important aspects is detected late and is not reflective of the general state because knowledge is derived from small-scale measurements that are difficult to generalize. We will build a capacity for providing large-scale knowledge of vegetation condition and flow-on effects on biodiversity, which also will allow us to make informed assessments of the ecological consequences of some existing (climate change, drying) and imminent (biofuel plantings) drivers of change.

澳大利亚人每天都面临着人类过度开发自然资源所造成的变化的后果。我们追踪和应对变化的能力非常有限和缓慢。因此，生态重要方面的迅速恶化是很晚才发现的，并且不能反映一般状态，因为知识来自难以概括的小规模测量。我们将建立一种能力，提供关于植被状况和对生物多样性的流动效应的大规模知识，这也将使我们能够对一些现有的（气候变化、干旱）和即将发生的（生物燃料种植）变化驱动因素的生态后果做出明智的评估。