Biodiversity enhancement in arid Australia: the importance of micro-refugia and biotic interactions

干旱澳大利亚的生物多样性增强：微型保护区和生物相互作用的重要性

• 批准号: DP0773754
• 负责人: Prof Chris Dickman
• 金额: $ 18.25万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2007-07-18 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0773754
• 关键词: Biodiversity; enhancement; arid; Australia; importance

This project will dramatically increase our understanding of the factors that influence the biodiversity of Australia's deserts, and thus improve our ability to manage these iconic landscapes for both conservation and production needs. It will attract attention from the international community by helping to resolve contentious theoretical debate about the function of refuge habitats, and how species interact with each other to influence overall diversity. It will provide the longest time series of ecological data available for any Australian desert, and hence provide a key resource for increasing community awareness and achieving sustainable management of biodiversity throughout the continent's arid interior.

这个项目将极大地增加我们对影响澳大利亚沙漠生物多样性的因素的理解，从而提高我们管理这些标志性景观的能力，以满足保护和生产的需要。它将吸引国际社会的关注，因为它有助于解决关于避难所栖息地功能的有争议的理论辩论，以及物种如何相互作用以影响整体多样性。它将提供澳大利亚任何沙漠的最长时间生态数据序列，从而为提高社区意识和实现整个大陆干旱内陆生物多样性的可持续管理提供关键资源。