Developing biogeographic know-how: Improving species divergence and dispersal estimations to examine geological and climatic evolutionary drivers

过去150年的人类活动正在极大地改变我们的全球气候和生态系统。对生物多样性的影响已经很明显，预计会有大规模的动植物灭绝。这项研究将一群国际专家联合在一个跨学科的团队中，开发新的分子和数学方法，以扩展我们对地质和全球气候变化如何影响过去我们世界物种组成和生态系统的基础知识。这项研究具有环境意义和全球重要性，因为它将提高我们预测物种在未来预测的气候情景下的行为的能力。

Anthropogenic activity over the last 150 years is now dramatically changing our global climate and ecosystems. The impact on biodiversity is already evident, and large-scale floral and faunal extinctions are predicted. This study unites a cohort of international experts in an interdisciplinary team to develop new molecular and mathematical methods to expand our fundamental knowledge on how geological and global climate change have affected our world's species components and ecosystems in the past. This research is of environmental significance and global importance as it will improve our ability to predict how species behave under future predicted climate scenarios.