Impacts of climate change on sustainability of temperate native pasture: an experiment

气候变化对温带本土牧场可持续性的影响：一项实验

• 批准号: DP0451686
• 负责人: Prof Mark Hovenden
• 金额: $ 18.8万
• 依托单位: University of Tasmania
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0451686
• 关键词: Impacts; climate; change; sustainability; temperate

The sustainable use of temperate native pastures is important economically because of grazing and for biodiversity since they are home to many threatened plants. Native pasture sustainability depends on maintaining species diversity and vegetation productivity. Climate change is likely to have major impacts on both factors. The aims of this project are to elucidate the impacts of climate change on the species composition, productivity and nutritional quality of a grazed native pasture. This is important, as it will allow us to predict likely problems caused by global climate change and increase our understanding of the mechanisms underlying these changes.

温带天然牧场的可持续利用在经济上很重要，因为它们是许多受威胁植物的家园，可以放牧，也有利于生物多样性。天然牧场的可持续性取决于保持物种多样性和植被生产力。气候变化可能对这两个因素产生重大影响。该项目的目的是阐明气候变化对放牧的天然牧场的物种组成、生产力和营养质量的影响。这一点很重要，因为它将使我们能够预测全球气候变化可能造成的问题，并增加我们对这些变化背后机制的理解。