Predicting climate change impacts on the biodiversity of Lord Howe Island: an approach using experimental and historical data

气候变化将对生物多样性产生深远影响。我们将调查最近和未来的气候变化对豪勋爵岛，一个重要的世界遗产区的无脊椎动物和植物组合的影响。 我们将1。比较当前的组合与一套独特的历史数据库，跨越过去150年，调查是否最近变暖影响了社区组成和2。通过实验评估温度升高和二氧化碳对豪勋爵独特的植物群和动物群的影响。我们对物种对气候变化威胁的脆弱性的评估将用于为豪勋爵未来的保护政策和物种管理提供信息。

Climate change will have profound impacts on biodiversity. We will investigate both recent and future impacts of climate change on invertebrate and plant assemblages on Lord Howe Island, an important World Heritage Area. We will 1. compare current assemblages with a unique set of historical databases spanning the past 150 years, to investigate whether recent warming has affected community composition and 2. experimentally assess impacts of increasing temperature and CO2 on Lord Howe's unique flora and fauna. Our assessment of species vulnerability to climate change threats will be used to inform future conservation policy and species management on Lord Howe.