Predicting adaptive responses to climate change in Australian native bees

预测澳大利亚本土蜜蜂对气候变化的适应性反应

• 批准号: DP200101272
• 负责人: Dr Vanessa Kellermann
• 金额: $ 25.41万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200101272
• 关键词: Predicting; adaptive; responses; climate; change

This project aims to understand how insects will adapt to climate change by examining a largely overlooked but economically important group of species: Australian native bees. Native bees are important pollinators of both crops and native plants, but their sensitivity to changes in climate are unknown. Expected outcomes include new knowledge of the resilience of native bees to climate change, and new effective tools for predicting climate change resilience that can be applied to many species. The intended benefits include increasing our understanding of the potential for native bees to act as future pollinators in Australia’s natural and agro-ecosystems, and guide policy and management decisions to better protect and conserve our bee fauna.

该项目旨在了解昆虫将如何适应气候变化，通过研究一个很大程度上被忽视但在经济上重要的物种群体：澳大利亚本土蜜蜂。本土蜜蜂是农作物和本土植物的重要授粉者，但它们对气候变化的敏感性尚不清楚。预期成果包括关于本土蜜蜂对气候变化的适应能力的新知识，以及可适用于许多物种的预测气候变化适应能力的新的有效工具。预期的好处包括增加我们对本土蜜蜂在澳大利亚自然和农业生态系统中作为未来授粉者的潜力的了解，并指导政策和管理决策，以更好地保护和养护我们的蜜蜂动物群。