The sparrows in the mining towns: a century of adaptation to contamination

矿业城镇的麻雀：一个世纪以来适应污染的过程

• 批准号: DP200100832
• 负责人: Prof Simon Griffith
• 金额: $ 36.51万
• 依托单位: Macquarie 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: 2020-06-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200100832
• 关键词: sparrows; mining; towns; century; adaptation

Our research will characterise how contamination from the extraction of precious metals can spread through the environment and how it effects a highly urbanised bird – the house sparrow. In many cases, populations of these birds have been intimately associated with mining operations for over a century, and our recent work has provided evidence of adaptation over time. House sparrows provide a great natural system to understand the genetic potential of organisms to adapt to anthropomorphic change in the environment connected with the resources industry. Our work, will bring new insight into the future management of environmental contamination, and the mitigation of adverse effects arising from resource extraction.

我们的研究将揭示贵金属提取的污染如何在环境中传播，以及它如何影响高度城市化的鸟类-家雀。在许多情况下，这些鸟类的种群已经与采矿作业密切相关了世纪，我们最近的工作提供了随着时间的推移而适应的证据。家雀提供了一个伟大的自然系统，以了解生物体的遗传潜力，以适应与资源工业有关的环境中的拟人化变化。我们的工作将为未来的环境污染管理和减轻资源开采带来的不利影响带来新的见解。