Diversity maintenance in patchy environments

斑驳环境中的多样性维护

• 批准号: DP190102777
• 负责人: A/Prof John Dwyer
• 金额: $ 29.68万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP190102777
• 关键词: Diversity; maintenance; patchy; environments

This project aims to advance understanding of species coexistence and diversity maintenance in complex natural environments. Though diversity varies across patchy natural and human-created environments, the mechanistic drivers of these patterns remain poorly understood. This knowledge gap limits our ability to predict and manage responses of natural communities to environmental changes. Using data from threatened Western Australian wildflower communities and novel ecological models of species coexistence, the project aims to deliver a mechanistic understanding of biological diversity, and provide fundamental knowledge needed to improve ecosystem management and restoration outcomes across Australia and globally.

该项目旨在增进对复杂自然环境中物种共存和多样性维护的理解。尽管在不完整的自然环境和人类创造的环境中多样性有所不同，但这些模式的机械驱动因素仍然知之甚少。这种知识差距限制了我们预测和管理自然群落对环境变化的反应的能力。该项目利用来自受威胁的西澳大利亚野花群落的数据和物种共存的新颖生态模型，旨在提供对生物多样性的机械理解，并提供改善澳大利亚和全球生态系统管理和恢复成果所需的基础知识。