Tracking warning signals across a variable landscape

跟踪多变景观中的警告信号

• 批准号: DP190101028
• 负责人: Prof Marie Herberstein
• 金额: $ 20.86万
• 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: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-03-14 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP190101028
• 关键词: Tracking; warning; signals; across; variable

This project aims to investigate how local environmental factors and predator communities affect warning colour expression across the Australian landscape. Warning colours protect toxic prey from predators who learn to associate the colours with an unpleasant taste. Theoretically, warning colours should not vary, but in nature we find appreciable and unexplained variation. This project will utilise Australia's excellent environmental and biodiversity informatics infrastructure to inform the public and decision makers about the adaptability of animals to environmental change such as predator loss.

该项目旨在调查当地环境因素和捕食者群落如何影响整个澳大利亚景观的警告颜色表达。警告色可以保护有毒猎物免受捕食者的侵害，捕食者学会将颜色与令人不快的味道联系起来。从理论上讲，警告颜色不应该发生变化，但在自然界中我们发现了明显且无法解释的变化。该项目将利用澳大利亚优秀的环境和生物多样性信息学基础设施，向公众和决策者通报动物对环境变化（例如捕食者丧失）的适应能力。