Tracking warning signals across a variable landscape

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示颜色表达。警示颜色保护有毒猎物免受捕食者的伤害，捕食者学会将警告颜色与令人不快的味道联系起来。从理论上讲，警示颜色不应该改变，但在自然界中，我们发现了明显的和无法解释的变化。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(如捕食者丧失)的适应能力。

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.