Hydroregulation – a missing piece of the climate change puzzle

水文调节——气候变化难题中缺失的一块

• 批准号: DP140101240
• 负责人: Prof Michael Kearney
• 金额: $ 27.75万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-02-10 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP140101240
• 关键词: Hydroregulation; missing; piece; climate; change

There is a great need for process-explicit approaches to the puzzle of how organisms will respond to changes in temperature and rainfall. To achieve this for animals, behavioural buffering of both body temperature and water balance must be accounted for. Much is known about thermoregulation, but 'hydroregulation' stands out as a major missing piece of the climate change forecasting puzzle. This project will integrate new modelling methods and empirical approaches to understand the connections between thermoregulation, hydroregulation, activity and, ultimately, distribution and abundance. It will test the predictions against long-term activity observations of reptiles and invertebrates from the Australian arid zone.

对于生物体如何对温度和降雨量的变化作出反应这一难题，迫切需要一种过程明确的方法。为了实现这一目标，动物的体温和水平衡的行为缓冲必须考虑在内。人们对体温调节了解很多，但“水分调节”是气候变化预测难题中缺失的一个主要部分。该项目将整合新的建模方法和经验方法，以了解温度调节，水力调节，活动以及最终分布和丰度之间的联系。它将根据对澳大利亚干旱地区爬行动物和无脊椎动物的长期活动观察来测试预测。