What drives novel community formation? Mechanisms of resilience against invasion and native species persistence under land use change

是什么推动了新社区的形成？

• 批准号: FT140100498
• 负责人: Prof Margaret Mayfield
• 金额: $ 48.55万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-10-08 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT140100498
• 关键词: What; drives; novel; community; formation

Environmental change is driving the creation of novel communities, stable mixes of native and exotic species. These communities are inevitable outcomes of human-induced environmental changes, yet why and how they form is still poorly understood. As these communities maintain high levels of native biodiversity, they are of great conservation value. Using Western Australia wildflower communities, This project aims to provide the first experimental tests of which environmental and biotic factors drive novel community formation, native species persistence and resilience to invasion. This will be important for developing realistic conservation plans in many ecosystems globally, and more specifically in Western Australia's biodiversity hotspot.

环境变化正在推动新社区的创建，本地和外来物种的稳定混合。这些社区是人类引起的环境变化的必然结果，但它们为什么以及如何形成仍然知之甚少。由于这些社区保持着高水平的本地生物多样性，它们具有很大的保护价值。利用西澳大利亚州的野花群落，该项目旨在提供第一个实验测试，环境和生物因素驱动新的社区形成，本地物种的持久性和入侵的恢复力。这对于在全球许多生态系统中制定切实可行的保护计划非常重要，特别是在西澳大利亚的生物多样性热点地区。