Understanding responses to climate change: a mechanistic approach integrating functional genetics, physiology and biophysical models for the Common brown butterfly

我们将剖析澳大利亚蝴蝶与气候变化之间的相互作用。这将对应对气候变化和多变性以及澳大利亚生物多样性的可持续利用的国家研究优先事项作出重大贡献。我们将解决预测生物群未来的标准方法中的已知缺陷。我们将提供一个澳大利亚物种，在其中对气候变化的反应机制进行了详细的了解。我们的结果将直接适用于其他蝴蝶：澳大利亚的19个受威胁分类群。我们方法的新颖性将引起国际上的显著兴趣，并将培训澳大利亚研究人员以一种新的方式预测气候变化的生物影响。

We will dissect the interaction between an Australian butterfly and changing climate. This will make significant contributions to the national research priorities Responding to climate change and variability and Sustainable use of Australia's biodiversity. We will address the known deficits in standard approaches to predicting futures for biota. We will provide an Australian species in which the mechanisms of response to climate change are understood in detail. Our outputs will be directly applicable to other butterflies: 19 threatened taxa in Australia. The novelty of our approach will be of marked international interest, and will train Australian researchers in a new way of predicting biological impacts of climate change.