Determining global and regional conservation priorities for biodiversity hotspots

澳大利亚和以色列的经济财富都是由生物多样性支撑的--例如，两国非凡的生物多样性为数百万美元的旅游业提供了动力。我们将制定方法，更好地决定在世界地中海生态系统的生物多样性“热点”中向哪里投资保护资金。我们将创造和测试新的理论和工具，将气候变化和外来物种入侵等过程的影响纳入决策，这将有助于减少对社会、经济、健康和人类福祉的巨大不利影响。我们将与决策者和公众分享我们的工作成果。

The economic wealth of both Australia and Israel is underpinned by biological diversity - for example the remarkable biological diversity of both countries fuels multimillion-dollar tourism industries. We will devise methods to make better decisions about where to invest conservation dollars amongst the biodiversity 'hotspots' of the Mediterranean ecosystems of the world. We will create and test new theory and tools for incorporating into decision making the effect of processes such as climate change and invasion by alien species, which will help reduce the huge detrimental impacts on social, economic, health and human-well being. We will share the results of our work with decision makers and with the public.