Towards a Landscape Conservation Culture - broadening the spatio-temporal scope of ecological studies to anticipate change in Australian forested ecosystems

该项目在澳大利亚西南部开发了一个综合框架，以解释关于不同时空尺度上的物种和组合的景观过程和未来轨迹的知识。通过反复生物调查和遥感获得的数据与通过地理信息系统处理的空间数据相结合，用于解释性建模方法，以在不同的干扰制度下作出预测。从显示环境变量连续变化的组合空间层建立的模型将提供不同比例的区域分类地图，从而能够描绘与植被单元相关的不确定性--与描绘同质离散地带的地图相比，这是一项相当大的创新。

This project in south-western Australia develops an integrated framework to interpret knowledge about landscape processes and future trajectories of species and assemblages at different spatio-temporal scales. A synthesis of data obtained through repeated biological surveys and remote sensing, with spatial data handled through GIS is used in an explanatory modeling approach to make predictions under different disturbance regimes. Models built from combined spatial layers exhibiting continuous variation in environmental variables will provide area-class maps at different scales, allowing the portrayal of uncertainty associated with vegetation units - a considerable innovation over maps depicting homogenous discrete zones.