Predicting genetic exchange between species under climate change

该项目旨在解决导致物种基因库混合的因素，重点是气候变化是否会增加这种混合，可能会通过基因沼泽导致灭绝。 其意义在于，该项目将提高我们对物种形成和物种通过基因混合对快速气候变化的脆弱性的理解；这是一个基本上被忽视的过程。 关键成果将是产生关于基本进化过程的新知识，并扩大面临快速环境变化的生物多样性管理者的工具箱。 该项目将突出我们独特的生物多样性和科学能力，并通过培训高级进化生物学方面的早期职业研究人员，使澳大利亚受益。

This project aims to resolve the factors that lead to the mixing of species’ gene pools, with a focus on whether climate change will increase such mixing, possibly leading to extinction by genetic swamping. The significance is that the project would improve our understanding of speciation and species’ vulnerability to rapid climate change through genetic mixing; a largely overlooked process. Key outcomes would be to generate new knowledge of a fundamental evolutionary process and extend the toolbox of biodiversity managers facing rapid environmental change. The project would benefit Australia by highlighting our unique biodiversity and scientific capability, and by training early career researchers in advanced evolutionary biology.