Adaptive evolution and its demographic consequences today

该项目旨在提供第一个测试，以确定适应性遗传进化的速度在最近几十年中是否发生了变化，量化最近的遗传进化在多大程度上帮助动物种群生存，并提高研究澳大利亚野生动物正在进行的遗传进化的能力。该项目具有重大意义，因为许多物种目前正受到威胁，或入侵，由于快速的环境变化，特别是气候变化。该项目的预期成果是提供新的方法，建立国际和国家合作者网络，并提高衡量和预测澳大利亚动物如何适应快速变化的环境的能力。

This project aims to provide the first test of whether the rate of adaptative genetic evolution has changed in the recent decades, to quantify how much recent genetic evolution helps animal populations survive, and to increase the ability to study on-going genetic evolution in Australian wildlife. The project is of major significance as many species are currently threatened, or invading, due to rapid environmental changes, in particular climate change. The anticipated outcome of the project is to deliver new methods, establish a network of international and national collaborators and improve the ability to measure and to forecast how Australian animals adapt to rapidly changing environments.