Climate impacts on grass phenology, diversity and pollen exposure

该项目调查气候变化如何改变澳大利亚高生产力干燥草原的物候、植物多样性和空气传播的花粉暴露。该项目预计将通过将卫星物候分析与草类浓度和多样性的季节性空中花粉测量相结合，回答有关草原和草类花粉与草类物候和多样性的关系变化的关键问题。该项目的预期结果将是更好的管理选择，以保护过敏患者，并改进气候变化和极端事件下的生态和花粉预报。该项目将为澳大利亚的城市和偏远地区提供重要的公共卫生利益和疾病缓解战略。

This project investigates how climate change is altering the phenology, plant diversity, and airborne pollen exposure in Australia's highly productive dry grasslands. The project is expected to answer key questions on shifting grasslands and grass pollen relationships with grass phenology and diversity by merging satellite analysis of phenology with seasonal airborne pollen measures of grass concentrations and diversity. Expected outcomes of this project will be better management options to safeguard allergy sufferers and improved ecological and pollen forecasts under climate change and extreme events. This project should provide important public health benefits and disease mitigation strategies to Australia's urban and remote areas.