Diversity maintenance in patchy environments

该项目旨在促进对复杂自然环境中物种共存和多样性维持的认识。尽管多样性在不同的自然环境和人为环境中有所不同，但对这些模式的机制驱动因素仍知之甚少。这种知识差距限制了我们预测和管理自然群落对环境变化的反应的能力。利用来自受威胁的西澳大利亚野花群落的数据和物种共存的新生态模型，该项目旨在提供对生物多样性的机制理解，并提供改善澳大利亚和全球生态系统管理和恢复结果所需的基础知识。

This project aims to advance understanding of species coexistence and diversity maintenance in complex natural environments. Though diversity varies across patchy natural and human-created environments, the mechanistic drivers of these patterns remain poorly understood. This knowledge gap limits our ability to predict and manage responses of natural communities to environmental changes. Using data from threatened Western Australian wildflower communities and novel ecological models of species coexistence, the project aims to deliver a mechanistic understanding of biological diversity, and provide fundamental knowledge needed to improve ecosystem management and restoration outcomes across Australia and globally.