Resilience of eucalypts to future droughts

该项目旨在通过结合数据合成、操纵实验和建模来研究桉树物种对未来干旱的适应能力。预计气候变化将增加未来干旱的频率、规模和持续时间，给澳大利亚带来重大的环境和社会经济后果。目前的预测能力是非常有限的：实验规模有限，不能捕捉重要的全球变化的相互作用，而模型不代表的功能特性和适应eucaltites。该项目将开发一个强有力的基于证据和过程的理解，以量化适应干旱的桉树物种的功能行为，并利用这一洞察力来进行未来的模型预测。

This project aims to examine how resilient Eucalyptus species are to future droughts by combining data synthesis, manipulative experiments and modelling. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency, magnitude and duration of future droughts, with major environmental and socio-economic consequences for Australia. Current predictive capacity is extremely limited: experiments are limited in scale and cannot capture important global change interactions, whilst models do not represent the functional characteristics and adaptions of eucalypts. This project will develop a strong evidence- and process-based understanding to quantify the functional behaviour of drought-adapted Eucalyptus species and leverage this insight to make future model projections.