How does climate affect regeneration and distribution of Australian plants?

该项目旨在量化澳大利亚植物物种在过去几十年中对气候变化的反应程度，并建立对气候变化反应机制的理解。它试图填补有关热浪、冰点温度和温度变异性影响植物的关键知识空白。该项目旨在引入一种新的方法，能够在没有历史数据的情况下评估生理和形态变化，以应对最近的气候变化。提高识别难以应对气候变化的物种的准确性，将使管理者能够更有效地瞄准他们的资源，使生物多样性和生态系统功能最大化。

This project aims to quantify the degree to which Australian plant species have responded to changes in climate over the last few decades, and to build understanding of the mechanisms that underpin responses to climate change. It seeks to fill critical knowledge gaps about the way heatwaves, freezing temperatures and temperature variability affect plants. The project aims to introduce a novel approach that will allow assessment of physiological and morphological change in response to recent climate change in the absence of historic data. Improved accuracy in identifying species that will have trouble responding to climate change would allow managers to more effectively target their resources to maximise biodiversity and ecosystem function.