What drives novel community formation? Mechanisms of resilience against invasion and native species persistence under land use change

环境变化正在推动新群落的产生，本地和外来物种的稳定混合。这些群落是人为引起的环境变化的必然结果，但人们对它们形成的原因和方式仍然知之甚少。这些群落保持着较高的本地生物多样性，具有重要的保护价值。利用西澳大利亚的野花群落，该项目旨在提供第一个实验测试，环境和生物因素驱动新群落的形成，本地物种的持久性和对入侵的恢复力。这对于在全球许多生态系统中制定现实的保护计划非常重要，特别是在西澳大利亚的生物多样性热点地区。

Environmental change is driving the creation of novel communities, stable mixes of native and exotic species. These communities are inevitable outcomes of human-induced environmental changes, yet why and how they form is still poorly understood. As these communities maintain high levels of native biodiversity, they are of great conservation value. Using Western Australia wildflower communities, This project aims to provide the first experimental tests of which environmental and biotic factors drive novel community formation, native species persistence and resilience to invasion. This will be important for developing realistic conservation plans in many ecosystems globally, and more specifically in Western Australia's biodiversity hotspot.