SPATIAL MODELLING AND BIODIVERSITY

揭示生物多样性空间格局背后的多重机制是生态学的一个关键挑战和前沿研究目标。拟议的研究计划旨在开发改进的空间建模框架，并利用它们来解决有关生物多样性的基本生态和进化原则的新假设。该计划将是跨学科的，结合涉及生态学，进化，地理学，信息学和统计学的专业知识。因此，所开发的方法将有助于我们阐明驱动空间生物多样性格局的复杂过程，将生物多样性的模拟格局与当前或 新的理论，并产生生物多样性保护的预测模型， 管理目的。

Unravelling the multiple mechanisms underlying biodiversity spatial patterns is a key challenge and a cutting-edge research goal in ecology. The proposed research program is aimed at developing improved spatial modelling frameworks and using them to address novel hypotheses about the fundamental ecological and evolutionary principles that underlie biodiversity. The program will be interdisciplinary, combining expertise involving ecology, evolution, geography, informatics and statistics. The developed approaches will thereby help us to elucidate the complex processes driving spatial biodiversity patterns, to relate the modelled patterns of biodiversity to current or new theory, and to generate predictive models for biodiversity conservation and management purposes.