Genes to ecosystems: drivers of resilience in underwater marine forests

生态系统的基因：水下海洋森林复原力的驱动因素

• 批准号: DP160100114
• 负责人: Prof Thomas Wernberg
• 金额: $ 25.44万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160100114
• 关键词: Genes; ecosystems; drivers; resilience; underwater

This project seeks to determine if population connectivity and thermal stress limits the ecological performance and capacity for biological adaptation of seaweed forests to environmental change. The rates of warming in Australia’s temperate marine environments are among the fastest in the world, threatening seaweed forests that support rich marine life and generate substantial socioeconomic values. By integrating studies of connectivity among seaweed forests along replicate coastlines on both sides of the Australian continent, with field and breeding experiments, this project expects to expose the role of genetic diversity in mediating ecological resilience to rapid environmental change.

该项目旨在确定种群连通性和热应力是否限制了海藻森林对环境变化的生物学适应能力的能力。澳大利亚温度海洋环境中的变暖速率是世界上最快的，威胁着支持丰富海洋生物并产生大量社会经济价值的海藻森林。通过将沿澳大利亚两侧的沿海藻类森林之间的连通性进行整合，继续进行现场和育种实验，该项目希望揭示遗传多样性在介导生态韧性对快速环境变化的介导的作用。