Australian and global plant diversity from first principles

澳大利亚和全球植物多样性的首要原则

• 批准号: FT160100113
• 负责人: A/Prof Daniel Falster
• 金额: $ 56.17万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-04-24 至 2022-04-23
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT160100113
• 关键词: Australian; global; plant; diversity; first

This project aims to explain the composition of vegetation in Australia and worldwide using ecological and evolutionary first principles. Researchers have studied how climate shapes vegetation for centuries, but still lack a basic quantitative theory predicting what types of plants should be found where and why. Combining first principles models, statistics and large Australian data synthesis, this project will determine whether vegetation structure and diversity is predictable and thus improve predictive models. Predicting the long term effects of evolutionary adaptation and humans on ecosystems could enable the management of terrestrial carbon and underpin effective ecosystem management and restoration.

该项目旨在利用生态和进化第一原理解释澳大利亚和世界各地的植被组成。几个世纪以来，研究人员一直在研究气候如何塑造植被，但仍然缺乏基本的定量理论来预测应该在哪里以及为什么会发现什么类型的植物。结合第一原理模型、统计数据和澳大利亚大型数据综合，该项目将确定植被结构和多样性是否可预测，从而改进预测模型。预测进化适应和人类对生态系统的长期影响可以实现陆地碳的管理，并支持有效的生态系统管理和恢复。