Project Leader: Dr David Hilbert, CSIRO Sustainable
Ecosystems
Project 2.5ii.3 will utilise a series of well-established sites
on altitudinal and regional transects and existing forest plots
within North Queensland to examine responses to climate change at
the ecosystem and species level. The Project will take
advantage of existing data from ten to twenty-five years'
collections at these sites/plots undertaken by the CSIRO, James
Cook University and through the Rainforest CRC.
Project 2.5ii.3 will assess current and ongoing climate change
impacts on ecosystems; identify how they might adapt under
predicted climate change; identify key refugia and important
landscape links; identify how climate change might interact with
other threats; assess ecosystem resilience; and produce regional
maps (projected to year 2050) outlining likely changes to North
Queensland ecosystems given a variety of scenarios for future
warming, responses of biota and management interventions.
