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NERP TE Project 7.3 Climate change and the impacts of extreme climatic events on Australia¿s Wet Tropics biodiversity (JCU)

Created 05/04/2016

Updated 11/08/2023

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This project investigates in detail the exposure and sensitivity of Wet Tropics animals to extreme climate and weather events, such as heat waves, fires, flooding rain and cyclones. This information will be used to assess and map the vulnerability of biodiversity to the impacts of current and future extreme events in the Wet Tropics bioregion. The information gathered in the Wet Tropics can potentially be applied to other regions in Australia and elsewhere to predict and mitigate the impacts of extreme climatic events on biodiversity. Outcomes will include: Maps of exposure and the sensitivity of organisms to temperature extremes, identification of thermal hotspots and refugia and a list of biodiversity values particularly at risk from extreme events.

This project is now complete.

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Field Value
Title NERP TE Project 7.3 Climate change and the impacts of extreme climatic events on Australia¿s Wet Tropics biodiversity (JCU)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/df18c75e-f7fc-4e1e-81eb-ee29e73554d9
Contact Point
Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change, James Cook University (CTBCC/JCU)
justin.welbergen@jcu.edu.au
Reference Period 05/04/2016
Geospatial Coverage
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Data Portal Data.gov.au