NERP TE Project 7.3 - Climate change and the impacts of extreme climatic events on Australia’s Wet Tropics biodiversity, 2011-2014 (JCU)

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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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Title NERP TE Project 7.3 - Climate change and the impacts of extreme climatic events on Australia’s Wet Tropics biodiversity, 2011-2014 (JCU)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e08c069c-6396-42e9-b7e0-a8e8bcbb3a26
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
justin.welbergen@jcu.edu.au
Reference Period 01/07/2011 -
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "NERP TE Project 7.3 - Climate change and the impacts of extreme climatic events on Australia’s Wet Tropics biodiversity, 2011-2014 (JCU)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/nerp-te-project-7-3-climate-change-and-the-impacts-of-extreme-climatic-events-on-australias-wet1