Climate resilience is the ability to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to deleterious effects of climate change. In the last few years most of us have directly felt the impacts of climate-related shocks to our daily lives, either as a direct or indirect result of floods, drought, extreme heat, and fires.  Climate change presents growing challenges for our ecosystems, economy and way of life.  Within the natural domain, RSB researchers are discovering and testing new biology-informed strategies to better anticipate, manage, and adapt to challenges posed by climate change.

Research Impact Cases

Harnessing the mountains to guide adaptive management practices

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The Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF) is host by RSB and contributes key infrastructure and capabilities into a distributed network that monitors Australia’s ecosystems (TERN). It enables a more comprehensive understanding of the changes to our environment and climate, thereby enabling more accurate predictions of future risk. AMRF is a collaboration across universities and land management agencies that produces world-leading ecosystem, evolutionary and biophysical science to guide adaptive management of High Mountains across Australia. It supports research to assess the extent and effects of changing climate, water and fire regimes on ecosystem processes and their feedbacks and provide a structure for integrated research, management and governance of Australia's mountains.

Learn more about the Australian Mountain Research Facility