Epilogue - Future challenges for the national climate change research strategy

Abstract

Abstract. Australia's primary industries are likely to be uniquely impacted upon by climate change. In February 2011 the inaugural Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries (CCRSPI) conference was held to discuss the current state of climate change research across Australia's primary industries. Never before had policy makers, producers and scientists from all sectors of our primary industries been brought together in one event to focus on the challenges and opportunities of climate change. This conference was a unique forum to address those challenges and opportunities by sharing knowledge across the various sectors, scientific disciplines and the industry-policy-science divide.While this collection of review papers provides an excellent knowledge base for industry and government to plan and implement policy and make further research investments to address the obvious gaps there is still much to be done in terms of research and the co-ordination of research. The often unrelated research activity in the adaptation and mitigation components of climate change research have the potential to have either synergistic or antagonistic outcomes at several scales and in several sectors ranging from policy to industry and community. The significant injection of research and development funds into this area through the Carbon Farming Futures and other associated programs will provide further impetus to the need for national co-ordination of climate change research in Australia's Primary Industries.To build on all this knowledge and experience gained at the 2011 CCRSPI Conference, CCRSPI is currently (2012) finalising the national climate change research strategy for the sector, with an associated audit of existing projects and capacity, in order to encourage and advocate the cross-sectoral RDE needs and co-ordination for the future.

Analysis of metabolomics associated with quality differences between room‐temperature‐ and low‐temperature‐stored litchi pulps

“…Water loss (Jiang & Fu, 1999), pathogen infection (Wu et al, 2017), enzymatic catalysis by PPO (Sun et al, 2008), POD (Jiang, Duan, Joyce, Zhang, & Li, 2004) and laccase (Fang et al, 2015) have been identified as the main factors inducing pericarp browning. Treatment with chemicals containing antioxidants (Ali, Khan, Malik, Nawaz, & Shahid, 2019) and acids (Shah, Khan, & Ali, 2017;Zheng & Tian, 2006), heat water and steam (Kessy, Hu, Zhao, & Zhou, 2016;Olesen, Nacey, Wiltshire, & O'Brien, 2004), coating treatment (Hojo, Durigan, & Hojo, 2011), lowtemperature storage (Khan, Ahmad, Malik, & Amjad, 2012), and controlled atmosphere storage (Ali, Khan, Malik, & Shahid, 2016) effectively retard pericarp browning. In addition to pericarp browning, pulp deterioration decreases the quality of litchi fruits after harvest.…”

Ontology, Ontologies and the “I” of FAIR

“…Firstly, it is that all information systems make ontological commitments. This has been discussed by several authors [3,5], but it was even clear in the first paper to mention the term "ontology" in computer science, namely, the classical Another Look at Data by George Mealy [6]. In that paper, Mealy defends that "data are fragments of a theory of the real world (my emphasis), and data processing juggles Ontology, Ontologies and the "I" of FAIR representations of these fragments of theory […] The issue is ontology, or the question of what exists".…”

“…intended populations. This is the so-called False Agreement problem [5]. To put it loosely, it is not a problem if two systems disagree but it can be a significant problem if they falsely believe they agree.…”

Modelling Endemic and Invasive Species' Biodiversity Corridors in the Southern North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand

“…In the hypothetical example of a stream that has been dammed, a physical disconnection has occurred which has knock on nutrient and biotic consequences. In many other cases, human developments such as urbanization or expanding farmland may create gaps between habitat patches (Berg, Ahrné, Öckinger, Svensson, & Söderström, 2011;Eckard, Kelly, & Barlow, 2012a).…”

“…Landscape connectivity projects have historically focused on species diversity and gene flow but now it is apparent that this is a short-sighted view of promoting connectivity. Landscape connectivity must engage farming communities and other primary industries that are key to a nation's economic success and disregard for these factors would be a detriment to the goal of landscape connectivity (Eckard et al, 2012a). The detriment would come from isolating key potential partners in the development of sustainable futures.…”