Summary

This project is currently on track for meeting all milestones. The planned meeting for the integrated physiology and field studies of refugial dynamics and ecological plasticity has occurred and extensive planning of this integrated project has taken place (see following report). The continued monitoring of field sites has occurred with no current problems. The assessment of extinction risk and vertebrate vulnerability is progressing well and the results have already been taken up in national and international workshops on climate change impacts. A manuscript reporting this work is now complete and has been submitted to Conservation Biology. This project will now look at more complex ways of analysing this data. Both the spatial refugia project and the complication of microclimate data is ongoing and both are progressing well. Included below is a report detailing the progress on the species distribution modelling. Distribution models for all rainforest vertebrates have been completed using one of the most up-to-date modelling algorithms (MAXENT). These distribution maps have been very valuable for providing more accurate and informative models of species distribution for bot