Impact of the socio-ecological system on animal reintroduction success

社会生态系统对动物放归成功的影响

• 批准号: 281759701
• 负责人: Dr. Zina Skandrani
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et dEcologie marine et continentale
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/281759701?language=en
• 关键词: Impact; socio; ecological; system; animal

Animal reintroductions are a central aspect of world conservation efforts. Yet, they are still a complex endeavor and often fail, calling for more efficient post-release monitoring. Crucial are here animal social behavior and mating system as they influence population vital rates, while their destabilization after reintroduction result in reduced population fitness. Few studies have yet included measures of animal behavior with fitness consequences to evaluate the responses of species to natural and anthropogenic stressors. Specifically in the case of reintroduced species, conservation efforts need urgently to uncover the identity and impacts of threats to population viability and determine exploitation practices of local people, in order to evaluate the future prospects of these species under various management strategies. Using animal social structure as behavioral indicator, the project aims to identify which socio-ecological factors are important for reintroduction success and to what extent these are mediated by governance strategies. The purpose is to assess key interaction patterns of social behavior with ecological features and anthropogenic pressures in a reintroduced species of high conservation concern, the Scimitar oryx that has gone extinct in the 20thC and been reintroduced to North Africa. Data collection will be performed in 2 National Tunisian parks with different management strategies regarding the access of people and between which oryx populations have been anecdotally reported to display differing social behavior. Using an interdisciplinary research strategy, the comparison between both parks will allow relating social behavior to features of the biophysical environment as well as to anthropogenic influences and thus assessing the contribution of landscape characteristics and human interactions to the success of reintroductions. On this base, it will further be possible to trace back the role of policy to crucial animal behavioral re-adaptations to release sites and to reintroduction success. The project would be seminal at 2 levels. First, it would be the first documentation of social behavior in wild-born scimitar oryx since the extinction of the species. This is of crucial importance as the North-African reintroduction experiences are used to plan current intensive Scimitar oryx restoration efforts in their former range. Second, the project would be the first to relate animal readaptation to natural areas not only to biophysical but also to anthropogenic factors. A thorough comprehension of human-environment interactions and how these are mediated by governance holds a strong policy-relevance. It will provide a conceptual framework highlighting how governance might integrate socio-ecological dynamics, and thus provide valuable insights to elucidating human-wildlife conflicts and inform current sustainable development issues.

动物的重新引入是世界保护工作的一个核心方面。然而，他们仍然是一个复杂的奋进，往往失败，要求更有效的释放后监测。在这里，动物的社会行为和交配系统至关重要，因为它们影响种群的生命率，而它们在重新引入后的不稳定导致种群适应度降低。很少有研究还包括与健身后果的动物行为的措施，以评估物种对自然和人为压力的反应。特别是在重新引入物种的情况下，保护工作迫切需要揭示种群生存能力的威胁的特性和影响，并确定当地人民的开发做法，以评估这些物种在各种管理战略下的未来前景。使用动物的社会结构作为行为指标，该项目旨在确定哪些社会生态因素是重要的再引入的成功，以及在何种程度上这些是介导的治理策略。其目的是评估社会行为与生态特征和人为压力的重要相互作用模式，在重新引入的物种高度保护的关注，弯刀大羚羊已经灭绝，在20thC和被重新引入北非。将在2个突尼斯国家公园进行数据收集，这些公园在人员访问方面采用不同的管理策略，据传闻，大羚羊种群显示出不同的社会行为。使用跨学科的研究策略，这两个公园之间的比较将允许相关的社会行为的生物物理环境的功能，以及人为的影响，从而评估景观特征和人类相互作用的成功的重新引入的贡献。在此基础上，将进一步有可能追溯政策的作用，以关键的动物行为重新适应释放网站和重新引入的成功。该项目将在两个层面上发挥开创性作用。首先，这将是自该物种灭绝以来首次记录野生弯角羚羊的社会行为。这是至关重要的，因为北非的重新引入的经验是用来计划目前密集的弯刀大羚羊恢复工作，在他们以前的范围。第二，该项目将是第一个将动物重新适应自然区域不仅与生物物理因素而且与人为因素联系起来的项目。对人与环境的相互作用以及治理如何调节这些相互作用的透彻理解具有很强的政策相关性。它将提供一个概念框架，强调治理如何整合社会生态动态，从而为阐明人类与野生动物的冲突提供宝贵的见解，并为当前的可持续发展问题提供信息。