Restoring amphibian populations in chytrid-impacted landscapes

在受壶菌影响的地区恢复两栖动物种群

• 批准号: DP240102056
• 负责人: Dr Simon Clulow
• 金额: $ 62.9万
• 依托单位: University of Canberra
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP240102056
• 关键词: Restoring; amphibian; populations; chytrid; impacted

This project aims to address an outstanding problem in wildlife disease ecology: how can we enable susceptible amphibians to persist in the face of the chytrid pathogen, which has devastated amphibian biodiversity? This project expects to generate new knowledge by experimentally trialling two highly promising interventions: immunising animals and creating disease refugia through simple habitat manipulations. Outcomes of this project include a framework for predicting how interventions might enable host-pathogen coexistence. This project should provide significant benefits including enhanced understanding of wildlife disease dynamics that will pave the way for interventions to restore amphibian biodiversity in chytrid-impacted landscapes.

该项目旨在解决野生动物疾病生态学中的一个突出问题：面对破坏两栖动物生物多样性的壶菌病原体，我们如何使易感两栖动物坚持下去？该项目希望通过实验试验两种非常有希望的干预措施来产生新的知识：对动物进行免疫和通过简单的栖息地操作创建疾病避难所。该项目的成果包括预测干预措施如何使宿主-病原体共存的框架。该项目将提供显著的好处，包括加强对野生动物疾病动态的了解，这将为干预措施铺平道路，以恢复受壶菌影响的景观中两栖动物的生物多样性。