Nutritional ecology of free ranging herbivores

散养食草动物的营养生态学

• 批准号: DP0449544
• 负责人: Prof William Foley
• 金额: $ 18.08万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0449544
• 关键词: Nutritional; ecology; free; ranging; herbivores

Australian grasslands underpin most of our livestock industries and provide important habitats for many native plants and animals. In order to manage these areas sustainably, farmers and other land managers need to know how much food animals consume and how the nutritional quality of that food varies. However there is no simple way of doing this and this prevents timely manipulation of stock numbers and limits our ability to predict fluctuations in numbers of native herbivores such as kangaroos. The project will provide a cheap and quick means for ecologists and land managers to incorporate nutritional analyses into their work

澳大利亚的草原支撑着我们大部分的畜牧业，并为许多本土动植物提供了重要的栖息地。为了可持续地管理这些地区，农民和其他土地管理者需要知道食用动物消耗了多少食物，以及这些食物的营养质量如何变化。 然而，没有简单的方法来做到这一点，这阻止了及时操纵股票数字，并限制了我们预测本地食草动物，如袋鼠数量波动的能力。 该项目将为生态学家和土地管理者提供一种廉价快捷的方法，将营养分析纳入他们的工作中