Are kangaroos jeopardizing conservation outcomes?

袋鼠是否危及保护成果？

• 批准号: LP210100300
• 负责人: Prof Mike Letnic
• 金额: $ 30.52万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-04-22 至 2025-04-21
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP210100300
• 关键词: kangaroos; jeopardizing; conservation; outcomes

There is concern that grazing by over-abundant kangaroos is jeopardising the goals of arid conservation reserves, but there is little evidence about the extent of their impacts. The goal of this proposal is to quantify kangaroos' grazing effects on biodiversity within arid conservation reserves. The results will provide a whole ecosystem understanding of how overgrazing by kangaroos influences the biodiversity conservation value of the vast landscapes of arid Australia. Managers of many conservation reserves, including our project partners, and policy-makers need the information that our experiments will provide to inform the development of strategies to optimise biodiversity conservation and manage the impacts of kangaroos.

人们担心，过多的袋鼠放牧正在危及干旱保护区的目标，但几乎没有证据表明其影响的程度。该提案的目标是量化袋鼠放牧对干旱保护区内生物多样性的影响。研究结果将提供对袋鼠过度放牧如何影响澳大利亚干旱地区的生物多样性保护价值的整个生态系统的了解。许多保护保护区的管理者，包括我们的项目合作伙伴和政策制定者，需要我们的实验提供的信息，以便为制定优化生物多样性保护和管理袋鼠影响的战略提供信息。