Vulnerability of Australian bats to white-nose syndrome

澳大利亚蝙蝠易患白鼻综合症

• 批准号: LP200100331
• 负责人: A/Prof Christopher Turbill
• 金额: $ 37.75万
• 依托单位: Western Sydney University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP200100331
• 关键词: Vulnerability; Australian; bats; white; nose

Australia's unique wildlife is inherently at risk from invasive novel pathogens. White-nose syndrome is an emerging fungal disease that has decimated bat populations across North America. This fungal disease is likely to soon jump continents and also seriously threaten Australia's bat fauna. This project aims to quantify the risk of exposure to this fungus and understand the sensitivity of Australian bat populations to white-nose syndrome mortality. Expected outcomes include spatially-explicit, species-specific models of vulnerability to white-nose syndrome for bat populations across south-eastern Australia, essential for directing actions to prevent, detect and mitigate the impacts of this potentially catastrophic wildlife disease.

澳大利亚独特的野生动物本身就面临着入侵性新型病原体的风险。白鼻综合征是一种新出现的真菌疾病，在北美各地已经大量减少了蝙蝠的数量。这种真菌疾病可能很快就会跨越大陆，并严重威胁澳大利亚的蝙蝠动物群。该项目旨在量化暴露于这种真菌的风险，并了解澳大利亚蝙蝠种群对白鼻综合征死亡率的敏感性。预期成果包括澳大利亚东南部蝙蝠种群易受白鼻综合征影响的空间明确、物种特异性模型，这对于指导预防、检测和减轻这一潜在灾难性野生动物疾病的影响至关重要。