Messing with their minds: using deception to improve pest management

扰乱他们的思想：利用欺骗来改善害虫管理

• 批准号: DP200103148
• 负责人: Prof Peter Banks
• 金额: $ 24.02万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-06-30 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200103148
• 关键词: Messing; their; minds; using; deception

This project aims to develop new approaches to improve wildlife management by showing how deceit and misinformation can alter decision-making in pest animals. Using wild house mice as a model, it will test new theory on how animals decide whether or not to interact with wildlife control devices, like traps and baits, which is critical to all pest control efforts. The expected outcomes include new pest control tools that make strategic use of misinformation to alter decision making, to reduce a pest's ability to damage important agricultural crops such as wheat, boost the attraction of lures to traps, and improve bait uptake. These outcomes should provide significant new options for vertebrate pest control in Australia and globally.

该项目旨在通过展示欺骗和错误信息如何改变有害动物的决策来开发改进野生动物管理的新方法。以野生家鼠为模型，它将测试动物如何决定是否与野生动物控制设备(如陷阱和诱饵)互动的新理论，这对所有虫害控制努力都是至关重要的。预期的结果包括新的害虫控制工具，这些工具战略性地利用错误信息来改变决策，减少害虫损害小麦等重要农作物的能力，增强诱饵对陷阱的吸引力，以及改善诱饵摄取。这些结果将为澳大利亚和全球脊椎动物病虫害防治提供重要的新选择。