Breaking the link between predators and bushfire for fauna conservation

打破捕食者和丛林大火之间的联系以保护动物

• 批准号: DE200100157
• 负责人: Dr Tim Doherty
• 金额: $ 29.93万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-06-15 至 2023-06-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE200100157
• 关键词: Breaking; link; between; predators; bushfire

This project aims to quantify how bushfires amplify the impacts of invasive predators (feral cats and foxes) on native fauna. Through innovative field experiments and empirical modelling, this project expects to generate new knowledge in the key areas of wildlife conservation, fire ecology and invasive species management. Expected outcomes of this project include transformative insights into how threats interact to influence biodiversity and greatly enhanced capacity to manage bushfires and invasive predators. These advances should provide significant benefits, including improved conservation of threatened species, advances in ecological theory and improved capacity to predict and respond to environmental change.

该项目旨在量化野火如何放大入侵捕食者（野猫和狐狸）对本地动物的影响。通过创新的实地实验和经验建模，该项目有望在野生动物保护、火灾生态学和入侵物种管理等关键领域产生新的知识。该项目的预期成果包括对威胁如何相互作用以影响生物多样性的变革性见解，以及大大提高管理野火和入侵捕食者的能力。这些进展应能带来重大惠益，包括更好地保护受威胁物种、生态理论的进步以及提高预测和应对环境变化的能力。