Buffering the ecosystem impact of invasive cane toads

缓冲入侵甘蔗蟾蜍对生态系统的影响

• 批准号: LP170100013
• 负责人: Prof Richard Shine
• 金额: $ 60.18万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP170100013
• 关键词: Buffering; ecosystem; impact; invasive; cane

This project aims to address the devastating ecological problems caused by invasive species, by developing a novel approach that does not rely upon eradicating the invader through training vulnerable native predators not to eat toxic cane toads. Expected outcomes of this project include building a broad coalition of conservation-focused groups, from private land-owners and local businesses through to Indigenous groups and government and non-government agencies across the entire Kimberley region. It will also result in the evaluation of methods for deployment of taste-aversion at a landscape scale. This should provide significant benefits by conserving vulnerable fauna and building a powerful network within a region of high biodiversity in tropical Australia.

该项目旨在通过开发一种新的方法来解决入侵物种造成的破坏性生态问题，这种方法不依赖于通过训练脆弱的本地捕食者不吃有毒的甘蔗蟾蜍来消灭入侵者。该项目的预期成果包括在整个金伯利地区建立一个以保护为重点的团体的广泛联盟，从私人土地所有者和当地企业到土著团体以及政府和非政府机构。它还将导致在景观尺度上的味道厌恶的部署方法的评价。这将通过保护脆弱的动物群和在澳大利亚热带地区的高生物多样性区域内建立一个强大的网络来提供重大利益。