Conserving wildlife at landscape-scales

在景观尺度上保护野生动物

• 批准号: DP170101653
• 负责人: Prof Menna Jones
• 金额: $ 20.72万
• 依托单位: University of Tasmania
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-05-09 至 2020-11-26
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP170101653
• 关键词: Conserving; wildlife; landscape; scales

The project aims to conserve threatened wildlife at large scales in unfenced landscapes. Using empirical field experiments in Australia and New Zealand, the project will test how suppressing populations of invasive prey – rabbits – could reduce the effect of invasive predators – cats – on native wildlife. Feral cats threaten biodiversity globally, including Australia and New Zealand. Effective control of cats is difficult at large-scales but rabbit control is feasible. The project aims to provide a conceptual approach for biodiversity conservation that can be scaled up to mitigate the effects of invasive predators at large scales globally and allow restoration of ecosystems.

该项目旨在大规模保护未围栏景观中的受威胁野生动物。该项目将在澳大利亚和新西兰进行实地实验，测试如何抑制入侵猎物-兔子-的数量，以减少入侵捕食者-猫-对本地野生动物的影响。野生猫科动物威胁着全球的生物多样性，包括澳大利亚和新西兰。大规模有效控制猫是困难的，但控制兔子是可行的。该项目旨在为生物多样性保护提供一个概念性方法，可以扩大规模，以减轻全球大规模入侵捕食者的影响，并恢复生态系统。