Determining the most effective conservation actions for species

物种的恢复取决于有效的保护行动的应用。决定采取何种保护行动来保护一个物种需要了解该物种的生物学、生态学、威胁以及不同的保护行动如何影响物种及其威胁。然而，对于任何物种，都没有关于保护它们的有效措施的信息（Christie et al. 2020; Junker et al. 2020）。对于高度受威胁和迅速减少的物种，往往没有足够的时间或足够的个人来测试行动的有效性。在缺乏有效保护行动的信息的地方，物种的反应被认为是与相似物种相同的，但这并不总是正确的，可能会导致进一步的下降。保护实践者也往往没有时间公布他们的行动的影响，所以关键的证据往往被错过。该项目旨在收集所有关于物种保护行动有效性的证据，以确定（1）什么可以预测不同物种和物种群在一系列分类群中的保护行动的有效性，（2）是否/何时从相似物种推断是适当的，需要哪些信息来确定这一点;（3）使用衍生的模型和变量来预测最合适的concernationactions为广泛的物种，目前缺乏有效的保护行动的第一次信息。已知的和预测的有效的物种保护行动，然后将比较对地方和需要的行动确定，以确定这些不同之处和原因。

Species recovery depends upon application of effective conservation actions.Determining which conservation actions to apply to conserve a speciesrequires an understanding the species' biology, ecology, threats and howdifferent conservation actions impact species and their threats. However, formany species there is no information on what actions are the effective forconserving them (Christie et al. 2020; Junker et al. 2020). For highlythreatened and rapidly declining species, there is often not enough time orenough individuals left to test the effectiveness of actions. Where theinformation on effective conservation actions is absent, species responsesare assumed to be the same as similar species, but this is not always trueand can have cause further declines. Conservation practitioners also often donot have time to publish the impact of their actions; so key evidence is oftenmissed. This project aims to gather all available evidence on speciesconservation action effectiveness in order to determine (1) what predicts theeffectiveness of conservation actions for different species and groups ofspecies across a range of taxa, (2) whether/when inference from similarspecies is appropriate and which information is needed to determine this and(3) use the derived models and variables to predict the most suitableconservation actions for a wide range of species which currently lackinformation on effective conservation actions for the first time. The known andpredicted effective conservation actions for species would then be comparedagainst in-place and needed actions identified to determine where these differand why.