Do protected areas work? Tracking resilience and functional diversity change to investigate the impacts of anthropogenic stress

保护区有效吗？

• 批准号: 2885855
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2885855
• 关键词: Do; protected; areas; work; Tracking

Ecosystems provide a plethora of benefits to humanity, and consequently maintaining and promoting biodiversity remains a key societal challenge. Protected areas are used as a key conservation tool to safeguard biodiversity in the face of global anthropogenic change. However, the efficacy of protected areas in maintaining the resilience and functioning of biodiversity remains unclear. This project will combine large datasets and advanced analytical tools to quantify the efficacy of protected areas in maintaining the resilience and functional diversity of ecosystems. Resilience - the ability to resist and recover from disturbance - can tell us about the capacity of natural systems to withstand the impacts of perturbations. Functional diversity - the range of roles and functions maintained by species within a community - can tell us can tell us what functions will persist following species extinctions. Understanding whether protected areas are promoting these two metrics is crucial to gauge whether protected areas are fit for purpose in our changing world. This project will analyse the International Waterbird Census and Christmas Bird Count databases, supplemented with data from the Living Planet Index Database. These databases are comprised of yearly counts of animal populations, primarily birds, at tens of thousands of sites worldwide. They will be used to: (1) Assess whether populations in protected areas are more resilient than those in non-protected areas, (2) assess whether protected areas show higher levels of functional diversity change through time, and (3) use population data to predict the risk of population extinction and model how this may affect the functional diversity of sites around the world. We strongly welcome students with their own ideas and interests in this area of study, and are very happy for the student to develop their own research questions within the broad fields outline above.

生态系统为人类提供了大量的好处，因此，维护和促进生物多样性仍然是一个关键的社会挑战。保护区被用作在全球人为变化的情况下保护生物多样性的关键保护工具。然而，保护区在维持生物多样性的复原力和功能方面的效力仍不清楚。该项目将联合收割机与大型数据集和先进的分析工具相结合，以量化保护区在维持生态系统的复原力和功能多样性方面的功效。复原力-抵抗干扰并从干扰中恢复的能力-可以告诉我们自然系统承受干扰影响的能力。功能多样性--一个群落中物种所保持的角色和功能的范围--可以告诉我们在物种灭绝后什么功能会继续存在。了解保护区是否在促进这两个指标，对于衡量保护区是否适合我们不断变化的世界至关重要。该项目将分析国际水鸟普查和圣诞节鸟类计数数据库，并补充来自地球生命指数数据库的数据。这些数据库包括全世界数以万计地点的动物种群（主要是鸟类）的年度计数。它们将用于：（1）评估保护区内的种群是否比非保护区内的种群更具复原力;（2）评估保护区是否显示出更高水平的功能多样性变化;（3）使用种群数据预测种群灭绝的风险，并模拟这可能如何影响世界各地遗址的功能多样性。我们强烈欢迎学生在这一领域的研究有自己的想法和兴趣，并非常高兴为学生开发自己的研究问题在上述广泛的领域概述。