Rehabilitating a changing landscape: using the latest advances in koala ecology to direct adaptive management

恢复不断变化的景观：利用考拉生态学的最新进展来指导适应性管理

• 批准号: LP140100279
• 负责人: Prof Mathew Crowther
• 金额: $ 27.1万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP140100279
• 关键词: Rehabilitating; changing; landscape; using; latest

The koala has been identified as one of the world's flagship species suffering from environmental change. In contrast to the decline of koalas in New South Wales generally, the eucalypts planted in Gunnedah to combat salinity led to an increase in koalas. However, the startlingly high death rate of Gunnedah koalas (25 per cent of the population) in the heatwave during the drought in 2009 must be understood. There are also new threats brought about by intensive land modification. This project aims to determine the effects of environmental change on the koala population through a study of landscape ecology, leaf chemistry, disease epidemiology and koala movements. This aims to lead to better management decisions for arboreal fauna.

考拉已被确定为世界上受环境变化影响的旗舰物种之一。与新南威尔士州考拉数量的普遍下降相反，在冈尼达种植的抗盐桉树导致了考拉数量的增加。然而，我们必须了解，在2009年干旱期间的热浪中，冈尼达考拉（占总数的25%）的死亡率高得惊人。此外，密集的土地改造也带来了新的威胁。该项目旨在通过研究景观生态学、树叶化学、疾病流行病学和考拉运动，确定环境变化对考拉种群的影响。其目的是为树栖动物群作出更好的管理决定。