Animal cultures and anthropogenic change

动物文化和人为变化

• 批准号: DE240101131
• 负责人: Dr Anastasia Dalziell
• 金额: $ 31.89万
• 依托单位: Western Sydney University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-02-12 至 2027-07-19
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE240101131
• 关键词: Animal; cultures; anthropogenic; change

This project aims to investigate the impacts of anthropogenic change on the elaborate song cultures of declining Australian songbirds. Culture is fundamental to the biology of social animals, and has profound implications for biodiversity conservation; however, the drivers of animal cultural change are unclear. This project will analyse how lyrebird song cultures respond to anthropogenic environmental change, including Australia’s 2019-20 megafires. Furthermore, it will assess the mechanisms linking environmental and cultural change, and examine the utility of vocal cultures as bioindicators of ecological health. This project will advance fundamental research in animal culture and enhance the conservation of cultural diversity in the wild.

该项目旨在研究人为变化对澳大利亚鸣禽繁复的鸣叫文化的影响。文化是群居动物生物学的基础，对生物多样性保护有着深远的影响；然而，动物文化变化的驱动因素尚不清楚。该项目将分析琴鸟歌曲文化如何应对人为环境变化，包括澳大利亚2019- 2020年的特大火灾。此外，它将评估连接环境和文化变化的机制，并检查声音文化作为生态健康生物指标的效用。该项目将促进动物文化的基础研究，加强对野生文化多样性的保护。