Wildlife in an inceasingly variable world

不断变化的世界中的野生动物

• 批准号: 227081-2009
• 负责人: Boyce, Mark
• 金额: $ 4.52万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=478383
• 关键词: Wildlife; inceasingly; variable; world

Humans are causing vast changes to the ecology of our planet. Climates are becoming warmer and more variable, and increasingly landscapes are being disturbed and fragmented altering species distributions. My research seeks to explain the ecological consequences of increasing temporal variability and spatial heterogeneity to selected wildlife species, embracing new methods for study of stochastic demography, movement dynamics, changing distributions, and population dynamics. Some of these quantitative tools have conservation applications, e.g., movement models such as step-selection functions can help us to identify corridors for movement of animals between areas of habitat.

人类正在给地球的生态带来巨大的变化。气候变得越来越温暖，变化也越来越多，地貌越来越受到干扰和破碎，改变了物种的分布。 我的研究旨在解释选定野生动物物种的时间变异性和空间异质性增加的生态后果，采用研究随机人口学、运动动态、分布变化和种群动态的新方法。 其中一些定量工具具有保护应用，例如，诸如步骤选择函数之类的运动模型可以帮助我们识别动物在栖息地之间运动的走廊。