Conservation behaviour in human-dominated landscapes

人类活动对栖息地的改变是造成过去世纪栖息地急剧增加的主要原因。 降低灭绝率需要社会扭转人口下降的原因，这往往与栖息地丧失和破碎化以及与人类的冲突有关。 我的研究计划解决这些原因有两个主要目标：（1）确定动物运动的障碍和走廊，这些障碍和走廊决定了支离破碎的景观对动物的渗透性;（2）解决人类与野生动物的冲突，这有时会导致野生动物被吸引到这些景观中的人为特征。 我强调动物的运动，因为它是几个过程的基础，这些过程对两个人的成功都是必不可少的（例如，寻找食物和配偶）和种群（例如，集合种群动态）。 我越来越多地针对人类与野生动物冲突的情况，并试图找到对野生动物进行致命管理的行为替代方案。 我的目标是进行创新和严格的项目，为学生提供优秀的科学培训，同时也为野生动物管理者和景观规划者提供有形的，可辩护的信息，他们负责在人类主导的景观中保持生物多样性。

Anthropogenic habitat modification is mainly responsible for the sharp rise in extinctions that characterizes the past century. Reducing the rate of extinction requires that society reverse the reasons for population declines, which have frequently been associated with habitat loss and fragmentation, and conflict with humans. My research program addresses these causes with two main objectives (1) identify the barriers and corridors to animal movement that determine the permeability to animals of fragmented landscapes and (2) address the human-wildlife conflict which sometimes results when wildlife are attracted to anthropogenic features in these landscapes. I emphasize animal movement because it underlies several processes that are essential to the success of both individuals (e.g., finding food and mates) and populations (e.g., metapopulation dynamics). Increasingly, I target situations of active human-wildlife conflict and attempt to find behavioural alternatives to lethal management of wildlife. I aim to conduct innovative and rigorous projects that provide excellent science training for students while also providing tangible, defensible information for wildlife managers and landscape planners who are charged with maintaining biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes.