Intervention ecology: managing ecosystems in the 21st century

这项研究将解决与面对快速的环境变化我们如何管理和恢复澳大利亚（以及全世界）的生态系统有关的基本问题，这个问题被认为是越来越紧迫的重要性。它将使人们更好地了解面对未来环境变化的生态系统动态，并发展一种考虑不同形式的管理干预、如何触发这些干预以及可能产生的生态和社会后果的方法。这将有助于生态学、恢复生态学和保护生物学的理论和概念发展，并有助于澳大利亚和其他地方的政策和管理。

The research will tackle fundamental issues relating to how we manage and restore ecosystems in Australia (and worldwide) in the face of rapid environmental change, an issue recognised as being of increasingly pressing importance. It will provide a better understanding of ecosystem dynamics in the face of future environmental changes, and develop an approach that considers different forms of management intervention, how these might be triggered and what the ecological and social consequences might be. This will contribute both to the theoretical and conceptual development of ecology, restoration ecology and conservation biology and to policy and management in Australia and elsewhere.