The renaissance predator: complex predator-prey interactions and vertebrate diversity in arid Australia

这个项目将大大增加对捕食者如何影响澳大利亚沙漠中猎物的生态和多样性的理解，从而提高我们保护和管理我们标志性但脆弱的内陆景观的能力。它将提高当地对丰富的沙漠生活的认识，并通过促进关于捕食者如何影响多样性的新兴辩论，激发国内和国际的兴趣。它还将建立一个无与伦比的24年生态数据时间序列，从而为绘制气候变化的生物效应和协助整个大陆广阔内陆生物多样性的可持续管理提供关键资源。

This project will greatly increase understanding of how predators influence the ecology and diversity of their prey in Australia's deserts, and thus improve our ability to conserve and manage our iconic but fragile inland landscapes. It will increase awareness locally about the richness of desert life and stimulate national and international interest by contributing to emerging debate about how predators influence diversity. It will also establish an unparalleled 24-year time series of ecological data, and thus provide a key resource to chart the biological effects of climate change and assist sustainable management of biodiversity across the continent's vast interior.