Restoring amphibian populations in chytrid-impacted landscapes

该项目旨在解决野生动物疾病生态学中的一个突出问题：如何使易受影响的两栖动物在破坏了两栖动物生物多样性的壶菌病原体面前坚持下去？该项目希望通过实验试验两种非常有希望的干预措施来产生新的知识：免疫动物和通过简单的栖息地操作创建疾病避难所。该项目的成果包括一个预测干预措施如何使宿主和病原体共存的框架。该项目应能带来重大好处，包括加强对野生动物疾病动态的了解，为采取干预措施恢复受龟裂影响的地貌中的两栖动物生物多样性铺平道路。

This project aims to address an outstanding problem in wildlife disease ecology: how can we enable susceptible amphibians to persist in the face of the chytrid pathogen, which has devastated amphibian biodiversity? This project expects to generate new knowledge by experimentally trialling two highly promising interventions: immunising animals and creating disease refugia through simple habitat manipulations. Outcomes of this project include a framework for predicting how interventions might enable host-pathogen coexistence. This project should provide significant benefits including enhanced understanding of wildlife disease dynamics that will pave the way for interventions to restore amphibian biodiversity in chytrid-impacted landscapes.