Understanding and reversing the habitat shifts that have endangered the broad-headed snake

澳大利亚南部脊椎动物物种的灭绝率比世界上几乎任何其他地方都要高，拯救濒危物种对保护生物多样性至关重要。为了有效地做到这一点，研究人员需要了解威胁野生种群的过程，并与野生动物管理当局和其他利益相关者密切合作，为这些问题制定新的解决方案。这个项目将建立这样一种理解和合作，重点关注一种濒危的蛇类。我们提出了雄心勃勃的景观尺度野外实验，将同时测试关于威胁过程的假设，并恢复栖息地质量以扭转人口下降。

Extinction rates for vertebrate species are higher in southern Australia than almost anywhere else in the world, and saving endangered taxa is critical to biodiversity conservation. To do this effectively, researchers need to understand the processes that threaten wild populations, and to develop novel solutions to those problems in close collaboration with wildlife management authorities and other stakeholders. This project will build such an understanding and collaboration, focusing on an endangered snake species. We propose ambitious landscape-scale field experiments that will simultaneously test hypotheses on threatening processes, and restore habitat quality to reverse population declines.