Are kangaroos jeopardizing conservation outcomes?

人们担心，过度的袋鼠放牧正在危及干旱保护区的目标，但几乎没有证据表明它们的影响程度。该提案的目标是量化袋鼠放牧对干旱保护区内生物多样性的影响。研究结果将提供一个完整的生态系统的理解如何过度放牧的袋鼠影响生物多样性保护价值的广阔的景观干旱的澳大利亚。许多保护区的管理者，包括我们的项目合作伙伴，以及政策制定者需要我们的实验提供的信息，以制定优化生物多样性保护和管理袋鼠影响的战略。

There is concern that grazing by over-abundant kangaroos is jeopardising the goals of arid conservation reserves, but there is little evidence about the extent of their impacts. The goal of this proposal is to quantify kangaroos' grazing effects on biodiversity within arid conservation reserves. The results will provide a whole ecosystem understanding of how overgrazing by kangaroos influences the biodiversity conservation value of the vast landscapes of arid Australia. Managers of many conservation reserves, including our project partners, and policy-makers need the information that our experiments will provide to inform the development of strategies to optimise biodiversity conservation and manage the impacts of kangaroos.