Endocrine disruption in wildlife: a sexual selection perspective

该项目旨在揭示类似激素的化学物质造成的环境污染如何影响野生动物的行为、繁殖性能和后代的生存能力。通过将多代实验室研究与实验进化观点相结合的综合方法，该项目有望对化学污染物对生物系统的普遍影响以及动物适应因人类活动而退化的环境的能力产生重要的见解。这些发现将使人们能够预测人为变化的生态和进化后果，并为澳大利亚生物多样性的管理和敏感淡水资源的安全提供新的知识。

The Project aims to uncover how environmental pollution by hormone-mimicking chemicals affects wildlife behaviour, reproductive performance, and offspring viability. Through an integrative approach that combines multigenerational laboratory studies with an experimental evolution perspective, the Project expects to yield important insights into the pervasive influence of chemical contaminants on biological systems, and the capacity for animals to adapt to environments degraded by human activity. Findings will enable predictions of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of anthropogenic change, and contribute new knowledge relevant to the management of Australia’s biodiversity and the security of its sensitive freshwater resources.