Dispersal and recruitment of species across landscapes: a new synthesis

这个项目的目的是要问：是否未能成功地分散在景观限制了丰富度和多样性的物种栖息地补丁？这是生态学的核心问题。该项目希望通过利用河流生态学的最新进展，克服假设检验的后勤障碍，产生关于扩散成功与种群数量之间联系的新知识。预期成果包括对为什么会发生扩散失败以及它们如何与低人口数量相关的新见解。收益应包括向保护管理人员提供有关灭绝风险的更好建议，以及国际合作将为澳大利亚的基础生态研究带来独特、切实的成果。

This project aims to ask: does failure to disperse successfully across landscapes limit the abundances and diversity of species in habitat patches? This is a central question in ecology. The project expects to generate new knowledge about the links between dispersal success and population numbers by using recent advances in river ecology that have overcome logistical barriers to hypothesis tests. Expected outcomes include new insights into why dispersal failures occur and how they are associated with low population numbers. Benefits should include improved advice to conservation managers about extinction risks, and unique, tangible outcomes for fundamental ecological research in Australia that will spring from international collaboration.