Breaking the link between predators and bushfire for fauna conservation

该项目旨在量化丛林大火如何放大入侵捕食者(野猫和狐狸)对当地动物的影响。通过创新的实地实验和经验建模，该项目有望在野生动物保护、火灾生态和入侵物种管理等关键领域产生新的知识。该项目的预期成果包括对威胁如何相互作用影响生物多样性的变革性见解，以及极大地增强管理丛林大火和入侵捕食者的能力。这些进展应该会带来显著的好处，包括更好地保护受威胁的物种、生态学理论的进步以及提高预测和应对环境变化的能力。

This project aims to quantify how bushfires amplify the impacts of invasive predators (feral cats and foxes) on native fauna. Through innovative field experiments and empirical modelling, this project expects to generate new knowledge in the key areas of wildlife conservation, fire ecology and invasive species management. Expected outcomes of this project include transformative insights into how threats interact to influence biodiversity and greatly enhanced capacity to manage bushfires and invasive predators. These advances should provide significant benefits, including improved conservation of threatened species, advances in ecological theory and improved capacity to predict and respond to environmental change.