How drugs in the wild affect animal behaviour, ecosystems, and evolution

该项目的目的是跟踪-与鱼类物种和不同的模式，规模和复杂程度，从受控的实验室实验到野外研究-环境中的药物如何影响野生动物的行为和生存，因此也影响他们居住的生态社区。药物对水生生境的污染对野生动物和人类健康构成严重威胁。预期的成果包括新的机制的理解和预测能力的真实的世界的应用。研究结果将大大增加我们对野生动物如何应对环境变化的认识，并增强澳大利亚生物多样性和淡水资源管理和安全的证据基础。

This Project aims to track – with fish species and across different modes, scales, and levels of complexity from controlled laboratory experimentation to studies in the wild – how drugs in the environment affect wildlife behaviour and survival, and therefore also the ecological communities they inhabit. Contamination of aquatic habitats by pharmaceuticals poses a serious threat to wildlife and to human health. Expected outcomes include new mechanistic understandings and predictive capability for real world application. Findings should add significantly to our knowledge of how wildlife respond to environmental change, and enhance the evidence base for management and security of Australia’s biodiversity and freshwater resources.