Environmental mismatch in invertebrate translocations for conservation

该项目的目的是使用火柴杆蚱蜢作为一个模型系统，以制定战略和协议，最大限度地提高物种的适应潜力时，个人或基因的运动是必需的。生物多样性管理越来越需要转移或有针对性的基因流动，以保持遗传多样性，这就提出了破坏当地环境适应的问题。火柴杆蚱蜢在遗传学上是非常好理解的，非常适合实验研究，包括受栖息地破坏威胁的种群和物种。该项目将为重点物种产生新的保护工具，并为解决迁移中的环境不匹配问题提供经验先例。

This project aims to use matchstick grasshoppers as a model system to develop strategies and protocols for maximising the adaptive potential of species when movement of individuals or genes is required. Biodiversity management increasingly requires translocation or targeted gene flow to maintain genetic diversity, raising the issue of disrupting local environmental adaptations. Matchstick grasshoppers are extremely well understood genetically, are highly amenable to experimental investigation, and include populations and species threatened by habitat destruction. This project will generate novel conservation tools for the focal species as well as empirical precedents for resolving the problem of environmental mismatch in translocation.