Movement ecology of granivores: informing fire management of savannas

该项目旨在研究北澳大利亚食草雀数量的下降，并验证一种假设，即越来越多的游牧生活方式，与在更大的空间尺度上追踪草籽的可用性有关，是导致这种情况的原因。该项目还旨在评估火灾如何影响牧场功能，特别是草的多样性，以改善澳大利亚北部热带稀树草原的火灾管理。该项目将提供监测移动小型脊椎动物的新工具和新技术。预期的结果将提高对热带稀树草原功能和火灾管理的理解。这项研究与澳大利亚北部的“稀树草原燃烧”方法和碳封存目标相一致。

This project aims to examine the decline in granivorous finches across north Australia and test the hypothesis that an increasingly nomadic lifestyle, associated with tracking grass seed availability over larger spatial scales, is the cause. The project also aims to evaluate how fire affects rangeland functioning, particularly grass diversity, to improve fire management of tropical savannas in northern Australia. This project will provide new tools and technologies that will monitor mobile small vertebrates. Expected outcomes will improve the understanding of tropical savanna functioning and fire management. The research aligns with ‘savanna burning’ methodologies and carbon sequestration goals in north Australia.