Detecting and deciphering extinction dynamics under environmental change

该项目旨在提高对灭绝过程和影响的认识。它将使用高性能计算和博物馆收藏来解开生态机制，这些机制是澳大利亚独特哺乳动物最初衰落和后来灭绝的组成部分。它的意义在于，它将建立澳大利亚受威胁哺乳动物的历史范围和过去的人口轨迹，查明生态特征和威胁的组合，最影响环境变化的灭绝风险。预期成果和效益是新的数据和经过验证的模型，以丰富保护研究，并为基于证据的解决方案提供信息，以更好地保护和恢复澳大利亚一些最受威胁的物种。

This project aims to improve knowledge of extinction processes and impacts. It will use high-performance computing and museum collections to disentangle the ecological mechanisms that were integral in the initial decline and later extinction of Australia's unique mammals. Its significance is that it will establish the historical ranges and past population trajectories of Australian threatened mammals, pinpointing the combinations of ecological characteristics and threats that most affect risk of extinction from environmental change. Expected outcomes and benefits are new data and verified models to enrich conservation research and inform evidence-based solutions to better protect and recover some of Australia’s most threatened species.