Determining the most effective conservation actions for species

物种恢复有赖于实施有效的保护行动。决定采用哪些保护行动来保护物种，需要了解物种的生物学、生态学、威胁以及不同的保护行动如何影响物种及其威胁。然而，对于任何物种来说，没有关于什么行动是保护它们的有效措施的信息(Christie等人。2020年；容克等人。2020)。对于受到高度威胁和迅速衰落的物种，往往没有足够的时间或足够的个体来测试行动的有效性。在缺乏有效保护行动的信息的情况下，物种的反应被认为与类似物种相同，但这并不总是正确的，可能会导致进一步的下降。环保从业者通常也没有时间公布他们行动的影响；因此，关键证据往往被遗漏。该项目旨在收集关于物种保护行动有效性的所有现有证据，以确定(1)什么可以预测一系列分类群中不同物种和物种组的保护行动的有效性，(2)从相似物种中推断是否合适，以及需要哪些信息来确定这一点，以及(3)使用导出的模型和变量来预测目前首次缺乏有效保护行动信息的广泛物种的最合适的保护行动。然后将已知的和预测的有效的物种保护行动与现有的和需要的行动进行比较，以确定这些行动的不同之处和原因。

Species recovery depends upon application of effective conservation actions.Determining which conservation actions to apply to conserve a speciesrequires an understanding the species' biology, ecology, threats and howdifferent conservation actions impact species and their threats. However, formany species there is no information on what actions are the effective forconserving them (Christie et al. 2020; Junker et al. 2020). For highlythreatened and rapidly declining species, there is often not enough time orenough individuals left to test the effectiveness of actions. Where theinformation on effective conservation actions is absent, species responsesare assumed to be the same as similar species, but this is not always trueand can have cause further declines. Conservation practitioners also often donot have time to publish the impact of their actions; so key evidence is oftenmissed. This project aims to gather all available evidence on speciesconservation action effectiveness in order to determine (1) what predicts theeffectiveness of conservation actions for different species and groups ofspecies across a range of taxa, (2) whether/when inference from similarspecies is appropriate and which information is needed to determine this and(3) use the derived models and variables to predict the most suitableconservation actions for a wide range of species which currently lackinformation on effective conservation actions for the first time. The known andpredicted effective conservation actions for species would then be comparedagainst in-place and needed actions identified to determine where these differand why.