Conservation behaviour in human-dominated landscapes

人类对栖息地的改造是上个世纪物种灭绝急剧增加的主要原因。减少灭绝的速度需要社会扭转人口下降的原因，而人口下降往往与栖息地丧失和碎片化有关，并与人类发生冲突。我的研究计划解决这些原因有两个主要目标(1)确定动物移动的障碍和走廊，这决定了零散景观对动物的渗透性；(2)解决人与野生动物之间的冲突，这有时会导致野生动物被这些景观中的人为特征所吸引。我强调动物流动是因为它是个体(例如寻找食物和配偶)和种群(例如集合种群动态)成功的几个过程的基础。我越来越多地针对人与野生动物之间频繁发生冲突的情况，并试图找到对野生动物进行致命管理的行为替代方案。我的目标是开展创新和严谨的项目，为学生提供出色的科学培训，同时为负责维护人类主导景观中生物多样性的野生动物管理人员和景观规划师提供切实的、可辩护的信息。

Anthropogenic habitat modification is mainly responsible for the sharp rise in extinctions that characterizes the past century. Reducing the rate of extinction requires that society reverse the reasons for population declines, which have frequently been associated with habitat loss and fragmentation, and conflict with humans. My research program addresses these causes with two main objectives (1) identify the barriers and corridors to animal movement that determine the permeability to animals of fragmented landscapes and (2) address the human-wildlife conflict which sometimes results when wildlife are attracted to anthropogenic features in these landscapes. I emphasize animal movement because it underlies several processes that are essential to the success of both individuals (e.g., finding food and mates) and populations (e.g., metapopulation dynamics). Increasingly, I target situations of active human-wildlife conflict and attempt to find behavioural alternatives to lethal management of wildlife. I aim to conduct innovative and rigorous projects that provide excellent science training for students while also providing tangible, defensible information for wildlife managers and landscape planners who are charged with maintaining biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes.