Terrestrial Mammal Conservation

应对全球生物多样性危机需要采取管理行动，在大的空间尺度上产生有效的保护成果。环境依赖性阻碍了一般性保护解决方案的制定，需要一个科学框架和证据基础，将当地环境与区域进程联系起来。加拿大陆生哺乳动物保护研究主席将通过测试哺乳动物群落对人类干扰的可预测模式和跨多个尺度的管理行动，为陆生哺乳动物的保护提供信息，陆生哺乳动物是生物多样性的关键生态和文化组成部分。我们将应用创新的采样和分析工具，集中在使用非侵入性相机陷阱技术，以测试人类活动对野生动物的直接和间接影响的假设。该计划将侧重于与加拿大西部两个关键的保护挑战有关的实验对比：濒危驯鹿的恢复和保护区内增加户外娱乐活动的管理。我们将在人类压力，管理操作和环境条件的梯度采样，以评估相互作用的哺乳动物物种的分布，丰度和行为的统计模型的支持。我们的研究结果不仅将为驯鹿的保护和可持续娱乐的发展提供信息，而且将更普遍地提高对哺乳动物生态学的理解，促进人类世人类与野生动物的共存。通过这样做，该研究计划将培训未来几代野生动物研究人员和从业人员，并推动建立有效的全球监测系统的努力，以帮助扭转生物多样性的普遍下降。

Confronting the global biodiversity crisis requires management actions that result in effective conservation outcomes across large spatial scales. Context-dependency hinders development of general conservation solutions, necessitating a scientific framework and evidence-base that links local contexts to regional processes. The Canada Research Chair in Terrestrial Mammal Conservation will inform the conservation of terrestrial mammals-a key ecological and cultural component of biodiversity-by testing for predictable patterns in mammal community responses to human disturbances and management actions across multiple scales. We will apply innovative sampling and analytical tools, centred on the use of noninvasive camera trap technologies, to test hypotheses about the direct and indirect effects of human activities on wildlife. The program will focus on landscape-level experimental contrasts related to two critical conservation challenges in western Canada: the recovery of endangered caribou and the management of increasing outdoor recreation in protected areas. We will sample across gradients in human pressures, management manipulations, and environmental conditions to evaluate support for statistical models of the distribution, abundance, and behaviour of interacting mammal species. Our results will not only inform the conservation of caribou and the development of sustainable recreation, but will more generally improve understanding of mammal ecology and promote human-wildlife coexistence in the Anthropocene. In so doing, the research program will train future generations of wildlife researchers and practitioners, and advance efforts to build effective global monitoring systems to help reverse widespread declines in biodiversity.