Rehabilitating a changing landscape: using the latest advances in koala ecology to direct adaptive management

恢复不断变化的景观：利用考拉生态学的最新进展来指导适应性管理

• 批准号: LP140100279
• 负责人: Prof Mathew Crowther
• 金额: $ 27.1万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP140100279
• 关键词: Rehabilitating; changing; landscape; using; latest

The koala has been identified as one of the world's flagship species suffering from environmental change. In contrast to the decline of koalas in New South Wales generally, the eucalypts planted in Gunnedah to combat salinity led to an increase in koalas. However, the startlingly high death rate of Gunnedah koalas (25 per cent of the population) in the heatwave during the drought in 2009 must be understood. There are also new threats brought about by intensive land modification. This project aims to determine the effects of environmental change on the koala population through a study of landscape ecology, leaf chemistry, disease epidemiology and koala movements. This aims to lead to better management decisions for arboreal fauna.

考拉（Koala）被确定为世界上遭受环境变化的旗舰物种之一。与通常在新南威尔士州的考拉（Koalas）的下降相反，在甘尼达（Gunnedah）种植以对抗盐度的桉树导致考拉（Koalas）的增加。但是，必须理解2009年干旱期间热浪中的Gunnedah Koalas（占25％的人口）的高死亡率。密集的土地修改也带来了新的威胁。该项目旨在通过研究景观生态学，叶子化学，疾病流行病学和考拉运动来确定环境变化对考拉人群的影响。这旨在为Arboreal Fauna做出更好的管理决策。