Wildlife Restoration (WiRE) in human-modified landscapes.

人类改造景观中的野生动物恢复 (WiRE)。

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-03797
• 负责人: Ford, Adam
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=632157
• 关键词: Wildlife; Restoration; WiRE; human; modified

Human activity threatens biodiversity, undermines access to natural resources, and erodes the value of ecosystem services. This activity is intensifying in many landscapes, motivating a growing demand for the restoration of critical ecological processes across broad spatial scales. Knowledge of how human activity affects two ecological processes - predation and connectivity - for large mammals is an important part of restoring landscapes. Through these processes, large mammals can alter the flow of biomass and energy across the landscape, mediate the frequency and impact of natural disturbance (e.g., fire, flooding), and constrain the spread of disease outbreaks. In some ecosystems, large mammals are not simply by-products of restoration, they are agents of restoration.

人类活动威胁着生物多样性，破坏了对自然资源的机会，并侵蚀了生态系统服务的价值。在许多景观中，这种活动正在加剧，激发了对跨空间尺度恢复关键生态过程的日益增长的需求。了解人类活动如何影响大型哺乳动物的两个生态过程 - 捕食和连通性 - 是恢复景观的重要组成部分。通过这些过程，大型哺乳动物可以改变整个景观中的生物质和能量的流动，介导自然障碍的频率和影响（例如火灾，洪水），并限制疾病暴发的传播。在某些生态系统中，大型哺乳动物不仅是恢复的副产品，而且是恢复的药物。