Wildlife Restoration Ecology

野生动物恢复生态学

• 批准号: CRC-2021-00049
• 负责人: Ford, Adam
• 金额: $ 7.29万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=757188
• 关键词: Wildlife; Restoration; Ecology

Across the Earth, human modification of the environment has never been so widespread as it is today. As a result, many populations of Canada's most recognizable wildlife-caribou, elk, deer, wolves, bears-are declining. These declines are occurring because people have altered the types of interactions that occur between species: the links in the food chain are broken. To counter these impacts, wildlife restoration ecology has emerged as a significant new discipline in the life sciences. Restoration also forms the backbone of environmental legislation in Canada. If restoration is to succeed, scientists must develop and translate knowledge of how people affect species interactions and ecological processes.The objective of this Tier II Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Wildlife Restoration Ecology are to address the impact of human activity on the interactions among people, large predators (wolves, bears, cougars), their prey (deer, elk), and plants in human-modified landscapes. The approach of this CRC program features a novel combination of field experiments, GPS tracking, and satellite imagery to bring together the ecology of individuals, populations, and communities. Specifically, the Chair will investigate how natural resource extraction, infrastructure, and human-wildlife conflict not only change species abundance, but the manner in which these species move through the landscape and interact with one another. The Chair is positioned at the forefront of efforts to restore wildlife populations and the people that depend on wildlife for food security and cultural purposes. The implications of this research are significant for Canada's international commitments to conserve biodiversity and to support human-wildlife interactions that often are at the center of reconciliation efforts between national governments and Indigenous communities.

在整个地球上，人类对环境的修改从未如此普遍。结果，加拿大最知名的野生动植物 - 卡里布，麋鹿，鹿，狼，熊，熊的许多人群都在下降。由于人们改变了物种之间发生的相互作用的类型，因此发生了这些下降：食物链中的联系被打破。为了应对这些影响，野生动植物恢复生态学已成为生命科学的重要新学科。恢复还构成了加拿大环境立法的骨干。如果要恢复成功，科学家必须发展并翻译有关人们如何影响物种相互作用和生态过程的知识。野生动植物恢复生态学中这一二级研究主席（CRC）的目标是解决人类活动对人之间的互动的影响，大型捕食者（狼，熊，熊，美洲狮），猎物，猎物，Elk），人类和人类杂货。该CRC计划的方法具有现场实验，GPS跟踪和卫星图像的新型组合，以融合个人，人口和社区的生态。具体而言，主席将调查自然资源提取，基础设施和人类野生动物冲突如何改变物种丰度，而且会改变这些物种在景观中移动并相互作用的方式。椅子位于恢复野生动植物种群的努力和依赖野生动植物以出于粮食安全和文化目的的人们的最前沿。这项研究的含义对加拿大国际保护生物多样性的承诺至关重要，并支持通常是国家政府与土著社区之间和解工作的中心的人类野生动物互动。