Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170101653
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Conserving wildlife at landscape-scales. The project aims to conserve threatened wildlife at large scales in unfenced landscapes. Using empirical field experiments in Australia and New Zealand, the project will test how suppressing populations of invasive prey – rabbits – could reduce the effect of invasive predators – cats – on native wildlife. Feral cats threaten biodiversity globally, including Australia and New Zealand. Effective control of cats is difficult at large-scales but rabbit control is feasible. The project aims to provide a conceptual approach for biodiversity conservation that can be scaled up to mitigate the effects of invasive predators at large scales globally and allow restoration of ecosystems.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2017
End Date: 11-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $297,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Wildlife and Habitat Management | Environmental Science and Management | Conservation and Biodiversity
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species at Regional or Larger Scales | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |
