Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101003

Funded Activity Summary

Using species distribution models to make robust conservation decisions. Species distribution models inform numerous conservation decisions, from planning reserves and managing biological invasions to assessing climate change impacts. While it is often vital to predict where suitable conditions for a species occur, many applications disregard uncertainty, leading to unexpected and potentially unacceptable outcomes. This project aims to provide a definitive guide to using species distribution models in conservation decision-making by integrating ecological and statistical thinking with decision theory. It seeks to describe how to explore the sources of uncertainty and their impact, develop approaches to reducing uncertainty, and evaluate the effects of uncertainty from the decision viewpoint in order to assist more robust conservation decision making.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 21-06-2016

End Date: 10-01-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $359,800.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Simulation and Modelling | Environmental Science and Management | Conservation and Biodiversity | Global Change Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species at Regional or Larger Scales | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |

Other Keywords

Conservation and Biodiversity | Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species at Regional or Larger Scales | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Environmental Science and Management | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Global Change Biology | Simulation and Modelling

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