Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP160100496

Funded Activity Summary

Assessing the ecosystem-wide risks of threatened species translocation. Assessing the ecosystem-wide risks of threatened species translocation. This project aims to develop the first quantitative risk assessment framework to improve decisions about moving threatened species to new places. Moving threatened plants and animals to new environments, or reintroducing them where they previously persisted, is a growing focus of conservation. Moving species can have unanticipated effects on other species in the ecosystem. Although the International Union for Conservation of Nature deems ecosystem-wide risk assessments essential for conservation translocations, no framework exists to assess these risks and inform these decisions. New tools for assessing the risks of conservation translocations are expected to improve global and local conservation outcomes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 12-12-2016

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $311,377.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecosystem Function | Environmental Science and Management | Community Ecology | Conservation and Biodiversity

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Ecosystem Assessment and Management not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Community Ecology | Conservation and Biodiversity | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Ecosystem Assessment and Management not elsewhere classified | Ecosystem Function | Environmental Science and Management | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences

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