BetMon · Delivering better fitness estimators for wildlife ecology and management and effective monitoring
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2015-05-14 → 2017-08-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 183 455 €
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- 1
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- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Накратко на български
Биологичният успех на животните и връзката му с показатели като броя на потомството се анализират чрез дългосрочни данни. Това помага за създаването на по-точни методи за мониторинг и по-ефективни мерки за опазване на видовете в природата.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Delivering better fitness estimators for wildlife ecology and management and effective monitoring
Fitness and its traits are used in applied ecology to assess habitat quality and derive scientific knowledge to design and implement management and conservation measures. To assess fitness considering several traits and trade-offs is required, and this is best done with rarely available multi-years data sets on identified individuals. As a result fitness proxies such as offspring production, whose relationship with actual fitness is poorly understood, are often used. Therefore, many studies, and decisions supported by them, involve unknown biases as a consequence of the knowledge gap in: the relationship between fitness and proxies used, the trade-offs among proxies, and the effect on accuracy of estimations of different proxy/monitoring-effort combinations. Societal awareness on the management and conservation issues is growing continuously, and in response to it, among other initiatives, many areas have been designed within the Nature2000 network to conserve iconic and keystone species. In order to manage, conserve and communicate the status and trends of wildlife populations knowledge of effective monitoring practices is required. The original aims included: 1) provide high quality ecological knowledge on the determinant of individual fitness and their trade-offs, and on factors explaining offspring recruitment; 2) assess of the reliability of commonly used fitness proxies; and 3) develop best practice and improvements for short-term monitoring protocols used in research, management and conservation science.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Fitness is a key concept in basic and applied ecology, and its traits are used to assess habitat quality and derive scientific knowledge used to design and implement management and conservation measures. Assessing fitness requires considering several traits and trade-offs, and long-term data sets with individual identification that are rarely available. As a result fitness proxies such as offspring production are often used as substitute but these do not consider variation in offspring survival and lifespan, which accounts for most variation in fitness is in long-lived species, like many endangered vertebrates. Many studies, and decisions supported by them, involve unknown biases as consequence of the knowledge gap in the relationship between fitness and: the reliability of each proxy; trade-offs among different proxies; and among proxy/monitoring-effort combinations. This fellowship has secured access to several high-quality, long-term wildlife monitoring data sets to gain insights in: the trade-offs and factors affecting individual fitness; the reliability of commonly used fitness proxies; and the assessment of bias and accuracy of short- medium-term monitoring programs focusing on different proxies. While working in leading European research groups and gaining excellent training ecological concepts and theory and up-to-date analytical frameworks and methods, the fellow will : (1) provide high quality ecological knowledge on factors determinant of individual fitness and their trade-offs, and on factors explaining offspring recruitment; (2) assess of the reliability of commonly used fitness proxies; and (3) develop best practice and improvements for short-term monitoring protocols used in research, and management and conservation science.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз