Priority threat management of invasive animals to protect biodiversity in the Lake Eyre Basin

[摘要] We recommend an appraised set of strategies for managing the negative impacts of invasive animals on the threatened flora and fauna of Australia’s iconic Lake Eyre Basin (hereafter LEB), one of largest internally draining river systems in the world, comprising one-sixth of the Australian continent (Figure 1, p.3). For the first time, we show how considering climate change impacts over the next 50 years alters practical decisions in the LEB today. Climate change is a major threat to global biodiversity that will act synergistically to heighten the severity of other threats,including the devastating impacts of invasive animals (Brooks, 2008; Monastersky, 2014). Overall we find that decisions on how to invest efforts and budgets to control invasive animals that ignore climate changewill likely not identify the most efficient opportunities for conserving biodiversity.

[发布日期] 2015-06-29 [发布机构] CSIRO

[学科分类] 地球科学(综合)