Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement

JCZ Woinarski, AA Burbidge, PL Harrison - Proceedings of the National …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
The highly distinctive and mostly endemic Australian land mammal fauna has suffered an
extraordinary rate of extinction (> 10% of the 273 endemic terrestrial species) over the last∼ …

Predator interactions, mesopredator release and biodiversity conservation

EG Ritchie, CN Johnson - Ecology letters, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
There is growing recognition of the important roles played by predators in regulating
ecosystems and sustaining biodiversity. Much attention has focused on the consequences of …

Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

FA Smith, RE Elliott Smith, SK Lyons, JL Payne - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
Since the late Pleistocene, large-bodied mammals have been extirpated from much of Earth.
Although all habitable continents once harbored giant mammals, the few remaining species …

Reading the black book: the number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia

JCZ Woinarski, MF Braby, AA Burbidge, D Coates… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Through collation of global, national and state/territory threatened species lists, we conclude
that 100 Australian endemic species (one protist, 38 vascular plants, ten invertebrates, one …

[ספר][B] Wild dog dreaming: Love and extinction

DB Rose - 2011‏ - books.google.com
We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a
single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what …

Synergies among extinction drivers under global change

BW Brook, NS Sodhi, CJA Bradshaw - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2008‏ - cell.com
If habitat destruction or overexploitation of populations is severe, species loss can occur
directly and abruptly. Yet the final descent to extinction is often driven by synergistic …

Ecosystem restoration with teeth: what role for predators?

EG Ritchie, B Elmhagen, AS Glen, M Letnic… - Trends in ecology & …, 2012‏ - cell.com
Recent advances highlight the potential for predators to restore ecosystems and confer
resilience against globally threatening processes, including climate change and biological …

Havens for threatened Australian mammals: the contributions of fenced areas and offshore islands to the protection of mammal species susceptible to introduced …

S Legge, JCZ Woinarski, AA Burbidge… - Wildlife …, 2018‏ - CSIRO Publishing
Context Many Australian mammal species are highly susceptible to predation by introduced
domestic cats (Felis catus) and European red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). These predators have …

Map** Industrial Influences on Earth's Ecology

JEM Watson, EC Ellis, R Pillay… - Annual Review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
As anthropogenic transformation of Earth's ecology accelerates, and its impacts on the
sustainability of humanity and the rest of nature become more obvious, geographers and …

[HTML][HTML] Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video

H McGregor, S Legge, ME Jones, CN Johnson - PloS one, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
One of the key gaps in understanding the impacts of predation by small mammalian
predators on prey is how habitat structure affects the hunting success of small predators …