Putting plasticity into practice for effective conservation actions under climate change

JM Donelson, JD Gaitan-Espitia, AJ Hobday… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity may help species to persist in the face of rapid change, yet we lack a
management-friendly framework for incorporating plasticity into conservation practice. Here …

[HTML][HTML] The Conservationist's Toolkit: a critical review of the need for a conceptual framework of both in-situ and ex-situ conservation strategies to ensure the success …

DJF Moloney, C Collins, P Holloway… - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
The acceleration of climate change and concomitant anthropogenic impacts on the natural
world have led to claims from the scientific community that the Earth is currently …

The perils of paradise: an endangered species conserved on an island loses antipredator behaviours within 13 generations

CJ Jolly, JK Webb, BL Phillips - Biology letters, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When imperilled by a threatening process, the choice is often made to conserve threatened
species on offshore islands that typically lack the full suite of mainland predators. While …

Habitat structural complexity explains patterns of feral cat and dingo occurrence in monsoonal Australia

AM Stobo‐Wilson, D Stokeld, LD Einoder… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim An interaction between reduced habitat structural complexity and predation by feral cats
(Felis catus) has been hypothesized as the primary driver of mammal decline in northern …

Measuring, evaluating and improving the effectiveness of invasive predator control programs: feral cat baiting as a case study

BA Fancourt, J Augusteyn, P Cremasco, B Nolan… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reducing the impacts of invasive predators is a key objective for conservation managers,
livestock producers and human health agencies globally. The efficacy of invasive predator …

Conditioned taste aversion as a tool for mitigating human-wildlife conflicts

L Snijders, NM Thierij, R Appleby… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Modern wildlife management has dual mandates to reduce human-wildlife conflict (HWC) for
burgeoning populations of people while supporting conservation of biodiversity and the …

Predator-awareness training in terrestrial vertebrates: progress, problems and possibilities

TAAD Rowell, MJL Magrath, RD Magrath - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Animals bred in captivity or isolated from predators often suffer high rates of predation when
translocated, having not learned to recognise or respond appropriately to predators. As a …

Be nimble with threat mitigation: lessons learned from the reintroduction of an endangered species

NM Robinson, N Dexter, R Brewster… - Restoration …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reintroductions are increasingly being used to restore species and ecosystems. However,
chances of successful establishment are often low. Key to improving success is careful …

How to train your wildlife: a review of predator avoidance training

MC Edwards, C Ford, JM Hoy, S FitzGibbon… - Applied Animal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many studies report that translocation projects using captive or captive-bred animals have
low success rates. Captive animals can quickly lose natural behaviours, including …

Conservation biogeography of modern species of Australasian marsupials

JCZ Woinarski, DO Fisher - American and Australasian Marsupials: an …, 2023 - Springer
The diverse and distinctive Australasian marsupial fauna has experienced considerable loss
over the last 200 years. Extinctions of Australasian marsupials have been confined to …