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∼ …

Conserving Australia's threatened native mammals in predator-invaded, fire-prone landscapes

BA Hradsky - Wildlife Research, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Inappropriate fire regimes and predation by introduced species each pose a major threat to
Australia's native mammals. They also potentially interact, an issue that is likely to be …

Severe mammal declines coincide with proliferation of invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park

ME Dorcas, JD Willson, RN Reed, RW Snow… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
Invasive species represent a significant threat to global biodiversity and a substantial
economic burden. Burmese pythons, giant constricting snakes native to Asia, now are found …

[KNJIGA][B] Caves: processes, development, and management

DS Gillieson - 2021 - books.google.com
People have been interested in caves for a very long time. Our distant ancestors used them
for shelter, as sources of water, and as places in which to conduct essential rituals. They …

How to make a common species rare: a case against conservation complacency

DB Lindenmayer, JT Wood, L McBurney… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
A traditional focus in conservation biology has been on rare species as they are often those
most at risk of decline or extinction. However, we argue in this paper that some kinds of …

Rapid recovery of mammal fauna in the central Kimberley, northern Australia, following the removal of introduced herbivores

S Legge, MS Kennedy, RAY Lloyd, SA Murphy… - Austral …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Australia has lost more native mammal species than any other country in the past two
centuries, and this record of loss looks likely to worsen over the next few decades. Small‐to …

Degrees of population-level susceptibility of Australian terrestrial non-volant mammal species to predation by the introduced red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and feral cat …

JQ Radford, JCZ Woinarski, S Legge… - Wildlife …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Over the last 230 years, the Australian terrestrial mammal fauna has suffered a very
high rate of decline and extinction relative to other continents. Predation by the introduced …

[HTML][HTML] Micromamíferos, cambio climático e impacto antrópico:¿ Cuánto han cambiado las comunidades del sur de América del Sur en los últimos 500 años?

P Teta, A Formoso, M Tammone, DC de Tommaso… - Therya, 2014 - scielo.org.mx
Diversas evidencias sugieren que la actual configuración de las comunidades-ie riqueza
(número de especies) y diversidad (distribución de la abundancia de especies)-de …

Bayesian networks elucidate interactions between fire and other drivers of terrestrial fauna distributions

BA Hradsky, TD Penman, D Ababei, A Hanea… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a major driver of community composition and habitat structure and is extensively used
as an ecological management tool in flammable landscapes. Interactions between fire and …

Unexpectedly high densities of feral cats in a rugged temperate forest

MW Rees, JH Pascoe, BA Wintle, M Le Pla… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Effective invasive predator management requires accurate knowledge of population density.
However, density can be difficult to estimate for wide-ranging, cryptic and trap-shy species …