Threatened species lists are used at global, national and regional scales to identify species
at risk of extinction. Many species are listed due to restricted population size or geographic …

Drought is a significant natural hazard in Australia, associated with financial hardship and
damage to soils and vegetation. With droughts expected to become more frequent and more …

In the southern Kalahari Desert, cooperatively breeding Southern Pied Babblers Turdoides
bicolor frequently build their nests and forage in camelthorn trees Vachellia erioloba, a …

Increasing provision of permanent water points has put most Australian pastoral rangelands
within grazing distance of sheep, cattle, kangaroos and large feral herbivores, and there is …

The ecological history of rangelands is often presented as a tale of devastation, where
fragile drylands are irreversibly degraded through inappropriate land use. However, there is …

One‐third of the world's trees are at risk of extinction, with large, old, long‐lived trees among
the most vulnerable. Long‐lived trees in arid and semi‐arid biomes are particularly at risk …

Biodiversity at the species and ecosystem levels is currently under multiple threats almost
everywhere in the Asia-Pacific region, and in many areas the situation is now critical (well …

Semiarid and arid woodlands across much of southern Australia have been subject to
prolonged high total grazing pressure leading to loss of species diversity and a lack of …

Palatable shrubs and trees in rangelands are vulnerable to grazing impacts, with local
extinctions and declines documented. However, population trends are difficult to detect due …

Australia's arid shrublands have been impacted by a variety of threatening processes since
European settlement, and changes to ecosystem structure and function have been observed …