This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

Resources are produced in pulses in many terrestrial environments, and have important
effects on the population dynamics and assemblage structure of animals that consume them …

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 …

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …

Aim To assess whether eight factors thought to be involved in the extinction process can
explain the pattern of recent decline in Australia's mammal fauna. Location Australia …

Top predators in terrestrial ecosystems may limit populations of smaller predators that could
otherwise become over abundant and cause declines and extinctions of some prey. It is …

The heritage of the pastoral industry stands as an integral symbol of identity for rural
communities-both black and white-in New South Wales. Modern changes in pastoral land …

Efforts to anticipate threats to biodiversity take the form of species richness predictions
(SRPs) based on simple correlations with current climate and habitat area. We review the …

We collated an environmental history for a 8580 km 2 study area in the Simpson Desert,
Australia. Quantitative and qualitative data on climate, land-use, fire history and ecosystem …

We studied the response of vegetation and vertebrate assemblages to fire and grazing, and
their interacting effects, in Eucalyptus woodland in north-eastern Australia. In this vegetation …