The disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia: context, cause, and response

By J. Woinarski, S. Legge, J. Fitzsimons, B. Traill, A. Burbidge, A. Fisher, R. Firth, I. J. Gordon, Anthony D. Griffiths, Christopher N. Johnson and 7 more. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia (2015, methodology): “Information on the pre-disturbance state of small mammal populations outside of the unusual elevated east coast is limited, but where available (Kirkpatrick and Lavery 1979; Woinarski et al. 2006b) replicates the trends of decline recorded elsewhere in northern Australia (Woinarski et al. 2011a).”
Small mammals decline with increasing fire extent in northern Australia: evidence from long-term monitoring in Kakadu National Park (2015, neutral): “The effect of the spatial scale of fires on northern Australia’s rapidly declining numbers of smallmammals has not previously been quantified, although large fires have been implicated in some studies (Legge et al. 2008; Woinarski et al. 2011; Radford 2012).”
Improving biodiversity monitoring (2012, background): “…successes (e.g. species recovery following appropriate management intervention: see Sheean et al. 2011) as well as conservation failures (e.g. Woinarski et al. 2011); (iv) information on ways to make management interventions more effective; and (v) data to help guide the assessment of…”
Fire frequency matters more than fire size: Testing the pyrodiversity-biodiversity paradigm for at-risk small mammals in an Australian tropical savanna (2015, background): “For example, the hypothesis that predation of small mammals by feral cats increases in burnt areas may be a critical aspect in decline of small mammals across northern Australia (Johnson, 2006; Woinarski et al., 2011).”
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement (2015, background): “Unsurprisingly, different species may also vary substantially in their susceptibility to different threats (23, 40), and even individual species may vary in their responses to individual threat factors at different sites or in different times, because the magnitude of any threat factor may vary subs”