Monitoring indicates rapid and severe decline of native small mammals in Kakadu National Park, northern Australia

By J. Woinarski, M. Armstrong, K. Brennan, A. Fisher, Anthony D. Griffiths, B. Hill, D. Milne, C. Palmer, S. Ward, Michelle Watson and 2 more. 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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A continental‐scale analysis of feral cat diet in Australia (2015, background): “Some mammals, however, have shown sharp declines in parts of this region since around the early 1990s (Braithwaite & Muller, 1997; Woinarski et al., 2001, 2010), so it is difficult to corroborate the patterns observed here with changes in the extent and size of native mammal populations.”
Small mammals decline with increasing fire extent in northern Australia: evidence from long-term monitoring in Kakadu National Park (2015, unknown): “For example, high frequencies of fire, especially in the late dry season when fires tend to be of high intensity and low patchiness (Russell-Smith and Edwards 2006), have been implicated in the decline of small mammals in northern Australia (Kutt and Woinarski 2007; Firth et al. 2010; Woinarski et a”
Rapid recovery of mammal fauna in the central Kimberley, northern Australia, following the removal of introduced herbivores. (2011, methodology): “…experiment began, mammal captures averaged 1.1 per stocked quadrat, similar to the figure of 1.2 mammal captures per quadrat from recent surveys (using similar methods) at Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia after more than a decade of continuous decline (Woinarski et al. 2010).”
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement (2015, background): “Although the reserve system provides fundamental conservation security for at least some other biodiversity groups (106), many of Australia’s conservation reserves— even some of the largest and highest profile reserves—have lost or are rapidly losing some of their mammal species (21, 22).”
Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia’s tropical savannas (2016, background): “An additional study involving greater replication of sites and possible predator exclusion could determine whether this mechanism is operating more broadly across northern Australia, and the role of feral cats and dingoes.”
Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia (2015, background): “Key words: cane toads, conservation, disease, feral cats, fire, pastoralism, savanna, threats Introduction Recent papers (Fisher et al. 2014; Woinarski et al. 2010; Woinarski et al. 2011a) have identified a substantial recent and ongoing decline in many native land mammal species of the tropical…”