Australia's Mammal Extinctions: A 50,000-Year History

By Christopher N. Johnson. 2006

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Trends and biases in the listing and recovery planning for threatened species: an Australian case study (2012, background): “In particular, in the previous 2 centuries Australia has experienced more mammal extinctions than any other country (Johnson, 2006).”
Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change (2010, background): “When dingos are removed from a region, foxes increase in number and, if both dingos and foxes are removed, then feral cat numbers increase (Johnson 2007; Linnell and Strand 2000).”
Congruence between environmental parameters, morphology and genetic structure in Australia’s most widely distributed eucalypt, Eucalyptus camaldulensis (2008, background): “Aridity spread outwards from the centre of the continent (Johnson 2006) and woody vegetation declined.”
As clear as mud: A critical review of evidence for the ecological roles of Australian dingoes (2013, background): “…calls for a radical shift in the generally negative approach to dingo management towards their widespread positive management (i.e. cessation of lethal control and/or active restoration; e.g. Carwardine et al., 2011; Dickman et al., 2009; Johnson, 2006; Ritchie et al., 2012; Wallach et al., 2009b).”
Introduced cats (Felis catus) eating a continental fauna: The number of mammals killed in Australia (2019, background): “72 Cats have been strongly implicated in many of these mammal declines (Johnson 2006; Woinarski et 73 al.”
Evidence that dingoes limit abundance of a mesopredator in eastern Australian forests (2009, background): “The dingo arrived in Australia about 4000 years ago, replacing the thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus and Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii , both of which went extinct on the mainland in the Late Holocene (Corbett 1995; Johnson & Wroe 2003; Johnson 2006).”
Reintroduction of fossorial native mammals and potential impacts on ecosystem processes in an Australian desert landscape (2007, background): “Rabbits are also a preferred prey species of feral predators, leaving native mammals vulnerable to predation during periodic crashes in rabbit numbers (Jarman, 1986; Smith and Quin, 1996; Johnson, 2006 ).”
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement (2015, background): “The fossil record attests to appreciable change in the Australian mammal fauna over the previous hundred thousand years, most notably the loss of the continent’s megafauna (10).”
Monitoring indicates rapid and severe decline of native small mammals in Kakadu National Park, northern Australia (2010, background): “Rather, the most compelling evidence suggests extinctions have been primarily driven by exotic predators, European red fox, Vulpes vulpes, and cat, Felis catus (Johnson 2006), in some cases with contributions from vegetation changes due to grazing by non3.”
Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes) (2008, background): “This reflects the most intense period of ENSO (El Nin ˜ o Southern Oscillation) cycling within the last 150,000 years ( Johnson, 2006 ), which led to the mid-Holocene aridification of the Central Otago region (McGlone and Moar, 1998).”
A Review of the Relationship between Indigenous Australians, Dingoes (Canis dingo) and Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) (2009, background): “Flannery (2004) describes this period as a “dingodriven revolution” (a position criticized by Johnson 2006).”
Body mass and extinction risk in Australian marsupials: The ‘Critical Weight Range’ revisited (2009, background): “There have been no extinctions of arboreal marsupials, but sixteen ground-dwelling taxa (species and subspecies) have declined to extinction on the mainland (Maxwell et al. 1996), and many more have disappeared from large proportions of their mainland range ( Johnson 2006 ).”
Resolving the value of the dingo in ecological restoration (2015, background): “A consistent factor in these extinctions is predation by introduced red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and feral cats (Felis catus), which have devastated small- and medium-sized native animal populations (Dickman 1996; Johnson 2006).”
The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: Is history repeating? (2014, background): “In southern (non-tropical) Australia, a set of morphologically and ecologically similar mammal species disappeared rapidly and synchronously in the 19th and early 20th century (Burbidge & McKenzie, 1989; Johnson, 2006).”
A continental‐scale analysis of feral cat diet in Australia (2015, background): “…have contributed to at least 14% of bird, mammal and reptile extinctions globally (Medina et al., 2011), including those of 16 mammals in Australia (Johnson, 2006), and have caused the failure of numerous reintroduction attempts for threatened mammal species (Christensen & Burrows, 1994; Gibson et…”
Savanna burning for biodiversity: Fire management for faunal conservation in Australian tropical savannas (2012, background): “This lack of resilience has been exhibited in the extreme throughout southern and central Australia, through extinction of many species (Johnson 2006).”