Foraging animals create fertile patches in an Australian desert shrubland

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Rabbits: manageable environmental pests or participants in new Australian ecosystems? (2012, background): “Thus, rabbits may not fully take up the role of displaced native animals and James et al. (2009, 2010) considered that the loss of inland Australia’s small-mammal fauna led to a general diminution of ecosystem processes.”
Is the loss of Australian digging mammals contributing to a deterioration in ecosystem function (2014, background): “On the surface, litter breakdown by photo-oxidation is relatively slow, and most nutrients are lost from the ecosystem through comminution by the wind, rather than being returned to the soil (Eldridge & James 2009, James et al. 2009).”