The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: Is history repeating?

By D. Fisher, Christopher N. Johnson, M. Lawes, Susanne A. Fritz, Hamish McCallum, Simon P. Blomberg, Jeremy VanDerWal, B. Abbott, Anke S. K. Frank, S. Legge and 5 more. 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Paleontology

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Small mammals decline with increasing fire extent in northern Australia: evidence from long-term monitoring in Kakadu National Park (2015, unknown): “Although many researchers point to a suite of factors involved in small-mammal declines (Woinarski et al. 2011; Fisher et al. 2014),Woinarski et al.”
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…”
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement (2015, background): “The characteristics of increased extinction risk for Australian terrestrial mammals are consistent with an explanation for decline based on predation by feral cats and foxes: the lost species are meal-sized for, and accessible to, these introduced predators (43, 66, 67, 69).”
Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia’s tropical savannas (2016, background): “Our study supports the hypothesis that feral cat predation is facilitated by high-intensity fire to the detriment of small-mammal species (Woinarski et al. 2011a; Fisher et al. 2013; Frank et al. 2014; McGregor et al. 2015), by showing that mortality due to predation increased post-fire, that cats i”
A continental‐scale analysis of feral cat diet in Australia (2015, background): “Cats are considered to be a contributing factor to recent declines in northern Australia’s mammal fauna (Woinarski et al., 2011; Fisher et al., 2014) and are listed as a Key Threatening Process under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Department of the…”
Climate‐induced resource bottlenecks exacerbate species vulnerability: a review (2015, background): “by feral cats, a process thought to be contributing to a precipitous decline of small mammals (Letnic et al., 2005; Fisher et al., 2014).”
Population impacts of free‐ranging domestic cats on mainland vertebrates (2017, background): “Also in Australia, Fisher et al. (2014) determined that the best predictor of range decline for tropical marsupials was small body mass within the preferred range of small predators.”