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The forest fauna of the Northern Territory: knowledge, conservation and management

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John C.Z. Woinarski
John C.Z. Woinarski
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https://doi.org/10.7882/FS.2004.005
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    2004
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The Northern Territory contains about 20% of Australia's eucalypt forests, and of the nation's forests and woodlands generally. Relative to forests and woodlands in other jurisdictions, clearing rates have been low and these forests remain largely continuous. This paper briefly reviews the main forest and woodland types of the Northern Territory, noting characteristics of their fauna and their main management issues. The conservation threats are pervasive and insidious: landscape-wide degradation by weeds and exotic animals, and sub-optimal fire regimes. Largely unrecognised in the general community, these threats are eroding the great national asset of a vast relatively unmodified forest ecosystem.

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Woinarski, J.C.Z., Braithwaite, R.W., Menkhorst, K.A., Griffin, S., Fisher, A. and Preece, N., 1992. Gradient analysis of the distribution of mammals in Stage III of Kakadu National Park, with a review of the distribution patterns of mammals across north-western Australia. Wildlife Research 19: 233-262.
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Woinarski, J.C.Z., Brock, C., Fisher, A., Milne, D. and Oliver, B., 1999b. Response of birds and reptiles to fire regimes on pastoral land in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory. The Rangeland Journal 21: 24-38.
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