... and managers to publicise some of the pressing conservation issues facing bats. No story exemplifies these more than the recent extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Pipistrellus murrayi . In his reflective book on forest pattern and ecological process, ecologist David Lindenmayer emphasised...

... was highly sensitive to increases in adult mortality. Under the basic model, with a 30% chance of fox arrival each year and the carrying capacity of the headland at 120 bandicoots, the population had a 10% chance of going extinct within 20 years due to chance events. When adult mortality was increased to 11...

... metapopulation), had an unacceptably high probability of glider extinction after 100 years. When catastrophes such as wildlfire of modest frequency (1 in 20 years) were included, the probability of extinction increased. It appears that large nearby remnants must be functionally linked to the metapopulation...