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...Matt W. Hayward; Stephan Chalup; Jamil Khan; Alex Callen; Kaya Klop-Toker; Andrea Griffin ABSTRACT Conservation managers cannot manage what they don’t know about, yet our existing biodiversity monitoring is idiosyncratic and small in scale. One of Australia’s commitments to the Convention...

...Leroy Gonsalves; Brad Law; Chris Slade ABSTRACT Landscape-scale monitoring is used to track changes in the status of fauna populations, including identifying when and where change is occurring over large areas. Yet few programs at this scale exist despite calls for long-term monitoring, especially...

... Wales Saving our Species program is a large-scale conservation program with jurisdiction over more than 1100 threatened species, ecological communities and populations. We discuss why co-design is key to successful implementation of decision science in program-level planning; this approach has supported...

...Rosemary K. Steinberg [email protected] Opinion: Missing half the picture, focus on scleractinian corals during bleaching events has left critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of reef-scale bleaching and recovery Rosemary K. Steinberg1 1School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie...

... posed by Australia’s ecological attributes and the size of its scientific community. Open source, inherently cooperative and flexible, Motus provides a unique opportunity to leverage individual research effort into a larger collaborative achievement, thereby expanding the scale and scope of individual...

... marsupial murid chiropteran genetics genomes conservation The Oz Mammals Genomics (OMG) initiative: developing genomic resources for mammal conservation at a continental scale Mark D. B. Eldridge1*, Janine E. Deakin2, Anna J. MacDonald3,6, Margaret Byrne4, Anna Fitzgerald5, Rebecca N. Johnson1...

...Tanja Strive; Tarnya E. Cox ABSTRACT The viral biocontrol agents Myxoma virus (MYXV) and Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Virus (RHDV1), released in 1950 and 1996 respectively, are the only control tools to have resulted in significant and lasting landscape-scale suppression of rabbit populations...

... survey to estimate both relative and absolute kangaroo densities. Methodology for fixed-wing aircraft was developed in the 1970s and has generally become standardized in areas where it is applied. The technique allows for broad-scale coverage of management areas and involves flying at a set height, speed...

...Robert Porter; John Weigel; Richard Shine Although the rough-scaled python Morelia carinata of north western Australia is one of the most morphologically distinctive python species worldwide, it remains virtually unstudied. Our fieldtrips have increased the number of animals seen in the wild from 2...

... undertaken at fine scales by radio-tracking and GPS-tracking, especially at night when koalas are actively browsing. Such studies reveal minor differences but substantial overlap in habitat use between the sexes. When analysing acoustic surveys, the environment needs to be assessed in the local landscapes...

...Ian R. C. Baird; Shelley Burgin ABSTRACT Understanding within-patch seasonal demographics of patchily distributed odonates is fundamental to understanding aspects of their behaviour, ecology, and landscape-scale population dynamics. Such knowledge underpins effective conservation management...

... the full impact of the fires due to taxonomic impediments. An underlying theme in almost all studies was that long-term and broad-scale monitoring of fauna and faunal habitats is essential if we are to build a robust understanding of how animals respond to fire, and in turn how managers can mitigate...

... species were among the decliners, including Laughing Kookaburra, Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys and Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen . We conclude that no suite of birds is exempt from these environmental stressors, and predict that, as droughts reduce populations at regional scales and fires...

... as ‘national’, yet caring for nature can be done on many scales, and ecological systems is seldom work on national scales. This paper considers both ecological scales (regulated by the animal or plant under consideration) and personal scales (scales meaningful to the conservation manager). The idea that only...

... at the scale of the entire East Asian-Australasian Flyway has been slow. To reflect on lessons learned and consider how further progress might be made, we review some of the factors that have limited the full emergence of shorebird monitoring in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, including fragmentation among...

...., species richness) for these urban greenspaces. Citizen science projects are continuously improving our understanding of ecology at broad temporal and spatial scales. But, many conservation-relevant decisions are idiosyncratic and made at small management scales (e.g., local government). Given a general...

... selected, trained, tested and deployed five dogs; two for koala habitat (koala scats), one for genetic sampling (fresh scats only), one for the koala itself and one for koala disease ( Chlamydia spp. ) detection. Dogs enabled both large-scale and fine-scale survey design, with 2370 surveys performed...

...Jackie L O'Sullivan; Damian R Michael; Claire N Foster; Daniel Florance; David B Lindenmayer ABSTRACT Bushrocks provide critical habitat for reptiles and are a common feature in agricultural landscapes. Recent advances in soil amelioration practices have triggered a resurgence in the large-scale...

... and may exclude other birds from the habitats they occupy thereby affecting the composition of avian communities and the distribution of species on a landscape scale. Such behaviour has cascading effects on ecosystems, changing the abundances and kinds of plant-eating arthropods. A comprehensive knowledge...