... research in favour of short-term “newsy” articles, global syntheses and meta-analyses, (4) a loss of people with natural history skills but a concurrent increase in modellers, (5) a trend away from evidence-based management acting as a disincentive to undertake long-term research, and (6) a focus...

...Chris N. Thomson ABSTRACT Long-term monitoring of the Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae in a semi-urban landscape before, during and after large-scale habitat removal identified a positive response in breeding activity in the short-term and a change in prey selectivity. Over the longer term, the loss...

... more mathematical models, and that generality will flow from short-term studies. All of my observations may be incorrect but they might generate some useful discussion about dangerous ideas on where ecology is headed. © 2017 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2017 population ecology...

... opportunities, and are considered by many as an enriching part of the New Zealand landscape. However, exotic mammals are also responsible for significant ecological and economic damage, and are often the focus of intensive, sustained and costly control efforts. In economic terms, many domesticated mammal...

... effectively studied using longitudinal studies (following a site over time). Short- term studies (i.e. those that focus on only one or two fire events) often fail to detect patterns that are a response to variation in the characteristics of the organisms studied, the properties of the fire (previous history...

... has a short-term focus Advocates Need to encourage discussion around non-lethal control Need community champions (advocates) Foster and encourage industry-research collaborations Need to be realistic about success 2021 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 41 (3) 503 Smith et al. lethal control trial...

... for example). Recent focus group research n=46 carried out by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) found a lack of community familiarity with the term. Responses ranged between those that recognised the meaning of the term to those who misunderstood, equating it to George Orwell s novel 1984...

... of processes impact on the integrity and long-term viability of ecosystems (Barkmann and Windhorst 2000) including the introduction of species from outside of their normal range (Dickman 1996). In peri-urban environments this may include freshwater turtles (Burgin 2006, 2007), cats (Gibson et al. 1994; Short...

...) paper entitled: 10 Possible Limitations of Current Ecological Theory . The key focus is on the scientific maturity of our approaches, and the constraints that flow from pretending we are physicists, that progress will come from more mathematical models, and that generality will flow from short-term...

... marsupials) (Gibbons and Lindenmayer 2002; Lindenmayer et al. 2004; Crane et al. 2010). An important caveat with our short-term study is that we focused on documenting the locations of daytime den trees and the straight-line distance between them. The distances moved by animals when foraging and undertaking...

... questions indicates the desirability of a stronger communication focus on younger Tasmanians about foxes, the risks they pose and the need to use scientific methods to control them. Invasive species Community survey Vulpes vulpes Anon 2007. Select Committee on Science and technology...

... that focus on only one or two burns, particularly given the confounding short- term changes to habitats immediately after a prescribed fire. They finish their paper with a statement and a plea: long-term ecological studies are critical for providing key insights into ecosystem function, and it is essential...

... to both dingoes and dingo-domestic dog hybrids that exist in wild populations in Australia (see Bombara et al. 2017a: Figure 1). Another term used is free-ranging, which focuses on the movement of the animal rather than its dependency on humans and human-provided resources. Upon arriving on the mainland...

... estimates of carcass loads in different landscapes. Knowledge of the biodiversity supported by carcasses, but also background rates of scavenger populations to assess their rates of scavenging in relation to known abundances. Short and long-term effects of culling or roadkill on carcass loads...

... may display a phrase such as See what drinks here , with the QR code leading to a short video compilation showing footage of locally occurring wildlife drinking from the waterbody. As with the previous sample design, the initial footage could selectively focus on charismatic species that are likely...

... volume 44 (2) 2025 Artificial Habitat: Space, Structure, and Refuge from Predation Making Ecological Restoration More WildlifeFriendly To date, ecological restoration has been most heavily focused on the restoration of native vegetation, in terms of both community floristics and vegetation structure...

... the environment, we act on lists composed entirely of threatened species. The significant impact criteria focuses entirely on species listed as threatened, and that in turn only reinforces the focus on threatened species, to the detriment of biodiversity. Threatened species schedules are only the beginning...

...Guy Ballard; Peter J.S. Fleming; Paul D. Meek ABSTRACT The temporal scale of many studies of dingo ecology is limited by human and physical resources, often constrained by funding cycles. Consequently, research has been skewed towards short-term, snapshot investigations undertaken at a spatial...