...V.J. Cole; P.A. Hutchings; P.M. Ross ABSTRACT Loss of habitat is considered to be one of the major threats to biodiversity. This is of concern because habitats created by bioengineering species support and enhance local biodiversity. The present study investigated the abundance and distribution...

... and the growing sense of urgency in recognising both the loss of fauna, now more broadly biodiversity. There are many excellent and detailed studies that could be cited, but I hope that the papers cited represent the development of ideas about national parks, rather than just those I happen to have read. While I...

... and gives little thought to the long-term consequences. A wildfire captures the attention of the media, and the community responds with grief and concern over the pain and death of animals and the loss of biodiversity, but none of this translates to consideration of longer-term patterns of environmental...

... condition. A good understanding of these effects comes from long-term studies. In this article we outline some of the key perspectives on the effects of fire on ecosystems and biodiversity from two large-scale, long-term monitoring studies in south-eastern Australia. These are studies in the montane ash...

... for, biodiversity, with specific reference to protected areas, World Heritage Listings, and KBAs. We investigate total area burned, the severity of burns, and provide case studies to further highlight fine scale impacts of this disaster. We also explore patterns Table 1. Overview of terrestrial protected areas...

... and management of the offset ecosystems. mitigation banks urban biodiversity habitat loss threatened species protection compensatory habitat environmental compliance offsets BioBanking Banana, A. 2005. Managing Uganda's forest in the face of uncertainty and competing demands: what...

.... As a consequence, conservation of biodiversity has effectively become the only approach to minimising continued species loss. However, despite the widespread use of the term, there is confusion over its definition, even among disciplines to which the term has become a focus. In Australia, much of the biodiversity...

..., on and off the National Park, they identified as a serious concern, and as a stage in biodiversity loss declines in numbers before local and regional extinction. In the view of Stevens and Watson (2022), the future of this lower rainfall region largely depends on what happens under climate change...

... Zoologist 39: 214 227. Cole, V. J. Hutchings, P. A and Ross, P. M. 2017. Predicting biodiversity changes due to loss of bioengineers from an intertidal landscape, a case study from Sydney Harbour. Australian Zoologist 39: 194 206. Craigie, I. D., Grech, A., Pressey, R. L., Adams, V. M., Hockings, M., Taylor...

... of New South Wales fish, have laid bare a dismal decline in our biodiversity in the brief 206 years of European colonization of New South MJales. In addition to their own disciplinary skills, these authors have utilized the tools of an histol-ian to produce a strikingly clear picture of change, loss...

...Daniel Lunney ABSTRACT Food is central to our existence. We are keen to know about it as we are vulnerable to its lack. Biodiversity is directly affected by the human need for food. Foley, in a lead paper in National Geographic, identifies that agriculture accelerates the loss of biodiversity...

...Tsuyoshi Kobayashi; Jan Miller; Russell J. Shiel; Hendrik Segers; Simon J. Hunter ABSTRACT Inland wetlands are areas of high biodiversity, providing various ecosystem services. In this study, we assessed the species diversity of wetland zooplankton in the Lachlan River catchment. Biodiversity...

... services and the loss of biodiversity are among the list of what we have forfeited in the pursuit of any gains made from degrading or losing habitats. The overlap of this line of economic research with biodiversity conservation warrants more attention from both disciplines. However, the language...

... hinders the conservation of biodiversity in its broadest sense. I argue here that expanding beyond threatened species recovery to studying, managing and conserving all of our native vertebrate fauna is a major step forward in achieving our aim of conserving biodiversity. 2017 289 Australian Zoologist...

.... 2014). Studies assessing the effectiveness of MPAs for biodiversity conservation have largely focused on MPAs from which extractive activities (e.g. fishing) have been excluded. In these situations the outcomes for biodiversity can include: increased species richness, abundance, biomass, length...

... selected, for each locality, the land use that maximized ecosystem services gains, under the constraint that the land use implied essentially no loss of local biodiversity (I discuss their odd measure of biodiversity below). Other regional-scale planning studies have considered whether ecosystem services...

... Greenprint for the Future and was supported by a Shire-wide flora and fauna study conducted in 1999 (Landmark Ecological Services et al. 1999). The biodiversity strategy employs Council s geographic information system (GIS) and incorporates a high conservation value vegetation layer, developed by scoring...

... of hollow losses due to fire in the present study but it was noticeable, particularly on the two severely burnt Jenolan transects, that many hollow-bearing trees had been killed in the fires and had fallen or had been subsequently cut down for safety reasons (Figure 11). Despite this, these two transects...