| Titre : | Wildlife Research : Management and Conservation 35(5) - 2008 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
B. Louise Chilvers, Auteur ;
Ian S. Wilkinson, Auteur
The New Zealand sea lion (NZ sea lion), Phocarctos hookeri, is New Zealand's only endemic pinniped, and one of the worlds rarest otariids. It is classified as 'Threatened' based primarily on the low number of breeding sites and restricted distri[...]
Article
Murray C. Evans, Auteur
Wombats are large, marsupial herbivores able to exploit low-productivity habitats largely because of their low energy requirements. In addition to using deep, thermally favourable burrows, wombats might use a strategy of conservative above-groun[...]
Article
Matthew Wheatley, Auteur ;
Karl Larsen, Auteur
Small mammal space use is inferred from live-capture data or various methods of tracking, with differences between these methods potentially affecting the input and subsequent inferential abilities of resulting wildlife-habitat models. Unlike tr[...]
Article
Rannveig Magnusdottir, Auteur ;
Barbara A. Wilson, Auteur ;
Pall Hersteinsson, Auteur
Although there is evidence that recent climatic changes have had significant impacts on a wide range of species in the Northern Hemisphere, the influence of climate change, particularly drought, on Australian native small mammal species is poorl[...]
Article
J. L. Isaac, Auteur ;
M. Parsons, Auteur ;
B. A. Goodman, Auteur
As hollow-bearing trees become scarcer due to habitat loss, the use of nest boxes as a management tool for hollow-dependent species is likely to increase. However, nest-box use can be variable among species and habitats, and one possible reason [...]
Article
Stefano Rosellini, Auteur ;
Enrique Osorio, Auteur ;
Aritz Ruiz-Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Ana Pineiroa Isabel, Auteur ;
Isabel Barja, Auteur
The European pine marten (Martes martes) and stone marten (Martes foina) are two closely related mustelids that live sympatrically over a large area of Europe. In the northern Iberian Peninsula, the distribution ranges of both species overlap ex[...]
Article
Paul H. Evangelista, Auteur ;
John Norman, Auteur ;
Lakew Berhanu, Auteur ;
Sunil Kumar, Auteur ;
Nathaniel Alley, Auteur
The use of statistical models to predict species distributions and suitable habitat has become an essential tool for wildlife management and conservation planning. Models have been especially useful with rare and endangered wildlife species. One[...]
Article
Jennifer Dryden, Auteur ;
Alana Grech, Auteur ;
James Moloney, Auteur ;
Mark Hamann, Auteur
In 2004 the Australian Government implemented a revised zone-based management plan for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area to increase protection of representative areas while minimising the impacts to the economic viability of important [...]
Article
Samantha Fox, Auteur ;
Jon Luly, Auteur ;
Catlin Mitchell, Auteur ;
Jenny Maclean, Auteur ;
David A. Westcott, Auteur
A lack of information about the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) makes management and conservation of this vulnerable species difficult. The analysis of population dynamics using life-history traits and life tables is widely used [...]
Article
D. B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
C. MacGregor, Auteur ;
A. Welsh, Auteur ;
C. Donnelly, Auteur ;
M. Crane, Auteur ;
D. Michael, Auteur ;
R. Montague-Drake, Auteur ;
R. B. Cunningham, Auteur ;
D. Brown, Auteur ;
M. Fortescue, Auteur ;
N. Dexter, Auteur ;
M. Hudson, Auteur ;
A. M. Gill, Auteur
The response of terrestrial mammals and arboreal marsupials to past burning history as well as a year prior to, and then for 4 years after, a major wildfire in 2003 at Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory was quantified. The present stud[...]
Article
D. Algar, Auteur ;
R. I. Brazell, Auteur
The use of poison baits is an effective method for controlling feral cats. However, take of baits by non-target animals may place those animals at risk of poisoning and also reduces the availability of baits to the target animal, feral cats. The[...]
Article
Michael F. Clarke, Auteur
Ecological fire management in Australia is often built on an assumption that meeting the needs of plant species will automatically meet the needs of animal species. However, the scarcity of ecological data on the needs of fauna in relation to fi[...]
