| Titre : | Wildlife Research : Management and Conservation 35(1) - 2008 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Geoff W. Brown, Auteur ;
Andrew F. Bennett, Auteur ;
Joanne M. Potts, Auteur
Many species of reptiles are sedentary and depend on ground-layer habitats, suggesting that they may be particularly vulnerable to landscape changes that result in isolation or degradation of native vegetation. We investigated patterns of reptil[...]
Article
Andrew E. Fidler, Auteur ;
Stephen B. Lawrence, Auteur ;
Kenneth P. Mcnatty, Auteur
An important goal in the intensive conservation management of New Zealand's critically endangered nocturnal parrot, kakapo (Strigops habroptilus), is to increase the frequency of breeding attempts. Kakapo breeding does not occur annually but rat[...]
Article
D. J. Pain, Auteur ;
R. White, Auteur ;
J. Stevenson, Auteur ;
M. Bell, Auteur ;
K. K. Williams, Auteur ;
P. Fisher, Auteur ;
G. Wright, Auteur
An eradication program for introduced feral cats, using sodium fluoroacetate (1080) bait, was planned on Ascension Island to help breeding seabird populations to recover. We investigated the likelihood of mortality and the occurrence of residual[...]
Article
Michael L. Avery, Auteur ;
Kandy L. Keacher, Auteur ;
Eric A. Tillman, Auteur
Development of effective methods for reducing populations of overabundant nuisance bird species continues to challenge wildlife biologists. Reproductive inhibition, although conceptually pleasing, has been difficult to implement because of the l[...]
Article
Niels Blaum, Auteur ;
Richard M. Engeman, Auteur ;
Bernd Wasiolka, Auteur ;
Eva Rossmanith, Auteur
Monitoring animal populations in changing environments is crucial to wildlife conservation and management, but restrictions in resources are a recurring problem for wildlife managers and researchers throughout Africa. Land-use-induced shrub encr[...]
Article
Mattias Hagman, Auteur ;
Richard Shine, Auteur
If invasive species are phylogenetically distinct from native taxa, divergence in intraspecific communication systems may allow control via methods that invoke behavioural responses by the invasives but not by local species. Previous work has ex[...]
Article
Skye Wassens, Auteur ;
Robyn J. Watts, Auteur ;
Amy Jansen, Auteur ;
David Roshier, Auteur
Within the semiarid regions of New South Wales, Australia, the endangered southern bell frog (Litoria raniformis) occupies a landscape that is characterised by unpredictable rainfall and periodic flooding. Limited knowledge of the movement and h[...]
Article
G. W. Barrett, Auteur ;
D. Freudenberger, Auteur ;
A. Drew, Auteur ;
J. Stol, Auteur ;
A. O. Nicholls, Auteur ;
E. M. Cawsey, Auteur
Tree planting has become a cornerstone strategy for natural resource management in agricultural landscapes, yet its contribution as habitat for woodland birds has not been fully investigated. A case study from the Holbrook region in southern New[...]
Article
Stuart J. N. Cooney, Auteur ;
David M. Watson, Auteur
Recent research has documented an unprecedented diversity of birds using mistletoes as nest-sites, and a strong preference for nesting in mistletoes has recently been demonstrated for some species. The consequences and underlying reasons for thi[...]
Article
D. W. Bain, Auteur ;
J. R. Baker, Auteur ;
K. O. French, Auteur ;
R. J. Whelan, Auteur
In late December 2003, a wildfire in the Jervis Bay region of New South Wales burned through an area that previously supported a large population of the endangered eastern bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus). The eastern bristlebird has been de[...]
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Sarah Legge, Auteur ;
Stephen Murphy, Auteur ;
Joanne Heathcote, Auteur ;
Emma Flaxman, Auteur ;
John Augusteyn, Auteur ;
Marnie Crossman, Auteur
We report the effects of an extensive (> 7000 km(2)), high-intensity late-dry-season fire in the central Kimberley, Western Australia, on the species richness and abundance of mammals, reptiles and birds. Five weeks after the fire we surveyed 12[...]
