| Titre : | Wildlife Research : Management and Conservation 40(5) - 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Andrew G. Smith, Auteur ;
Clive McAlpine, Auteur ;
Jonathan Rhodes, Auteur ;
Leonie Seabrook, Auteur ;
Daniel Lunney, Auteur ;
Greg Baxter, Auteur
Context. Habitat thresholds are the critical point(s), below which the probability of occurrence of a species declines. Identifying thresholds assists land managers to decide how much habitat is needed to conserve a species. However, for any giv[...]
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P. L. Dostine, Auteur ;
S. J. Reynolds, Auteur ;
A. D. Griffiths, Auteur ;
G. R. Gillespie, Auteur
Context. Failure to acknowledge potential bias from imperfect detection of cryptic organisms such as frogs may compromise survey and monitoring programmes targeting these species. Aims. The aims of the present study were to identify proximate fa[...]
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Nick Clemann, Auteur ;
Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ;
Michael J. Smith, Auteur ;
Garry N. L. Peterson, Auteur ;
David Hunter, Auteur
Context. Because they are dependent on water, drought can have a deleterious impact on aquatic-breeding amphibians. One such species, the threatened growling grass frog (Litoria raniformis) occurs in south-eastern Australia, a region that has re[...]
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Lucy G. Anderson, Auteur ;
Christian Gortazar, Auteur ;
Joaquin Vicente, Auteur ;
Michael R. Hutchings, Auteur ;
Piran C. L. White, Auteur
Context. Bovine tuberculosis is a persistent disease of livestock in many parts of the world, especially where wildlife hosts co-exist with livestock. In south-western Spain, despite the widespread implementation of test-and-cull strategies for [...]
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Bronwyn Isaac, Auteur ;
John White, Auteur ;
Daniel Ierodiaconou, Auteur ;
Raylene Cooke, Auteur
Context. Urbanisation is one of the most damaging landscape-scale disturbance processes leading to significant and potentially irreversible changes in biodiversity. How apex predators respond to urbanisation is poorly understood, largely because[...]
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Blake M. Allan, Auteur ;
John P. Y. Arnould, Auteur ;
Jennifer K. Martin, Auteur ;
Euan G. Ritchie, Auteur
In wildlife research, our ability to GPS track sufficient numbers of individuals is always limited by cost, which restricts inference of species-habitat relationships. Here, we describe the modification and use of a relatively new and inexpensiv[...]
Article
Michelle E. Wilson, Auteur ;
Graeme Coulson, Auteur ;
Geoff Shaw, Auteur ;
Marilyn B. Renfree, Auteur
Context. Fertility control offers a non-lethal management technique for iconic yet overabundant wildlife. Slow-release hormonal implants containing deslorelin show promise for managing free-ranging populations, particularly in peri-urban reserve[...]
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Poppy A. Whytlaw, Auteur ;
Will Edwards, Auteur ;
Bradley C. Congdon, Auteur
Context. The west coast of the Cape York Peninsula (CYP) is a major nesting ground for three species of threatened marine turtle, namely, the flatback (Natator depressus), olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) and hawksbill (Eretemochelys imbrica[...]
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T. L. Moore, Auteur ;
L. E. Valentine, Auteur ;
M. D. Craig, Auteur ;
G. E. S. J. Hardy, Auteur ;
P. A. Fleming, Auteur
Context. Large portions of the world's forests and woodlands are currently affected by declines in canopy condition of dominant tree species; however, the effects of these declines on faunal communities are largely unknown. Eucalyptus wandoo woo[...]
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Ethan Ellsworth, Auteur ;
Aaron J. Wirsing, Auteur ;
Lisa A. Shipley, Auteur ;
Dennis L. Murray, Auteur
Context. Measures of intake and digestibility from captive feeding experiments are often used to evaluate the nutritional value of plant species to herbivores; however, there is question about how well plant-quality rankings from these trials pr[...]
