| Titre : | Emu - Austral Ornithologie 118(1) - January 2, 2018 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 31/01/2018 |
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International trade in wild birds is a driver of biodiversity loss, species invasions and the spread of diseases. Grey and Timneh Parrots (Psittacus erithacus and P. timneh) have been among the most frequently traded of all birds listed in the A[...]
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George Olah, Auteur ;
Jörn Theuerkauf, Auteur ;
Andrew Legault, Auteur ;
Roman Gula, Auteur ;
John Stein, Auteur ;
Stuart Butchart, Auteur ;
Mark O’Brien, Auteur ;
Robert Heinsohn, Auteur
Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Wallacea, and the islands of the Pacific Ocean collectively possess 42% of the world’s parrot species, including half of all Critically Endangered species. We used comparative methods to review the factors rel[...]
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Shane R. Raidal, Auteur ;
Andrew Peters, Auteur
Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) is the dominant pathogen of wild Psittaciformes in Australasia where it has been present for at least 10 million years. The richness of psittacine avifauna in this region has produced a mixture of potential [...]
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Francisco V. Dénes, Auteur ;
José L. Tella, Auteur ;
Steven R. Beissinger, Auteur
Estimating abundance and population size is essential for many ecological and conservation studies of parrots. Achieving these goals requires methods that yield reliable estimates, but parrot traits can make them difficult to detect, count, and [...]
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Guillermo Blanco, Auteur ;
Fernando Hiraldo, Auteur ;
José L. Tella, Auteur
Parrots (Psittaciformes) have been viewed as efficient consumers of the reproductive structures of plants. Consequently, parrots have been excluded from studies focusing on plant–animal mutualistic relationships as they have been considered only[...]
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Robert Heinsohn, Auteur ;
Katherine L. Buchanan, Auteur ;
Leo Joseph, Auteur
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Dejan Stojanovic, Auteur ;
Fernanda Alves, Auteur ;
Henry Cook, Auteur ;
Ross Crates, Auteur ;
Robert Heinsohn, Auteur ;
Andrew Peters, Auteur ;
Laura Rayner, Auteur ;
Shannon N. Troy, Auteur ;
Matthew H. Webb, Auteur
Only three wild-bred female Orange-bellied Parrots returned from migration in the 2016/17 breeding season, representing the lowest point of a long-term decline. In this context of imminent extinction risk we (i) update knowledge of population pa[...]
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Timothy F. Wright, Auteur ;
Christine R. Dahlin, Auteur
Vocal dialects have fascinated biologists for over 50 years. This mosaic pattern of geographic variation in learned vocalisations was first described in a songbird, and since that time most studies investigating dialects have focused on songbird[...]
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Kerensa McElroy, Auteur ;
Keira Beattie, Auteur ;
Matthew R. E. Symonds, Auteur ;
Leo Joseph, Auteur
The Australian arid zone is well recognised as a source of evolutionary novelty and diversity. Roles for selection vs. drift in the region remain less understood. We surveyed mitogenomic diversity and genome-wide nuclear markers in the Mulga Par[...]
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Kaiya L. Provost, Auteur ;
Leo Joseph, Auteur ;
Brian Tilston Smith, Auteur
Advances in sequencing technology and phylogenetics have revolutionised avian biology by providing an evolutionary framework for studying natural groupings. In the parrots (Psittaciformes), DNA-based studies have led to a reclassification of cla[...]
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Stephen A. Murphy, Auteur ;
Rachel Paltridge, Auteur ;
Jennifer Silcock, Auteur ;
Rachel Murphy, Auteur ;
Alex S. Kutt, Auteur ;
John Read, Auteur
South-western Queensland supports a suite of threatened native species, including Night Parrots. We investigated why this species has persisted in the region and discovered low prevalence of the typical factors that are thought to explain fauna [...]
