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Graeme R. Gillespie, Auteur ; Eddie Ahmad, Auteur ; Berjaya Elahan, Auteur ; Alice Evans, Auteur ; Marc Ancrenaz, Auteur ; Benoit Goossens, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, AuteurThe impact of degradation of Southeast Asian rainforests and conversion to oil palm plantations on amphibians is unknown. To assess the relativevalue of secondary forests, oil palm plantations and other non-forest habitats for amphibianconservat[...]
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Graeme R. Gillespie, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ; J. Dale Roberts, Auteur ; Harold G. Cogger, Auteur ; Michael J. Mahony, Auteur ; Keith R. McDonald, AuteurWe evaluated the influence of uncertainty, based on variation in expert opinion, on assessment of conservation status of Australian amphibians. We examined relationships between different biological variables and inferred relative extinction ris[...]
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Geoffrey W. Heard, Auteur ; Peter Robertson, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, AuteurAssessment of the efficacy of survey techniques for determining species occurrence is crucial for the validation of wildlife survey data. We analysed repeated site-survey data for adults and larvae of the growling grass frog ( Litoria raniformis[...]
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Nick Clemann, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ; Michael J. Smith, Auteur ; Garry N. L. Peterson, Auteur ; David Hunter, AuteurContext. 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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Classical metapopulation theory as a useful paradigm for the conservation of an endangered amphibian
Geoffrey W. Heard, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ; Brian S. Malone, AuteurClassical metapopulation theory (CMT) has proven an attractive paradigm for ecologists concerned with the conservation of aquatic-breeding amphibians, given its apparent fit with the population dynamics of these animals, and the opportunities th[...]
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Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ; John P. Parkes, Auteur ; Grant Norbury, Auteur ; Ben Reddiex, Auteur ; Richard Heyward, AuteurContext. Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are major pests in the semiarid grasslands of eastern South Island. As the benefits of a viral biological control agent (rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus) introduced in 1997 begin to wane, landowners are[...]
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David M. Forsyth, Auteur ; Steve R. McLeod, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ; Matthew D. White, AuteurCombining abundance data collected in designed field surveys with biophysical data derived from geographic information systems is a powerful way to investigate predictors of spatial variation in the abundance of wildlife. We used such an approac[...]
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Josh Dorrough, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur1. A large proportion of the world's land surface is extensively managed for livestock production. In areas where livestock systems are becoming more intensive, a major challenge is to predict those plant species likely to decline, persist or in[...]
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Graeme R. Gillespie, Auteur ; Sam Howard, Auteur ; James T. Stroud, Auteur ; Adinggar Ul-Hassanah, Auteur ; Mary Campling, Auteur ; Bjoern Lardner, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ; Mirza Kusrini, AuteurTropical forest destruction is a major contributor to global biodiversity loss, with much of remaining forests subject to extensive subsistence use. Compared to forest clear-felling and conversion, the impacts of these less intense but complex d[...]
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Andrew M. Gormley, Auteur ; David M. Forsyth, Auteur ; Peter Griffioen, Auteur ; Michael Lindeman, Auteur ; David S. L. Ramsey, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ; Luke Woodford, AuteurP>1. Predicting the current and potential distributions of established invasive species is critical for evaluating management options, but methods for differentiating these distributions have received little attention. In particular, there is un[...]
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Geoffrey W. Heard, Auteur ; Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ; Brian Malone, AuteurThe removal of toes in unique combinations ('toe-clipping') has historically been the most popular technique for individually marking amphibians. However, recent studies have questioned the utility and ethics of this technique, and provided impe[...]
