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View article: Can conservation covenants help sustain nature and livelihoods? Factors associated with conservation covenant adopters in Australia
Can conservation covenants help sustain nature and livelihoods? Factors associated with conservation covenant adopters in Australia Open
Biodiversity conservation on privately owned land often relies on the actions of individual landholders, such as participating in conservation covenant programs. Landholders' participation in conservation covenant programs depends on many …
View article: Landholders’ intentions to engage in private land conservation agreements under climate risk
Landholders’ intentions to engage in private land conservation agreements under climate risk Open
Private landholders play a critical role in global biodiversity conservation as they manage significant portions of land in many countries. Understanding the motivations and barriers related to landholders' uptake of formal conservation ag…
View article: Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk
Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk Open
Climate change will have profound and unexpected impacts on biodiversity in the future. These impacts could potentially be mitigated through adaptive and responsive conservation planning, but it remains unclear how adaptation opportunities…
View article: ‘It’s dangerous to put a number on them’. Media coverage of koalas during the 2019–2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires in Australia
‘It’s dangerous to put a number on them’. Media coverage of koalas during the 2019–2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires in Australia Open
Context The unprecedented scale and severity of the 2019–2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires in Australia were an environmental disaster, and koalas became the public face of the fires’ toll on wildlife. Aims We investigated the media stories on…
View article: Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change
Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change Open
Effective private land conservation strategies that consider both landholder preferences and future climatic conditions are critical for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, the interaction and relative importance of these …
View article: Reversing the decline of threatened koala (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) populations in New South Wales: Using genomics to enhance conservation outcomes
Reversing the decline of threatened koala (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) populations in New South Wales: Using genomics to enhance conservation outcomes Open
Genetic management is a critical component of threatened species conservation. Understanding spatial patterns of genetic diversity is essential for evaluating the resilience of fragmented populations to accelerating anthropogenic threats. …
View article: Reversing the decline of threatened koala (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) populations in New South Wales: Using genomics to define meaningful conservation goals
Reversing the decline of threatened koala (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) populations in New South Wales: Using genomics to define meaningful conservation goals Open
Genetic management is a critical component of threatened species conservation. Understanding spatial patterns of genetic diversity is essential for evaluating the resilience of fragmented populations to accelerating anthropogenic threats. …
View article: Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change
Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change Open
Effective private land conservation strategies that consider both landholder preferences and future climatic conditions are critical for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, the interaction and relative importance of these …
View article: Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires
Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires Open
Catastrophic megafires can increase extinction risks identifying species priorities for management and policy support is critical for preparing and responding to future fires. However, empirical data on population loss and recovery post-fi…
View article: Influences on koala habitat selection across four local government areas on the far north coast of <scp>NSW</scp>
Influences on koala habitat selection across four local government areas on the far north coast of <span>NSW</span> Open
Conserving habitats crucial for threatened koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) populations requires rating habitat quality from a fine spatial scale to patches, landscapes and then regions. The koala has a specialized diet focused on the leav…
View article: Raking over the ashes: assessing the impact of fire on native fauna in the aftermath of Australia’s 2019–2020 fires
Raking over the ashes: assessing the impact of fire on native fauna in the aftermath of Australia’s 2019–2020 fires Open
The 2021 annual forum of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW raked over the ashes of the unprecedented “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019–2020 in eastern and southern Australia to assess how forest ecosystems and their constituent fauna had …
View article: Using expert elicitation to identify effective combinations of management actions for koala conservation in different regional landscapes
Using expert elicitation to identify effective combinations of management actions for koala conservation in different regional landscapes Open
Context Choosing the most effective combinations of actions to manage threatened species is difficult. Aims This study aimed to identify the most effective combinations of six management actions for reversing population declines of koala p…
View article: The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires Open
Aim After environmental disasters, species with large population losses may need urgent protection to prevent extinction and support recovery. Following the 2019–2020 Australian megafires, we estimated population losses and recovery in fir…
View article: Factors that drive koala roadkill: an analysis across multiple scales in New South Wales, Australia
Factors that drive koala roadkill: an analysis across multiple scales in New South Wales, Australia Open
A challenge to understanding the impacts of roads on koalas is that their effects operate across multiple scales. To determine what conditions underlie koala roadkill, we looked at koala roadkill at two spatial scales – the entire state of…
View article: An Ecological Reading of the History of the Koala Population of Warrumbungle National Park
An Ecological Reading of the History of the Koala Population of Warrumbungle National Park Open
The severe Wambelong fire in 2013 focussed attention on the koalas of Warrumbungle National Park, and highlighted the lack of detailed study into their populations. Here we examine the history of land use and management within and surround…
View article: Integrating history and ecological thinking: Royal National Park in historical perspective
Integrating history and ecological thinking: Royal National Park in historical perspective Open
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
View article: The platypus: evolutionary history, biology, and an uncertain future
The platypus: evolutionary history, biology, and an uncertain future Open
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is one of the world's most evolutionarily distinct mammals, one of five extant species of egg-laying mammals, and the only living species within the family Ornithorhynchidae. Modern platypuses are en…
View article: The critical value of long-term field studies and datasets: an editorial perspective
The critical value of long-term field studies and datasets: an editorial perspective Open
The 2016 annual forum of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW was entitled: “The critical value of long-term field studies and datasets”. As Charley Krebs and co-authors comment in their pa...
View article: Four decades of research and monitoring the populations of kangaroos in New South Wales: one of the best long-term datasets in Australia
Four decades of research and monitoring the populations of kangaroos in New South Wales: one of the best long-term datasets in Australia Open
The aim of this paper is to highlight long-term (four decades) research and monitoring the populations of the four species of large kangaroos in New South Wales (NSW).Kangaroos are counted by aerial surveys using two types of aircraft: fix…
View article: A dangerous idea in action: the hegemony of endangered species legislation and how it hinders biodiversity conservation
A dangerous idea in action: the hegemony of endangered species legislation and how it hinders biodiversity conservation Open
The task I am promoting in this paper is to expand the conservation and management focus from just threatened vertebrate species to include all non-threatened vertebrates. I reason that it is easily possible to do so because it lies within…
View article: Dangerous? Necessary: we must conserve all our native fauna
Dangerous? Necessary: we must conserve all our native fauna Open
To conserve all of our native fauna is a dangerous idea because it encompasses all the landscape, not just National Parks and Nature Reserves; all species, not just selected species such as charismatic vertebrates; it impacts on all decisi…
View article: A history of a contested ideal: national parks for fauna conservation
A history of a contested ideal: national parks for fauna conservation Open
This paper a) gives an historical view of national parks and other protected areas since the 19th century, b) gives a history of national parks and nature reserves in NSW, c) shows how recent has been the recognition that fauna conservatio…
View article: Daylight saving time can decrease the frequency of wildlife–vehicle collisions
Daylight saving time can decrease the frequency of wildlife–vehicle collisions Open
Daylight saving time (DST) could reduce collisions with wildlife by changing the timing of commuter traffic relative to the behaviour of nocturnal animals. To test this idea, we tracked wild koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) in southeast Q…
View article: An ecological history of the koala Phascolarctos cinereus in coffs harbour and its environs, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, c1861-2000
An ecological history of the koala Phascolarctos cinereus in coffs harbour and its environs, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, c1861-2000 Open
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
View article: Appendix B. Derivation of the two-dimensional habitat independent movement probability functions.
Appendix B. Derivation of the two-dimensional habitat independent movement probability functions. Open
Derivation of the two-dimensional habitat independent movement probability functions.