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View article: Target, tool, tenure and timing: the four T’s limiting the impact of traditional hunting in Indonesian Papua
Target, tool, tenure and timing: the four T’s limiting the impact of traditional hunting in Indonesian Papua Open
Subsistence hunting has sustained human populations in New Guinea for millennia, without seriously affecting the highest levels of biodiversity on Earth. Recent changes to hunting practices, demographic, social and economic context and the…
View article: Island of opportunity: can New Guinea protect amphibians from a globally emerging pathogen?
Island of opportunity: can New Guinea protect amphibians from a globally emerging pathogen? Open
The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (chytrid) has caused the most widespread, disease‐induced declines and extinctions in vertebrates recorded to date. The largest climatically suitable landmass that may still be fr…
View article: New host and distribution record of Pontobdella macrothela (Schmarda, 1861) (Annelida, Hirudinea) from a Grey Reef Shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856), in Mozambique, Western Indian Ocean
New host and distribution record of Pontobdella macrothela (Schmarda, 1861) (Annelida, Hirudinea) from a Grey Reef Shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856), in Mozambique, Western Indian Ocean Open
This report describes the first record of the piscicolid leech Pontobdella macrothela from Mozambique waters and the first record of P. macrothela parasitizing a Grey Reef Shark ( Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos ). The leech, P. macrothela , wa…
View article: Implications of an expanding and intensifying tropical zone for the sustainable development agenda
Implications of an expanding and intensifying tropical zone for the sustainable development agenda Open
[Extract] The tropical zone provides ecosystem services of global importance, yet development in the tropics has lagged significantly behind the rest of the world (Sachs 2001). The State of the Tropics 2014 Report launched by Nobel Laureat…
View article: Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia
Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia Open
Introduction: Recent studies at sites in northern Australia have reported severe and rapid decline of several native mammal species, notwithstanding an environmental context (small human population size, limited habitat loss, substantial r…