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Background Information - References about mammal decline

Burbidge, A. A., K. A. Jonhson, et al. (1988). "Aboriginal knowledge of the mammals of the central deserts of Australia." Australian Wildlife Research 15(1): 9-39. (click here)


Edwards, A., R. Kennett, et al. (2003). "Monitoring the impacts of fire regimes on vegetation in northern Australia: an example from Kakadu National Park." International Journal of Wildland Fire 12: 427-440. (click here)


Firth, R. S. C., J. C. Z. Woinarski, et al. (2006). "Home range and den characteristics of the brush-tailed rabbit-rat (Conilurus penicillatus) in the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory, Australia." Wildlife Research 33: 397-407. (click here)


Firth, R.S.C., J.C.Z. Woinarski, et al. (2006). ”Environmental relationships of the brushtailed rabbit-rat, Conilurus penicillatus, and other small mammals on the Tiwi Islands, northern Australia.” Journal of Biogeography 33: 1820-1837. (click here)


Johnson, C., J. L. Isaac, et al. (2006). "Rarity of a top predator triggers continent-wide collapse of a mammal prey: dingoes and marsupials in Australia." Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 341-346. (click here)


Kutt, A. S. and J. Woinarski (2007). "The effects of grazing and fire on vegetation and the vertebrate assemblage in a tropical savanna woodland in north-eastern Australia." Journal of Tropical Ecology 23: 95-106. (click here)


Legge, S., S. Murphy, et al. (2008). "The short-term effects of an extensive and high-intensity fire on vertebrates in the tropical savannas of the central Kimberley, northern Australia." Wildlife Research 35: 33-43. (click here)


Letnic, M., M. S. Crowther & F. Koch (2009). “Does a top-predator provide an endangered rodent with refuge from an invasive mesopredator?” (submitted).


McKenzie, N. L., A. A. Burbidge, et al. (2007). "Analysis of factors implicated in the recent decline of Australia's mammal fauna." Journal of Biogeography 34: 597-611. (click here)


Pardon, L. G., B. W. Brook, et al. (2003). "Determinants of survival for the northern brown bandicoot under a landscape-scale fire experiment." Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 106-115. (click here)


Price, O., B. Rankmore, et al. (2005). "Regional patterns of mammal abundance and their relationship to landscape variables in eucalypt woodlands near Darwin, northern Australia." Wildlife Research 32: 435-446. (click here)


Ritchie, E.G. and E.E. Bolitho (2008). “Australia's savanna herbivores: bioclimatic distributions and an assessment of the potential impact of regional climate change.” Physiol Biochem Zool. 81(6):880-90.   (click here)


Ritchie, E. G., J. K. Martin, et al. (2008). "Large-herbivore distribution and abundance: intra- and interspecific niche variation in the tropics." Ecological Monographs 78: 105-122. (click here)


Start, A. N., A. A. Burbidge, et al. (2007). "The status of mammals in the North Kimberley, Western Australia." Australian Mammalogy 29(1): 1-16. (click here)


Woinarski, J. C. Z. (2000). "The conservation status of rodents in the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory." Wildlife Research 27: 421-435. (click here)


Woinarski, J., M. Armstrong, et al. (2004). "The terrestrial vertebrate fauna of Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory: monitoring over a 6-year period and response to fire history." Wildlife Research 31: 587-596. (click here)


Woinarski, J. Z. C. and A. J. Ash (2002). "Responses of vertebrates to pastoralism, military land use and landscape position in an Australian tropical savanna." Austral Ecology 27(3): 311-323. (click here)


Woinarski, J., J. C. McCosker, et al. (2006). "Monitoring change in the vertebrate fauna of central Queensland, Australia, over a period of broad-scale vegetation clearance, 1973-2002." Wildlife Research 33: 263-274. (click here)


Woinarski, J. C. Z., D. J. Milne, et al. (2001). "Changes in mammal populations in relatively intact landscapes of Kakadu National Park, Australia." Austral Ecology 26: 360-370. (click here)


Woinarski, J. C. Z., C. L. Palmer, et al. (1999). "Distributional patterning of mammals on the Wessel and English Company Islands, Arnhem Land, NorthernTerritory, Australia." Australian Journal of Zoology. 47: 87-111. (click here)


Woinarski, J., J. Risler, et al. (2004). "Response of vegetation and vertebrate fauna to 23 years of fire exclusion in a tropical Eucalyptus open forest, Northern Territory, Australia." Austral Ecology 29: 156-176. (click here)

Documents

Ongoing decline in the native mammal fauna of the Top End
Powerpoint presentation by John Woinarski [pdf 1.3 Mb]


Reversing the decline of native mammals in northern Australia – prospectus for a research and management program
A prospectus written in 2008 [pdf 794.6 kb]


Threatened species of the Northern Territory
Threatened species information sheets of mammals in the NT [pdf 1001.2 kb]


Under the radar?: the occurrence, impact and management of feral cats and black rats in Kakadu
The report reviews information on the occurrence and impacts of these species, and provides recommendations for management [pdf 55.8 kb]