Workshop: Mammal Decline

Workshop program (pdf 94kb)

List of participants & contacts details (pdf 21kb)

Session 1: Background

• General introduction – John Woinarski  (pdf 412kb)
  
• Impacts of predators – Chris Johnson (pdf 661kb)
  
• Cattle impacts – Sarah Legge (pdf 2,453kb)
  
• Fire & mammals in the north Kimberley – Ian Radford (pdf 514kb)
  
• Mammal monitoring in Kakadu & Litchfield NP – John Woinarski (pdf 1,004kb)
  
• Indigenous ecological knowledge – Mark Ziembicki (pdf 1,410kb)
  
• Conilurus penicillatus – Ron Firth (pdf 1,593kb)
  
• Hidden mammal diversity – Ken Aplin  (pdf 283kb)
  

Session 2:  Overview of current status & conservation priorities

• Queensland(pdf 39kb)
  
• Northern Territory(pdf 53kb) 
  
• Western Australia(pdf 55kb) 
  

Session 3:  Overview of the possible causes of decline

• Conceptual model (John Woinarski)   (pdf 76.5)
  
• Cats (pdf 29kb)
  
• Pastoralism (pdf 25kb)
• Fire (pdf 24kb)
  
• Cane toads (pdf 21kb) 
  
• Disease (21kb)
  
• Climate change - not addressed
• “Anna Karenina”  (disparate impacts on individual species) – not addressed

Session 4:  Current work and critical gaps

• Queensland(pdf 222kb)
  
• Northern Territory(pdf 238kb)
• Western Australia(pdf 221kb)
• Collated high priorities (pdf  18kb)
  

Session 5:  Management needs, priorities and advice

By sector:

• Reserves (pdf 31kb)
  
• Pastoral (pdf 19kb)
  
• Indigenous (pdf 26kb)
  

By major threat:

• Grazing (pdf 29kb)
  
• Fire (fire 32kb)
  
• Predators (27kb)
  

Session 6:  Research priorities and approach

• Synthesis from previous sessions (pdf 43kb)
  
• Large-scale management experiment (pdf 30kb)
• Monitoring management outcomes (pdf 25kb)
  
• Other research (pdf 21kb)
  

Session 7:  Building from here & communication

• Options for future collaboration (pdf 26kb)
  
• Researchers (pdf 47kb)
  
• Managers (pdf 54kb)
  
• Communication messages (pdf 22kb)
• Wrap-up (pdf 15kb)