Loss of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia: Magnitude, causation, and response

S Legge, L Rumpff, ST Garnett, JCZ Woinarski - Science, 2023 - science.org
Australia's biota is species rich, with high rates of endemism. This natural legacy has rapidly
diminished since European colonization. The impacts of invasive species, habitat loss …

Urban biodiversity and the importance of scale

K Uchida, RV Blakey, JR Burger, DS Cooper… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by
orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and …

Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other …

S Legge, JCZ Woinarski, BC Scheele… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The incidence of major fires is increasing globally, creating extraordinary challenges for
governments, managers and conservation scientists. In 2019–2020, Australia experienced …

Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia

JCZ Woinarski, MF Braby, AA Burbidge, D Coates… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Through collation of global, national and state/territory threatened species lists, we conclude
that 100 Australian endemic species (one protist, 38 vascular plants, ten invertebrates, one …

Corrigendum to: The threats to Australia's imperilled species and implications for a national conservation response

SG Kearney, J Carwardine, AE Reside… - Pacific Conservation …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
Since European occupation of Australia, human activities have caused the dramatic decline
and sometimes extinction of many of the continent's unique species. Here we provide a …

How many birds are killed by cats in Australia?

JCZ Woinarski, BP Murphy, SM Legge, ST Garnett… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
From analysis of results from 93 studies on the frequency of occurrence of birds in cat dietary
samples, and a recently published assessment of the population size of feral cats in largely …

Havens for threatened Australian mammals: the contributions of fenced areas and offshore islands to the protection of mammal species susceptible to introduced …

S Legge, JCZ Woinarski, AA Burbidge… - Wildlife …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Many Australian mammal species are highly susceptible to predation by introduced
domestic cats (Felis catus) and European red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). These predators have …

Domestic cats and their impacts on biodiversity: A blind spot in the application of nature conservation law

A Trouwborst, PC McCormack… - People and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐ranging domestic cats Felis catus, from owned pets to feral cats, impact biodiversity
through predation, fear effects, competition, disease and hybridization. Scientific knowledge …

Introduced cats (Felis catus) eating a continental fauna: the number of mammals killed in Australia

BP Murphy, LA Woolley, HM Geyle, SM Legge… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Predation by cats (Felis catus) is implicated in the decline and extinction of many Australian
mammal species. We estimate the number of mammals killed by cats across Australia …

[HTML][HTML] Indoors or outdoors? An international exploration of owner demographics and decision making associated with lifestyle of pet cats

R Foreman-Worsley, LR Finka, SJ Ward, MJ Farnworth - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Owners may consider many factors when deciding whether to provide an
indoor-only or indoor-outdoor lifestyle for their cats. These include safety, mental and …