Sampling environmental DNA from trees and soil to detect cryptic arboreal mammals

MC Allen, R Kwait, A Vastano, A Kisurin, I Zoccolo… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) approaches to monitoring biodiversity in terrestrial
environments have largely focused on sampling water bodies, potentially limiting the …

Multiyear monitoring of threatened iconic arboreal mammals in a mid‐elevation conservation reserve in eastern Australia

RL Goldingay, D McHugh, JL Parkyn - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Multiyear investigations of population dynamics are fundamental to threatened species
conservation. We used multiseason occupancy based on spotlight surveys to investigate …

Australian megafires alter predicted distribution of the southern greater glider (Petauroides volans)

JCH Ridley, K Marsh, T Lavery, W Blanchard… - Austral …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Altered fire regimes and the increased frequency and/or severity of wildfires are significant
issues for fire‐sensitive species. In the Austral summer of 2019/2020, Australia experienced …

Increasing fire severity negatively affects greater glider density

JC May-Stubbles, A Gracanin, KM Mikac - Wildlife Research, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Fire severity and frequency is predicted to increase over the remainder of the 21st
century in Australia's temperate forests; therefore, the effects of fire severity on forest …

Mature forest habitat mitigates the decline of an endangered greater glider population through a widespread disturbance event

JG Cally, PV Macak, MP Chick, B Blake… - Forest Ecology and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Globally, forests support more than two-thirds of extant mammal species. Land clearing,
logging and fire are prevalent disturbance mechanisms that reduce forest cover. However …

Considerations in the protection of marsupial gliders and other mature-forest dependent fauna in areas of intensive logging in the tall forests of Victoria, Australia

GW Wardell-Johnson… - Pacific Conservation …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Context The tall forests of Victoria, Australia, which are available for logging, are
foreshadowed to be converted from mature forest to hostile environments for mature-forest …

How an unprecedented wildfire shaped tree hollow occurrence and abundance—implications for arboreal fauna

B Wagner, PJ Baker, CR Nitschke - Fire Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Background Tree hollows are an important habitat resource used by arboreal fauna for
nesting and denning. Hollows form when trees mature and are exposed to decay and …

The influence of severe wildfire on a threatened arboreal mammal

MC Green, DR Michael, JM Turner, LJ Wright… - Wildlife …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Fire regimes are changing with ongoing climate change, which is leading to an
increase in fire frequency and severity. Australia's Black Summer wildfires burned> 12million …

Population Viability of an Endangered Population of Greater Gliders (Petauroides volans) and Management Implications

B Mulley, A Gracanin, KM Mikac - Conservation, 2024 - mdpi.com
The population of the endangered southern greater glider (Petauroides volans) is rapidly
declining across coastal lowlands in New South Wales, Australia. Here, we focus on a …

Impacts of the 2019–20 wildfires on native mammals

JCZ Woinarski, J Cripps, L Durkin, B Law… - … Impacts and Lessons …, 2023 - books.google.com
Mammals attracted much of the public and media concern about the impacts of the 2019–20
wildfires. Particularly prominent were rescue efforts for koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and …