Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat

M Ward, AIT Tulloch, JQ Radford, BA Williams… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Australia's 2019–2020 mega-fires were exacerbated by drought, anthropogenic
climate change and existing land-use management. Here, using a combination of remotely …

Corrigendum to: a threatened ecological community: research advances and priorities for Banksia woodlands

AL Ritchie, LN Svejcar, BM Ayre… - Australian Journal of …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
The rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide is leading to native habitat loss and
ecosystem fragmentation and degradation. Although the study of urbanisation's impact on …

Meta‐analysis reveals impacts of disturbance on reptile and amphibian body condition

KJ Macdonald, DA Driscoll, KJ Macdonald… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem disturbance is increasing in extent, severity and frequency across the globe. To
date, research has largely focussed on the impacts of disturbance on animal population …

[HTML][HTML] Australia's most imperilled vertebrates

ST Garnett, BK Hayward-Brown, RK Kopf… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The likelihood of extinction within the next 20 years was determined for 47 Australian
mammal, bird, reptile, frog and freshwater fish taxa previously identified as being highly …

Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction

HM Geyle, R Tingley, AP Amey, H Cogger… - Pacific Conservation …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Australia hosts approximately 10% of the world's reptile species, the largest number of any
country. Despite this and evidence of widespread decline, the first comprehensive …

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

DG Chapple, U Roll, M Böhm, R Aguilar, AP Amey… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Our knowledge of the conservation status of reptiles, the most diverse class of terrestrial
vertebrates, has improved dramatically over the past decade, but still lags behind that of the …

Done but not dusted: Reflections on the first global reptile assessment and priorities for the second

S Meiri, DG Chapple, KA Tolley, N Mitchell… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The IUCN recently coordinated the first assessment of extinction risk of the world's reptile
species. This monumental undertaking allows, for the first time, an examination of threats …

Trends and patterns in the extinction risk of Australia's birds over three decades

AJ Berryman, SHM Butchart, MV Jackson… - Emu-Austral …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Australia recently committed through the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
(GBF) to halt human-induced extinction of known threatened species and to reduce …

Modelling the spatial extent of post‐fire sedimentation threat to estimate the impacts of fire on waterways and aquatic species

M Ward, D Southwell, RV Gallagher… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Fires can severely impact aquatic fauna, especially when attributes of soil, topography,
fire severity and post‐fire rainfall interact to cause substantial sedimentation. Such events …

A global red list for hydrothermal vent molluscs

EA Thomas, A Molloy, NB Hanson, M Böhm… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With the accelerating development of direct and indirect anthropogenic threats, including
climate change and pollution as well as extractive industries such as deep-sea mining, there …