Natural refuges are sometimes supplemented with artificial refuges to enhance populations of endangered species, or to improve the success of translocation and relocation programs. The design and structure of these artificial ...

Translocation is a powerful tool in conservation management, but one of the major problems of this tool is dispersal after release because of a tendency of animals to disperse from unfamiliar sites. We assessed whether ...

Abstract We investigated transmission pathways for two tick species, Bothriocroton hydrosauri and Amblyomma limbatum, among their sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) hosts in a natural population in South Australia. Our aim was ...

Where a translocation program is used to reinforce an existing population of an endangered species, the response of the introduced individuals to cues from conspecific residents will have an important impact on the success ...

The use of social networks to describe animal social structure is increasing, yet our understanding of how social networks respond to changing ecological conditions remains limited. Animal behaviour is often constrained ...

Abstract—There are applications for the measurement of body asymmetry as some studies have shown a correlation between asymmetry and fitness for some species. In our study of the endangered Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard, the ...

Conservation of biodiversity in fire-prone regions depends on understanding responses to fire in animal communities and the mechanisms governing these responses. We collated data from an Australian semi-arid woodland ...

Aim To investigate the use of bioclimatic envelope models for predicting distributions of species that have experienced severe human-induced geographic range contractions. Bioclimatic envelope model predictions of current ...

Adverse fire regimes threaten the persistence of animals in many ecosystems. ‘Fire-specialist’ species, which specialise on a particular post-fire successional stage, are likely to be at greatest risk of decline under ...