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Author : Rodney Shane Pietsch
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Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book The Ecology and Translocation of Urban Common Brushtail Possums written by Rodney Shane Pietsch and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lindenmayer
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643099468
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Practical Conservation Biology written by David Lindenmayer and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Conservation Biology covers the complete array of topics that are central to conservation biology and natural resource management, thus providing the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in these subject areas. Written by two of the world’s leading environment experts, it is a ‘must have’ reference for environment professionals in government, non-government and industry sectors. The book reflects the latest thinking on key topics such as extinction risks, losses of genetic variability, threatening processes, fire effects, landscape fragmentation, habitat loss and vegetation clearing, reserve design, sustainable harvesting of natural populations, population viability analysis, risk assessment, conservation biology policy, human population growth and its impacts on biodiversity. Practical Conservation Biology deals primarily with the Australian context but also includes many overseas case studies. The book is the most comprehensive assessment of conservation topics in Australia and one of the most comprehensive worldwide. Winner of the 2006 Whitley Award for Best Conservation Text.
Author : Melody Serena
Publisher : Surrey Beatty and Sons
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Download or read book Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna written by Melody Serena and published by Surrey Beatty and Sons. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers presented at the three-day conference "Reintroducing Biology of Australasian Fauna" held at Healesville Sanctuary in April 1993.
Author : Thomas L. Montague
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book The Brushtail Possum written by Thomas L. Montague and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive text that draws together accumulated knowledge on an introduced species that once promised New Zealand a fur trade, but now costs a small fortune to manage. The information within this book will be useful to anyone interested in brushtail possums, from students and those with an academic interest, to those involved with wildlife.
Author : Amy Louise Adams
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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Spatial Ecology and Genetic Population Structure of the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus Vulpecula) Within a New Zealand Urban Environment written by Amy Louise Adams and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jutta Eymann
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Total Pages : 287 pages
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Download or read book Management of Urban Common Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus Vulpecula) written by Jutta Eymann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) is indeed a common inhabitant of many Australian citites, and one of the few marsupials that has adapted well to the urban environment. Their close proximity to people provides a great opportunity to experience native wildlife in the backyard, however, their utilization of house roofs, bold behaviour and appetite for garden plants often leads to conflict with householders. Population numbers are sufficiently high to require ongoing management to minimise negative impacts for humans and brushtail possums alike in a socially acceptable manner. The aim of this thesis was to identify current management issues and address the need for improved and novel management strategies. The potential of slow-release implants, containing the GnRH agonist deslorelin, as a contraceptive agent for brushtail possums was tested on a captive population. Males appeared resistant to treatment, but deslorelin was found to inhibit reproduction in female brushtail possums for at least one breeding season, making it a promising tool to control fertility in some wild populations. A further aim was to trial deslorelin implants on a wild urban population, to collect more information about the urban biology of this species and to point out issues which have previously not been addressed. Close proximity and interaction of urban brushtail possums with humans and their domestic animals can increase the risk of disease exposure and transmission and influence the health of wild populations. Serosurveys showed that animals were readily exposed to Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii. This thesis also provides the first data on brushtail possum dispersal in urban areas, knowledge which is highly relevant to the development of management strategies such as fertility control. The findings from this research broaden our knowledge about urban brushtail possums and should assist wildlife authorities in developing alternative or improved management procedures.
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Download or read book Wildlife Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark A. Burgman
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Download or read book Conservation Biology for the Australian Environment written by Mark A. Burgman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide an introduction to the principles of conservation biology with a focus on the Australian biota, using mostly Australian examples to illustrate key points and to provide information on some of the quantitative methods and analytical procedures important for solving conservation problems.
Author : Larry Vogelnest
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486307523
Total Pages : 797 pages
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Download or read book Current Therapy in Medicine of Australian Mammals written by Larry Vogelnest and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Therapy in Medicine of Australian Mammals provides an update on Australian mammal medicine. Although much of the companion volume, Medicine of Australian Mammals, is still relevant and current, there have been significant advances in Australian mammal medicine and surgery since its publication in 2008. The two texts together remain the most comprehensive source of information available in this field. This volume is divided into two sections. The first includes comprehensive chapters on general topics and topics relevant to multiple taxa. Several new topics are presented including: wildlife health in Australia and the important role veterinarians play in Australia’s biosecurity systems; medical aspects of native mammal reintroductions and translocations; disease risk analysis; wildlife rehabilitation practices in Australia with an emphasis on welfare of animals undergoing rehabilitation; management of overabundant populations; immunology; and stress physiology. The second section provides updates on current knowledge relevant to specific taxa. Several appendices provide useful reference data and information on clinical reference ranges, recommended venipuncture sites, chemical restraint agent doses and regimens, a drug formulary and dental charts. Written by Australian experts, Current Therapy in Medicine of Australian Mammals is clinically oriented, with emphasis on practical content with easy-to-use reference material. It is a must-have for veterinarians, students, biologists, zoologists and wildlife carers and other wildlife professionals. This volume also complements, updates and utilises the resources of other books such as Radiology of Australian Mammals (Vogelnest and Allan 2015), Pathology of Australian Native Wildlife (Ladds 2009), Haematology of Australian Mammals (Clark 2004) and Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management (Jackson 2003), all CSIRO Publishing publications.
Author : Janine Cooney
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Total Pages : 66 pages
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Download or read book An Evaluation of Commonly Used Deterrents for Urban Common Brushtail Possums Trichosurus Vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) written by Janine Cooney and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sonia M. Hernandez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119036585
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Medical Management of Wildlife Species written by Sonia M. Hernandez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an all-encompassing resource for reliable information on the medical management of wild birds, mammals, amphibians, and turtles. Focusing on the medical information relevant to the wildlife setting, it covers triage, emergency care, and other key considerations in handling, diagnosing, and treating wild animals. The book's population-based approach encourages practitioners to understand individual animal care within the broader context. Medical Management of Wildlife Species: A Guide for Practitioners begins with a brief summary of natural history, and introductory chapters address general topics such as pre-release conditioning, post-release monitoring, and legal issues associated with handling wildlife species. Species-specific chapters provide practical information on medical management, including the most prevalent concerns for each species and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Provides a complete reference to handling, diagnosing, and treating wild species Covers the full range of North American wildlife Includes concepts that can be applied to species globally Emphasizes information relevant to the wildlife setting Focuses on individual medicine, firmly grounded within population medicine for a broader approach Targeted at wildlife veterinarians, veterinary clinicians that will be presented with wildlife, veterinary technicians, and wildlife rehabilitators Medical Management of Wildlife Species is a must-have addition to the bookshelf of wildlife veterinarians and any veterinarian seeing occasional wild animals, as well as wildlife biologists and researchers.
Author : Shabana F. Shah
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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Translocation of Common Brushtail Possums written by Shabana F. Shah and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hannah Ruth Windley
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Download or read book Nutritional Ecology of Common Brushtail Possums in New Zealand written by Hannah Ruth Windley and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disentangling the many bottom-up and top-down processes that regulate populations is fundamental, especially when investigating and predicting the impacts of invasive species. Plants form the basis of most terrestrial ecosystems as the primary source of energy and nutrients. However, the implications of changes in nutritional quality are difficult to predict due to complexity of most natural ecosystems. Common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) are a primarily folivorous 2-3 Kg marsupial, native to Australia. It has long been suggested that introduced possums in New Zealand have experienced a release from both top-down and bottom-up regulatory processes. The dominance of nutritious, chemically undefended plant foliage has been touted as a factor in the notorious success of possums in New Zealand. In this thesis, I aimed to determine if the nutritional quality of foliage can explain the observed browsing damage inflicted by possums in New Zealand. To establish whether possums exhibit variation in their diet based upon nutritional quality, I performed two captive feeding experiments. Firstly, I examined the physiological capacity of possums in New Zealand to tolerate plant defence compounds that are common in foliage. Secondly, I assessed the response of New Zealand possums to the deactivation of tannins in their diets using polyethylene glycol (PEG). Thirdly, in order to facilitate landscape-scale assessments of nutritional quality in New Zealand forests, I developed calibrations using near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) that could successfully predict nutritional parameters of New Zealand foliage, using a multi-species data set. Finally, I related the extent of browse damage inflicted upon trees in the Tararua Mountain Range to nutritional quality, to reveal if the browsing decisions of wild possums are being driven by the nutritional quality of the foliage. New Zealand possums demonstrated a greater tolerance to both jensenone (a PSM exclusively found in Eucalyptus) and salicin than Australian populations. In the second captive feeding experiment, possums fed foliage supplemented with polyethylene glycol (PEG) which increased the in vitro available nitrogen content of Weinmannia racemosa foliage resulted in possums consuming significantly more than when foliage was untreated, indicating that possums do respond to nutritional quality. However, the results of this experiment highlighted the need for further investigation in to the use of PEG as there was evidence that the intake response to PEG may not necessarily be completely due to an associated reduction in protein digestibility. There was significant spatiotemporal variation in nutritional quality across native New Zealand tree species in the Tararua Mountain Range. Most significantly, trees with higher available nitrogen concentrations (higher nutritional quality) were more severely browsed upon by possums. These findings indicate that nutritional quality is a key driver of the diet choice of possums in New Zealand, and may directly explain the observed impacts and patchy distributions of possums in New Zealand forests.
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Download or read book Pacific Conservation Biology written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross L. Goldingay
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Download or read book The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders written by Ross L. Goldingay and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a symposium held in Brisbane in July 2001, convened as part of the 47th annual conference of the Australian Mammal Society.
Author : Andrew Burbidge
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643108750
Total Pages : 1865 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 written by Andrew Burbidge and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 1865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These authoritative reviews represent an important foundation for understanding the current status, fate and future of the nature of Australia. This book considers all species and subspecies of Australian mammals, including those of external territories and territorial seas. For all the mammal taxa (about 300 species and subspecies) considered Extinct, Threatened, Near Threatened or Data Deficient, the size and trend of their population is presented along with information on geographic range and trend, and relevant biological and ecological data. The book also presents the current conservation status of each taxon under Australian legislation, what additional information is needed for managers, and the required management actions. Recovery plans, where they exist, are evaluated. The voluntary participation of more than 200 mammal experts has ensured that the conservation status and information are as accurate as possible, and allowed considerable unpublished data to be included. All accounts include maps based on the latest data from Australian state and territory agencies, from published scientific literature and other sources. The Action Plan concludes that 29 Australian mammal species have become extinct and 63 species are threatened and require urgent conservation action. However, it also shows that, where guided by sound knowledge, management capability and resourcing, and longer-term commitment, there have been some notable conservation success stories, and the conservation status of some species has greatly improved over the past few decades. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 makes a major contribution to the conservation of a wonderful legacy that is a significant part of Australia’s heritage. For such a legacy to endure, our society must be more aware of and empathetic with our distinctively Australian environment, and particularly its marvellous mammal fauna; relevant information must be readily accessible; environmental policy and law must be based on sound evidence; those with responsibility for environmental management must be aware of what priority actions they should take; the urgency for action (and consequences of inaction) must be clear; and the opportunity for hope and success must be recognised. It is in this spirit that this account is offered.
Author : Alistair Glen
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643103171
Total Pages : 449 pages
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Download or read book Carnivores of Australia written by Alistair Glen and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian continent provides a unique perspective on the evolution and ecology of carnivorous animals. In earlier ages, Australia provided the arena for a spectacular radiation of marsupial and reptilian predators. The causes of their extinctions are still the subject of debate. Since European settlement, Australia has seen the extinction of one large marsupial predator (the thylacine), another (the Tasmanian devil) is in danger of imminent extinction, and still others have suffered dramatic declines. By contrast, two recently-introduced predators, the fox and cat, have been spectacularly successful, with devastating impacts on the Australian fauna. Carnivores of Australia: Past, Present and Future explores Australia's unique predator communities from pre-historic, historic and current perspectives. It covers mammalian, reptilian and avian carnivores, both native and introduced to Australia. It also examines the debate surrounding how best to manage predators to protect livestock and native biodiversity. Readers will benefit from the most up-to-date synthesis by leading researchers and managers in the field of carnivore biology. By emphasising Australian carnivores as exemplars of flesh-eaters in other parts of the world, this book will be an important reference for researchers, wildlife managers and students worldwide.
