Aim To compare fire behaviour and fire management practice at a site managed continuously
by traditional Aboriginal owners with other sites in tropical northern Australia, including the …

This article provides a context to, attempts an explanation for, and proposes a response to
the recent demonstration of rapid and severe decline of the native mammal fauna of Kakadu …

Taken literally, the aim of biodiversity monitoring is to track changes in the biological
integrity of ecosystems. Given the overwhelmingly dominant contribution of invertebrates to …

Context. Australia has a lamentable history of mammal extinctions. Until recently, the
mammal fauna of northern Australia was presumed to have been spared such loss, and to be …

Australia has lost more native mammal species than any other country in the past two
centuries, and this record of loss looks likely to worsen over the next few decades. Small‐ to …

Aim A third of all modern (after 1500) mammal extinctions (24/77) are Australian species.
These extinctions have been restricted to southern A ustralia, predominantly in species of ‘…

Small mammal species are declining across northern Australia. Predation by feral cats Felis
sylvestris catus is one hypothesised cause. Most evidence of cat impacts on native prey …

Small mammal (<2 kg) numbers have declined dramatically in northern Australia in recent
decades. Fire regimes, characterised by frequent, extensive, late-season wildfires, are …

INTRODUCTION: Recent studies at sites in northern Australia have reported severe and
rapid decline of several native mammal species, notwithstanding an environmental context (…

Aim An interaction between reduced habitat structural complexity and predation by feral cats
(Felis catus) has been hypothesized as the primary driver of mammal decline in northern …