Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31453
Title: Australia's surviving marsupial carnivores: threats and conservation
Contributor(s): Jones, Menna E (author); Burnett, Scott (author); Claridge, Andrew W (author); Fancourt, Bronwyn  (author)orcid ; Körtner, Gerhard  (author)orcid ; Morris, Keith (author); Peacock, David (author); Troy, Shannon (author); Woinarski, John (author)
Publication Date: 2014-11
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31453
Abstract: Australia has the world's most diverse fauna of marsupial carnivores – those species whose diet comprises a significant amount of vertebrate prey. All species – the Tasmanian devil and four species of quolls – have threatened status and have declined in distribution and/or abundance; three species (devil, eastern and northern quolls) with severe declines in the last decade. Threats are multiple, and include complex interactions between habitat change and introduced predators. Infectious disease is the major factor threatening the devil with extinction, and may interact with other factors for quolls. Large-scale ecological restoration of entire faunas, in which the ecological functionality of apex predators is reinstated, is an important goal for conservation management. For marsupial carnivores, this will require a combination of in situ and ex situ strategies, including broad-scale control of introduced predators and disease combined with captive breeding where needed, trans-locations and fenced sanctuaries and islands.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Carnivores of Australia: Past, Present and Future., p. 197-240
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Place of Publication: Collingwood, Australia
ISBN: 9780643103177
9780643103184
9780643103108
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 310302 Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/6708/
Editor: Editor(s): Alistair Glen and Christopher Dickman
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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