A new way to analyze the effects of conservation actions on complex ecosystems has cut the modeling time from 108 days to six hours, QUT statisticians have found.
Ecology
Mar 27, 2024
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Australia is home to more than 350 species of native mammals, 87% of which are found nowhere else on Earth. But with 39 of these species already extinct and a further 110 listed as threatened, there's every chance many will ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2024
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Foxes and cats kill about 2.6 billion mammals, birds and reptiles across Australia, every year. To save native species from extinction, we need to protect them from these introduced predators. But land managers tend to focus ...
Ecology
Mar 1, 2024
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A six-year-old project to return giant tortoises to the wild in Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years.
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2024
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Seminole County has long been known as Florida's epicenter for bear encounters in residential neighborhoods. But now there's a new hairy beast in town: coyotes.
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2024
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Across the vast Australian continent, feral pigs, feral deer and European rabbits roam in their millions. By different names—wild boar, venison, and lapin—these could all be served in a Michelin-star restaurant.
Plants & Animals
Jan 2, 2024
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Trophic ecology is the study of the food chain. On Tenerife in the Canary Islands, feral cats feast chiefly on rabbits, mice, rats, and native birds and reptiles. But new research shows that since 1986, the island's wild ...
Fans of the musical "Cats" will know that the naming of cats is a difficult matter, and that cats have three different names. The same is true of cats in New Zealand—there are three types: companion or pet cats that live ...
Ecology
Nov 16, 2023
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More than 3,500 invasive alien species are seriously compromising human well-being and causing irreversible damage to ecosystems, according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2023
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Current efforts to protect and restore native biodiversity is being threatened by difficulties in identifying wild and domestic cats, and categorization is likely to remain fraught for the foreseeable future, experts have ...
Ecology
Aug 7, 2023
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