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Christensen, Julien M.

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“…9) and very frequent fires were considered unlikely to favour fauna. , Christensen and Kimber (1975), Wooller and Brooker (1980), Wooller and Milewski (1981), Tingay and Tingay (1984), Abbott and Van Heurck (1985b), and Christensen et al (1985b) all reported results of bird community studies in karri or jarrah forest. The general conclusions from these studies follow a similar pattern.…”

Section: Firementioning

confidence: 98%

“…The Mardo and Southern Bushrat Rattus fusdpes have been the subject of intensive study. Mardos are opportunistic feeders (Hindmarsh and Majer 1977;Majer 1978) and are most abundant in areas with a deep litter layer (Christensen and Kimber 1975;Sawle 1979). Mardos are, however, also common in open woodland in Dryandra Forest (e.g., June 1984 survey trapping rate 2.4% from 720 trap-nights) and rare in karri/tingle forest with a deep litter layer (e.g., 1985 survey, four seasons; no captures in 1 440 trap-nights).…”

Section: Small Mammalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence other factors may also be important in the distribution of Mardos in south-western Australia. Bushrats have been regularly trapped from 1971-1982 in karri regeneration near Pemberton and rapidly recolonize burnt habitat (Christensen and Kimber 1975). They are the most abundant small mammal in karri forest (Christensen et al 1985a).…”

Section: Small Mammalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies on the response of vertebrate communities to fire in the Warren Subdistrict commenced with Christensen and Kimber (1975) who reported the effects of a high-intensity fire on small mammals (and birds) in karri forest Three species of small mammals were regularly caught in 35 months of trapping; House Mouse Mus musculus, Southern Bushrat and Mardo. The House Mouse colonized the burnt sites within five months and populations peaked within a year of the fire.…”

Section: Firementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mardos caught occasionally before the fire were not caught again during the following 31 months. Christensen and Kimber (1975) concluded that no single prescribed burning regime will encourage maximum population levels of all the mammal species in an ecosystem. They argued that prescribed burning should be in a mosaic if it is to simulate the uncontrolled fires before European colonization.…”

Section: Firementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa. A recent survey by Milledge, Palmer and Melson in Victoria's Central Highlands has established that this large, sedentary barn owl, shown here carrying a bush rat Rattus fuscipes, is strongly associated with extensive areas of old-growth wet sclerophyll forest (see Chapter by Milledge et al. entitled "Barometers of Change"). The Myrtle Beech Nothofagus cunninghamii, shown in the background, is a typical gully tree in the tall wet Mountain Ash forests in the Victorian Central Highlands. Like the Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis, its controversial ecological counterpart in North America, the Sooty Owl is threatened by habitat fragmentation and modification resulting from intensive logging. It has been suggested that the Sooty Owl could serve, like the Spotted Owl, as an indicator of habitat quality for other old-growth dependent vertebrates in the forest management process. The circles on the map represent the sites surveyed, and the solid circles are sites where Sooty Owls were recorded.

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