2008
DOI: 10.1071/zo08027
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Conservation status and biogeography of Australia's terrestrial mammals

Abstract: This paper attempts to identify and explain patterns in the biogeography of Australia’s indigenous terrestrial mammals at the time of European settlement (before modern extinctions), and also compares species’ pre-European and current status by region. From subfossil, historical and contemporary sources, we compiled data on the past geographic range and present status of mammals for Australia’s 85 biogeographic regions. Of the 305 indigenous species originally present, 91 have disappeared from at least half of… Show more

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“…Biogeogr. ) Burbidge et al (2008), applied here to native non-flying mammals. A separate value is calculated for each of Australia's 85 biogeographic regions.…”
Section: Independent Data Support a Critical Weight Rangementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Biogeogr. ) Burbidge et al (2008), applied here to native non-flying mammals. A separate value is calculated for each of Australia's 85 biogeographic regions.…”
Section: Independent Data Support a Critical Weight Rangementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their primary conclusion was that there is no mid-sized critical weight range (CWR) for tropical marsupials, in stark contrast to the pattern observed in central and southern Australia, where marsupial declines are strongly concentrated in the CWR. However, we demonstrate here, using both the original dataset of Fisher et al (provided as online supporting information by those authors) and an independent dataset (Burbidge et al, 2008), that there is a very clear CWR for northern Australian mammals, consistent with the wellaccepted range of 35−5500 g for Australian mammals across the continent more broadly.…”
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