The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

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Burbidge, Andrew A [Author]

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9780643108745

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Electronic Books.

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QL737 .A285 2014

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Subject: The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett and others 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These authoritative reviews represent an important foundation for understanding the current status, fate and future of the nature of Australia.This book considers all species and subspecies of Australian mammals,

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Summary; About the authors; Acknowledgements; About our sponsors; 1. Introduction; The Australian mammal fauna and its fate; Aims of this action plan; Methods and definitions; Distributional database and mapping; Information base; Template for accounts for individual taxA; Consequences of status assigned here; 2. A list of native Australian mammal species and subspecies; Introduction; Rationale for taxonomic treatments used in this Action Plan; Working list of native Australian mammal species and subspecies

3. Evaluation of taxa that have been translocated to islands and 'mainland islands'Introduction; Assisted colonisation and red list evaluations; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; 4. Conservation status assigned to all Australian mammal species and subspecies; Listing of accounts provided for 'Not Evaluated' taxa; 5.Taxa profiles; 6. Analysis: the status and trends of Australian mammals; Tallies of conservation status; Comparisons with current IUCN and EPBC Act status; Trends in conservation status; Threats; Research and management; Recovery planning; Monitoring; Geographic pattern; Islands

7. ConclusionsAppendix A. Accounts for taxa that are not evaluated; Appendix B: Calculation of taxonomic distinctiveness scores for species and subspecies; References; Index

The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett and others 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These authoritative reviews represent an important foundation for understanding the current status, fate and future of the nature of Australia.This book considers all species and subspecies of Australian mammals,

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