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Review of threats to biodiversity in the Northern Territory

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http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/17498/2008PriceO.DruckerA.Edwards.G.WoinarskiJ.SaalfeldK.FisherA.andRussell-SmithJ.pdf
This review discusses the factors that threaten biodiversity in the Northern Territory. It focuses on five factors: fire, feral animals, pastoralism, weeds and land clearing.

Price O, Drucker A, Edwards G, Woinarski J, Saalfeld K, Fisher A, and Russell-Smith J (2008) Review of Threats to Biodiversity in the Northern Territory. Northern Territory Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport

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Landscape design for maintaining ecosystem services in tropical agricultural landscapes: the response of flora and fauna to landscape mosaics and implications for land clearing policy

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http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/214926
This report presents the results of extensive surveys in the Douglas Daly region of the Top End of the Northern Territory in 2007 and 2008, a region that has been the focus of agricultural development. The aim of the surveys was to investigate the relationship between fragmentation, habitat loss and terrestrial biodiversity.

Griffiths, A.D, Stewart, A.J., Calnan, T, Venn, S, Brooks, K, & Rankmore, B, (2009) Landscape design for maintaining ecosystem services in tropical agricultural landscapes: the response of fauna and flora to landscape mosaics and implications for land clearing policy. Report to Land and Water Australia. Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport, Darwin.

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Queensland's Biodiversity under climate change: impacts and adaptation - systhesis report

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http://www.csiro.au/Organisation-Structure/Flagships/Climate-Adaptation-Flagship/Queensland-biodiversity-under-climate-change.aspx
Williams, K.J. et al. (2012) Queensland’s biodiversity under climate change: impacts and adaptation – synthesis report. A Report Prepared for the Queensland Government, Brisbane. CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, Canberra. This report summarises the different ways climate change is likely to affect biodiversity ecosystems, and ecosystem services in Queensland. The report is available for download from this site.

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ECOS article: Offset plantations and the risk of ‘bio-perversities’

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http://www.ecosmagazine.com/paper/EC12409.htm
With the growing trend to plant trees to offset carbon emissions, this article asks how carbon plantations affect local biodiversity. (Monday, 03/09/2012)

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CSIRO Media Release: Report card shows Australia's oceans are changing

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http://www.csiro.au/en/Portals/Media/Oceans-are-changing.aspx
This report card, led by CSIRO, provides information about the current and predicted-future state of Australia’s marine climate and its impact on marine biodiversity. It also outlines actions that are underway to help marine ecosystems adapt to climate change. (Friday, 17/8/2012)

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Signals of change in tropical savanna woodland vertebrate fauna 5 years after cessation of livestock grazing

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Kutt AS, Vanderduys EP, Perry JJ, Perkins GC, Kemp JE, Bateman BL, Kanowski J and Jensen R
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Wildlife Research
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http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/144/paper/WR11137.htm

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Native plant diversity in tropical savannas decreases when exotic pasture grass cover increases

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Kutt AS and Kemp JE
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The Rangeland Journal
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dx.doi.org/10.1071/RJ11048

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Spatial and temporal effects of grazing management and rainfall on the vertebrate fauna of a tropical savanna

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Kutt AS, Vanderduys EP and O’Reagain P
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The Rangelands Journal
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dx.doi.org/10.1071/RJ11049

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ECOS News: Revegetation to the rescue of woodland birds

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www.ecosmagazine.com/paper/EC12273.htm
Australia has a good chance of being able to save most of its endangered native woodland birds, according to one of the biggest field studies ever conducted here. (May 2012)

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South Australian Government: Threatened species information

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www.environment.sa.gov.au/Plants_Animals/Threatened_species_ecological_communities
Contains information on threatened species and ecological communities with links to South Australian species.

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