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Are flying-foxes coming to town? Urbanisation of the spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) in Australia by Tait, Jessica, Perotto-Baldivieso, Humberto L, McKeown, Adam, Westcott, David A

“…Urbanisation of wildlife populations is a process with significant conservation and management implications. While urban areas can provide habitat for…”
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Using weather radar to monitor the number, timing and directions of flying-foxes emerging from their roosts by Meade, Jessica, van der Ree, Rodney, Stepanian, Phillip M., Westcott, David A., Welbergen, Justin A.

“…Knowledge of species’ population trends is crucial when planning for conservation and management; however, this information can be difficult to obtain for…”
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Close-kin mark-recapture informs critically endangered terrestrial mammal status by Lloyd-Jones, Luke R., Bravington, Mark V., Armstrong, Kyle N., Lawrence, Emma, Feutry, Pierre, Todd, Christopher M., Dorrestein, Annabel, Welbergen, Justin A., Martin, John M., Rose, Karrie, Hall, Jane, Phalen, David N., Peters, Isabel, Baylis, Shane M., Macgregor, Nicholas A., Westcott, David A.

“…Reliable information on population size is fundamental to the management of threatened species. For wild species, mark-recapture methods are a cornerstone of…”
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis and plant invasions: Implications for species richness and management by Catford, Jane A., Daehler, Curtis C., Murphy, Helen T., Sheppard, Andy W., Hardesty, Britta D., Westcott, David A., Rejmánek, Marcel, Bellingham, Peter J., Pergl, Jan, Horvitz, Carol C., Hulme, Philip E.

“…The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) predicts a hump-shaped pattern between community diversity and disturbance, and is central to understanding…”
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Spatial and temporal variation in pollinator effectiveness: do unmanaged insects provide consistent pollination services to mass flowering crops? by Rader, Romina, Howlett, Bradley G., Cunningham, Saul A., Westcott, David A., Edwards, Will

“…1. Recent declines in honeybee populations have focused attention on the potential for unmanaged insects to replace them as pollinators of food crops. The…”
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Inter-group variability in seed dispersal by white-handed gibbons in mosaic forest by Phiphatsuwannachai, Suchada, Westcott, David A., McKeown, Adam, Savini, Tommaso

“…Seed dispersers, like white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar), can display wide inter-group variability in response to distribution and abundance of resources in…”
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Large-scale interventions may delay decline of the Great Barrier Reef by Condie, Scott A, Anthony, Kenneth R N, Babcock, Russ C, Baird, Mark E, Beeden, Roger, Fletcher, Cameron S, Gorton, Rebecca, Harrison, Daniel, Hobday, Alistair J, Plagányi, Éva E, Westcott, David A

“…On the iconic Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the cumulative impacts of tropical cyclones, marine heatwaves and regular outbreaks of coral-eating crown-of-thorns…”
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Impacts of climate change and management responses in tropical forests depend on complex frugivore-mediated seed dispersal by Mokany, Karel, Prasad, Soumya, Westcott, David A.

“…Aim: Biodiversity outcomes under global change will be influenced by a range of ecological processes, and these processes are increasingly being considered in…”
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Implications of past and present genetic connectivity for management of the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) by Lloyd‐Jones, Luke R., Brien, Matthew L., Feutry, Pierre, Lawrence, Emma, Beri, Paul, Booth, Simon, Coulson, Steven, Baylis, Shane M., Villiers, Kira, Taplin, Laurence E., Westcott, David A.

“…Effective management of protected species requires information on appropriate evolutionary and geographic population boundaries and knowledge of how the…”
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Finding our way: On the sharing and reuse of animal telemetry data in Australasia by Campbell, Hamish A., Beyer, Hawthorne L., Dennis, Todd E., Dwyer, Ross G., Forester, James D., Fukuda, Yusuke, Lynch, Catherine, Hindell, Mark A., Menke, Norbert, Morales, Juan M., Richardson, Craig, Rodgers, Essie, Taylor, Graeme, Watts, Matt E., Westcott, David A.

“…The presence and movements of organisms both reflect and influence the distribution of ecological resources in space and time. The monitoring of animal…”
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Body size and substrate type modulate movement by the western Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster solaris by Pratchett, Morgan S, Cowan, Zara-Louise, Nadler, Lauren E, Caballes, Ciemon F, Hoey, Andrew S, Messmer, Vanessa, Fletcher, Cameron S, Westcott, David A, Ling, Scott D

“…The movement capacity of the crown-of-thorns starfishes (Acanthaster spp.) is a primary determinant of both their distribution and impact on coral assemblages…”
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Will plant movements keep up with climate change? by Corlett, Richard T., Westcott, David A.

“…•Movement was a common response to past climate change and some species are moving now.•Many plant species will need to move >1 km per year to keep up with…”
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Diurnal effectiveness of pollination by bees and flies in agricultural Brassica rapa: Implications for ecosystem resilience by Rader, Romina, Edwards, Will, Westcott, David A., Cunningham, Saul A., Howlett, Bradley G.

“…Bees are known to provide pollination services to a wide range of crops, yet flies are rarely included in estimates of function. As bees and flies differ…”
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Integrating modelling of biodiversity composition and ecosystem function by Mokany, Karel, Ferrier, Simon, Connolly, Sean R., Dunstan, Piers K., Fulton, Elizabeth A., Harfoot, Michael B., Harwood, Thomas D., Richardson, Anthony J., Roxburgh, Stephen H., Scharlemann, Jörn P. W., Tittensor, Derek P., Westcott, David A., Wintle, Brendan A.

“…There is increasing reliance on ecological models to improve our understanding of how ecological systems work, to project likely outcomes under alternative…”
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Identifying priority areas for conservation and management in diverse tropical forests by Mokany, Karel, Westcott, David A, Prasad, Soumya, Ford, Andrew J, Metcalfe, Daniel J

“…The high concentration of the world's species in tropical forests endows these systems with particular importance for retaining global biodiversity, yet it…”
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Reducing complexity when studying seed dispersal at community scales: a functional classification of vertebrate seed dispersers in tropical forests by Dennis, A.J, Westcott, D.A

“…The process of seed dispersal has a profound effect on vegetation structure and diversity in tropical forests. However, our understanding of the process and…”
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Body-size dependent foraging strategies in the Christmas Island flying-fox: implications for seed and pollen dispersal within a threatened island ecosystem by Todd, Christopher M, Westcott, David A, Martin, John M, Rose, Karrie, McKeown, Adam, Hall, Jane, Welbergen, Justin A

“…Animals are important vectors for the dispersal of a wide variety of plant species, and thus play a key role in maintaining the health and biodiversity of…”
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Tick paralysis in spectacled flying-foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) in North Queensland, Australia: impact of a ground-dwelling ectoparasite finding an arboreal host by Buettner, Petra G, Westcott, David A, Maclean, Jennefer, Brown, Lawrence, McKeown, Adam, Johnson, Ashleigh, Wilson, Karen, Blair, David, Luly, Jonathan, Skerratt, Lee, Muller, Reinhold, Speare, Richard

“…When a parasite finds a new wildlife host, impacts can be significant. In the late 1980s populations of Spectacled Flying-foxes (SFF) (Pteropus…”
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Loss of frugivore seed dispersal services under climate change by Mokany, Karel, Prasad, Soumya, Westcott, David A.

“…The capacity of species to track shifting climates into the future will strongly influence outcomes for biodiversity under a rapidly changing climate. However,…”
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Utilization of sugarcane habitat by feral pig (Sus scrofa) in northern tropical Queensland: evidence from the stable isotope composition of hair by Wurster, Christopher M, Robertson, Jack, Westcott, David A, Dryden, Bart, Zazzo, Antoine, Bird, Michael I

“…Feral pigs (Sus scrofa) are an invasive species that disrupt ecosystem functioning throughout their introduced range. In tropical environments, feral pigs are…”
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