And the beak shall inherit - evolution in response to invasion.
- Scott P Carroll, J. Loye, H. Dingle, M. Mathieson, T. Famula, M. Zalucki
- Environmental ScienceEcology Letters
- 1 September 2005
It is reported that native taxa in colonized regions may swiftly evolve to exploit such emancipated exotic species because of selection caused by invaders, and a native biota that initially permits invasion may rapidly respond in ways that ultimately facilitate control.
Home range and habitat use of a low-density population of greater gliders, Petauroides volans (Pseudocheiridae: Marsupialia), in a hollow-limiting environment
- Geoffrey C. Smith, M. Mathieson, Luke D. Hogan
- Environmental Science
- 22 November 2007
Gliders were two and half times less likely to be observed during standardised spotlighting surveys in the study area than elsewhere in southern Queensland, suggesting that low availability of den trees is contributing to large home ranges and the apparent low population density observed in this study.
Impacts of grazing, selective logging and hyper-aggressors on diurnal bird fauna in intact forest landscapes of the Brigalow Belt, Queensland.
- T. Eyre, M. Maron, M. Mathieson, Murray Haseler
- Environmental Science
- 1 September 2009
The strong relationship between noisy miners and small passerines suggests that noisy miner abundance could act as an easily measured indicator of forest condition, potentially contributing to monitoring of forest management outcomes.
The hegemony of the ‘despots’: the control of avifaunas over vast continental areas
- R. Mac Nally, A. Kutt, J. Thomson
- Environmental Science
- 1 September 2014
There is strong evidence that the local composition of avifaunas over much of a continent is controlled by the indiscriminate aggression of a colonial genus.
Yellow-throated miners Manorina flavigula homogenize bird communities across intact and fragmented landscapes
- A. Kutt, E. Vanderduys, J. Perry, M. Mathieson, T. Eyre
- Environmental Science
- 1 May 2016
It is postulate that the combination of clearing and yellow-throated miner abundance can interact to disrupt the ecological function of woodlands, by the depletion of insect- and nectar-feeding species and the disturbance to mixed feeding flocks.
Spurious thresholds in the relationship between species richness and vegetation cover
- M. Maron, Michiala Bowen, C. McAlpine
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2012
Aim Thresholds often exist in the relationship between species richness and the area of remaining habitat in human-modified landscapes, prompting debate about the mechanisms responsible. We…
Ecology of Leptocoris Hahn (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) soapberry bugs in Australia
- Scott P Carroll, J. Loye, H. Dingle, M. Mathieson, M. Zalucki
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2005
This work finds five species of Leptocoris Hahn in Australia, and lists sapinds that do and do not serve as reproductive hosts, and maps the continental distributions of the insects and primary hosts.
Effect of small-scale woodland clearing and thinning on vertebrate fauna in a largely intact tropical savanna mosaic
- A. Kutt, E. Vanderduys, Daniel J. Ferguson, M. Mathieson
- Environmental ScienceWildlife research (East Melbourne)
- 15 June 2012
It is demonstrated that small-scale clearing and vegetation manipulation via thinning, even within largely intact tropical savanna woodland, can cause localised depletion of some species, although most notably where the vegetation disruption was most severe (i.e. clearing).
Genetic diversity of endangered orchid Phaius australis across a fragmented Australian landscape
- L. Simmons, M. Mathieson, R. Lamont, A. Shapcott
- Environmental ScienceConservation Genetics
- 1 April 2018
Historical events such as colonisation, spatial distribution across different habitats, and contemporary processes, such as human-mediated habitat fragmentation can leave lasting imprints on the…
Hybridization and adaptation to introduced balloon vines in an Australian soapberry bug
- J. Andrés, P. Thampy, Scott P Carroll
- BiologyMolecular Ecology
- 1 December 2013
Results show that hybridization provided the genetic elements underlying the strongly differentiated ‘Halicacabum bugs’, and that bugs feeding on the recently introduced perennial balloon vine showed no evidence of admixture, and are genetically indistinguishable from the nearby populations on a native host.
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