Sentences with phrase «mammal population recovery»
Starting points for small mammal population recovery after wildfire: recolonisation or residual populations?
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Controlling invasive mammal populations, or removing them entirely from islands, is a highly effective tool for conserving island species and ecosystems, and such actions have contributed greatly to the recovery of many threatened island species.
South Australia's small mammal populations tend to boom after heavy rainfalls, but Pedler notes that the biggest recoveries happened in dry years.
«Not acting is not an option because the life histories of these flying, nocturnal mammals — characterized by long generation times and low reproductive rates — mean that population recovery is unlikely for decades or even centuries, if at all,» said McCracken.
The use of poison baits can reduce cat density, but even low levels of cat predation can exterminate threatened mammal populations, such as when cats killed at least seven bilbies reintroduced outside the Arid Recovery reserve in South Australia.