<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hannah, D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Woinarski, J. C. Z.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Catterall, C. P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McCosker, J. C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thurgate, N. Y.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fensham, R. J.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Impacts of clearing, fragmentation and disturbance on the bird fauna of Eucalypt savanna woodlands in central Queensland, Australia</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Austral ecology</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">biodiversity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">bird</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">communities</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">conservation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">corridor</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">exotic pasture grass</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">forests</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">grazing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">habitat fragmentation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">land</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">miner</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">northern-territory</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">remnant</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">species richness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">vegetation</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">May</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;Go to ISI&gt;://000245223800004</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">32</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">261-276</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1442-9985</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This study reports on the responses of bird assemblages to woodland clearance, fragmentation and habitat disturbance in central Queensland Australia, a region exposed to very high rates of vegetation clearance over the last two to three decades. Many previous studies of clearing impacts have considered situations where there is a very sharp management contrast between uncleared lands and cleared areas: in this situation, the contrast is more muted, because both cleared lands and uncleared savanna woodlands are exposed to cattle grazing, invasion by the exotic grass Cenchrus ciliaris and similar fire management. Bird species richness (at the scale of a 1-ha quadrat) was least in cleared areas (8.1 species), then regrowth areas (14.6 species), then uncleared woodlands (19.9 species). Richness at this scale was unrelated to woodland fragment size, connectivity or habitat condition; but declined significantly with increasing abundance of miners (interspecifically aggressive colonial honeyeaters). At whole of patch scale, richness increased with fragment size and decreased with abundance of miners. This study demonstrates complex responses of individual bird species to a regional management cocktail of disturbance elements. Of 71 individual bird species modelled for woodland fragment sites, the quadrat-level abundance of 40 species was significantly related to at least one variable representing environmental position (across a rainfall gradient), fragment condition, fragment size and/or connectivity. This study suggests that priorities for conservation management include: cessation of broad-scale clearing; increased protection for regrowth (particularly where this may bolster connectivity and/or size of woodland fragments); control of miners; maintenance of fallen woody debris in woodlands; increase in fire frequency; and reduction in the incidence of grazing and exotic pasture grass.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Article</style></work-type><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ISI:000245223800004</style></accession-num><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ISI Document Delivery No.: 150NPTimes Cited: 12Cited Reference Count: 58Cited References: ANDERSEN AN, 2005, AUSTRAL ECOL, V30, P155 ANDREN H, 1994, OIKOS, V71, P355 BARNARD CA, 1925, EMU, V24, P252 BEIER P, 1998, CONSERV BIOL, V12, P1241 BIERREGAARD RO, 1992, BIOSCIENCE, V42, P859 BOWMAN DMJS, 2001, AUST J BOT, V49, P665 BUTLER DW, 2003, ECOL MANAGE RESTOR, V4, P120, DOI 10.1046/J.1442-8903.2003.00146.X CATTERALL CP, 1997, PACIFIC CONSERVATION, V3, P262 CATTERALL CP, 1998, BIOL CONSERV, V84, P65 CATTERALL CP, 2002, LANDSCAPE HLTH QUEEN, P117 CATTERALL CP, 2004, URBAN WILDLIFE MORE, P21 CLARKE KR, 1988, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGR, V46, P213 CLARKE KR, 2001, PRIMER V5 USER MANUA CLARKE PJ, 2005, J VEG SCI, V16, P237 EBERHARDT LL, 1991, ECOL MONOGR, V61, P53 FAHRIG L, 2003, ANNU REV ECOL EVOL S, V34, P487, DOI 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.011802.132419 FAIRFAX RJ, 2000, BIOL CONSERV, V94, P11 FENSHAM RJ, 2003, J ENVIRON MANAGE, V68, P409, DOI 10.1016/S0301-4797(03)00110-5 FINLAYSON HH, 1931, T ROYAL SOC S AUSTR, V55, P67 FINLAYSON HH, 1934, T ROYAL SOC S AUSTR, V58, P218 FORD HA, 2001, BIOL CONSERV, V97, P71 FRANKS AJ, 2002, PACIFIC CONSERVATION, V8, P99 GREEN RJ, 1998, WILDLIFE RES, V25, P677 GREY MJ, 1998, PAC CONS BIOL, V4, P55 HAILA Y, 2002, ECOL APPL, V12, P321 HARRISON S, 1999, ECOGRAPHY, V22, P225 HOBBS RJ, 2001, CONSERV BIOL, V15, P1522 JACKSON J, 2005, AUSTRAL ECOL, V30, P505 KAUR K, 2005, RANGELAND J, V27, P143 KREBS CJ, 1989, ECOLOGICAL METHODOLO LAURANCE WF, 1997, TROPICAL FOREST REMN LOYN RH, 1987, NATURE CONSERVATION, P65 MACDONALD MA, 2003, J BIOGEOGR, V30, P1415 MACNALLY R, 1997, AUST J ECOL, V22, P227 MACNALLY R, 1997, BIOL CONSERV, V82, P355 MACNALLY R, 2000, BIOL CONSERV, V95, P7 MACNALLY R, 2002, AUSTRAL ECOL, V27, P405 MACNALLY R, 2002, ECOL APPL, V12, P1588 MAJOR RE, 2001, BIOL CONSERV, V102, P47 MARGULES CR, 1992, ENVIRON CONSERV, V19, P316 MARTIN TG, 2005, ECOL APPL, V15, P266 MARTIN TG, 2006, BIOL CONSERV, V127, P201, DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.08.014 MURCIA C, 1995, TRENDS ECOL EVOL, V10, P58 NICHOLS JD, 1998, CONSERV BIOL, V12, P1390 PIPER SD, 2003, OIKOS, V101, P602 RANKMORE BR, 2004, CONSERVATION AUSTR F, P452 REID JRW, 1999, THREATENED DECLINING SAUNDERS DA, 1991, CONSERV BIOL, V5, P18 TILMAN D, 1994, NATURE, V370, P66 WATSON DM, 2002, J BIOGEOGR, V29, P823 WIENS JA, 1995, IBIS, V137, S97 WILSON BA, 2002, RANGELAND J, V24, P6 WOINARSKI JCZ, 1990, AUST J ECOL, V15, P1 WOINARSKI JCZ, 1999, RANGELAND J, V21, P24 WOINARSKI JCZ, 2000, AUSTR ZOOLOGIST, V31, P421 WOINARSKI JCZ, 2002, AUSTRAL ECOL, V27, P311 WOINARSKI JCZ, 2004, AUSTRAL ECOL, V29, P156 WOINARSKI JCZ, 2004, BIOL CONSERV, V116, P379, DOI 10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00231-3Hannah, D. 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