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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 7, Issue 2, April–June 2026.The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial, endemic to Tasmania, that is threatened by a transmissionable cancer. This paper introduces a novel method to incorporate multiple measures of devil size and development to estimate age, using Bayesian parallel regression to integrate multiple regression relationships into predictions. The method provides
Douglas H. Kerlin +8 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial found only in the wild in Tasmania, Australia. Tasmanian devils are classified as endangered and are currently threatened by devil facial tumour disease, a lethal transmissible cancer ...
Liana F Wait +3 more
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Water Balance in the Mulgara (Dasycercus Cristicauda), A Carnivorous Desert Marsupial [PDF]
Australian Journal of Biological Sciences, 1962 A small Australian marsupial, the mulgara or crest-tailed marsupial-mouse (Dasycercu8 cristicauda Krefft), lives on a predominantly or exclusively carnivorous diet. It, inhabits the most arid part of central Australia where the average rainfall is 5-10 in. per year.
K Schmidt-Nielsen, AE Newsome
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A Patchy, Incomplete Burn Mosaic Moderates the Effects of Prescribed Fire on a Threatened Marsupial
Austral Ecology, Volume 51, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Changes to fire regimes, including application of prescribed burns, represent a threatening process for species worldwide. A challenge is to determine how the spatial pattern of prescribed burns can be manipulated to minimise impacts on species of concern.
Rebecca K. Peisley +2 more
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 7, Issue 1, January–March 2026.A target‐specific bait dispenser is required for oral bait vaccination of the endangered Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) against the deadly devil facial tumour disease. We evaluated four edge devices over six convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a smart bait dispenser that uses image classification to recognise the target species. We conclude
Prithul Chaturvedi +3 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Aims Climate change poses severe threats to biodiversity in Australia, particularly for species already at risk from other factors, such as bluetongue lizards (Tiliqua and Cyclodomorphus spp.). Here we model climate‐driven changes in suitable climatic conditions for bluetongue lizards to 2060 and 2100 under multiple climate scenarios and ...
Juan P. Valbuena‐Fernandez +4 more
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A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 AbstractMarsupial mammal relatives (stem metatherians) from the Mesozoic Era (252–66 million years ago) are mostly known from isolated teeth and fragmentary jaws. Here we report on the first near-complete skull remains of a North American Late Cretaceous metatherian, the stagodontid Didelphodon vorax. Our phylogenetic analysis indicates that marsupials
Gregory P. Wilson +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.A trait‐based risk assessment framework was developed to identify New Zealand's native freshwater fish most vulnerable to the pressures of valued sports fisheries (trout). We further examine where the distributions between at‐risk species and trout are likely to overlap, providing priority locations for conservation managers to investigate further and ...
Ami Coughlan +2 more
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A geometric morphometric analysis of cranial and mandibular shape variation of didelphid marsupials
Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 2000 <strong>Abstract</strong> The New World marsupial family Didelphidae is one of the oldest among mammals and is usually regarded as a morphologically conservative group. We analyzed cranial shape variation among six species of the six largest
D. Astúa de Moraes +3 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Aim We address a critical gap in the elevational community ecology of tropical non‐volant mammals in the Australian and Oceanian zoogeographic realms. Specifically, we document alpha and beta diversity, environmental predictors and community composition of individual clades in relation to their ecology and evolutionary history along an ...
František Vejmělka +7 more
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