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Headstarting as a cost-effective conservation strategy for an endangered mammal
- Source :
- Current biology : CB. 31(10)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Summary Introduced predators threaten prey species worldwide, but strategies to protect vulnerable wildlife from introduced predators can be expensive, time-consuming, and logistically difficult 1 , 2 . Novel conservation strategies that reduce predation affordably and efficiently must be explored. ‘Headstarting’ is one such strategy, whereby prey are isolated from predators only during the critical early life stage before being returned to the wild, thus improving juvenile survivorship and recruitment to contribute to an increase in population growth 3 . Headstarting is a particularly useful conservation strategy for species facing higher levels of a threatening process during only the early part of their life history when mortality rates are higher, and has demonstrably improved conservation outcomes for birds and marine species 3 , 4 . Here we report findings from the first known headstarting program for a terrestrial mammal, the endangered bridled nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata) at Avocet Nature Refuge (henceforth ‘Avocet’) in Queensland, Australia.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Conservation of Natural Resources
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Endangered species
Wildlife
Animals, Wild
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Predation
Birds
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Survivorship curve
Population growth
Animals
Macropodidae
Mammals
biology
Endangered Species
biology.organism_classification
Fishery
Avocet
030104 developmental biology
Predatory Behavior
Onychogalea fraenata
Mammal
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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- ISSN :
- 18790445
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current biology : CB
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....365cc4a8481a5a759e00a8901df7b1f0