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dc.contributor.authorG. Garden, Jenni
dc.contributor.authorA. McAlpine, Clive
dc.contributor.authorP. Possingham, Hugh
dc.contributor.editorJianguo Wu
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:48:39Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:48:39Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2010-08-31T07:47:25Z
dc.identifier.issn09212973
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10980-010-9476-z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/33742
dc.description.abstractThe rapid expansion of the world's urban population is a major driver of contemporary landscape change and ecosystem modification. Urbanisation destroys, degrades and fragments native ecosystems, replacing them with a heterogeneous matrix of urban development, parks, roads, and isolated remnant fragments of varying size and quality. This presents a major challenge for biodiversity conservation within urban areas. To make spatially explicit decisions about urban biodiversity conservation actions, urban planners and managers need to be able to separate the relative influence of landscape composition and configuration from patch and local (site)-scale variables for a range of fauna species. We address this problem using a hierarchical landscape approach for native, terrestrial reptiles and small mammals living in a fragmented semi-urban landscape of Brisbane, Australia. Generalised linear modelling and hierarchical partitioning analysis were applied to quantify the relative influence of landscape composition and configuration, patch size and shape, and local habitat composition and structure on the species' richness of mammal and reptile assemblages. Landscape structure (composition and configuration) and local-scale habitat structure variables were found to be most important for influencing reptile and mammal assemblages, although the relative importance of specific variables differed between reptile and mammal assemblages. These findings highlight the importance of considering landscape composition and configuration in addition to local habitat elements when planning and/or managing for the conservation of native, terrestrial fauna diversity in urban landscapes.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlands
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationY
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1013
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1028
dc.relation.ispartofissue7
dc.relation.ispartofjournalLandscape Ecology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume25
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLandscape Ecology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBuilt Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEarth Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode050104
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode129999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode04
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode05
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode06
dc.titleMulti-scaled habitat considerations for conserving urban biodiversity: native reptiles and small mammals in Brisbane, Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorGarden, Jennifer G.


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