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Fire severity and frequency is predicted to increase in Australia’s temperate forests over the remainder of the 21st century. With Australia’s history of mass mammalian extinctions, and with 25% of arboreal mammal species currently listed as threatened Australia wide, developing a greater understanding on the effect of fire severity on mammals is essential for effective conservation management. Detectability of arboreal mammals from popular survey techniques such as spotlighting is typically low, even for large bodied arboreal mammals, i.e., greater gliders (Petauroides volans). Methods th...

Context: Fire severity and frequency is predicted to increase over the remainder of the 21st century in Australia's temperate forests; therefore, the effects of fire severity on forest-dependant species is of major conservation concern. Aims: Determining the short-term (<1 >year) effect of fire severity on a forest-dependant species, the greater glider, Petauroides volans, in Monga National Park, south-eastern New South Wales. Methods: Three fire-severity classes were investigated, namely, low (canopy unburnt), moderate (partial canopy burn) and high (complete canopy consumption). F...

Whale populations recovering from historical whaling are particularly vulnerable to incidental mortality and disturbance caused by growing ocean industrialization. Several distinct populations of rorqual whales (including humpback, blue, and fin whales) migrate and feed off the coast of Oregon, USA where spatial overlap with human activities are on the rise. Effective mitigation of conflicts requires better foundational understanding of spatial and temporal habitat use patterns to inform conservation management. Based on a year-round, multi-platform distance sampling dataset (2016-2021, 177 su...