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DOI	10.1111/aec.13047
	Converting rangelands to reserves: Small mammal and reptile responses 24 years after domestic livestock grazing removal
	Neilly, Heather; Ward, Michelle; Cale, Peter
通讯作者	Neilly, H (corresponding author), Australian Landscape Trust, Box 955,Calperum Stn, Renmark, SA 5341, Australia.
来源期刊	AUSTRAL ECOLOGY
ISSN	1442-9985
EISSN	1442-9993
出版年	2021
卷号	46 期号:7 页码:1112-1124
英文摘要	With one million species threatened with extinction and more than a third of terrestrial Earth now devoted to crop or livestock production, many conservation organisations are acquiring land, destocking and converting them to national parks or conservation reserves. When pastoral properties are acquired, destocking is often the first management action. Species responses to destocking are varied and largely associated with changes in ground vegetation complexity. However, studies over short timeframes may fail to capture the often slow and episodic recovery post-destocking, particularly in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. In this study, we examined the response of small mammals and reptiles between 6 and 24 years since destocking in mallee (Eucalytpus sp.) and Casuarina vegetation communities in semi-arid Australia. As casuarina sites were closer to water than mallee, they were subject to higher domestic livestock grazing intensity, and higher grazing pressure from invasive goats and native kangaroos after livestock were removed. We related faunal abundance and diversity to time-sincedestocking, fractional cover, rainfall and temperature and described compositional dynamics. We found that the vegetation types had distinct fauna communities and unique recovery trajectories. In mallee, reptile abundance and diversity increased with time-since-destocking but did not change in casuarina. Small mammal response to time-since-destocking was non-linear and strongly influenced by rainfall. Overall, the mallee community showed signs of recovery, but recovery was less evident in the more degraded casuarina. We highlight that destocking expastoral properties is rarely a restoration `quick-fix' and land managers must deal with a complex legacy of impacts, when converting pastoral land to conservation reserves.
英文关键词	casuarina conservation reserves mallee vertebrate fauna
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000705496400009
WOS关键词	LONG-TERM ; SEMIARID WOODLANDS ; VERTEBRATE FAUNA ; VEGETATION ; FIRE ; RAINFALL ; CONSERVATION ; RECOVERY ; DYNAMICS ; LIZARDS
WOS类目	Ecology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/368004
作者单位	[Neilly, Heather; Cale, Peter] Australian Landscape Trust, Box 955,Calperum Stn, Renmark, SA 5341, Australia; [Ward, Michelle] Univ Queensland, Sch Earth & Environm Sci, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Neilly, Heather,Ward, Michelle,Cale, Peter. Converting rangelands to reserves: Small mammal and reptile responses 24 years after domestic livestock grazing removal[J],2021,46(7):1112-1124.
APA	Neilly, Heather,Ward, Michelle,&Cale, Peter.(2021).Converting rangelands to reserves: Small mammal and reptile responses 24 years after domestic livestock grazing removal.AUSTRAL ECOLOGY,46(7),1112-1124.
MLA	Neilly, Heather,et al."Converting rangelands to reserves: Small mammal and reptile responses 24 years after domestic livestock grazing removal".AUSTRAL ECOLOGY 46.7(2021):1112-1124.