Habitat structure and an introduced predator limit the abundance of an endangered ground-nesting bird.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the factors that limit the abundance of threatened species is critical for the development of effective conservation strategies. However, gaining such knowledge from monitoring programs and using it to inform decision-making for rare species can be difficult due to methodological issues posed by the problems of distinguishing true absences from false absences and the analysis of datasets dominated by zero counts. The plains-wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus) is a critically endangered ground-nesting bird that occurs in grasslands of southeastern Australia. Decline of the plains-wanderer has been attributed to habitat modification but little emphasis has been placed on the role of introduced predators, such as the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), which have had a devastating effect on sm

SUBMITTER: Parker DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11610650 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature