Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

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184 Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities


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Fig. 13.5. Summary of changing abundance (expressed as the proportion of peak abundance) of mammal
species in the Upper Warren region, Western Australia. (a) cage-trap transects (n = 1–11 per year) –
unsustained recovery; (b) cage-trap transects (n = 1–11 per year) – recent increase; (c) cage, Elliott and pit
trap grids (n = 22).

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