© Sarah Legge, David Lindenmayer, Natasha
Robinson, Benjamin Scheele, Darren Southwell and
Brendan Wintle 2018
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Monitoring threatened species and ecological
communities / Sarah Legge, David B
Lindenmayer, Natasha M Robinson, Benjamin C
Scheele, Darren M Southwell and Brendan A
Wintle (editors).
9781486307715 (paperback)
9781486307722 (ePDF)
9781486307739 (epub)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endangered species – Australia – Monitoring.
Endangered species – Australia – Management.
Endangered ecosystems – Australia – Monitoring.
Endangered ecosystems – Australia –
Management.
Wildlife monitoring – Australia.
Environmental monitoring – Australia.
Legge, Sarah, editor.
Lindenmayer, David, editor.
Robinson, Natasha M., editor.
Scheele, Benjamin C., editor.
Southwell, Darren M., editor.
Wintle, Brendan, editor.
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Front cover (clockwise from top left): mala (photo:
AWC/W. Lawler); green and golden bell frog (photo:
B. Scheele); chuditch or western quoll (photo: G.
Liddelow, WA DBCA); white-capped albatrosses
(photo: B. Baker); pink-lipped spider-orchid (photo:
D. Bickerton); Leadbeater’s possum (photo: E. Beaton)
Back cover (left to right): checking funnel traps
(photo: Parks Australia); downloading data from a
temperature logger on a western swamp tortoise
(photo: N. Mitchell); collecting bilby scats for DNA
analysis on the Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protected
Area (photo: Central Desert Native Title Services)
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