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Austral ark : the state of wildlife in Australia and New Zealand / edited by Adam Stow, Macquarie University, Ryde, Sydney, Australia, Norman Maclean, University of Southampton, U.K., Gregory I. Holwell, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Wildlife conservation -- Australia.

Wildlife conservation -- New Zealand.

Biodiversity -- Australia.

Biodiversity -- New Zealand.

Endangered species -- Australia.

Endangered species -- New Zealand.

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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1408/2014013701-t.html

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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1408/2014013701-d.html

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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1408/2014013701-b.html

xvi, 637 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

List of contributors -- Foreword / by Professor Tim Flannery -- Introduction -- 1. A separate creation : diversity, distinctiveness and conservation of Australian wildlife / David A. Nipperess -- 2. New Zealand - a land apart / William G. Lee and Daphne E. Lee -- 3. The ecological consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation in New Zealand and Australia / Poppy Lakeman Fraser, Robert M. Ewers and Saul Cunningham -- 4. The impacts of climate change on Australian and New Zealand flora and fauna / Abigail Cabrelli, Linda Beaumont and Lesley Hughes -- 5. Unwelcome and unpredictable : the sorry saga of cane toads in Australia / Richard Shine and Benjamin L. Phillips -- 6. Invasive plants and invaded ecosystems in Australia : implications for biodiversity / Rachael V. Gallagher and Michelle R. Leishman -- 7. Environmental weeds in New Zealand : impacts and management / Margaret C. Stanley and Imogen E. Bassett -- 8. The insidious threat of invasive invertebrates / Darren F. Ward -- 9. Pollution by antibiotics and resistance genes : dissemination into Australian wildlife / Michael Gillings -- 10. Invasive vertebrates in Australia and New Zealand / Cheryl R. Krull, Josie A. Galbraith, Al S. Glen and Helen W. Nathan -- 11. Freshwaters in New Zealand / Mike J. Joy -- 12. A garden at the edge of the world : the diversity and conservation status of the New Zealand flora / Carlos A. Lehnebach -- 13. The evolutionary history of the Australian flora and its relevance to biodiversity conservation / Maurizio Rossetto -- 14. Protecting the small majority : insect conservation in Australia and New Zealand / Gregory I. Holwell and Nigel R. Andrew -- 15. Terrestrial mammal diversity, conservation and management in Australia / Mark D.B. Eldridge and Catherine A. Herbert -- 16. Marine mammals, back from the brink? : contemporary conservation issues / Robert Harcourt, Helene Marsh, David Slip, Louise Chilvers, Mike Noad and Rebecca Dunlop -- 17. Australian reptiles and their conservation / Jonathan K. Webb, Peter S. Harlow and David A. Pike -- 18. New Zealand reptiles and their conservation / Nicola J. Nelson, Rod Hitchmough and Jo M. Monks -- 19. Isolation, invasion and innovation : forces of change in the conservation of New Zealand birds / Sarah Withers -- 20. Australian birds : current status and future prospects / Stephen T. Garnett, Judit K. Szabo and Donald C. Franklin -- 21. Austral amphibians - Gondwanan relicts in peril / Jean-Marc Hero, J. Dale Roberts, Conrad J. Hoskin, Katrin Lowe, Edward J. Narayan and Phillip J. Bishop -- 22. Predators in danger : shark conservation and management in Australia, New Zealand, and their neighbours / Paolo Momigliano, Vanessa Flora Jaiteh and Conrad Speed -- 23. 'Ragged mountain ranges, droughts and flooding rains' : the evolutionary history and conservation of Australian freshwater fishes / Leanne Faulks, Dean Gilligan and Luciano B. Beheregaray -- 24. Down under Down Under : Austral groundwater life / Grant C. Hose, Maria G. Asmyhr, Steven J.B. Cooper and William F. Humphreys -- 25. Fire and biodiversity in Australia / John C.Z. Woinarski, Allan H. Burbidge, Sarah Comer, Dan Harley, Sarah Legge, David B. Lindenmayer and Thalie B. Partridge -- 26. Terrestrial protected areas of Australia / Ian D. Craigie, Alana Grech, Robert L. Pressey, Vanessa M. Adams, Marc Hockings, Martin Taylor and Megan Barnes -- 27. Australian marine protected areas / Alana Grech, Graham J. Edgar, Peter Fairweather, Robert L. Pressey and Trevor J. Ward -- 28. Marine reserves in New Zealand : ecological responses to protection and network design / Nick Shears and Hannah L. Thomas -- 29. Conclusion : conservation onboard Austral Ark needs all hands on deck / Adam Stow -- Index.

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