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Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species by assessing the vulnerability of 256 marine megafauna species to 23 at‐sea threat...
Viral Nervous Necrosis due to Betanodavirus: A Case Study in Pot‐Bellied Seahorses ( Hippocampus abdominals )NARA Subscribed
Betanodaviruses, members of the Nodaviridae family, are the causative agents of viral nervous necrosis in fish, resulting in great economic losses worldwide. This is the first case study describing the detection and confirmation of viral nervous necrosis in pot‐bellied seahorses ( Hippocampus abdominalis ) in Australia. Clinical signs of this infection in the seahorses included whirling, floating and cessation of feeding. Hist...
Informing APSIM using 15N recovery data to establish fertiliser N budgets in grain systemsNARA Subscribed
Simulation models are an important tool to predict how farming practices influence utilisation and loss of nitrogen (N). However, many simulation exercises lack sufficient validation of N dynamics from both soil and fertiliser sources and rely on single or a few measurable N pools, potentially shifting bias from one pool to another. This study evaluated the capacity of Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) to simul...
Reconstructing the long-term ecological history of Long Island, Furneaux Group (Bass Strait), Lutruwita/TasmaniaNARA Subscribed
The Bass Strait islands are the elevated remnants of a now-submerged continental land bridge that connected the mainland of Australia to Lutruwita/Tasmania during low sea level phases of the Quaternery period. The Furneaux Group is made up of around 100 islands, harbouring a rich diversity of plants derived from glacial refugia and stepping-stone dispersal as millennial-scale climate change altered the land and seascape config...
This paper is concerned with how the diabatically-forced overturning circulations of the atmosphere, established by the deep convection within the tropical trough zone (TTZ), first introduced by Riehl and (Malkus) Simpson, in Contr Atmos Phys 52:287–305 (1979), fundamentally shape the distributions of tropical and subtropical cloudiness and the changes to cloudiness as Earth warms. The study first draws on an analysis of a ran...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2023 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Indigenous Peoples’ lands (IPL) cover at least 38 million km 2 (28.1%) of Earth's terrestrial surface. These lands can be important for biodiversity conservation. Around 20.7% of IPL intersect areas protected by government (PAs). Many sites of importance for biodiversity within IPL could make a substantial but hitherto unquantified contribution to global site‐based conservation targets. Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) represent...
Harassment and killing of porpoises (“phocoenacide”) by fish‐eating Southern Resident killer whales ( Orcinus orca )NARA Subscribed
Endangered Southern Resident killer whales ( Orcinus orca ) are fish‐eaters that preferentially prey on adult Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ). Despite being salmon specialists, individuals from all three killer whale pods (J, K, L) have been observed harassing and killing porpoises (family Phocoenidae) without consuming them. Retrospectively, we identified and analyzed 78 episodes of Southern Resident killer whales...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2022 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Frogs still in a dark place?: Reply toNARA Subscribed
Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the HoloceneNARA Subscribed
Understanding the long-term interactions between people and the ecosystem in which they live is vital for informing present-day ecosystem management plans. The use of pollen data for palaeoecological reconstructions is often limited by the low taxonomic resolution of pollen, which often reduces the detail of reconstructions of human influence on past vegetation. This is true for Australia where Myrtaceae, particularly Eucalypt...
Aim After environmental disasters, species with large population losses may need urgent protection to prevent extinction and support recovery. Following the 2019–2020 Australian megafires, we estimated population losses and recovery in fire‐affected fauna, to inform conservation status assessments and management. Location Temperate and subtropical Australia. Time period 2019–2030 and beyond. Major taxa Australian terrestrial a...
Prolonging survival in good health is a fundamental societal goal. However, the leading determinants of disability-free survival in healthy older people have not been well established. Data from ASPREE, a bi-national placebo-controlled trial of aspirin with 4.7 years median follow-up, was analysed. At enrolment, participants were healthy and without prior cardiovascular events, dementia or persistent physical disability. Disab...
Few studies have assessed the influence of data quality on the predicted probability of occurrence and preferred habitat of marine predators. We compared results from four species distribution models (SDMs) for four southern-hemisphere albatross species, Buller’s ( Thalassarche bulleri ), Campbell ( T. impavida ), grey-headed ( T. chrysostoma ), and white-capped ( T. steadi ), based on datasets of differing quality, ranging fr...