Australia's forest marsupials
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The project aims to collect data to save an endangered species and its magnificent, temperate forest home in Australia's forest marsupials. Biologist Dr. David lindenmayer and his team has documented that clear-cutting disrupts habitat, destroys den trees, and causes declines among these small, communally living marsupials and seven other species of marsupial gliders and possums.
Publication Name: Earthwatch Institute
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 1526-4092
Year: 2004
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Bringing back the bilbies
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The project aims to explore how Australia's arid lands functioned before the introduction of exotic mammals. Dr. John Read, Katherine Moseby and his team works in a 60-square-kilometer Arid Recovery Reserve to explore at the land scale the ecology of native vegetation, reinforced native mammals, and native reptiles.
Publication Name: Earthwatch Institute
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 1526-4092
Year: 2004
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Echidnas and goannas of Kangaroo Island
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The project aims to learn about sustainable living by studying the world's oldest mammal and natural predator of the Kangaroo Island. Dr. Peggy Rismiller is researching the ecology and habitat use of echidnas on the Kangaroo Island with Earthwatch volunteers.
Publication Name: Earthwatch Institute
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 1526-4092
Year: 2004
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