Systematic planning can rapidly close the protection gap in Australian mammal havens

Jeremy Ringma; Sarah Legge; John C.Z. Woinarski; James Q. Radford; Brendan Wintle; Joss Bentley; Andrew A. Burbidge; Peter Copley; Nicholas Dexter; Chris R. Dickman; Graeme R. Gillespie; Brydie Hill; Chris N. Johnson; John Kanowski; Mike Letnic; Adrian Manning; Peter Menkhorst; Nicola Mitchell; Keith Morris; Katherine Moseby; Manda Page; Russell Palmer; Michael Bode

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Systematic planning can rapidly close the protection gap in Australian mammal havens

Jeremy Ringma^*, Sarah Legge, John C.Z. Woinarski, James Q. Radford, Brendan Wintle, Joss Bentley, Andrew A. Burbidge, Peter Copley, Nicholas Dexter, Chris R. Dickman, Graeme R. Gillespie, Brydie Hill, Chris N. Johnson, John Kanowski, Mike Letnic, Adrian Manning, Peter Menkhorst, Nicola Mitchell, Keith Morris, Katherine MosebyManda Page, Russell Palmer, Michael Bode

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In the last 30 years, islands and fenced exclosures free of introduced predators (collectively, havens) have become an increasingly used option for protecting Australian mammals imperiled by predation by introduced cats (Felis catus) and foxes (Vulpes vulpes). However, Australia's network of havens is not expanding in a manner that maximizes representation of all predator-susceptible taxa, because of continued emphasis on already-represented taxa. Future additions to the haven network will improve representation of mammals most efficiently if they fill gaps in under-represented predator-susceptible taxa, particularly rodents. A systematic approach to expansion could protect at least one population of every Australian predator-susceptible threatened mammal taxon by the addition of 12 new havens to the current network. Were the current haven network to be doubled in number in a systematic manner, it could protect three populations of every Australian predator-susceptible threatened mammal taxon.

Original language	English
Article number	e12611
Journal	Conservation Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12611
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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Ringma, J., Legge, S., Woinarski, J. C. Z., Radford, J. Q., Wintle, B., Bentley, J., Burbidge, A. A., Copley, P., Dexter, N., Dickman, C. R., Gillespie, G. R., Hill, B., Johnson, C. N., Kanowski, J., Letnic, M., Manning, A., Menkhorst, P., Mitchell, N., Morris, K., ... Bode, M. (2019). Systematic planning can rapidly close the protection gap in Australian mammal havens. Conservation Letters, 12(1), Article e12611. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12611

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