150 years of mammal extinction and invasion at Koonchera Dune in the Lake Eyre Basin of South Australia

Vernes, Karl; Elliott, Todd F.; Jackson, Stephen

doi:10.1007/s10530-020-02387-2

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“…In healthy systems, many individuals and species co-occur, and their combined foraging efforts are key to maintaining healthy forest soils. Due to the introduction of foxes and cats to Australia, many of these bioturbating mammals have disappeared from much of their historic ranges or became extinct ( Bilney 2014 , Fleming et al 2014 , Vernes et al 2021 ). We suspect that the loss of mycophagous mammal species and the subsequent loss of their soil turnover capacities may be a contributing factor in the increased frequency/intensity of fires, as well as in the desertification of some regions of the continent.…”

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Mammalian Mycophagy: a Global Review of Ecosystem Interactions Between Mammals and Fungi

Elliott

Truong

Jackson

et al. 2022

Fungal Systematics and Evolution

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The consumption of fungi by animals is a significant trophic interaction in most terrestrial ecosystems, yet the role mammals play in these associations has been incompletely studied. In this review, we compile 1 154 references published over the last 146 years and provide the first comprehensive global review of mammal species known to eat fungi (508 species in 15 orders). We review experimental studies that found viable fungal inoculum in the scats of at least 40 mammal species, including spores from at least 58 mycorrhizal fungal species that remained viable after ingestion by mammals. We provide a summary of mammal behaviours relating to the consumption of fungi, the nutritional importance of fungi for mammals, and the role of mammals in fungal spore dispersal. We also provide evidence to suggest that the morphological evolution of sequestrate fungal sporocarps (fruiting bodies) has likely been driven in part by the dispersal advantages provided by mammals. Finally, we demonstrate how these interconnected associations are widespread globally and have far-reaching ecological implications for mammals, fungi and associated plants in most terrestrial ecosystems.

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Mammalian Mycophagy: a Global Review of Ecosystem Interactions Between Mammals and Fungi

Elliott

Truong

Jackson

et al. 2022

Fungal Systematics and Evolution

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“…Following the 2019-2020 bushfires in Australia, "one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history" [van Eeden et al, 2020, p. 5], which resulted in the loss of three billion animals, a "high level of concern about climate change was reported across the whole population [of Australia] regardless of gender, age, or residential location" [Garad, Enticott & Patrick, 2021], leading to symptoms of PTSD, and eco-anxiety -"a chronic fear of environmental doom" [Clayton, Manning, Krygsman & Speiser, 2017, p. 68]. This concern is warranted, as Australia has the highest extinction rates of any other place in the world, equating to 50% of recent mammal extinctions worldwide [Vernes, Elliott & Jackson, 2021;WWF-Australia, n.d.]. Focusing on "strength and regrowth through adversity" (BOHIE, Case Study 2) and "regeneration and hope" [Kerehona, 2020] the mural In Our Hands expresses the "grief both artists felt" [ACT Government, 2021] while also celebrating the vital importance and value of wildlife [see BOHIE above and van Eeden, Dickman, Ritchie & Newsome, 2017, on changing public attitudes about the value of wildlife].…”

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Street art as a vehicle for environmental science communication

Thompson,

Jürgens,

None

et al. 2023

Journal of Science Communication

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Street art is visual art in public spaces — public art — created for public visibility. Street art addresses a massive and extremely diverse audience: everyone in a city. Using a case study approach, this article explores: 1) the extent to which science-inspired environmental street art can be considered a vehicle for science communication in less tangible science contexts and institutional settings — on the street — and 2) the strategies that street artists deploy to communicate their environmental messages through large-scale painted murals. This article clarifies how street art can be understood as a means of creative grassroots environmental communication. It shows that, and how, street art can encourage agency in pro-environmentalism and help to develop our relationship with sustainability.

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New Guinean bandicoots: new insights into diet, dentition and digestive tract morphology and a dietary review of all extant non-Australian Peramelemorphia

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Little is known about the diets and ecology of New Guinea’s 14 bandicoot species. In order to better understand the diet and digestive morphology of these marsupials, we reviewed the literature, studied the dental morphology, conducted analysis of gastrointestinal contents, and measured the digestive tracts of: Echymipera clara, E. davidi, E. kalubu, E. rufescens, Isoodon macrourus, Microperoryctes ornata, M. papuensis and Peroryctes raffrayana. These species consume a mix of fungi, insects and plant material that is broadly consistent with the omnivorous diet characteristic of most Australian bandicoots; however, morphological observations reveal variation between species that likely reflect finer-scale differences in diet. Dental morphology suggests a wider variety of diets (insectivore, omnivore, frugivore) than on the Australian mainland (mostly omnivore). Dissections and measurements of the digestive tract of seven New Guinean species indicate variation linked to diet. The relatively short caecum in all New Guinean species, but especially in E. clara and E. kalubu, is particularly suggestive of limited consumption of fibrous plant material; the relative length of the large intestine suggests variable capacity for water reabsorption. Our dietary data also suggest that some of these species also play an important role in the dispersal of hypogeous fungi.

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150 years of mammal extinction and invasion at Koonchera Dune in the Lake Eyre Basin of South Australia

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

Mammalian Mycophagy: a Global Review of Ecosystem Interactions Between Mammals and Fungi

Mammalian Mycophagy: a Global Review of Ecosystem Interactions Between Mammals and Fungi

Street art as a vehicle for environmental science communication

New Guinean bandicoots: new insights into diet, dentition and digestive tract morphology and a dietary review of all extant non-Australian Peramelemorphia

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