Human activities affect even the most remote and best preserved places on Earth. One of those places is Dalhousie Springs, Witjira National Park, in the arid centre of Australia. In 2003 we resurveyed the fish communities in springs to document changes since an earlier survey in 1991. Over the 12 years there were 18 population extirpations and only two colonizations, so total occurrences of five native species in 30 springs decreased from 83 to 67 populations. One species, the endemic Dalhousie goby, Chlamydogobius gloveri, accounted for 12 of the 18 population extirpations. Each fish species tended to persist in springs larger than some threshold size. Extirpations were related to spring size, with smaller springs more readily loosing popu...
Forecasting population persistence in environments subjected to periodic disturbances represents a g...
Over-abstraction of water places unsustainable pressures on river ecosystems, with the impacts ampli...
The factors leading to reintroduction success are rarely determined in species translocation program...
Climate change poses a severe global threat to freshwater ecosystems. Aestivating freshwater fauna (...
The endorheic Lake Eyre Basin drains 1.2 million square kilometres of arid central Australia, yet pr...
Organisms inhabit a variable world. Indeed, the spectacular variation exhibited by natural environme...
Freshwater fishes are vulnerable to changes in water quality, physical habitat and connectivity resu...
The red-finned blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) is endemic to a single complex of springs...
The red-finned blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) is endemic to a single complex of springs...
1. Despite the range of threats to springs and the number of spring-endemic species, studies of temp...
Desert springs, which harbor diverse and endemic invertebrate assemblages, are often used as refuge ...
How aquatic organisms survive in the vast arid landscapes of central Australia is an ecological ques...
Aim: Springs in the Australian arid zone are distinct from other waterways because they house a l...
Despite a defining quality of a desert being a lack of water, deserts do have water resources which ...
One of the most obvious and expected impacts of climate change is a shift in the distributional rang...
Forecasting population persistence in environments subjected to periodic disturbances represents a g...
Over-abstraction of water places unsustainable pressures on river ecosystems, with the impacts ampli...
The factors leading to reintroduction success are rarely determined in species translocation program...
Climate change poses a severe global threat to freshwater ecosystems. Aestivating freshwater fauna (...
The endorheic Lake Eyre Basin drains 1.2 million square kilometres of arid central Australia, yet pr...
Organisms inhabit a variable world. Indeed, the spectacular variation exhibited by natural environme...
Freshwater fishes are vulnerable to changes in water quality, physical habitat and connectivity resu...
The red-finned blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) is endemic to a single complex of springs...
The red-finned blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) is endemic to a single complex of springs...
1. Despite the range of threats to springs and the number of spring-endemic species, studies of temp...
Desert springs, which harbor diverse and endemic invertebrate assemblages, are often used as refuge ...
How aquatic organisms survive in the vast arid landscapes of central Australia is an ecological ques...
Aim: Springs in the Australian arid zone are distinct from other waterways because they house a l...
Despite a defining quality of a desert being a lack of water, deserts do have water resources which ...
One of the most obvious and expected impacts of climate change is a shift in the distributional rang...
Forecasting population persistence in environments subjected to periodic disturbances represents a g...
Over-abstraction of water places unsustainable pressures on river ecosystems, with the impacts ampli...
The factors leading to reintroduction success are rarely determined in species translocation program...