Publications by authors named "Shelby A Ryan"
With large wildfires becoming more frequent, we must rapidly learn how megafires impact biodiversity to prioritize mitigation and improve policy. A key challenge is to discover how interactions among fire-regime components, drought and land tenure shape wildfire impacts. The globally unprecedented 2019-2020 Australian megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, prompting major investment in biodiversity monitoring.
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- Zoo and wildlife hospital networks are crucial for conserving koalas, facing challenges due to high costs and genetic concerns of small captive populations.
- Emerging biobanking and reproductive technologies can help mitigate financial and genetic issues in conservation breeding.
- A model suggests integrating these technologies could reduce inbreeding, lower required colony sizes, and meet conservation targets, all while being cost-effective using existing zoo resources.
Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) are cryptic and currently face regional extinction. The direct detection (physical sighting) of individuals is required to improve conservation management strategies. We provide a comparative assessment of three survey methods for the direct detection of koalas: systematic spotlighting (Spotlight), remotely piloted aircraft system thermal imaging (RPAS), and the refined diurnal radial search component of the spot assessment technique (SAT).
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