Received: MaAccepted: ApPublished: May 29, 2013Ĭopyright: © 2013 Skroblin and Legge.
PLoS ONE 8(5):Įditor: Danilo Russo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II via Università, Italy Such a landscape-scale approach to conservation may be of benefit to other patchily distributed species.Ĭitation: Skroblin A, Legge S (2013) Conservation of the Patchily Distributed and Declining Purple-Crowned Fairy-Wren ( Malurus coronatus coronatus) across a Vast Landscape: The Need for a Collaborative Landscape-Scale Approach. Controlling access of stock to waterways and management of fire are most important to conserve suitable habitat. The greatest benefit may be achieved by a combination of broad-scale actions to reduce the impact of ubiquitous threatening processes, and fine-scale targeted effort in areas where populations are most vulnerable. Therefore, a landscape-scale approach to conservation management, across multiple tenures, is critical to safe-guard connectivity within populations. The sub-populations spanned numerous patches of habitat across multiple properties of varying tenure. Populations were predicted to be large on the Fitzroy, Durack and Drysdale catchments, and small on the Isdell and northern Pentecost catchments, and a total population of 2834 to 4878 individuals could be supported. Suitable habitat was extremely limited (305 km of riparian vegetation) and fragmented (342 patches) along the 2700 km of waterway surveyed within catchments where the species occurs. coronatus across 14 catchments in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. We used data from aerial vegetation mapping of waterways, with on-ground bird surveys to predict the occurrence of suitable habitat for M. Here we present a rare regional assessment of the population size and distribution of a patchily distributed, threatened species, the purple-crowned fairy-wren ( Malurus coronatus coronatus), across a vast landscape. Urn:lsid::afd.Conservation of species that are patchily distributed must consider processes that influence both the occurrence of individuals within patches, and the persistence of populations across multiple habitat patches within the landscape. Urn:lsid::afd.taxon:e53c01ef-50db-4ab1-af3b-d2331cd454ca Previous AFD LSID lsid replaced
Urn:lsid::afd.taxon:80adbff6-fd10-430e-9b21-66a6dbe3bb36 Previous AFD LSID lsid replaced Malurus (Malurus) coronatus Gould, 1858 accepted Scientific name reallocated to Malurus (Malurus) coronatus Gould, 1858 by taxonomy builder Unranked taxon assigned rank species by inference Queensland: Classification codes under the Nature Conservation Act 1992.Published in: Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. If you have images for this taxon that you would like to share with