Topic
Common wombat
About: Common wombat is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 92 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1694 citations. The topic is also known as: Vombatus ursinus & coarse-haired wombat.
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TL;DR: The nested PCR was at least as sensitive as culture, and analysis of the PCR products gave parasite-specific fingerprints, therefore this method could be suitable for rapidly screening host animals for the presence of trypanosomes and identifying the infecting strain.
178 citations
TL;DR: This model system has the potential to produce mature oocytes from endangered species for use in assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and mature oocyte from non-endangered species for nuclear transfer which may be necessary for the preservation of critically endangered species.
63 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-staged approach was used to analyse landscape-scale habitat use and road-kill impacts of the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus), a large, widely distributed herbivore, within New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Abstract: Protected areas are established to conserve biodiversity and facilitate resilience to threatening processes. Yet protected areas are not isolated environmental compounds. Many threats breach their borders, including transportation infrastructure. Despite an abundance of roads in many protected areas, the impact of roads on biota within these protected areas is usually unaccounted for in threat mitigation efforts. As landscapes become further developed and the importance of protected areas increases, knowledge of how roads impact on the persistence of species at large scales and whether protected areas provide relief from this process is vital. We took a two-staged approach to analysing landscape-scale habitat use and road-kill impacts of the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus), a large, widely distributed herbivore, within New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Firstly, we modelled their state-wide distribution from atlas records and evaluated the relationship between habitat suitability and wombat road fatalities at that scale. Secondly, we used local-scale fatality data to derive an annual estimate of wombats killed within an optimal habitat area. We then combined these two approaches to derive a measure of total wombats killed on roads within the protected area network. Our results showed that common wombats have a broad distribution (290,981 km2), one quarter (24.9 %) of their distribution lies within protected areas, and the percentage of optimal habitat contained within protected areas is 35.6 %, far greater than the COP10 guidelines of 17 %. Problematically, optimal habitat within protected areas was not a barrier to the effects of road-kill, as we estimated that the total annual count of wombat road-kill in optimal habitat within protected areas could be as high as 13.6 % of the total NSW population. These findings suggest that although protected areas are important spatial refuges for biodiversity, greater effort should be made to evaluate how reserves confer resilience from the impacts of roads across geographic ranges.
48 citations
1 Jan 1973
47 citations
TL;DR: Marsupial spermatozoal membrane analyses do not support the hypothesis that a high ratio of saturated/unsaturated membrane fatty acids and low membrane sterol levels predisposes spermatozosa to cold shock damage, and cryogenic tolerance appears related to DHA levels.
42 citations
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| 2021 | 6 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2015 | 5 |