Tasmanian Land Conservancy

Carnivorous marsupials as model systems: four decades of ecological insights from Chris Dickman’s dasyurid research

Australia’s dasyurid marsupials comprise an ecologically diverse radiation of predators whose variation in body size, habitat use, diet and life-history strategies has made them powerful model systems for ecological research. Over more than four decades, Chris Dickman used dasyur...

Variable zircon, titanite and apatite response during magma hybridization and autometasomatism

Abstract The U–Pb records of accessory minerals can become difficult to interpret when magmatic crystallization is overprinted by hydrothermal alteration and element redistribution. The Archibarca Pluton, in the shallow portion on the Paleozoic Famatinian Arc in northwestern Arge...

Ethyl-iophenoxic acid as a serum biomarker for marsupial species in oral bait trials

Abstract Ethyl-iophenoxic acid (Et-IPA) is widely recognized as a useful biomarker to confirm oral bait consumption in eutherian species. In historical studies on marsupials, Et-IPA was rapidly eliminated from brushtail possums ( Trichosurus vulpecula ) and swamp wallabies ( Wall...