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Forest investigation:

Dynamics of forest animals in the hinterland of Seal Rocks, NSW, Australia

Changes over time in the number of species (taxa)

in relation to the abundance of Dingoes:

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forest number of species and dingos.png

Note the vertical yellow bars are the summer months (blue boxes = winter months).

Key findings (Dec'16) :

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  • the number of species (taxa) typically peaks in the warmer months

  • when dingoes were particularly abundant within and about the 2014-15 summer, the  peak in the number of species was much narrower

  • however, through the autumn-to-spring period which followed, the number of species unusually steadily increased and reached record levels by the 2015-16 summer

  • accordingly, it appeared that the 2014-15 pulse in dingo abundance promoted subsequent increases in biodiversity

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