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Australia’s mammal fauna requires a strategic and enhanced network of predator-free havens

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Fig. 1: Increase in species representation under haven network expansion.

b, Dave Watts/Alamy Stock Photo.

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This research was supported by the Australian government’s National Environmental Science Program, through the Threatened Species Recovery Hub.

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  1. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia

    Jeremy Ringma

  2. Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia

    Jeremy Ringma & Sarah Legge

  3. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, The University of Hawai‘i, Manoa, HI, 96822, USA

    Jeremy Ringma

  4. Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia

    Sarah Legge

  5. Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia

    John Woinarski

  6. Research Centre for Future Landscapes, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, 3083, Australia

    Jim Radford

  7. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia

    Brendan Wintle

  8. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia

    Michael Bode

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Ringma, J., Legge, S., Woinarski, J. et al. Australia’s mammal fauna requires a strategic and enhanced network of predator-free havens. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 410–411 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0456-4

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