A predictive habitat model for Koalas Phascolarctos cinereus in north-east New South Wales: Assessment and field validation
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A retrospective study of admission trends of koalas to a rehabilitation facility over 30 years.
To identify threats to the survival of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in coastal New South Wales, Australia, we compared 3,781 admission records of koalas, admitted between 1 January 1975 and 31 December 2004 to a koala rehabilitation facility on the midnorthern coast of New South Wales, against local wild population demographics, with the use of multinomial logistic regression and chi-square ...
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