Abstract Populations inhabiting the periphery of species distribution ranges may experience suboptimal environmental conditions and higher vulnerability to anthropogenic pressures. Disentangling role natural human-related factors relationships among them in these marginal areas is thus key understand prevent declines range reductions. We analysed Eurasian otter ( Lutra lutra ) occurrence patter...

THE NORTHERN TERRITORY Situated in the centre of Australia, the Northern Territory is the third largest state in Australia and is roughly the size of France, Spain and Italy combined (figures 1 and 2). It has a unique environment that ranges from arid desert down south to tropical regions on the coast in the north. The Northern Territory is often considered the quintessential Australian outback...

New records of the Oligo-Miocene mekosuchine crocodylian, Baru, from Queensland and the Northern Territory are described. Baru wickeni and Baru darrowi are accepted as valid species in the genus and their diagnoses are revised. Both species are present in Queensland and the Northern Territory but are restricted in time, with B. wickeni known from the late Oligocene and B. darrowi from the middl...

The Crow (Corvus Corax) is the largest passerine bird in Europe much of northern Asia and America, India, Palestine, Egypt, Canary Islands, Australia, Tasmania, China, Madagascar, tropical southern Africa Hawaiian Islands [1].