Population viability analyses to calculate minimum viable population sizes for a range of Australian fauna

Honours project for Sofie Costin.

Model complete

  • brush-tailed bettong Bettongia penicillata
  • chuditch Dasyurus geoffroii
  • platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus
  • bilby Macrotis lagotis
  • northern hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus krefftii

Data entered into model and at least first run working

  • orange-bellied parrot Neophema chrysogaster
  • malleefowl Leipoa ocellata
  • pygmy bluetongue lizard Tiliqua adelaidensis
  • Rosenburg's monitor Varanus rosenbergi

Originally in list of species but dropped due to data paucity

  • mountain pygmy possum Burramys parvus
  • numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus