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A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF RABBITS IN LAND SYSTEMS IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
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Author
W. A. Low
B. W. Strong
Publisher
Australian Rangeland Society
Publication Year
2014
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The European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, was the last of the feral mammals to reach Central Australia. The rabbit had reached the N.T. border from NW South Australia in small numbers by 1901 (Murray, 1904a). At the same time it had reached Lake Amadeus and was close to the Cleland Hills (Murray, 1904b). By 1915 it was well established on the Hale River near Aritunga (Day,1916) and by the mid -1920s it had reached the Tanami Desert area (Terry, 1927). In the eastern N.T. the rabbit had probably reached the N.T. along the Georgina River . . . . .

Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Conference Paper
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It is recommended that papers in the conference proceedings be cited in the following manner:
Bastin, G, Sparrow, A, Scarth, P., Gill, T. Barneston, J. and Staben G. (2015). Are we there yet? Tracking state and change in Australia's rangelands. In Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, Alice Springs (Ed M.H. Friedel) [Australian Rangeland Society: Perth]
Conference Name
1981 Australian Rangeland Society Biennial Conference
Keywords
abundance
Australia
Central Australia
distribution
European Rabbits
Northern Territory
Oryctolagus cuniculus
rabbits
South Australia