Resilient wildlife of the sprawling suburbia of south-eastern Sydney
2022; University of Kansas; Volume: 29; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17161/randa.v29i1.17031
ISSN2332-4961
Autores Tópico(s)Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
Resumos largest city, is situated on the eastern coast of the continent, and is recognised as one of the World Cities (Liu et al. 2016).Recently, for a period of almost two years, the more than 5 million residents were mostly confined to these 12,367 km 2 .During 2020, SARS-CoV-2 (coronavi-rus) reached Australia's shores as a global pandemic developed, triggering jurisdictions to impose rules and restrictions on where people could go and at what times (Praharaj et al. 2020).Similar to situations around the world, Sydney endured major periods of lockdowns across 2020 and 2021, and the overseas travel plans of many were suspended (Peters 2020).During this time, wildlife observers were forced to limit their seeking to reacquainting themselves with species assemblages close to home.For us, this was the St. George District, Sutherland Shire, and Eastern Suburbs of southeastern Sydney (Fig. 1).Within our lifetime, we have personally witnessed astounding urban sprawl in Sydney (Rauscher and Momtaz 2017), including suburban areas being redeveloped into new central business districts, and areas that were already built-up in our earliest memories being further developed into the sky as highrise apartments and offices (Fig. 2).Concurrently, we have spent years seeking out reptiles, amphibians and other wildlife surviving within the human-developed areas, green spaces (Fig. 3) and remnant bushland.Networks of small patches of habitat (Mo 2015 2018) and large tracts of national parks (Schulz and Magarey 2012) comprise the retained bushland of southeastern Sydney.These areas have long afforded us escapes from suburbia, and particularly so during the pandemic. Our Own BackyardOur journey starts during the time authorities issued stayat-home orders, and we were subsequently limited to observ- Resilient Wildlife of the Sprawling Suburbia of Southeastern Sydney
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