Critical Issues on Australian Wildlife Conservation with a Focus on Disease and Injury
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2024 | Viewed by 83920
Special Issue Editors
Interests: morbidity and mortality in koala populations; treatment of cancer in companion animals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to invite you to submit an article for the Special Issue of Veterinary Sciences on Critical Issues on Australian Wildlife Conservation with a focus on disease and injury with a special focus on threatened and endangered Australian species such as koalas.
The interplay between extrinsic factors such as climate change and habitat encroachment have directly impacted wildlife around the world by increasing mortality and morbidity rates to non-sustainable levels, compromising the viability of wild populations. Regretfully, despite the importance of well-recognized threats such as global warming and deforestation, these still remain as significant hazards, especially having materialized in recent years as the increased occurrence of wildfires and floods, as well as anthropogenic trauma to wildlife, particularly in Australia. Iconic Australian wildlife, such as koalas, are currently threatened with extinction and the dissemination of information to the scientific community about issues causing their decline is of utmost importance to tackle threats.
The upcoming Special Issue on Critical Issues on Australian Wildlife Conservation with a focus on disease and injury welcomes manuscripts focused on: Studies of conservation threats to Australian native species, the impact of climate change and natural disasters on Australian native animals, characterization of novel and emerging disease conditions in Australian wildlife, and new features of known conditions such as changes in host-pathogen relationships. The Special Issue will preference endangered and vulnerable species, but any Australian native animal conservation impacts are welcome to be submitted for consideration.
We look forward to your contribution.
Prof. Dr. Rachel Allavena
Dr. Viviana Gonzalez Astudillo
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Australian
- native
- conservation
- climate change
- anthropogenic
- disease