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Dams, like the one pictured above, can have detrimental effects on freshwater ecosystems and their connectivity. The dam above is the Prairie du Sac, which sits on the Wisconsin River, and fragments connections between the Wisconsin River and downstream Mississippi River (140 km downstream as…

Fragments

Casuarius casuarius, aka Cassowary, is a flightless bird that lives in Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is a conspicuous creatures with a brightly colored head and distinct crest. This crest is used as a natural machete, chopping and crushing vegetation as the Cassowary makes…

The disperser

Today rainforest covers less than 1% of Australia’s landmass. Historically rainforest cover would have been greater, and over geological time periods rainforest expanded and contracted across Australia. Current rainforest cover in Australia has been influenced by human land use clearing and fragmentation caused by…

Stand alone

Gallirallus philippensis, aka Buff-banded Rail is native to northern Australia. I lived in northern Queensland for just short of seven years, and I always got a kick out of the rails as they bobbed and weaved in and out of the sugar cane and brush.…