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RabbitScan and historical records
RabbitScan records with the highest warren density
Figure 31.1 The total area exposed to the impact of rabbits in Australia (both historically and as
reported via RabbitScan) and areas with the highest warren density as reported via RabbitScan;
data points are surrounded by 20 km buffers representing the areas immediately threatened by
dispersing rabbits
Rabbit density score
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Figure 31.2 Rabbit density scores by latitude as reported by RabbitScan respondents and the
sample sizes (shown as bars) for these latitudes
Funding in 2010–11
Land Protection Fund ($20 000)
Collaborators
• Rabbit Management Advisory Group
• Brian Cooke (Invasive Animals
Cooperative Research Centre;
University of Canberra)
• Susan Fuller and Grant
Hamilton (Queensland University
of Technology)
More information
Key publications
Berman, D & Cooke, B 2008, ‘A method
for mapping the distribution and
density of rabbits and other vertebrate
pests in Australia’, in G Saunders &
C Lane (eds), Proceedings of the 14th
Australasian Vertebrate Pest Conference,
The Vertebrate Pests Committee and the
Invasive Animals Cooperative Research
Centre, Canberra, p. 103.
Berman, D, Robertshaw, J & Gould, W
1998, ‘Rabbits in Queensland: where
have they been, what have they done
and where are they now?’, in Proceedings
of the 11th Australasian Vertebrate Pest
Conference, Bunbury, Western Australia,
pp. 395–9.
For further information on this research
project and access to key publications,
visit the invasive plant and animal science
pages on the Biosecurity Queensland
website at www.biosecurity.qld.gov.au
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