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Avitabile, S.C., Callister, K.E., Kelly, L.T., Haslem, A., Fraser, L., Nimmo, D.G., Watson, S.J., Kenny, S.A., Taylor, R.S., Spence-Bailey, L.M., Bennett, A.F. 2013. Systematic fire mapping is critical for fire ecology, planning and management: A case study in the semi-arid Murray Mallee, south-eastern Australia. Landscape and Urban Planning 117: 81-91.
Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.
Brown, S. Clarke, M. F. and Clarke, R. 2009. Fire is a key element in the landscape-scale habitat requirements and global population population status of a threatened bird: the Mallee Emu-wren (Stipiturus mallee). Biological Conservation 142: 432–445.
Brown, S. M. 2014. Preliminary feasibility and risk assessment study for the introduction of the Mallee Emu-wren Stipiturus mallee. Report for Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, South Australia, BirdLife Australia, Melbourne.
Brown, S.M., Harrisson, K.A., Clarke. R.H., Bennett, A.F., Sunnucks, P. 2013. Limited Population Structure, Genetic Drift and Bottlenecks Characterise an Endangered Bird Species in a Dynamic, Fire-Prone Ecosystem. PLoS ONE 8: e59732.
Clarke, R. and Brown, S. 2007. The Mallee Emu-wren in Victoria: recent surveys and an assessment of habitat preferences and population densities. A report to the Mallee Catchment Authority. Deakin University, Burwood.
Connell, J., Watson, S.J., Taylor, R.S., Avitabile, S.C., Clarke, R.H., Bennett, A.F., Clarke, M.F. 2017. Testing the effects of a century of fires: Requirements for post-fire succession predict the distribution of threatened bird species. Diversity and Distributions 23: 1078-1089.
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP). 2016. National Recovery Plan for the Mallee Emu-Wren Stipiturus mallee, Red-lored Whistler Pachycephala rufogularis and Western Whipbird Psophodes nigrogularis leucogaster. Australian Government, Canberra.
Di Virgilio, G., Evans, J.P., Blake, S.A., Armstrong, M., Dowdy, A.J., Sharples, J., McRae, R. 2019. Climate change increases the potential for extreme wildfires. Geophysical Research Letters 46: 8517-8526.
Dowdy, A.J., Ye, H., Pepler, A., Thatcher, M., Osbrough, S.L., Evans, J.P., Di Virgilio, G., McCarthy, N. 2019. Future changes in extreme weather and pyroconvection risk factors for Australian wildfires. Scientific Reports 9: 10073.
Evans, J.P., Argueso, D., Olson, R., Di Luca, A. 2017. Bias-corrected regional climate projections of extreme rainfall in south-east Australia. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 130: 1085-1098.
Herold, N., Ekström. M., Kala, J., Goldie, J., Evans, J.P. 2018. Australian climate extremes in the 21st century according to a regional climate model ensemble: Implications for health and agriculture. Weather and Climate Extremes 20: 54-68.
Hunt, T.J., Mitchell, W.F., Boulton, R.L., Hedger, C.J., Ireland, L.J. 163-167. Cooperative breeding recorded in the endangered Mallee Emu-wren. Australian Field Ornithology 36: 163-167.
IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 21 July 2022).
Liberty Olds and BirdLife Australia. 2014. Preliminary feasibility study of establishing a captive bred Mallee Emu-wren Stipiturus mallee ex-situ insurance population. Report for Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, South Australia. Birdlife Australia, Melbourne.
Rowley, I.; Russell, E. 1997. Fairy-Wrens and Grasswrens: Maluridae. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Verdon, S.J., Clarke, M.F. 2019. Estimating the global population size of the endangered mallee emu-wren Stipiturus mallee. Report to BirdLife Australia, Melbourne.
Verdon, S.J., Clarke, R.H., Boulton, R.L., Hedger, C., Ireland, L., Thomas, J., Lau, J., Menkhorst, P., Garnett, S.T. 2021. Mallee Emu-wren Stipiturus mallee. In: Garnett, S.T., Baker, G.B. (ed.), The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020, pp. 527-530. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.
Verdon, S.J., Watson, S.J., Clarke, M.F. 2019. Modeling variability in the fire response of an endangered bird to improve fire-management. Ecological Applications 29: 1-14.
Australian Govt - Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000 - Recovery Outline
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Mallee Emu-wren Stipiturus mallee. Downloaded from
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Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
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