Table 1.
Reintroduction strategies and life history traits for three species reintroduced during the study at the Arid Recovery Reserve.
Table 2.
Radiocollared animals released into the Northern Paddock, their initial characteristics, date of access to Northern Paddock and release treatment.
Figure 1.
Weights of immediate (n = 8) and delayed (n = 6) release burrowing bettongs.
The arrow indicates when release pen was first opened and delayed release animals allowed access to the Northern Paddock. Bars denote 1 standard error.
Figure 2.
The distance between successive daily fixes for delayed and immediate release burrowing bettongs after access to the Northern Paddock.
Delayed release bettongs were kept in a release pen for three weeks prior to release. Bars denote 1 standard error.
Figure 3.
Average weights of delayed, immediate wild and immediate captive greater bilbies released into the Northern Paddock in 2003.
Only three delayed and three immediate captive bilbies could be recaptured at seven to nine weeks for reweighing. Bars denote 1 standard error. Arrow indicates when release pen was opened.
Figure 4.
Average distances moved between radiotracking fixes for delayed and immediate release greater bilbies after release into the Northern Paddock.
For delayed release animals, time since release refers to when the containment pen was opened and animals allowed access to the Northern Paddock. Bars denote 1 standard error, points without bars are single individuals.
Figure 5.
A predictive model based on current and previous studies which could be used as a basis for hypothesis testing regarding which release strategies are the most suitable for a given species reintroduction, depending on the site characteristics.
The model could be tested against both captive-bred, and wild groups of release animals. Key to release strategies: I = immediate release, D = delayed release, F = supplementary food, Sh = supplementary shelter.