Ritchie, E. G. (2010) Ecology and conservation of the antilopine wallaroo: an overview of current knowledge. In: Coulson, Graeme, and Eldridge, Mark, (eds.) Macropods: the biology of kanagroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, VIC, Australia, pp. 179-186.

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The antilopine wallaroo (Macropus antilopinus) is restricted entirely to the tropical savannas of northern Australia and, along with the black wallaroo (Macropus bernardus), remains the least studied of the large macropodids. There is currently great concern that many of the endemic mammals of this region are undergoing declines in their distribution and population size; without detailed ecological information, proactive management to prevent further declines will be difficult. Between 2002 and 2005, I conducted an extensive study of the ecology and conservation of the antilopine wallaroo at 50 sites across the species' entire distribution. I calculated relative density estimates for each site using line transects and recorded the vegetation characteristics, fire history and resource availability at each site. I collected detailed information on the socioecology and behaviour of antilopine wallaroos and other sympatric macropodid species opportunistically. This information, together with that of previously published studies, is presented in the form of a general overview of the ecology and conservation of the antilopine wallaroo.

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