Shumway, N., D. Lunney, L. Seabrook, and C. McAlpine. 2015. Saving our national icon: An ecological analysis of the 2011 Australian Senate inquiry into status of the koala. Environmental Science & Policy 54:297-303. Highlights • Public submissions to the Australian Senate inquiry into the status of the koala were reviewed. • Three concerns stood out: habitat clearing, ineffective policies, and infrastructure development. • Results were compared to Senate Inquiry report and it

Tulloch, A.I.T., Barnes, M., Ringma, J., Fuller, R.A. and J. E.M. Watson (2015). Understanding the importance of small patches of habitat for conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53: 418-429. We demonstrate a simple multi-pronged metric for assessing ecosystem vulnerability, which can potentially improve current methods of ecosystem assessment (e.g. the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems) by considering the size and configuration of remaining patches as well as overall loss. Ou