Impact on ground cover - overgrazing leads to loss of ground cover and as a result of erosion to the loss of top soil
Impact on ground cover (redleg grass), scratch marks and rabbit pellets
Impact on ground cover, scratch mark and rabbit pellets
Impact on ground cover, rabbit pellets
Impact on ground cover, scratch marks and rabbit pellets
Impact on ground cover - platable species such as the redleg grass are eaten to the ground; plants are unable to produce flower and seeds
Rabbit warren in pile of soil
Rabbit warren and impact on ground cover - bare soil and weeds
Rabbit warren, weed spread
Impact of ground cover - loss of native ground cover benefits unpalatable weeds such as mustard weed and horehound
Impact on ground cover - loss of top soil due to erosion
Rabbit borrow at the base of a tree
Impact on ground cover, scrach marks and rabbit pellets
Rabbit borrow at the base of power pole
Impact on native vegetation (Acacia mearnsii), typical rabbit browse line about 0.5 metres above ground
Impact on ground cover, scratch marks
Buck-heap (male rabbit latrine)
Rabbit borrow entrance
Rabbit borrow at rocky shallow soils of Mt Majura west slope
Rabbit warren Mt Majura west slope
Rabbit warren Mt Majura west slope below Casuarina trail
Rabbit scratch marks
Impact on ground cover, loss of top soil due to erosion
Impact on ground cover layer - loss of ground cover due to rabbit overgrazing (background), redleg grass ground cover protected by shield of dead briar rose (foreground)
Rabbit borrow in the shallow rocky soils of Mt Majura west slope
Impact on native vegetation (Cassinia seedling) - typical rabbit browse line 0.5 metres above ground
Impact on native vegetation (Cassinia seedling)- secateur-like cuts and bark gnawing
Impact on native vegetation (red gum seedling) - secateur-like cuts, bark damage and defoliation
Impact on native vegetation (red gum seedling) - bark damage and total defoliation
Map showing rabbit warrens (green triangles) recorded with GPS in summer 2008/09
