Optimising camera trap surveys for the rocky landform fauna of the Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland: insights from a multi-scale analysis of the Carpentarian Pseudantechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus)

Rocky landforms are complex and enduring habitats that provide both spatial refuge from short-term local threats (e.g., predation, fire) and temporal refugia from persistent impacts that act on long timescales (e.g., climate change). Despite this critical function, few rocky landforms throughout Australia have received detailed attention. The Mount Isa Inlier is just one of many regions across Australia that are expected to face increasingly severe impacts from a multitude of disturbance mechanisms in coming decades, likely intensified by climate change. Rocky landforms in the area will therefore be of increasing importance to the fauna of the region, yet they remain relatively underrepresented in the scientific literature.