... Sensory ecology Invasive species Human-animal interactions Wildlife management Conservation is in the eye of the beholder: Taking a sensory approach to animal management and conservation in Australia Louise Tosetto*, Laura A. Ryan* and Nathan S. Hart School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University...

... one other study that used the centroid concept. D Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] home-range centroid position male female breeding pair repeat nests nest position Home-range positions in a bird community from south-eastern Australia - questions and answers M...

...Peter R Mawson; Rick Dawson; Denis A Saunders ABSTRACT Barn Owls Tyto alba were recorded breeding in natural nest hollows in a Wandoo Eucalyptus wandoo woodland in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia infrequently and at low densities during the period 1969-2022. During a record cropping...

...Denis A Saunders ABSTRACT A breeding population of Western Red-tailed Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus escondidus was studied between July 1974 and December 1981 at Nereeno Hill, in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia. Egg-laying occurred during two clearly defined periods each year; with peaks...

... record of the rotifer Trochosphaera solstitialis in Australia, and the first record of the rotifers Brachionus lyratus tasmaniensis, Keratella shieli, Lepadella tyleri, Notholca salina and N. squamula and the cladoceran Alona setuloides in NSW. Based on the integrated sampling curves and asymptotic...

...Brett A. Summerell ABSTRACT The majority of Australia's unique flora has evolved in isolation separated from many of the world's major plant pathogens. As these pathogens have made their way into Australia the impact on plant species, ecological communities and the fauna that depends on them has...

...Niko Kasalo; Nicholas John Fisher; Evan Creek; Matthew Connors ABSTRACT Australia is a biogeographically interesting region in which Tetrigidae are understudied. This paper provides numerous new records of the species Tepperotettix reliqua Rehn, 1952 and expands the information about its...

... and monitoring of bat windows in a grated roost cave in the Pilliga Forest, northern inland New South Wales, Australia Michael J. Murphy NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, PO Box 952 Moama NSW 2731 ABSTRACT Bat departure activity was monitored at a grated cave site where bat windows had been added...

... Knowledge of Monotreme Oviparity in Tasmania and Mainland Australia: What European Science Refused to Hear Stewart C Nicol School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay,Tas. 7001, Australia Email: [email protected] httpsorcid.org/0000-0002-8128-8119 The most striking feature...

...: mapping the ecological impact of bushfires on the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area Melinda J. Laidlaw1, Harry B. Hines1,2, Rhonda I. Melzer1 and Tracey B. Churchill1 1Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and Partnerships, Department of Environment and Science. 2Honorary Research...

...Michael J. Murphy ABSTRACT The Pilliga Forest is one of the largest surviving woodland remnants on the New South Wales western slopes in inland eastern Australia. Collation of personal observations by a resident herpetologist working in the Pilliga Forest over a 12-year period identified 18 frog...

...) is an example of this, with an IUCN classification of “Data Deficient”. It is a wholly marine, ovoviviparous snake that is distinguishable by its dark colouration and unique pale banding forming dark pentagons on its dorsal surface and flanks. A recent biological survey in Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia found...

... time since arrival to a location is often used to define native status. Here I propose an eco-evolutionary approach to distinguish between alien and native status and use this to resolve uncertainty in the status of the dingo in Australia. Dingoes were transported to mainland Australia by humans...

...Chad Beranek; Stephen Mahony; Shawn Scott ABSTRACT We describe a 226 km range extension for the known distribution of the Western Soil-Crevice Skink Proablepharus reginae in Western Australia. This record from Cape Range National Park is the first for this species on the North West Cape and within...

... appropriate mitigation strategies. Finally, 89% of wildlife rehabilitators believed that koala numbers are declining in their region. Corresponding author: Kita R. Ashman, WWF Australia, Level 3, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia. Email: [email protected] Wildlife rehabilitation...

... to ensuring Australia’s protection of these marine mammals as both subspecies were heavily exploited during historical whaling. This short note documents pygmy blue whale sightings in New South Wales waters over the last 18 years. Observations were opportunistically made via citizen science and verified...

...Shawn Scott; Richard Biffin ABSTRACT The Pygmy Copperhead Austrelaps labialis is South Australia’s only endemic snake, being native to the Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges and Fleurieu Peninsula; with an additional allopatric population on Kangaroo Island. Within the AMLR, it inhabits stringybark...

... that the spotted gum forest habitat on the south-east coast of Australia (1200 km2) produces approximately 1.5 million fledglings each season. forest bird breeding nest fledgling community nest success Australia Malurus Acanthiza Lichenostomus A detailed description of the breeding season...

... to many species of native predators in Australia. Corresponding author: [email protected] Anura biological invasion Bufo marinus Myriapoda predator-prey The fauna fights back: invasive Cane Toads killed by native centipedes in tropical Australia John Pomeroy1, Gregory P. Brown2...

...Alana de Laive; Chris J. Jolly ABSTRACT Chameleon Dragons Chelosania brunnea Gray, 1845 are well known amongst naturalists of northern Australia as being one of the most cryptic and least frequently observed of Australia’s large, iconic lizards. Despite their broad distribution across the savanna...