Search Results for Melbourne

... in museum collections. Due to their age, location, and collecting practices, the teaching collections of Australia's oldest universities are a potential source of undocumented thylacine specimens. Within three departmental museum collections, the University of Melbourne holds five thylacine skulls...

...Andrew Hamer; Aaron Organ Populations of the threatened Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis in metropolitan Melbourne currently occur in human-made habitats and there is little information on their current status. We conducted systematic field surveys at 28 waterbodies within a population...

.... University of Sydney) Probing the sex life of the dragon. (Arthur Georges, University of Canberra) Secrets from beyond extinction; unlocking the thylacine genome. (Andrew Pask, University of Melbourne) The Oz Mammals genomics initiative: developing resources for mammal conservation. (Mark Eldridge et al...

... Corridor and Audley in the Royal National Park appear to have occurred recently. To date, breeding in southern Sydney has only been confirmed at Yeramba Lagoon. A range of removal techniques have been successfully applied to eradicate isolated incursions in Brisbane and Melbourne. However, these options...

... of pilot products were tested in a real seafood market (Melbourne), where we found a high level of producer, reseller and consumer acceptance of the judgements and ratings. The use of ecologically-derived standards results in several outcomes that differ from those of other seafood assessment systems...

..., Hawaii. The earliest known introduction occurred in Sydney in 1865, with subsequent releases in the 1900's leading to establishment. It was first released in Melbourne, Victoria in 1915, with a population establishing in the late 1950's. Sightings have been reported in Coffs Harbour since 1972, forming...

...Tim Clark; Gary Backhouse; Robert Lacy A Population Viability Assessment (PVA) workshop was held in Melbourne in May, 1990, to demonstrate its potential to wildlife managers by applying PVA to six species of threatened wildlife in Victoria. The workshop ran for one week and involved 32 participants...

...A. White; G. Pyke The Plague Minnow Gambusia holbrooki (Girard, 1859) was first introduced into Australian waters in 1925. Early introductions were carried out in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and later Perth, by government agencies in an attempt to reduce the incidence of mosquitoes in the capital...

... establishment and spread of foxes across Victoria before 1880. The main point of successful establishment was in Werribee district, possibly in about 1874 (but definitely by 1878), and probably by the wealthy Chirnside family of Werribee Park. Foxes became conspicuously numerous between Geelong and Melbourne...

... Australia, PO Box 329, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria 8009, Australia. 2 Australian Wildlife Conservancy, PO Box 8070, Perth, Western Australia 6008, Australia. 3 School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia. 4 School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences...

... observation of an Oenpelli Rock Python predating on a Rufous Owl Sacha Jellinek1,2 *, Paula Peeters3, Alice Henderson4 & Raymond J. Carpenter5 1 School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Burnley, Victoria 3121, Australia 2 Waterways, Biodiversity & Environment, Melbourne...

... Reardon3, Paul Gray4 and Jasmin Hufschmid1 1 Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Melbourne Veterinary School,The Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences,The University of Melbourne, 250 Princes Highway,Werribee, Victoria 3030, Australia 2 Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research...

... reserve in south-west Queensland S.G. Kearneya, P.L. Kernb,c, A.S. Kutta,b,d,e aSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences,The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia bBush Heritage Australia, PO Box 329, Flinders Lane, Melbourne,VIC, Australia cSchool of Biological Sciences,The University...

.... For A field ecologist s guide to environmental DNA sampling in freshwater environments Emily F. McColl-Gausden1, Andrew R. Weeks1,2 and Reid Tingley1,3 1. School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia 2. cesar Pty Ltd, 293 Royal Pde, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia 3...