...Bruce C. Chessman ABSTRACT Many freshwater turtle species have spread beyond their natural distributions through human agency, but introduced populations can be difficult to differentiate from natural ones. The occurrence of an Australian freshwater turtle, Emydura macquarii , in the Greater Sydney...

... contributes to Australia’s national and international conservation efforts to protecting blue whales as a migratory and threatened species. Correspondence Vanessa Pirotta, Marine Predator Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia...

... of sightings have been reported from southern Sydney, including six sites where more than one slider has persisted. The incursions at Yeramba Lagoon in the Georges River National Park and the Centennial Parklands have been the most documented, whereas incursions in the Lime Kiln Bay Wetland, Rockdale Wetlands...

... that we made the decision for some of our studies to come in at a particular time after the logging, but where the THE CRITICAL VALUE OF LONG TERM FIELD STUDIES AND DATASETS - PLENARY 2 ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2016 FORUM Held at the Australian Museum, William Street, Sydney on Saturday...

... © 2018 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2018 THE CRITICAL VALUE OF LONG TERM FIELD STUDIES AND DATASETS - PLENARY 3 ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2016 FORUM Held at the Australian Museum,William Street, Sydney on Saturday, 5 November 2016 DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ...

... © 2018 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2018 THE CRITICAL VALUE OF LONG TERM FIELD STUDIES AND DATASETS - PLENARY 1 ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2016 FORUM Held at the Australian Museum,William Street, Sydney on Saturday, 5 November 2016 DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ...

... © 2018 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2018 THE CRITICAL VALUE OF LONG TERM FIELD STUDIES AND DATASETS - PLENARY 4 ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2016 FORUM Held at the Australian Museum,William Street, Sydney on Saturday, 5 November 2016 DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ...

... of polychaetes among distinct patches of the biogenic habitats created by the tubeworm Galeolaria caespitosa , the Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea glomerata and the turfing red alga Corallina officinalis on natural rocky shores within Sydney Harbour, NSW, Australia. Assemblages of polychaetes were compared among...

... and foraging in a sheltered bay on Sydney Harbour in the Port Jackson estuary. To investigate how widely distributed M. macropus was within the estuary (Parramatta River, Lane Cove River, Middle Harbour, harbour islands, west Harbour and east Harbour), 56 sampling sites were surveyed acoustically...

...Garry Daly; Ben Owers; Andrew Horton Surveys were conducted for the Red-crowned Toadlet Pseudophryne australis in Burragorang State Conservation Area (SCA), Nattai National Park (NP), Thirlmere Lakes NP and the Upper Nepean SCA west of Sydney, New South Wales using a variety of methods. Scattered...

...Matthew Mo The Broad-tailed Gecko Phyllurus platurus is a saxicolous lizard occurring in the Sydney Basin including the Sydney Metropolitan Area. A search of desktop records confirms that populations remain across the region, including in the central business district and in long-established...

...Shelley Burgin I investigated whether exotic turtle species were capable of establishing breeding populations in the Sydney area and confirmed that two exotic species were present: Trachemys scripta elegans and Clemmys marmorata . Mature females of both species were recorded with shelled eggs...

... Dalem, A. A. G. R., 1998. Demography and movement patterns of a population of Eastern snake-necked turtles, Chelodina longicollis (Shaw, 1794). M.Sc. thesis, University of Western Sydney-Hawkesbury: Richmond. Georges, A., 1982 Ecological studies of Krefft's river tortoise, Emydura krefftii (Gray...

...Allen Keast The Sydney ornithological fraternity, 1930s-1950: anecdotes of an admirer Allen Keast Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada (Allen Keast, now Professor emeritus from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, is an internationally recognized...

... Parramatta and the Nepean. With this, major components of the former Sydney avifauna have become rare and at least eight species have been eliminated from the County as breeding species. Analyses are made of the avifaunas of these habitats as they existed in the 1930s and 1940s. It is confirmed...

...Allen Greer; Maria Byrne Metamorphling specimens of the endangered frog Litoria aurea were sampled from two relatively unpolluted sites in the metropolitan Sydney area for baseline information on sex ratio, vertebral number, vertebral and sacral diapophysis asymmetry and phalangeal formula. The sex...

...Daniel Lunney; Lyndall Dawson; Bradley Law A fauna survey of the Sydney 3 Olympics: the media profile and i ts symbolic significance Some zoologists spent their time avoiding the Olympics, but most, along with 3.8 billion people around the world, watched the spectacular Sydney Olympic games...

...S. Phillips; K.R. Zenger; B.J. Richardson Rabbits have been present in the Sydney district since well before the Geelong release that provided the genetic stock of rabbits seen throughout most of Australia. In this study a comparison was made between the genetic variation present...

... and Wildlife Service: Sydney. Koala Summit Managinq Koalas in New South Wales 77 80 ANON., 1938. It happened at Palm Beach. Koala Magazine 1(2): 7, 27. BERGIN, T. J. (ed), 1978. The Koala: Proceedings of the Taronga Symposium on Koala Biology, Management and Medicine. Zoological Parks Board...