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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.048
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
... Water and its management has become one of the key environmental issues in Australia. Many of our arid zone rivers, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin are severely affected by overextraction, impacting on floodplains and their biodiversity. The interaction between policy and science...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/9780980327205
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 784–800.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., the total number of kangaroos estimated to be present in the 14 commercial zones in 2017 was 17,457,257. The number present in each commercial zone varies widely across the state, with the Narrabri zone leading the list with an estimated 2,215,589 kangaroos in 2017. More than half of the kangaroos in NSW...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 464–476.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of success in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Australia. The Geographical Journal 178: 351-365. http:/dx.doi. org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00451.x Denham, A. J. and Auld, T. D. 2004. Survival and recruitment of seedlings and suckers of trees and shrubs of the Australian arid zone following habitat...
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Australian Zoologist (1990) 26 (2): 54–58.
Published: 01 June 1990
.... They are only problems in the semi-arid and arid zones, the forgotten centre of this continent. Both are introduced shrubs, both are spreading, both have the potential to totally alter the nature of the environment, both will cause economic ruin for graziers, both have been essentially ignored...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 559–567.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Zoologist volume 39 (4) Theme Edition: The critical value of long-term field studies and datasets monitoring research arid zone threatened species Leadbeater's Possum commercial harvest logging Carnaby's Cockatoo mining dingo citizen science climate change lost data © 2018 Royal...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 234–237.
Published: 28 October 2014
.... Chronological changes in terrestrial insect assemblages in the arid zone of Australia. Environmental Entomology 39: 1775-1787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/EN10070 Pavey, C.R., Eldridge, S.R., Heywood, M. 2008a. Population dynamics and prey selection of native and introduced predators during a rodent outbreak...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 636–640.
Published: 01 June 2020
... during periods of severe aridification by providing climatically stable microhabitats; a phenomenon noted for other lizards of the Australian arid zone (Pepper et al. 2011; Oliver and McDonald 2016). This pattern of distribution is very different to that of the other south- west NSW spinifex specialists...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 123–141.
Published: 07 June 2023
... River catchment into three zones: semi-arid, temperate inland and temperate upland (Fig. 1). In each zone, twelve sampling wetland sites were randomly selected based on the NSW wetlands dataset (Kingsford et al. 2004) and RiverStyles® spatial dataset (httpswater.dpie.nsw.gov.au/science-dataand-modelling...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 544–547.
Published: 20 October 2011
... Kingsford, R. 2007. Science, river communities, governments and media: a turbulent mixture for Australia's arid zone rivers. Animals of Arid Australia - out on their own? Eds: C. Dickman, D. Lunney and S. Burgin. Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman Animals of Arid Australia - out on their own...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 204–215.
Published: 14 October 2011
... phase and, between bouts of torpor, animals usually forage and feed. Recent evidence shows that free-ranging arid zone dasyurids may employ daily torpor on every day in winter and that torpor may last twice as long as in captivity (often up to around 20 hours), which will reduce energy expenditure...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 36 (4): 404–412.
Published: 28 January 2014
... pitfall trapping effort. Wildlife Research 28: 61-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR99058 Read, D.G., 1985. Notes on capture techniques for small mammals of the arid zone. Australian Zoologist 21: 545-50. Notes on capture techniques for small mammals of the arid zone Australian Zoologist 21 545...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 36 (4): 461–469.
Published: 28 January 2014
... in the Eyrean sub-region? Preliminary acoustic data from the Bogan and Macquarie Rivers in semi-arid NSW Vaughan Monamy1, Jennifer E. Taylor1, Leroy Gonsalves1 and Murray V. Ellis2 1 School and Sciences, Australian Catholic University, PO Box 968, North Sydney NSW 2059 Australia. 2 Ecosystem Management Science...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 280–295.
Published: 01 January 2018
... populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280:20130325. James, C. D., J. Landsberg, and S. R. Morton. 1999. Provision of watering points in the Australian arid zone: a review of effects on biota. Journal of Arid Environments 41:87 121. Kark, S., A. Tulloch, A. Gordon, T. Mazor, N...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 733–747.
Published: 01 December 2018
... that our study species responded in different ways to drivers such as wildfire and rainfall, and also exhibited contrasting spatial population dynamics across the nine study sites. These results highlight that a single management approach for arid zone species would be inappropriate, and likely applicable...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 166–182.
Published: 14 October 2011
.... 1981. Surveys of the distribution and density of kangaroos in the Pastoral Zone of South Australia, and their bearing on the feasibility of aerial survey in large and remote areas. Australian Wildlife Research 8:1-11. Surveys of the distribution and density of kangaroos in the Pastoral Zone of South...