... Projects assessed as having the potential to adversely affect the environment can gain approval with the caveat that monitoring will be undertaken. The implications from such a decision are that adverse findings from monitoring will lead to the project at least, being subject to measures...

... into the assessment of biodiversity impacts for development activities elsewhere. The legislation from which current ecological assessment procedures originate (e.g. the NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act...

... Listing decisions are a form of risk assessment supported largely by expert judgement. Expert judgements of rare events in novel circumstances are error prone. Experts are susceptible to social influences and their views are shaped by context, framing, and personal values. Expert judgment...

... of the Scientific Committee in the assessment and listing process. We then chronicle the steps taken in the listing of the Grey-headed Flying-fox, and briefly review the evidence on which listing was based. This evidence included data on the overall decline in numbers of the Grey-headed Flying-fox in New South...

... This paper provides an operational framework developed to assist biodiversity researcher s in the design and implementation of focused invertebrate biodiversity assessments appropriate to particular questions or hypotheses. It draws together established protocols, issues of quality control...

... by an analysis of bacterial communities from groundwaters near the sole remaining natural fission reactor, near Oklo, Gabon, showing the importance of statistical sufficiency in biodiversity estimation, the statistical assessment of species numbers, the shortcut potential of Higher Taxon Richness...