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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1993
10.7882/RZSNSW.1993.042
EISBN: 0-9599951-8-8
... As part of a larger study investigating the distribution and status of reptiles in northern Victoria, the effectiveness of three reptile census techniques was compared over 29 sites in remnant woodland and grassy woodland patches. These techniques revealed no significant differences...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 0001
10.7882/RZSNSW.1989a.003
EISBN: 978-0-9599951-1-4
... are problems common to the census of birds throughout the world. Asynchronous reproduction and a high level of communal or co-operative nesting are special problems encountered in censuses of Australia’s terrestrial avifauna. Despite these unique features and the relatively recent use of bird censusing...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (2): 143–149.
Published: 17 March 2014
... fish significantly reduced the number of tadpoles surviving daily predation within the first 24-hour census, and at every census that followed. Tadpole survivorship was compared between trials. The number of L. aurea tadpoles censused after 96-hours in each of the field trials did not significantly...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 281–286.
Published: 23 October 2023
... not collected for comparison with BS 4 and to illustrate the differences in bird numbers and species composition between plots, counts, and from year to year (Table 1). BS 1 and 4 were censused once in December and again in January from 1976 to 1980 (Table 1) using the strip census procedure described...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 38–54.
Published: 17 March 2014
... be the development of non-lethal deterrence at orchards followed by the development of methods for countering tick paralysis. Further annual censuses will be necessary to monitor population trends in comparison with me current baseline. This initial census was conducted as part of an integrated approach...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (3): 300–309.
Published: 17 March 2014
... woodland: clavpan/saltmarsh and disturbed habitat. The survey utilized direct and indirect sampling techniques including live-mammal trapping, hair-tubing, spotlighting ultrasonic bat detection, bird census, active searching and predator scat collection. A total of 129 terrestrial vertebrate species (Seven...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.017
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-6-7
... surveillance programs and developing treatment or management options. Reproductive technologies, validated in zoos, can provide value added census data to inform on population viability and function as well as numbers. Determining species preferences and tolerance limits will also inform the triggers...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (2): 165–172.
Published: 10 October 2011
.... The sites covered a range of altitudes and vegetation communities and were surveyed between late August and October. The area has a relatively high population density of L. littlejohni , with animals being detected at 12 of the 13 sites. A period of below average rainfall overlapped the census period from...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.076
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-7-2
... in which the park is found, coupled with regional changes outside the urban environment, have produced a dynamic and changing avifauna. Census data are available for a transect through Kings Park from 1928 to 2002. Between 1928 and 2002, 61 species of birds, excluding waterbirds, were recorded along...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (3): 438–445.
Published: 14 October 2011
... Zoologist 33: 210-216. Population estimation of the Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea at Port Kembla Australian Zoologist 33 210 216 Goonan, P.M., Gooding, D.G. and Hill, B.M. 1997. Frog Census 1995 and 1996: A report on community monitoring of water quality and habitat condition...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 205–213.
Published: 30 September 2020
...-down approaches to monitoring become much more difficult when (i) the species being monitored occur across, or move between, multiple countries, and / or (ii) monitoring is conducted by a number of different organisations without any centralised governance mechanism. The European Bird Census Council...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 116–122.
Published: 26 May 2023
... Timperley in an area known as Peacock Flats (Saunders and de Rebeira 1993). By 1960 there were around 50 birds present on the island (Storr 1965). Adult birds were reportedly being taken off the island illegally by visitors prior to 1984 (Saunders and de Rebeira 1993). Two bird censuses were conducted...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (4): 937–959.
Published: 09 May 2022
... avifauna. METHODS Census procedures I censused birds from 1986 to 2008 along a transect through Kings Park from the intersection of Saw Avenue and Thomas Street to Park Road near the intersection with Crawley Road (Figure 1). The transect followed established paths and was 1600 m in length (1480 m...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 21 (1): 75–84.
Published: 17 March 2014
... in whichever pond received unrestricted tidal ventilation. Temperature recordings were made using thermographs or maximum-minimum thermometers. Salinity , readings were taken with a Yeokal model 602, Hamon-type, salinity-temperature meter. FISH CENSUS In January 1978 one pond was drained to a depth of 20 cm...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (4): 743–752.
Published: 02 February 2021
.... volans density has varied from 0.6 to 4 individuals per ha from field census (Menkhorst 1995). Throughout their range, they are generally more abundant in higher elevation, tall eucalypt forests than lower elevation dry sclerophyll (Bennett et al. 1991; Braithwaite et al. 1988; Kavanagh and Bamkin 1995...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 30–37.
Published: 17 March 2014
..., and a tributary census. The distribution map includes platypus sightings a, possible sightings (sightings where the respondent was unsure if it was a platypus or not) 0 , non-sightings (sites where platypus have never been seen) 0, and historical sightings (sites where platypus previously but no longer occur...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 379–384.
Published: 17 March 2014
... Africa Burgin, S., Emerton, S. and Burgin, M. 1999. A comparison of sample and total census data for a population of the Eastern longneck turtle Chelodina longicollis in a farm dam north-west of Sydney, New South Wales. Australian Zoologist 31: 161-164. A comparison of sample and total census...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 467–479.
Published: 14 July 2020
... government census (www.abs.gov.au/census, accessed 2/2/2018, Supplementary Table 1). The study was approved by The University of Sydney s Human Ethics Committee (2017/875). Results We received 811 completed responses, among whom 50.31% identified as female and the average age was 44.92 years ± 0.58 SE. Most...