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...Shelley Burgin; Steve Emerton; Malcolm Burgin Interpretation of trap bias in sampling freshwater turtles has previously relied on indirect methods. The data presented here provides the first comparison of a sample and total census of a waterbody. Eastern Longneck Turtles Chelodina longicollis Shaw...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... climate change East Australian Current Sea Slug Census Anaspidea sea-hare citizen science New South Wales 582 2017 Australian Zoologist volume 38 (4) Introduction The Aplysiidae is a small family, containing 11 genera, of predominantly herbivorous molluscs, all of which are characterised...

... 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...

...-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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...