...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...

.... It has been described as locally abundant in parts of the River Murray valley (Tyler 1998; Walker and Goonan 2002). The descriptions of current distribution in the River Murray floodplain have been largely based on the Environmental Protection Authority s (EPA) annual frog census, a community survey...

... Bird Census Council (httpwww.ebcc.info) brings together multiple organisations to conduct the Pan-European Bird Monitoring Scheme, but this is a rare exception and does not yet cover the global geographic range of most European migratory species. These reasons are partly why the concept of flyway...

... 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...

... of species abundances are presented and the limitations of species frequency data for monitoring discussed, along with suggestions for the conservation of Kings Park s avifauna. METHODS Census procedures I censused birds from 1986 to 2008 along a transect through Kings Park from the intersection of Saw...

...-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 and poisoned by spraying with 2L of a rotenone solution (2.6% active ingredient) which killed all fish within the pond...

.... 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...

... public that approximately represented the most recent Australian 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...

... 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...