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Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 173–177.
Published: 29 November 2024
...Daniel Lunney; Brad Law; Martin Predavec © 2024 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2024 --> Health and Disease at the Human-WildlifeEnvironment Interface: Foreword Published: 29 November 2024 DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.041 The health of wildlife, while...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 44 (1): 205–219.
Published: 07 September 2023
... in NSW from 1973 to 2020 to describe trends in admissions across NSW. A total of 18,039 koala admission records were collated from 1973 to 2020. Koalas were rescued due to disease, motor vehicle collision, dog attacks, unsuitable environment, bushfire, orphaning, and other reasons. However, the reasons...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 388–407.
Published: 29 July 2020
...Michael P. Ward; Kathryn Qing-Ling Sivieng; Victoria Brookes Interactions between dingoes and domestic dogs in Australia have implications for disease spread, but to understand the potential impact, better knowledge of the nature of this dingo-domestic dog interface is needed. Driven by a need...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (1): 1–14.
Published: 02 June 2014
... inextricably linked to the expansion of the island's nascent phosphate industry. The endemic rats were killed off by a disease introduced with black rats R. rattus , which according to the mining company manager Captain Samuel Vincent, were bought to the island by the SS Hindustan that arrived in December 1899...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 36 (1): 75–92.
Published: 07 September 2012
...Robert Paddle While anecdotal accounts exist in the literature of epidemic disease as a significant factor in recent mammalian extinctions, harder data has not previously been presented. The statistics from the deliberate killing of thylacines as a pest species support contemporary records...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.011
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-6-7
... As global climates change, the incidence and severity of diseases in natural ecosystems also appears to be increasing. This has been linked to increasingly stressful conditions, which can lead to more susceptible hosts and environmental effects on pathogen abundance and virulence. Recently...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 44 (1): 194–204.
Published: 28 April 2023
... been dramatic. Two plant diseases, Phytophthora root rot and Myrtle Rust, are used as examples to illustrate the impact diseases can have on fauna. As animals are either explicitly or implicitly dependent on plants for their survival the deleterious impacts of plant diseases on flora inevitably flows...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 44 (1): 185–193.
Published: 24 April 2023
...Elliot Scanes; Wayne A. O’Connor; Justin R. Seymour; Nachshon Siboni; Laura M. Parker; Pauline M. Ross ABSTRACT Oysters are a valuable and iconic seafood, deeply rooted in Australian culture. However, oysters have always been vulnerable to disease, with disease outbreaks leading to mass mortality...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (2): 298–315.
Published: 17 March 2014
... issues involving the transmission, or possibility of transmission, of serious viral diseases by these large bats. Such issues require informed public discussion. It is the joint responsibility of science/medical professionals and journalists to ensure that such discussion occurs. Introduction...
Book Chapter
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
.... The collections of animals in zoos are an important resource that can be used to address some of the gaps in our knowledge, particularly when integrated with field research and conservation planning. Zoos can increase our understanding of the impact of wildlife disease by conducting integrated disease...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of Sydney, NSW, Australia. 2 Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity,The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. 3 Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology,Westmead Hospital,Westmead, NSW, Australia. * [email protected] Urban freshwater wetlands have been identified...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.011
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... are unlikely to replace domestic animals as pets. We also raise concerns about animal welfare and other issues that could flow from keeping native animals as pets. These include (among others):- potential for a significant incidence of stress-related and husbandry-related diseases, problems with access...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1991
10.7882/RZSNSW.1991.015
EISBN: 0-9599951-5-3
... remain poorly understood. Most research in the Darling District has been directed to disturbance ecology including mining, logging, fire and plant disease. Rehabilitation following bauxite mining and the dynamics and management of dieback disease caused by Phytophthora dnnamomi in the jarrah forest...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.022
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-6-7
... - a disease causing infertility - had been established as being present in the Gunnedah population. The likely spread of this disease throughout the Gunnedah koala population presents a further challenge to wildlife managers in the context of a changing climate. The potential indirect effects of global...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 492–504.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Diego, CA 92112, USA 3 Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. 4 Faculty of Science, Sydney School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia * corresponding author: catherine.grueber...