...Melinda J. Laidlaw; Harry B. Hines; Rhonda I. Melzer; Tracey B. Churchill ABSTRACT Bushfire severity mapping and analysis for Queensland’s Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area properties following wildfires in 2019/20 was found to under-predict the ecological impact within closed-canopy...

...Helen P. Waudby; Bradley P. Smith; Guy M. Robinson; Sophie Petit; Gill Earl Social-ecological system (SES) frameworks offer a way of diagnosing the economic, environmental, and social issues driving human-canid conflict, and can assist in the development and testing of management interventions. SES...

...Benjamin L. Allen; Lee R. Allen; Michael Graham; Matt Buckman Understanding the ecological roles of apex predators remains an important field of study. The influence of apex predators on ecosystems can be either profound or negligible in different situations, and uncertainty still exists about...

... to have little effect on aspects of the functional morphology or ecological role of the dingo. Accordingly, introgression does not diminish the conservation status of the dingo. Contact email: mathew.crowther@sydney.edu.au © 2021 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2021 dingo...

... to redress any ultimate factor responsible for the ecological imbalance; (ii) there should be compelling evidence that the ‘increaser’ species (‘Species A’) has a significant detrimental impact on the species of conservation concern (‘Species B’); (iii) there should be compelling evidence that reduction...

...Emma L. Burns; Philip Tennant; Chris R. Dickman; Graeme Gillespie; Peter T. Green; Ary Hoffmann; David A. Keith; David B. Lindenmayer; Daniel J. Metcalfe; John W. Morgan; Jeremy Russell-Smith; Glenda M. Wardle ABSTRACT In ecological monitoring, data on changes in biotic and environmental attributes...

...David Lindenmayer ABSTRACT Long-term ecological research and monitoring is a critical activity that has multiple important values for research, policy and management. Yet long-term studies are not particularly common. A range of factors contributes to this relative rarity and make it hard...

...-process that can be used to determine whether locally farmed and wild-caught Australian seafood products meet standards of ecological sustainability and Ecologically Sustainable Development. These criteria substantially address the ecological deficiencies we identified in other systems commonly used...

...Charles J. Krebs ABSTRACT I make ten observations of the limitations of ecological science as I have seen it develop over the last 56 years. The key focus is on the scientific maturity of our approaches, and the constraints that flow from pretending we are physicists, that progress will come from...

... of the capture of koalas for ecological studies. First catch your koala! Use of a trap to capture koalas Phascolarctos cinereus for ecological studies Motohiro Hasegawa and Frank N. Camck Department of Zoology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072 ABSTRACT A trap to capture koalas, which can...

...Daniel Lunney EDITORIAL Re-interpreting the past: zoologist as ecological historian In this edition, Bob Paddle's well-written piece begins: "Species depart the biota, not with a bang but a whimper. The Thylacine, Tasmania Tiger or Marsupial M'olf, Thylacinus cynocephalus, is one of a handful...

...D. Pearson; R. Shine; X. Bonnet; A. Williams; B. Jennings; O. Lourdais We collected 48 Crowned Snakes Elapognathus coronatus on Mondrain Island, in the Archipelago of the Recherche, in November 1999. Published data on the ecology of E. coronatus are based almost entirely on examination of museum...

... breeding site of a threatened endemic seabird, the Gould's Petrel Pterodroma leucoptera leucoptera. This paper outlines some of the ecological interactions between this iconic palm and this enigmatic seabird. P. leucoptera nests in rock cavities, under fallen palm leaves, or in hollow fallen palm trunks...

..., the cumulative loss of reptiles due to vehicle collision in the region is an ecological disaster. reptiles frogs World Heritage Area urban - bushland interface animal mortality vertebrate road kill ABS. 2007. 2006 Census QuickStats: Blue Mountains (C) (Statistical Local Area. Australian...

...James Fitzsimons; Mark Antos Despite Australia having a high diversity of freshwater crayfish species, the ecology of many of these species remains poorly known, particularly burrowing crayfish of the genus Engaeus . Biological information on colour, behaviour, burrow structure, associated burrow...

...Jean-Marc Hero; J. Castley; Mikalah Malone; Ben Lawson; William Magnusson PPBio (Program for Planned Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research) is a system for long-term ecological research designed to answer integrated multidisciplinary research questions. The system is based on permanent plots...

...Ross Goldingay The status and conservation requirements of the Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea were the focus of immense scrutiny 12 years ago. In this paper I review what progress has occurred since then in understanding the ecology of this species because ecological research...