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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.026
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... allocation of funds and expertise. Current taxonomic expertise is limited, and could be focused for greater collective effect in conservation activities, particularly by emphasizing higher groups established as having priority value in ecological interpretation, and capitalizing on knowledge already...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.032
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-8-1
... As with many public debates, the debate on climate change has a number of participants whose activities are influential, secretive and unethical. In the climate change debate, some fossil fuel corporations have funded apparently unrelated bodies which claim to have some scientific expertise...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.019
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-5-8
... are generally pointless, or cannot be used for the purpose intended. Data required to measure biodiversity, or changes to biodiversity in such complex, variable systems as coastal habitats, cannot be collected and interpreted without considerable knowledge and expertise of sampling design, ecological theory...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2010
10.7882/FS.2010.009
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6
... the problem of declining taxonomic expertise in Australia is discussed and how this can be addressed. ...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.036
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-4-1
... production. Predation has intensified since 1998 to the point that it is a perennial and expanding threat to industry viability. North Coast Horticulture offers five suggestions for consideration 1) there is an urgent and overdue need to bring those with expertise on the flying-fox issue into a consultative...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.045
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... The special biological properties of the arthropods –– their size, unfamiliarity and huge diversity –– together with a shortage of both knowledge and expertise presents particular problems for their conservation. Five key questions are addressed here. The first of these asks if the protection...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1992
10.7882/RZSNSW.1992.003
... in the humanities, economics and the law is poor preparation for understanding and communicating with the rest of the community. Courts that deal with environmental issues require ecological data and the interpretation of those data by ecologists. If the courts want the best ecological expertise, they need...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1991
10.7882/RZSNSW.1991.007
EISBN: 0-9599951-5-3
... and a lack of scientific expertise in this area. ...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 627–632.
Published: 01 December 2018
.... This is of particular importance in the case of invertebrates that may play a keystone role in the environment. With incessant funding cuts and elimination of places in universities, departments of primary industry and research centres, there is a risk that taxonomic expertise might disappear altogether. We argue here...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 143–144.
Published: 14 March 2023
... in the introduction of Robert Voss and Sharon Jansa book Opossums An Adaptive Radiation of New World Marsupials . Sharing their expertise gained through decades of work in the field and in museum collections, the authors proceed to provide an authoritative yet eminently readable reference work on the biology...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 193–200.
Published: 16 September 2014
..., that there is no one animal ethics committee that has knowledge and expertise on all 891 native vertebrates covered by the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, all which could be potentially involved in projects. In this process, the UWS committee also assesses fish, companion, production and pest species, all...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (4): 806–807.
Published: 23 June 2021
... for the museum for the rest of her professional life. Over time, she specialised her areas of research and expertise in response to the museum s changing of status for its scientific employees. She became Curator of Vertebrates from 1966 to 1977, specialising her responsibilities then to become Curator...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (2): 328.
Published: 01 December 2019
...: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.004 If the following advice (taken from a list of 15 in Chapter The authors are well known and internationally respected 15: Take Home Messages ) is unexpected and especially for their expertise in conservation genetics. Three of them if it seems heretical, you need to read...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 42 (4): 1050–1061.
Published: 08 February 2023
..., including the target potoroo species. A visit to her and Allan s property Dead Finish , on the eastern shoreline of the Mallacoota Lakes, had an almost spiritual feel to it, such was her expertise and the high professional regard she had earned. There, Barbara was plainly a naturalist first, with a keen...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 331–340.
Published: 14 October 2011
... and interested parties are asked to review nominations. Over time this has extended to reviewing intermediate committee papers, where this is seen as necessary, by the Committee. This extends the expertise of the committee many fold on every matter before it. I acknowledge that, in this procedure, the role...