... and invasive species, fauna and flora, direct and indirect (e.g. scat) targets, on land and at sea, across every continent and most taxa from fire ants to whales. Here, we emphasise the versatility of detection dogs through their multiple uses applied to one species, the koala Phascolarctos cinereus . We...

... and autumn prescribed fires of varying intensity using ants as an indicator group. In each case a control and burn plot was established and grids of pitfall traps were sampled at monthly intervals from a few months prior to the fire up until around 3 years after the fire. Ants were counted and sorted...

... of the work is ongoing. The effect of fire on ant communities has been assessed in Bauple State Forest where Vanderwoude et al. (1997a, b) investigated the effect of fire frequency on species richness and functional group composition. Eliott (2015) explored the use of Cerambycid beetles as bioindicators...

... Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. Oxford University Press, New York, USA. Lin, H-M., Chi, W.L., Lin, C.C., Tseng, Y-C., Chen, W.T., Kung, Y-L., Lien, Y.Y. and Chen, Y.Y. 2011. Fire ant-detecting canines: a complementary method in detecting Red Imported Fire Ants. Journal of Economic Entomology 104: 225...

... by the ant Iridomyrmex purpureus R. B. Clerke and I. Williamson School of Life Science, Queensland University of Technology, G.P.O. Box 2434, Brishane, Qld 4001 The introduced cane toad Bufo marinus pro- duces toxic compounds from dermal glands (Tyler 1987). These compounds restrict the number of potential...

... changes resulting from management practices, such as timber harvesting or fire. Law concludes with the observation that improved technology has led to major advances in the study of bats, and firmly asserts that the degree of difficulty is no longer a reason to avoid studying bats. Plenary sessions were...

... identified occurrence locations on KI. At the time of the fires, which impacted all three known locations of O. halmaturia, the species was in the larval stage and within nests of the sugar ant, Camponotus terebrans. Specimen Records Two of the three prior known locations were burnt at high intensity and one...

... © 2018 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2018 2018 669 Speakers in this session were: Jonathan Majer University of Western Australia. Long-term invertebrate studies: problems, pitfalls and probabilities. Alan York University of Melbourne. Long-term effects of prescribed fire...

... are poorly understood. We pitfall-trapped ants in winter and spring over a twenty-two year period (1992–2013) in the Simpson Desert, central Australia. We asked: over what time-scale does ant activity (abundance and species richness) respond to climate (temperature and precipitation) and vegetation (plant...

.... The Lake Swamp is also densely vegetated (Love and Buckle 1973). Prior to 1974 the swamp was burnt annually by local farmers to stimulate the germination of Christmas Bells which they harvested and sold. Since then there have been two wild fires (in 1981 and 2007) that have burnt sections of the swamp...

... rainforest classification are sub-formations including moist closed forest, littoral rainforest (the costal rainforest growing in sandy soil and now highly fragmented in small remnant patches), and dry rainforests (often on hydrologically dry and rocky habitats that protects them from fire). At higher...

... and animals trapped. Two Ground Parrots were detected between 2000 and 2005, but not thereafter. Disturbance, particularly fire, may be important in determining the presence of Ground Parrots and White-footed Dunnart at this site. 562 2017 Australian Zoologist volume 38 (4) Introduction In the year 2000...

... vulnerable to decline. Further information on the ecology of A. parapulchella is required in order to develop effective approaches to conservation and management, particularly given the conservation status of the species. Aprasia parapulchella is a dietary specialist living in the burrows of small ants...

... of Biology Allaby, M. 1998. A Dictionary of Ecology. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Barrow, L., Parr, C. L. and Kohen, J. L. 2007. Habitat type influences fire resilience of ant assemblages in the semi-arid tropics of Northern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 69: 80-95. http://dx.doi.org...

... variation in the presence of these food categories. Five orders of invertebrates were identified, with Coleoptera (beetles) occurring in more than 80% of faecal samples and Isoptera (termites) and Formicidae (ants) in 48% and 40%, respectively. These results identify key components of the diet of the first...

... con- vinced of the value of studying bats, and indeed they proved to both fascinating scientifically as well as import- ant indicators of the impact of logging. What I also found rewarding was the help 1 received from so many bat workers, many of whom are at this conference. 1 have a proposal to put...