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Koala density, habitat, conservation, and response to logging in eucalyptus forest; a review and critical evaluation of call monitoring

Andrew P. Smith, John Pile

Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 44–76.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.023

Published: 10 June 2024

... paradigm to explain regional variation in koala distribution, habitat and foraging preferences based on variations in foliage chemistry (toxicity and nutritional value) determined by the duration and stability of local plant-koala interactions in response to past fire, hunting, predation and logging...

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The role of nutrition in the conservation of the marsupial folivores of eucalypt forests

By Ben D. Moore, Ian R. Wallis, Karen J. Marsh, William J. Foley

Book: Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2004

10.7882/FS.2004.031

EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9

... on the pioneering work of Braithwaite and colleagues, who examined attributes of forests, particularly the nutrient status, in relation to animal abundance. Our second approach is a fine-scale one that relies on studies of captive animals to decipher the role of anti-nutritional factors or plant secondary...

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Koalas and climate change: a case study on the Liverpool Plains, north-west New South Wales

By Daniel Lunney, Mathew S. Crowther, Ian Wallis, William J. Foley, John Lemon ...

Book: Wildlife and Climate Change: Towards robust conservation strategies for Australian fauna

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

... climate change - how increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 may reduce the availability of the nutrients in Eucalyptus foliage to koalas - is described and the implication drawn that elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 may threaten some populations of free-ranging koalas. The Liverpool...

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Why are there so many Spotted-tailed Quolls Dasyurus maculatus in parts of north-eastern New South Wales?

A. Glen, C. Dickman

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 711–718.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2011.023

Published: 20 October 2011

... faunal densities, eucalypt occurrence and foliage nutrients, and soil parent materials. Wildlife Research 11: 41-48. Studies on the arboreal marsupial fauna of eucalypt forests being harvested for wood pulp at Eden, N.S.W. III. Relationships between faunal densities, eucalypt occurrence and foliage...

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The dietary preferences of koalas, Phascolarctos cinereus , in southwest Queensland

Huiying Wu, Clive McAlpine, Leonie Seabrook

Australian Zoologist (2012) 36 (1): 93–102.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2012.009

Published: 07 September 2012

... for marsupial folivores (Noble 1989; Moore et al. 2004b). Nutrient thresholds were found to be the first restriction for the occurrence and population viability of marsupial folivores (DeGabriel et al. 2010). Nitrogen appeared to be more important to the koala, because levels of nitrogen in Eucalyptus foliage...

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The impact of plant diseases on wildlife in Australia

Brett A. Summerell

Australian Zoologist (2023) 44 (1): 194–204.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.016

Published: 28 April 2023

... to and infect a root system. Once roots are infected mycelium grows through the root destroying cells (Figure 1i), preventing it from extracting moisture or nutrients from the soil (Erwin and Ribiero 1996). The pathogen can survive in soil for extended periods by specialised survival structures called...

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Ecology of Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) in Western Australian Eucalypt Woodlands II. Yellow-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus (Ptilotula) ornatus

Harry F. Recher

Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 15–36.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.003

Published: 02 February 2023

...), but were structurally similar, with trees of similar size forming a dense canopy, and lacking a shrub layer. Yellow-plumed Honeyeaters rely on lerp and honeydew for energy and take arthropods within the colony by gleaning and probing from eucalypts, and opportunistic hawking. Foliage is the most common...

View article titled, Ecology of Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) in Western Australian Eucalypt Woodlands II. Yellow-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus (Ptilotula) ornatus

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Spatial and temporal differences in the foraging behaviour of birds in a mixed eucalypt forest and woodland on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales

Harry F. Recher

Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (1): 111–129.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.023

Published: 04 August 2021

... foraging guilds. Bark and foliage foragers differed most frequently between pairs of plots in all seasons and years, with aerial foragers showing the fewest differences. Between seasons and years differences were greatest among ground-foragers and foliage-foragers where respectively 76% and 80...

View article titled, Spatial and temporal differences in the foraging behaviour of birds in a mixed eucalypt forest and woodland on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales

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Predation on cicadas by an Australian Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus based on DNA evidence

Helen M Smith, Linda E Neaves, Anja Divljan

Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 515–528.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.029

Published: 01 June 2020

... DNAbased diet analysis can detect low frequency items in the diet (Pompanon et al. 2012), invertebrate consumption in non-insectivorous bat species is yet to be investigated (e.g. Aziz et al. 2018, Lim et al. 2018 a, b; Taylor et al. 2017, Ibanez et al. 2016). Extracting nutrients out of hard-shelled...

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Response of birds to episodic summer rainfall in the Great Western Woodlands, Western Australia

Harry Recher, William Davis, Jr.

Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 206–224.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.011

Published: 05 June 2014

...., Majer, J.D. and Ganeshanandam, S. 1996b. Birds, insects and eucalypts. On the relation between foliar nutrients and species richness. Forest Ecology and Management 85: 177-96. Birds, insects and eucalypts. On the relation between foliar nutrients and species richness Forest Ecology and Management 85...

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Ecology of Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) in Western Australian Eucalypt Woodlands I: Resource Allocation Among Species in the Great Western Woodland During Spring

Harry F. Recher, Mike C. Calver, William E. Davis, Jr.

Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (1): 130–146.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.022

Published: 01 January 2016

...-eared, Yellow-plumed, and Brown- headed Honeyeaters, have short, straight bills suited for taking lerp, manna, honeydew, and arthropods from foliage and bark, and are termed short-billed species (Table 1). Ford and Paton (1977) considered long-billed honeyeaters to be primarily nectarivorous and short...

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After the 2010 rains: changes in reporting rates of birds in remnant woodland vegetation in the central wheatbelt of New South Wales, Australia, from drought to post-drought

Murray Ellis, Jennifer Taylor

Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (1): 29–39.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.007

Published: 02 June 2014

... declined. Conversely, several smaller, foliage gleaning passerines had higher reporting rates post-drought, with Striated Pardalote and Western Gerygone becoming two of the most frequently recorded species. Taxonomic and life history attributes usually did not predict population changes for species post...

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Journal Articles

Understanding the effects of fire on invertebrates in Australian temperate and sub-tropical forests: the value of long-term experiments

Alan York, Tom Lewis

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 633–645.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.020

Published: 01 December 2018

... functioning (e.g. for nutrient cycling, pollination). © 2018 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2018 fire regime habitat fire frequency prescribed burning animal populations 2018 633 Australian Zoologist volume 39 (4) Theme Edition: The critical value of long-term field studies...

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Using wildlife rehabilitator surveys to identify threats: a case study of koalas in Victoria, Australia

K. R. Ashman, D. J. Watchorn, D. A. Whisson

Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (1): 130–145.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.027

Published: 18 August 2021

... Victoria. Koalas only feed on a small number of species of the genus Eucalyptus. The low nutrient value and high secondary plant compound content of Eucalyptus foliage limits available energy, which results in a low energy budget and long periods of inactivity to conserve energy and aid digestion (Ellis et...

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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 1–144.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.024

Published: 25 August 2023

..., shrubland and heath, but also includes small areas of swamps, sedgeland and rainforest (Dexter et al. 2011). Heath occurs on poorly drained shallow sandy soil with very low levels of plant nutrients. Heath 2 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 43 (1) 2023 Shelters and nests of bandicoots vegetation at Booderee...

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A note on Nascio vetusta (Boisduval) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Australia

J. R. Turner, T. J. Hawkeswood

Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (1): 65–67.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1995.009

Published: 17 March 2014

... the examination of the IarvaVpupal chambers, it is evident that N. uetusta is not a deep-boring buprestid and that if the bark is thick enough, the larvae will remain in the bark without gnawing into the underlying sapwood. Clearly the beetle is able to derive enough nutrients and moisture from the dead bark...

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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (1): fmii–fmiclxvii.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.007

Published: 03 March 2022

... brown podzolic soils and large sandstone floaters that have fallen from the escarpment. The geology and resulting soils dictates vegetation associations. In general deep, higher nutrient soils support rainforest and tall open forest while shallow soils on sandstone support heath and woodland. Geology...

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The natural diet of the endangered camaenid land snail Thersites mitchellae (Cox, 1864) in northern New South Wales, Australia

Jonathan Parkyn, Agung Challisthianagara, Lyndon Brooks, Alison Specht, Sapphire McMullan-Fisher ...

Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (3): 343–349.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.042

Published: 14 November 2014

...) plant tissue (mostly dead foliage, but also including some flower, root, or stem), (ii) fungi, (iii) soil material, and (iv) other material. The percentage composition of the faecal contents was determined by estimating the percentage of each food item from five randomly selected fields of view...

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Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 1–267.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.044

Published: 29 November 2024

.../substrate categories combine foraging manoeuvres and substrates; glean and hang/glean foliage, twigs, and eucalypt capsules were combined as glf/ tw ; glean and probe bark as gl/bk , with bark including branches, tree trunks, decorticating and hanging (loose) bark. In analyses, small and large branches...

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Decline of the urban Koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) population in Warringah Shire, Sydney

Peter Smith, Judy Smith

Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 109–129.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1990.004

Published: 17 March 2014

... Possible diseases: Cystic uterus Bli!ldder trouble Other: T erminallleromonllS infection, ticks Large ticks, pneumonia Cryptococcal meningitis Abnonnal growths on head Poisoning attributed to E citriodora foliage Total 6 2 Number of Koalas 1 (destroyed) 1 4 1 1 (de&royed) 2 1(1970) 1 (1963) 1 1 1 I...

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