Search Results for forest mammals

... of Australian Mammals 447 8 LUNNEY, D., 1987. Effects of logging, fire and drought on possums and gliders in the coastal forests near Bega, New South Wales. Aust Wildl. Res. (in press). LUNNEY, D., AND ASHBY, E., 1987. Population changes in Sminthopsis leucopus (Gray) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae...

...Daniel Lunney; John Barker A survey of the mammals of the coastal State Forests, adjacent farmlands and coastal national park near Bega, on the south coast of New South Wales, was undertaken between 1979 and 1984. A total of 39 native and 10 exotic species was found in the area surveyed. That 17...

...Matthew Stanton; Jason Anderson State Forests of me southwestern slopes of New South Wales were surveyed for ground dwelling mammals utilizing hair baps (42 sites), small mammal traps (11 sites), nocturnal searches (253 sites), scat and animal sign observations, opportunistic observations...

... is provided. Faunal and environmental changes over the last 25 000 000 years in the Riversleigh region are identified and changes in Australia's rain forest mammal communities over the same period are discussed. Evidence for the origin of Australia's modern mammal groups from ancestors now known to have lived...

..., 161 Kite Street, Orange, New South Wales 2800, Australia. 2School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia. 3Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012...

.... 2012) should be protected from logging or other human disturbance. Responses of small terrestrial mammals The small ground-dwelling mammal assemblage inhabiting Mountain Ash forests is relatively species poor, but three species in particular can be extremely abundant the Bush Rat (Rattus fuscipes...

...David Paull; Elizabeth Date Twenty-one species of non-flying native mammals were positively identified during a systematic fauna survey of forest, woodland and scrub habitats in State Forests on the northwest slopes of New South Wales (1993-95). This is about 50% of the known historical diversity...

...Robert Taylor; John Woinarski; Ray Chatto Information on forest use and dependence on tree hollows was collated for vertebrates in the Top End of the Northern Territory. The proportion of the total fauna that used hollows was 40% for mammals, 18% for birds, 20% for reptiles and 13% for frogs...

... proportion of an area s total suite of vertebrate fauna. Suggestions are made concerning how to optimise results from vertebrate fauna inventory surveys. Key words: rainforest, eucalypt forest, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater fishes, survey completeness, threatened species. 656...

...David Blair; David Lindenmayer; Lachlan McBurney ABSTRACT The conservation of the Critically Endangered Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri in Victoria's Mountain Ash Eucalyptus regnans forests is one of the most controversial native mammal conservation issues in Australia. Much...