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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.077
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-7-2
... This paper assesses the effects of vegetation retention and garden planting on birds in the rapidly urbanising greater Brisbane region. Formerly forested areas that are cleared and urbanised show a large reduction in the number of small-bodied species, and a minor increase in the number...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 175–191.
Published: 07 February 2013
...J. G. Garden Quanda Nature Reserve was originally established in 1963 to conserve the remnant old growth mallee vegetation and its suspected Malleefowl, Leipoa ocellata , population. This study reports on the first detailed fauna survey of the reserve since its establishment. Eleven survey...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.100
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-7-2
... A community-based survey by 723 volunteers investigated the relationships between small birds, aggressive birds and garden vegetation. Seven species of small bird were targeted in the survey, and all seven species were less likely to be recorded from gardens in which Noisy Miners were present...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.052
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-4-1
... This paper summarises 12 months of research at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney to manage a permanent camp of Grey-headed Flying-foxes Pteropus poliocephalus that had encamped in an area of culturally significant trees. New and innovative methods came to light from these studies. Numbers...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.102
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-7-2
... Past urban development and gardening practices have had a devastating impact on native wildlife in the suburbs. In this paper the reader is invited to envisage a future where the urban community has embraced the concept of gardens as indigenous wildlife habitat, generally free of lawns...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 390–408.
Published: 17 November 2023
... Shanks2, Benjamin T Jones3, Rolf Schlagloth4 1Koala Research CQ, Building 32, School of Education and the Arts, CQUniversity, 554/700 Yaamba Rd, Norman Gardens QLD 4701. m.danaher@cqu.edu.au 2Building 32, School of Education and the Arts, CQUniversity, 554/700 Yaamba Rd, Norman Gardens QLD 4701...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.019
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Depending on weather conditions and net orientation, between 8 and 53 bats were captured per session as they returned to the roost site in the early morning. Animals were captured using a 12 m long mist-net on pulleys attached to two 13.2 m tall aluminium masts...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.013
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... communities have a reduced species diversity when they are isolated from other remnants by extensive water, urban or agricultural land barriers (Diamond 1975). To reduce the isolation of natural plant and animal communities in reserves the preservation of biodiversity in the garden can assist. Already many...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (3): 387–392.
Published: 14 October 2011
... respondents indicated they were aware of this species in Port Kembla and 45 had seen it on their properties. There were 45 respondents who were interested in modifying their gardens to attract frogs and 39 who were willing to become involved with monitoring of frogs on their properties. A second questionnaire...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.015
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
..., relocation, or euthanasia (where other means of dealing with them have failed) by those who wish to deter possums; and to provide information for residents who wish to encourage brushtail possums into their gardens. This approach is based on the largely untested assumption that it is possible to influence...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1993
10.7882/RZSNSW.1993.041
EISBN: 0-9599951-8-8
... Two species of Lampropholis skinks, Lampropholis delicata and Lampropholis guichenoti , commonly referred to as Penny or Garden skinks, have a predilection for disturbed areas. Both species have a widespread distribution over much of eastern Australia. Throughout most of their ranges...
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Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 461–471.
Published: 01 September 2015
... orchards and damage to garden plants. Impacts should be further investigated to justify management directions. Eradication in Australia may be achievable due to populations being mostly restricted to settled areas. 2015 461 Australian Zoologist volume 37 (4) Introduction Over 100 species of bulbuls...
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Australian Zoologist (2023)
Published: 28 April 2023
... root rot Austropuccinia psidii Phytophthora cinnamomi fungi oomycetes The impact of plant diseases on wildlife in Australia Brett A. Summerell Australian Institute of Botanical Science Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Mrs Macquaries Rd, Sydney, New South Wales 2000 Australia...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (1): 102–104.
Published: 02 June 2014
... in a botanical garden and the other on a beach. The two dogs adapted their behaviours for the habitat and the particular challenges presented. One dog used waves in a beach environment, which aided concealment and increased its momentum when springing at gulls. The other dog followed a dry ephemeral stream...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (3): 65–67.
Published: 17 March 2014
...Richard Shine; Mark Fitzgerald This small elapid snake is endangered because of its restriction to a specific habitat (weathered sandstone outcrops in southeastem Australia) that is under heavy pressure for commercial exploitation, especially for “bushrock” in suburban gardens. We review...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 36 (1): 75–92.
Published: 07 September 2012
... at the turn of the twentieth century, of an epidemic disease in thylacines and other marsupi-carnivores. For the first time, detailed symptoms and statistics of the disease are presented, as recorded by museum staff, and zoological-garden curators and veterinarians. It is argued that the effects...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 681–684.
Published: 20 October 2011
... an Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard Tiliqua scincoides digging for fungi in a garden bed, which prompted us to examine the literature on the consumption of fungi by skinks. Our observation, together with a previous record of Tiliqua nigrolutea having consumed the fruiting bodies of truffle-like fungi (Webb...
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
... and apparently bizarre biota that engaged these early colonists. This is even more remarkable, given that the colony was initially established as a penal settlement. A brief history of each of the scientific societies is given as well as the development of the Royal Botanical Gardens and Taronga Zoo in Sydney...