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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 495–501.
Published: 22 April 2024
... nature provides many health, wellbeing and workplace productivity benefits to city dwellers. Hence, there is an urgent need to return nature to cities not only to conserve biodiversity, but also to maintain human experiences of nature. To meet this challenge, there are currently significant global...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2010
10.7882/FS.2010.013
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6
... animals (and plants) to urban society and ecosystems is overdue. Moreover, in an era of accelerating habitat loss, human population growth, urban expansion and climate change the role of cities in conserving global biodiversity may prove critical. Zoologists and conservation biologists already accept...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 306–314.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of an unsettling of the terms of nature in Australia, but also of an unsettling of the terms of Australian society by global social flows. Having placed Australian cities in the context of such turbulence, this paper considers implications of the contested status of urban nature for the practice of nature...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.032
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
..., namely roadkill. The plenary sessions to this forum were filled with interesting details and some provocative challenges, such as that by Des Cooper, “…this discussion is really being conducted with a particular set of assumptions, which are assumptions made by rich, well-to-do people who live in cities...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 468–476.
Published: 01 May 2020
...., Honold, J., Cveji , R., Delshammar, T., Hilbert, S., Lafortezza, R., Nastran, M., Nielsen, A.B., Pintar, M., van der Jagt, A.P.N. and Kowarik, I. 2018. Beyond green: Broad support for biodiversity in multicultural European cities. Global Environmental Change 49, 35-45. httpdx.doi.org/10.1016/j. gloenvcha...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 518–525.
Published: 10 June 2024
.... httpsdoi. org/10.1111/cobi.12359 Grimm, N.B., Faeth, S.H., Golubiewski, N.E., Redman, C.L., Wu, J., Bai, X. and Briggs, J.M. 2008. Global change and the ecology of cities. Science, 319: 756-760. httpsdoi. org/10.1126/science.1150195 Hafi, A., Millist, N., Morey, K., Caley, P. and Buetre, B. 2012. A benefit...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 1–675.
Published: 04 October 2024
...., Colombia Urbanisation is a leading cause of global biodiversity loss, imposing the most rapid and ecologically damaging impacts of any human driven land-use change. Despite the trend of biodiversity decline, urban nature provides many health, wellbeing and workplace productivity benefits to city dwellers...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 231–251.
Published: 09 May 2024
... and native wildlife. The black rat ( Rattus rattus ) is a common commensal species abundant in urban areas and nearby bushland in Australia and globally. It can be a major reservoir of pathogens and vectors for diseases that affect humans, pets, and wildlife. We examined pathogen prevalence in black rats...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (3): 321–331.
Published: 14 March 2013
.... ‘Yellowstone National Park Act (1872)’ http://www.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/yellowstonenational-park-act (accessed 23 September 2009Grimm, Nancy B., Stanley H. Faeth, Nancy E. Golubiewski, Charles L. Redman3, Jianguo Wu, Xuemei Bai and John M. Briggs, 2008. ‘Global Change and the Ecology of Cities...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 256–262.
Published: 05 June 2014
.../10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.08.006 Grimm, N.B., Faeth, S.H., Golubiewski, N.E., Redman, C.L., Wu, J., Bai, X., Griggs, J.M., 2008. Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 319: 756-760. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150195 Gunn, J., Manning, C. 2010, Black Ross (Townsville) Water Quality...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 44 (1): 220–230.
Published: 17 November 2023
..., but also for other urgent environmental issues, including food safety and the emerging concern of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which pose significant national and global threat to both human and animal health with far reaching impacts on economies and livelihoods (WOAH 2022). For instance, in 2015...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 86–87.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of natural systems that we are blessed with o n the western flanks of our largest city. Ross Bradstock NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Hurstville Nature Conservation: Reconstruction of Fragmented Ecosystems, Global and Regional Perspectives - Workshop Report Denis A. Saunders and Richard J. Hobbs...
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Australian Zoologist (2004) 32 (4): 505–507.
Published: 01 December 2004
... visit overseas (or for that matter, on the Australian mainland) are similarly Green. Landscapes with Tasmania's temperate climate are typically packed with farms and cities. The settled habitats in such places are zoologically not very diverse, and the 'wild' bits are small, scattered and teeming...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 217–222.
Published: 20 May 2022
...Dale G. Nimmo; Chris J. Jolly; Alexandra J. R. Carthey ABSTRACT Southern Australia’s 2019–20 wildfire season was unprecedented, but the ecological toll remains poorly understood. Estimates of three billion animals being affected by the fires attracted global attention, but how many of those animals...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 19–23.
Published: 17 March 2014
... report on important resource management issues and environmental problems in other states and cities even though they may be more local than national in interest. All environmental problems are symptoms of more fundamental national and global problems and it assists in developing solutions and finding...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 304–325.
Published: 10 August 2022
... communities for over 400 million years, but anthropogenic climate and land use changes have increased the global fire season length and doubled the area susceptible to wildfires (Bowman et al. 2020a; Jolly et al. 2015). The age of mega-fires has therefore begun, with unprecedented burn extents and fire...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 545–573.
Published: 24 January 2024
... for children on a range of subjects (Hall 2015). Councils and non-government organisations have begun to leverage this format as a means of introducing children to flying-foxes with a positive perspective, as demonstrated in the City of Adelaide s (2019) Adelaide s Bat Camp! and Matilda Bishop s (2022) The Big...
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Australian Zoologist (2024)
Published: 11 October 2024
... City Council, Forestry Corporation of NSW and private landowners. The altitudinal range of sites ranged between 5 - 370m ADH, albeit the majority were below 40m ADH (derived from topographic maps). Most of the reserves had previously been State Forests and subject to logging. The exception was Seven...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 267–271.
Published: 01 June 2017
... is a useful starting point for community studies but it is the processes that are critical for understanding. Ecosystems are yet one further step into talking about vague units, since one can talk about the ecosystem of a city park, of Serengeti National Park, of an island like Ireland, or of all of Australia...