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Impact of the 2019–20 drought, heatwaves and mega-fires on Greater Gliders ( Petauroides volans ) in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, New South Wales

Peter Smith, Judy Smith

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 164–181.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.017

Published: 09 May 2022

...Peter Smith; Judy Smith ABSTRACT We have investigated the impact of the unprecedented drought, heatwaves and fires of 2019–20 on a threatened arboreal marsupial, the Greater Glider ( Petauroides volans ), in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, an area of over one million hectares...

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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.

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

Published: 18 August 2021

... to identify (i) threats faced by the koala across Victoria and (ii) their perceptions on koala population trends and potential threat mitigation actions. Wildlife rehabilitators identified habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation as the biggest threat to koalas, while vehicle collisions, heatwaves...

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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

DOI: 10.7882/FS.2012.022

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-6-7

... benefited from the plantings of trees and shrubs to hold down the water table in the face of a rising salinity crisis. In late 2009, heatwaves killed an estimated 25% of the Gunnedah koala population. This foreshadows how increased climate variability will impact on koala populations. In 2008, chlamydiosis...

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Climate change and land clearing: a short note

C. McAlpine, J. Syktus, J. Ryan

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 431.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2010.028

Published: 14 October 2011

... severely impacted by climate change, reflected in warmer and drier conditions with increased frequency of droughts, heatwaves, bushfires and floods. Climate change projections for Australia show potential for significant changes, especially for high emission scenarios, with a projected temperature increase...

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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): fmi.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.039

Published: 31 August 2022

... Hutchings, Christopher R. Dickman, Brad Law and Daniel Lunney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Volume 42 Number 2 2022 Contents Out of the ashes: lessons learned from bushfires and how we can better manage our fauna -editors introduction 163 Impact of the 2019-20 drought, heatwaves and mega...

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Modelling the potential range of the koala at the Last Glacial Maximum: future conservation implications

Christine Adams-Hosking, Patrick Moss, Jonathan Rhodes, Hedley Grantham, Clive McAlpine

Australian Zoologist (2012) 35 (4): 983–990.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2011.052

Published: 29 January 2012

... Gallery 1 11 36 Gordon, G., Brown, A.S. and Pulsford, T. 1988. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought and heatwave conditions in south-western Queensland. Austral Ecology 13: 451-461. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought...

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Climate change and the koala Phascolarctos cinereus : water and energy

W. Ellis, A. Melzer, I. Clifton, F. Carrick

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 369–377.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2010.025

Published: 14 October 2011

... consumption of free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) Australian Journal of Zoology 43 59 68 Gordon, G., Brown, A.S. and Pulsford, T. 1988. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought and heatwave conditions in south-western Queensland. Australian Journal...

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Decline in the distribution of the Koala Phascolarctos cinereus in Queensland

Greg Gordon, Frances Hrdina, Ross Patterson

Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 345–358.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2006.008

Published: 17 March 2014

... (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought and heatwave conditions in south-western Queensland. Australian Journal of Ecology 13: 451-462. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought and heatwave conditions in south-western Queensland Australian Journal...

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Raking over the ashes: assessing the impact of fire on native fauna in the aftermath of Australia’s 2019–2020 fires

Christopher R. Dickman, Pat Hutchings, Brad Law, Daniel Lunney

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 643–653.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.037

Published: 31 August 2022

... and Smith (2022): Much of eastern Australia had been in drought since January 2017, with conditions becoming drier with each year (BOM 2020). The drought peaked in 2019, which was the hottest and driest year on record in Australia (Abram et al. 2021). The extreme drought and heatwave conditions in 2019...

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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.

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

Published: 07 September 2012

... Oecologia 116 293 305 Gordon, G., Brown, A. S. and Pulsford, T. 1988. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought and heatwave conditions in south-western Queensland. Australian Journal of Ecology 13: 451-461. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population...

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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.

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

Published: 17 March 2014

..., A. S. AND PULSFORD, T., 1988. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought and heatwave conditions in south-western Queensland. Aust. J. Ecol. 13: 451-61. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought and heatwave conditions in south-western...

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Landscape legacies: Koala habitat change in Noosa Shire, South-east Queensland

L.M. Seabrook, C. A. McAlpine, S. R. Phinn, J. Callaghan, D. Mitchell

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (3): 446–461.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2002.023

Published: 17 March 2014

...) population crash during drought and heatwave conditions in south-western Queensland. Australian Journal of Ecology 13: 451-461 Gordon, G., McGreevy, D.G. and Lawrie, B.C. 1990. Koala populations in Queensland: major limiting factors. Biology of the Koala. Edited by A.K. Lee, K.A. Handasyde and G.D. Sanson...

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Nest predators of a woodland bird community in south-east Australia

Michael Guppy, Sarah Guppy, David Priddel, Peter Fullagar

Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (1): 105–116.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.012

Published: 02 June 2014

... reduced by extreme weather events such as heatwaves and storms (Ricklefs 1969; Guppy et al. 2012). For most passerines, nest predation is the prime cause of nest failure, and a powerful influencing force in the selection of breeding strategies and life- history traits (Ricklefs 1969; Nilsson 1986; Martin...

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A management case study of a Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus camp on residential land

Matthew Mo, Lorraine Oliver, Kylie Coutts-McClelland, Nathaly Jones, Joshua Gregory

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (3): 752–769.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.006

Published: 02 March 2022

... experienced numerous heatwave periods (Jyoteeshkumar reddy 2021). The Shoalhaven local government area experienced daytime temperatures above 40°C on three days, 4 and 23 January and 1 February 2020 (Australian Bureau of Meteorology 2021), which resulted in mass mortalities of flying-foxes in at least three...

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Corporate support for threatened species recovery efforts: three case studies from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season

Matthew Mo, Mike Roache, Tania Reid, Damon L. Oliver, Linda Broome ...

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 186–193.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.031

Published: 30 September 2020

... drought conditions and heatwaves have an immediate impact on wildlife through the onset of injuries and deaths (e.g. Russell et al. 2003; Wallis 2013). During the 2019-20 summer, expert opinion from the University of Sydney (2020) estimated that more than one billion animals died as a result...

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Field studies of a high elevation population of northern Greater glider Petauroides volans minor in the Bluff State Forest, Far North Queensland

C.R. Starr, R.T. Hughes, M.S. Hemmings, J.F. Coase, M. D. Jess

Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (4): 743–752.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.003

Published: 02 February 2021

... sites were observed following heatwaves (Laurance 2009; Laurance 2010). P. v. minor exhibited relatively large ranging patterns in the Bluff State Forest (1.03-11.45 ha), which is likely to be associated with resource availability. In high quality habitat in southern parts of their distribution (both...

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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): fmii–fmcdxcviii.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.038

Published: 31 August 2022

..., Christopher R. Dickman, Brad Law and Daniel Lunney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Volume 42 Number 2 2022 Contents Out of the ashes: lessons learned from bushfires and how we can better manage our fauna -editors introduction 163 Impact of the 2019-20 drought, heatwaves and mega-fires on Greater...

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Koala and Possum Populations in Queensland during the Harvest Period, 1906-1936

Greg Gordon, Frances Hrdina

Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (1): 69–99.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2005.006

Published: 17 March 2014

... Symposium, edited by G. Gordon. World Koala Research Incorporated, Brisbane. Koalas - Research for Management. Proceedings of the Brisbane Koala Symposium 154 161 Gordon, G., Brown, A.S. and Pulsford, T. 1988. A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss) population crash during drought and heatwave...

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Dingoes dining with death

Emma Spencer, Thomas Newsome

Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 433–451.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.008

Published: 13 April 2021

... , which have occurred as a result of heatwaves, droughts, floods, and bushfires. These carcasses may be utilised by dingoes and could provide an important resource when alternative foods are scarce. Indeed, patterns of dingo scavenging may be linked to fluctuations in their preferred prey (Thomson 1992...

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Homo sapiens is the apex animal: anthropocentrism as a Dionysian sword

Peter JS Fleming, Guy Ballard

Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 464–476.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.019

Published: 01 June 2017

... and their testing. Future impacts caused by climate change include fragmentation and loss of montane ecosystems and some associated species, severe drying and reductions in water resources in southern Australia, increased heatwaves, fire frequency and intensity and increased damage to ecosystems through...

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