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Book cover for Pest or Guest: The Zoology of Overabundance
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.025
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
... their effects can be beneficial. The positive effects of pests arise when they become deeply embedded in ecological communities and are involved in webs of direct and indirect interactions with other species. In this paper, I first outline the concepts of direct and indirect interactions, and then describe two...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 570–576.
Published: 20 October 2011
... was significantly outside the range exhibited by the other two treatments in terms of tadpole growth and there was no clear evidence of any indirect chemically-based interactions between tadpoles of the two species. As this study has provided no indication that there may be inter-specific interactions between...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.041
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
... and abundance have been linked to the direct and indirect impacts of pastoralism. Grazing by livestock is the main “direct” impact of pastoral activity and has resulted in widespread changes in habitat structure and a decrease in primary productivity. The loss in primary productivity may have reduced...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.011
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-6-7
... in the composition of microbial communities on algal surfaces and can be induced via exposure to ambient seawater microbes and cultures of putative pathogens. Direct consequences of bleaching include reductions in algal growth and fecundity. Bleaching also has indirect ecological effects on the alga, with bleached...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 214–219.
Published: 11 November 2020
.... That advantage has outweighed occasional cases where a snake is fatally poisoned by consuming a toad. Thus, the overall impact of Cane Toads on Carpet Pythons (and likely, other predator species) is a balance between direct costs and indirect benefits. Negative impacts on individuals may not necessarily...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 534–549.
Published: 25 February 2021
... to the absence of the top-down control of dingo predation. This hypothesis has since been widely supported in empirical studies (Caughley et al. 1980; Pople et al. 2000; Letnic and Koch 2010). More recently, research has focussed on the indirect effects that removal of dingoes has on ecosystems (Letnic et al...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 631–642.
Published: 04 January 2022
... the fire such as the extent of herbivory in regenerating vegetation and whether the ecosystem is subject to post-fire (salvage) logging. (3) Fire history (e.g. the number of past fires and the time since the previous fire). And, (4) Interactions between fire and other ecosystem drivers such as logging. We...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 35 (4): 1033–1039.
Published: 29 January 2012
... out from the harbour foreshore by the direct effects of the plague and the indirect effects arising from rat persecution to prevent plague, making the arrival of bubonic plague in the 1900s a disaster for Sydney's foreshore wildlife. If this hypothesis is correct, then future attempts to restore Bush...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (4): 1037–1040.
Published: 02 December 2022
... of biodiversity surveys and environmental impact assessments across Australia and wherever detailed knowledge of population demography is required. The data quality derived from live-trapping is typically superior to other indirect means of mammal sampling, such as hair traps, tracking stations or sand traps...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 663–675.
Published: 02 April 2024
..., 664 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 43 (4) 2024 Designing marine infrastructure to restore native shellfish many ecosystem services, and functions that bivalves perform have been lost due to coastal development. Declines in shellfish reefs are due to both direct and indirect effects of coastal development...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (2): 190–202.
Published: 10 October 2011
..., individual effects of climate- change factors such as changes to habitat, temperature and pH, but also to their indirect, interactive effects with other factors that are likely to become more important, especially beach nourishment and hard engineering. Documentation of assemblages. This includes...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 71–81.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... and Bauer, J. J., 1997. Species interactions between the White-winged Chough and Australian Magpie in a fragmented landscape. Pac. Cons. Biol. 3: 289-94. Species interactions between the White-winged Chough and Australian Magpie in a fragmented landscape Pac. Cons. Biol. 3 289 94 Croft, J. D...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (1-2): 79–84.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of the base of Split Rock suggesting that they frequent this locality. Since no direct observations of rock- wallabies were made, and no indirect evidence of their presence found, it was decided that no further investigation would be carried out at this area. 2. Mount Exmouth: Due to the large size...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 64–67.
Published: 17 March 2014
... on indigenous vertebrates Mem. Qld. Mus. 17 305 10 FLIER, J., EDWARDS, M. W., DALY, J. W. AND MYERS, C. W., 1980. Widespread occurrence in frogs and toads of skin compounds interacting with the ouabain site of Na+, K+-ATPase. Science 208: 50345. Widespread occurrence in frogs and toads of skin...
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Book cover for Pest or Guest: The Zoology of Overabundance
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/9780980327212
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 379–389.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of the supermarkets, migration, television advertising, a higher proportion of women in the workforce, fragmented meal times, an increase in convenience foods , declining food prices and health messages targeting saturated fat and cholesterol, all interacted to change our society and our diet. Among...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 358–366.
Published: 28 October 2021
...). This is just one example of many, showing that species that have moved to new locations adapt to their new environment. 2. Alien species have mismatches in interactions with residents Alien species do novel things in their novel ecosystems largely because of mismatches in their interaction with local species...
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Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (2): 183–191.
Published: 01 January 2016
... with a partly masticated toad in its oesophagus. This, and other indirect evidence, indicates that Cane Toads are being taken by Ghost Bats on an occasional basis and that these episodic predation events may be a significant factor in the observed decline in Ghost Bats populations in areas where Cane Toads...