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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (4): 801–802.
Published: 07 July 2021
...Daniel J. Bickel The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests Geoff Williams Hardback| September 2020 | $A 195.00 ISBN: 978|4863|2917 | 392 pages | 270 x 210 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Book Review The Invertebrate World of Australia s Subtropical Rainforests Geoff...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 151–157.
Published: 01 January 2019
...John Hadley ABSTRACT This paper explains a meaningful sense in which a painless death can be a misfortune for an invertebrate. The account presented is a logical implication of bringing together two distinct pieces of theory: the deprivation account of the harm of death and the biocentric ethical...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 617–626.
Published: 01 December 2018
... agencies to go and find something else to do, but Keeling stuck to his guns. To him, understanding the Earth meant looking at it unblinkingly with careful Planning for long-term invertebrate studies problems, pitfalls and possibilities Jonathan Majer1,2,3,4,5 and Brian Heterick2,3 1 School of Plant...
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Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 529–534.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Tamra F. Chapman Interactions between mammals and invertebrates remain a gap in our knowledge of the role of fossorial foragers in Australian ecosystems. This is probably because digging mammals disappeared from the majority of their former range before they could be studied and because...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.010
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... The ubiquity and functional importance of invertebrates means they have become increasingly recognised as suitable goals for conservation activities. The simple transfer of regulation and management activities devised for vertebrates and plants has occurred in almost all Australian States...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.050
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... The response of ground-dwelling jarrah forest invertebrates to logging (but not a post-harvest burning) was examined in the Kingston, Warrup and Winnejup forest blocks, approximately 25 km north-east of Manjimup in the south-west of Western Australia. Twenty sites, comprising eight Internal...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.845
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... practice on the flora and fauna. The effects on a biodiverse and functionally important component, the terrestrial invertebrates, are largely unknown. This study looked at ground-active invertebrates and found that grazing impacts operate within a configuration of broader environmental and historical...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.063
EISBN: 0-9586085-9-8
... The difficulties in applying threatened species legislation, which has a general vertebrate and vascular plant focus, to invertebrates, have been widely recognised. Nevertheless, such legislation provides valuable opportunities to promote invertebrate conservation that were previously available...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.007
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... of this approach for invertebrate conservation in managed forests. As invertebrates comprise the bulk of the biodiversity in these systems it is important that they are effectively incorporated into any proposed reporting scheme. This research shows that specific forest types and their growth stages do not support...
Book Chapter
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.026
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... Recognizing and naming species underpins assessment of species richness, patterns of diversity, distribution and endemism, and most of the templates used to define invertebrate assemblages and help set priorities for conservation. Formal names facilitate information retrieval, and also influence...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.042
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... Museum collections are largely untapped sources of key information for the conservation of invertebrate biodiversity but in many cases these data are not readily available to land managers. Meanwhile significant faunal habitats containing much of Australia’s terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.046
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
..., and appropriate monitoring and reporting methods for several environment themes, including biodiversity. This paper discusses the benefits to SoE reporting of including invertebrate biodiversity and the possible role for invertebrate s in assisting SoE reporting of habitat condition at regional (sub-national...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.056
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... The Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 represents an advance for invertebrate conservation in New South Wales. Currently terrestrial vertebrates and vascular plants dominate the schedules, but a small number of threatened invertebrate species have been listed. Three snails and four...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.066
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... conservation outcomes for marine biological systems. The paper briefly summarizes the work of the Marine and Coastal Community Network since its inception. It emphasizes the need to develop strategically targeted communication strategies based on market research to advance invertebrate conservation. It also...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.067
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... It seems even in this current age of scientific enlightenment our spineless invertebrate cousins are still being ignored and despised. It remains a hard call for anyone wishing to use the electronic media to push the case for the importance of invertebrates in biodiversity research and nature...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (2): 194–209.
Published: 17 March 2014
...David Llewellyn In order to ascertain whether introduced weeds have an effect on naturally occurring aquatic fauna, this study assesses the toxicity of 3 introduced weeds that occur along the banks of rivers and ponds in New South Wales, on 4 aquatic invertebrates. Damsel Fly nymphs, Mud Eyes...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.060
EISBN: 0-9586085-9-8
... Invertebrates dominate both terrestrial and aquatic environments in terms of their diversity, yet few have been listed as threatened. Does this really mean that few species are threatened, or is it more likely that we just do not know enough about invertebrate populations? Realistically, given...