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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 409.
Published: 30 October 2023
...Dorian Moro Book Review Book Review Island Jewels: the natural history of Western Australia s islands Ian Abbott and Andrew A Burbidge. 2022. Book Reality Experience, Leschenault,Western Australia. Available from selected bookshops and online, price varies Published: 30 October 2023 DOI...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 116–122.
Published: 26 May 2023
...James L Sansom; Mark D Blythman; Ron Priemus; Peter R Mawson ABSTRACT During the early 1900s, the Acclimatization Committee of Western Australia introduced several species to Rottnest Island, most of which ultimately failed to establish. The Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus was one that was successful...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 521–533.
Published: 02 February 2021
...Linda Behrendorff Canids across the world are involved in negative interactions between humans and their interests, with numerous examples of conflict management. K’gari (Fraser Island) and its dingo population are well known for the human-dingo conflict in the tourism and residential scenes...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 374–387.
Published: 14 September 2020
... released on to an island as vertebrate biocontrol tools intended to eradicate feral goats and restore native vegetation being threatened by the goats. The experiment was successful, and the dingoes reduced the goat population to one or perhaps two male goats within ~2 years. This predator introduction...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (1): 1–14.
Published: 02 June 2014
...Peter Green Two endemic rat species, Rattus macleari and R. nativitatis , went extinct on Christmas Island more than a century ago, contributing to an unenviable record of mammal extinctions in Australia. This paper provides the historical context for the extinctions, and shows they were...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (4): 476–479.
Published: 17 March 2014
...: causes and implications. Pp 103-125 in Invasive Species and Biodiversity Management, edited by O.T.Sandlund, P.J.Schei and Å. Viken. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht. Netherlands. Invasive Species and Biodiversity Management 103 125 Fullagar, P. J. and Heyligers, P. C. 1998. Montagu Island...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (4): 474–475.
Published: 17 March 2014
...T.E. Heinsohn Brongersma, L.D. 1958.The Animal World of Netherlands New Guinea. J.B. Wolters, Groningen. The Animal World of Netherlands New Guinea Brown, W.C. 1952. The Amphibians of the Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 107(1): 1-70. The Amphibians...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (1): 6–10.
Published: 17 March 2014
...P. Myroniuk A mammal trapping programme was conducted on Hinchinbrook Island between 13 December, 1985, and 11 January, 1986, for the Australian New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society (ANZSES). A total of 59 individual mammals were trapped, representing 10 species. Incidental sightings brought...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (4): 419–425.
Published: 17 March 2014
...Michael Murphy A survey of the mammal fauna in the coastal forests and adjacent farmland in the Seven Mile Beach/Comerong Island area, near Nowra on the New South Wales south coast, recorded 22 native and 7 introduced species. lnsectivorous bats (10 species) comprised 45Y. of the native species...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 36 (1): 120–124.
Published: 07 September 2012
...Nicholas Carlile; David Priddel Australia's most widespread palm, the Cabbage Tree Palm Livistona australis (R. Br.) Mart. has only a few offshore populations, but one of considerable significance is on Cabbage Tree Island on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. This island is also the principal...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 560–568.
Published: 20 October 2011
...Paul Meek; Richard Hawksby; Athol Ardler; Matt Hudson; Kersten Tuckey Ground baiting was carried out in an operational pest control program between 1993 and 1995 aimed at eradicating Black rats Rattus rattus from Bowen Island in Jervis Bay. Rattus rattus was abundant across most of the Island...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 870–875.
Published: 20 October 2011
...A. Melzer; C. Baudry; M. Kadiri; W. Ellis Koalas Phascolarctos cinereus on St Bees Island displayed two significantly different patterns of tree species utilisation. Utilisation by day was complex with 36.5% in Eucalyptus tereticornis , Forest red gum, and 63.5% in a suite of non-eucalypt species...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (1): 82–89.
Published: 04 October 2011
...Peter Shaughnessy; Terry Dennis; Dave Dowie; Jane McKenzie; Rebecca McIntosh The status of the Australian sea lion Neophoca cinerea at eight sites on Kangaroo Island was assessed using criteria adopted by the National Seal Strategy Group based on numbers of pups counted between 1985 and 2005. Each...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.030
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... No evidence for the continued existence of bats was determined during two surveys of Norfolk Island. A pilot survey for bats was undertaken on Norfolk Island in 1986 using harp trap and mist net capture techniques. A subsequent survey in 2003 was undertaken using echolocation call detection...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.048
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... and managers to publicise some of the pressing conservation issues facing bats. No story exemplifies these more than the recent extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Pipistrellus murrayi . In his reflective book on forest pattern and ecological process, ecologist David Lindenmayer emphasised...