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Direct impacts of logging and forest management on the brush-tailed phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa and other arboreal marsupials in a jarrah forest of Western Australia

By Susan G. Rhind
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.036
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... The direct impacts of logging on the arboreal, solitary brush-tailed phascogale were investigated in jarrah forest in south-western Australia. Individuals were monitored before, during and after logging in the Kingston Forest in 1995. The study was complicated by the effects of a drought...
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Why the integration of demographic and site-based studies of disturbance is essential for the conservation of jarrah forest fauna

By Grant Wardell-Johnson, Michael Calver, Denis Saunders, Simon Conroy, Barbara Jones
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.022
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... We review recent studies of the impacts of disturbance on the fauna of the jarrah forest, south-western Australia. In particular, we examine five case studies that provide alternative approaches to researching disturbance impacts. Assessing site-based studies of patterns of fire regimes lead us...
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The value of unlogged buffers for vulnerable bird species in the jarrah forest of south-west Western Australia

By Michael D. Craig
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.047
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... Retaining strips of unlogged forest, called buffers, is a common strategy for maintaining populations of vulnerable species in production forests in Australia. I conducted a study to examine the effectiveness of buffers in maintaining populations of vulnerable bird species in jarrah forests...
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Conservation and biodiversity of spiders in Western Australian jarrah forest: untangling multiple disturbance effects from burning and mining

By Karl E.C. Brennan, Melinda L. Moir, Jonathan D. Majer
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.914
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... Conservation of Australian spiders has received scant attention to date. This chapter summarizes recent research on the biodiversity of spiders from the northern jarrah forest and their response to disturbance, in particular, the singular disturbances of burning or mining and the multiple...
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Monitoring biodiversity in jarrah forest in south-west Western Australia: the Forestcheck initiative

By Ian Abbott, Neil Burrows
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.947
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... F orestcheck is a monitoring framework devised in 1999 to quantify, record, interpret and report on the status of key forest organisms, communities, and processes in response to both forest management activities and natural variation. Monitoring is treated in this initiative as a form...
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Acarine (mite) communities colonizing rehabilitated bauxite mine pits in the jarrah forest of Western Australia

By Alex Cuccovia, Adrianne Kinnear
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.011
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... This study investigated the abundance and diversity of acarine (mite) communities in the soil of rehabilitated bauxite mine pits of the Northern Jarrah Eucalyptus marginata forest in south-west Australia. The areas selected had been subject to various revegetation techniques and ranged in age...
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Management of tree hollows in the jarrah Eucalyptus marginata forest of Western Australia

By Kim Whitford, Geoff Stoneman
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.049
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... This paper examines the management of hollows in trees in the jarrah forest. In the first part of this paper we present a framework for development of strategies for the retention of hollow-bearing trees at the stand scale, and the information available for application of this process...
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Seasonal invertebrate communities in multiple use jarrah forests. Implications for conservation and management

By K. H. Strehlow, J.S. Bradley, J. A. Davis, G.R. Friend
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...
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Sustained unsustainability? An evaluation of evidence for a history of overcutting in the jarrah forests of Western Australia and its consequences for fauna conservation

By Michael Calver, Grant Wardell-Johnson
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.009
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... In 1996, Government directives began a transition to conform logging in Western Australia's State forests to principles of ecologically sustainable forest management (ESFM). To place this in a historical context, we reviewed the history of the logging of jarrah Eucalyptus marginata forests...
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Forest wildlife and habitat management in southwestern Australia: knowledge, research and direction

By Grant Wardell-Johnson, Owen Nichols
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1991
10.7882/RZSNSW.1991.015
EISBN: 0-9599951-5-3
... remain poorly understood. Most research in the Darling District has been directed to disturbance ecology including mining, logging, fire and plant disease. Rehabilitation following bauxite mining and the dynamics and management of dieback disease caused by Phytophthora dnnamomi in the jarrah forest...
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Journal Articles

Protected areas, conservation and resource capacity: Historical lessons for conservation from Western Australia's South Dandalup Reserve

Michael Calver, Grant Wardell–Johnson
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 214–227.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.027
Published: 01 January 2018
... assessing their interplay with newer concerns. This experience illustrates that society can design management systems to conserve biodiversity and ensure long–term sustainable use of renewable resources, but that the political will is often lacking. South Dandalup CAR criteria Lane Poole jarrah forest...
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Planning for long-term invertebrate studies – problems, pitfalls and possibilities

Jonathan Majer, Brian Heterick
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 617–626.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.009
Published: 01 December 2018
... by Dickman (2013) and by Lindenmayer et al. 2012), there is no better way to understand a series of events than to undertake long-term monitoring. Examples of what can be achieved Impact of fire In 1975, a series of plots was established in the Northern Jarrah Forest to investigate the impact of spring...
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A precise definition of habitat is needed for effective conservation and communication

Michael Bamford, Michael Calver
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 245–247.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.015
Published: 05 June 2014
... features that determine where the species occurs . Key words: habitat, environment, botany, zoology, conservation legislation DOI: httpdx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.015 Bamford & Calver Australian Zoologist246 2014 West of Western Australia in Jarrah forest and in coastal woodlands and scrub-heaths...
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Notes on status, distribution and diet of Northern Quoll Dasyurus hallucatus in the Mackay-Bowen area, mideastern Queensland

A. B. Pollock
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (2): 388–395.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.040
Published: 17 March 2014
.... J. Zool., London. 219: 373-83. Spatial organization of a riparian population of the carnivorous marsupial Dasyurus geoffroii J. Zool., London. 219 373 83 Soderquist, T. and Serena, M., 1994. Dietary niche of the Western Quoll, Dasyurus geoffroii, in the Jarrah Forest of Western...
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Observations on the roost characteristics of the East-coast Free-tailed Bat Mormopterus norfolkensis in two different regions of New South Wales

Anna McConville, Bradley Law
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (3): 355–363.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2013.002
Published: 04 June 2013
... in suburban bushland by the urban sensitive bat Nyctophilus gouldi. Journal of Mammalogy 94(2): 307-319. Webala, P.W., Craig, M.D., Law, B.S., Wayne, A.F., Bradley, J.S. 2010. Roost site selection by southern forest bat Vespadelus regulus and Gould s long-eared bat Nyctophilus gouldi in logged jarrah forests...
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Understanding the effects of fire on invertebrates in Australian temperate and sub-tropical forests: the value of long-term experiments

Alan York, Tom Lewis
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 633–645.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.020
Published: 01 December 2018
... on abundance and composition, with a focus on ground-active ants and beetles. Western Australia McCorkhill and Yackelup forest studies The McCorkhill forest study is located 22 km west of the town of Nannup in the Blackwood Plateau forest ecosystem. The site is characterised by an overstorey of jarrah (E...
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An observation of nest robbing and bird predation by wild Brush-tailed Phascogales in central Victoria

William Terry, Albert Golden
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (2): 237–240.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.003
Published: 01 December 2019
...-tailed phascogales (phascogale tapoatafa) in the jarrah forest of south-western australia, Wildlife Dixon, J. and Huxley, L. 1989. Mammals of victoria from Research, 25: 511-526. the collection and notes of donald f. Thomson, The Victorian Naturalist, 106: 4-25. Soderquist, T. 1993. Maternal strategies...
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Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/9780958608589
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
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Lions, leopards and muskoxen: a (very) light-hearted look at the ups, downs, ins and outs of a postdoctoral career through the eyes of two zoologists

Matt Hayward, Adam Munn
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 530–537.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2008.028
Published: 20 October 2011
... of Postdoctoral Fellows. FASEB Newsletter 5: 2-3. FASEB Adopts Definition of Postdoctoral Fellows FASEB Newsletter 5 2 3 Hayward, M.W. 2002. The ecology of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) (Macropodidae: Marsupialia) in the northern jarrah forest of Australia. PhD Thesis, The University of New South...
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Bias and biodiversity

W. F. Ponder
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 47–51.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1992.010
Published: 17 March 2014
... in jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest in Western Australia. Pedobiologia 26: 229-47. Short term responses of soil and litter invertebrates to a coot autumn burn in jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest in Western Australia Pedobiologia 26 229 47 MAJER, J. D., 1987 (ed.). The role...
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