...Matt W. Hayward; Stephan Chalup; Jamil Khan; Alex Callen; Kaya Klop-Toker; Andrea Griffin ABSTRACT Conservation managers cannot manage what they don’t know about, yet our existing biodiversity monitoring is idiosyncratic and small in scale. One of Australia’s commitments to the Convention...

... in abundance and distribution during the monitoring period. Except for Seven Mile Beach, there has been a sharp decline in the abundance of Southern Greater Gliders in the coastal reserves surveyed. There was limited recovery of Southern Greater Glider in Meroo NP and Murramarang NP after the 2018-20 drought...

...Leroy Gonsalves; Brad Law; Chris Slade ABSTRACT Landscape-scale monitoring is used to track changes in the status of fauna populations, including identifying when and where change is occurring over large areas. Yet few programs at this scale exist despite calls for long-term monitoring, especially...

... are implicated in a significant decline in L. watsoni . The number of L. watsoni and several other common species of frog observed differed among and within sites over time and illustrate the value of multi-year monitoring to understand the dynamics of population distribution and abundance with long-term...

...Andrew P. Smith; John Pile ABSTRACT This study is the second in a series that examines the habitat requirements and response to logging of koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) inhabiting tall eucalypt forests of north-east NSW. It presents the findings of koala population and habitat monitoring...

... (predators, competitors, but also a food source), and with humans (sting swimmers, but also source of income and food). As a result, it is important to have a precise and efficient tool for monitoring jellyfish populations. In this extended abstract, we will review studies that have used drones to monitor...

... was monitored at nominally weekly intervals, by sex, across the duration of the flying season in six mire patches in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. There was a preponderance of adult males and a relatively consistent trend in changing relative abundance of adult males compared to females within mire...

... suggesting the adult population overwinters within the catchment of this creek and disperse down this catchment to Brundee Swamp to breed in spring. The results from six years monitoring indicate the Crookhaven L. aurea population has not recovered in abundance and distribution since 2010-2012. The three...

...A.S. Kutt; N.J. Colman ABSTRACT The choice of methods used for biodiversity assessments and monitoring are an important consideration for an effective inventory of species. There is little published data comparing trapping and active searching for reptile surveys. In this study we used data...

...Michael J. Murphy ABSTRACT Bat departure activity was monitored at a grated cave site where bat windows had been added to the existing grate to improve accessibility for echolocating bats. Eastern Horseshoe-bats Rhinolophus megaphyllus were able to exit and re-enter the grated cave through bat...

... and this subsequently became the baseline for further population monitoring. A subset of 48 sites was resurveyed in 2010, and about one third of the sites (~40) were surveyed annually on a rotating panel between 2013–2019. Wildfire significantly impacted the Bago Plateau during 2020 and 51 sites were resurveyed post...

...Richard A. Fuller; Micha V. Jackson; Tatsuya Amano; Chi-Yeung Choi; Robert S. Clemens; Birgita D. Hansen; Da-Li Lin; Rochelle Steven; Bradley K. Woodworth ABSTRACT Monitoring migratory species can be extremely challenging. For example, millions of migratory shorebirds migrate from breeding grounds...

...Chris N. Thomson ABSTRACT Long-term monitoring of the Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae in a semi-urban landscape before, during and after large-scale habitat removal identified a positive response in breeding activity in the short-term and a change in prey selectivity. Over the longer term, the loss...

... citizen-science projects date back to the early 20th century, e.g., Christmas Bird Counts (National Audubon The Greenspace Bird Calculator: a citizen- driven tool for monitoring avian biodiversity in urban greenspaces Corey T. Callaghan1 John H. Wilshire1, John M. Martin1, Richard E. Major1,2, Mitchell B...

... Theme edition: New Approaches to Zoology Australian Zoologist volume 40 (3) A large-scale automated radio telemetry network for monitoring movements of terrestrial wildlife in Australia Andrea S. Griffin1, Culum Brown2, Bradley K. Woodworth3, Guy-Anthony Ballard4,16, Stuart Blanch5, Hamish A. Campbell6...

... through traditional means (Colefax et al. 2018; Hodgdon et al. 2018). In addition, drones offer the advantage of high spatial and temporal resolution and provide a systematic and permanent record (Linchant et al. 2014). Thus, drone Continuous wildlife monitoring using blimps as an aerial platform: a case...

...Daniel Lunney; Brad Purcell; Steve McLeod; Gordon Grigg; Tony Pople; Steve Wolter ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to highlight long-term (four decades) research and monitoring the populations of the four species of large kangaroos in New South Wales (NSW). Kangaroos are counted by aerial surveys...

...Emma L. Burns; Philip Tennant; Chris R. Dickman; Graeme Gillespie; Peter T. Green; Ary Hoffmann; David A. Keith; David B. Lindenmayer; Daniel J. Metcalfe; John W. Morgan; Jeremy Russell-Smith; Glenda M. Wardle ABSTRACT In ecological monitoring, data on changes in biotic and environmental attributes...

...David Lindenmayer ABSTRACT Long-term ecological research and monitoring is a critical activity that has multiple important values for research, policy and management. Yet long-term studies are not particularly common. A range of factors contributes to this relative rarity and make it hard...

...Catherine J Price; Alan Morris; Garon Staines; Robert Payne; Jane Smith ABSTRACT Long-term monitoring of threatened species often reveals processes undermining population recovery that may not be evident over shorter timeframes. When populations are small and isolated, normal behaviours...