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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2003
10.7882/FS.2003.011
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-6-5
... There is a general, although unfounded, belief that marine organisms are widespread with a low risk of extinction. In reality, many are restricted to small areas with greatly restricted ranges. Narrow range endemics are the result of a combination of intrinsic (biological) and extrinsic...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.041
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... Many non-marine invertebrates are inherently vulnerable because they have very small ranges. Nevertheless, narrow range taxa are generally not being considered in conservation planning because of a lack of information regarding their taxonomy and distribution. Most of the existing information...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 502–509.
Published: 02 September 2024
... Species program. Through these case studies, we suggest that effective conservation planning can be best achieved through (1) narrowing down the number of options under consideration, by eliminating sub-optimal choices (2) supporting decision-makers to understand the relative advantages and disadvantages...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.037
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
... trends for inland arid and semi-arid Australia. Endemism and species richness were examined at species, genus and family level. Of the 125 species-group taxa included in the analysis, 42 (33.6%) are narrow-range endemics (occupying three or fewer 10 km 2 grid squares. Of these endemics, 33 (78.6...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 386–461.
Published: 20 May 2022
... possible on-going threats. Long-term monitoring and research are critical to ensure effective management especially of narrow range endemics. 4 Corresponding author. E-mail [email protected] Assessing the immediate impacts of the 2019/2020 bushfires on land snails in northeastern...
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (4): 743–752.
Published: 02 February 2021
.... Observations of denning (n=66) across 22 den trees identified that the gliders utilised between 1 and 4 dens during the study. Den trees were predominantly large Blue gum Eucalyptus tereticornis , with Gum-topped box Eucalyptus moluccana, Narrow-leafed ironbark Eucalyptus drepanophylla, Tindale’s stringybark...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 501–507.
Published: 01 September 2015
... observed in a gallery excavated by this species. These structures make reasonable retreat sites for arboreal frogs because they are generally inaccessible to larger predators by being located off the ground and having narrow entrances. © 2015 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2015...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 535–540.
Published: 01 September 2015
... was narrow and subject to development pressures. The results of the surveys modified control burns to exclude breeding sites and retain leaf litter. Email for corresponding author: [email protected] © 2015 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2015 Pseudophryne australis...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (3-4): 225–228.
Published: 17 March 2014
...) rather than the smaller, secretive prey (especially weevils), that dominated the diets of males. This difference may reflect females' difficulties in penetrating into narrow spaces under cover items: females are the larger sex. and are considerably distended during gestation. Diets also differed between...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2014) 21 (1): 1–26.
Published: 17 March 2014
... for the single species R. halsteadi (Whitley). It differs from Marilyna in the lighter built, narrower body, eyes interrupting the dorsal profile, a small olfactory foramen in each prefrontal, and a shallow caudal peduncle. ABE, T. (1939). Notes on Sphoeroides xanthopterus (Temamiinck et Schlegel...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.015
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-6-7
... have yet to be tested for or detected in Australia's species, which are adapted to different environments and have different ancestries. Species of most concern are narrow range, montane species with unique breeding strategies and that occupy consistently moist environments. Recent predictive modeling...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.020
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-6-7
... conditions and habitat may be possible in mountainous areas, but there would be significant barriers to north-south migration in the narrow, densely populated coastal corridor. However, the most pressing threats to Vietnam's wildlife are occurring now, and are hunting, the illegal wildlife trade, illegal...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 544–549.
Published: 20 October 2011
... investigated some of the pitfalls of the US experience that should have been considered in the implementation of the New South Wales legislation and conclude that most issues appear to be associated with the narrowness of concepts around biodiversity, deficiencies in compliance, and long term monitoring...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 685–697.
Published: 20 October 2011
... to the rainforested headwater reaches of each of the nine streams it inhabits, and large areas of cleared, agricultural land separate the species into three disjunct areas on the Richmond Range and the Yabbra Spur. Euastacus gumar is a narrow range taxon with a fragmented, highland distribution (overall extent...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.016
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... likely to be localised near the road, rather than altered at larger scales, because the differences in resource availability driving community differences were restricted to a narrow band immediately adjacent to the road. Thus, none of the vertebrate taxa studied were significantly threatened...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.032
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
...…” We need much more of such cut-and-thrust to avoid the narrow viewpoint that is possible from the comfort of mid-city life. On the other hand, do we really think that those in immediate contact with a wildlife problem are always the best informed to manage our wildlife? Arthur White delicately touched...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.046
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
... depth zonation, being most numerous in pools on outer bends and in the thalweg. In downstream weir pools it was found only in a narrow band along the banks of the original river channel. Reduced frequency and duration of flow due to water resource development may threaten the continued existence...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.044
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
..., while P. norfolcensis occurred mainly in drier forest types. Interspecific competition is a likely cause of these broad habitat differences between the two glider species, with squirrel gliders being competitively superior, but exhibiting a narrower range of preferred habitats. Rainforest has been...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.040
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... Eleven native millipede species (Polydesmida and Polyzoniida) have range boundaries in a narrow, 70 km-long zone, here called the Mersey Break, which runs inland from Devonport on the north coast of Tasmania. In each of four millipede genera, the Mersey Break is the parapatric boundary between...