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... Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and this study identified those same 15 species as being uncommon to rare on the Cumberland Plain. In addition, many other Cumberland Plain woodland bird species are uncommon and are also in decline. Apart from the threatened species it is likely that 12 other species may...

... of the cheetah's natural prey. This has greatly reduced their range. This restricted range, together with the small popu- lation, is believed responsible for low fertility and high infant mortality rates observed in the wild and in captivity. The birth of the three male cubs brings Western Plains Zoo's total...

... (basalt) plains grassland, Victoria A. S. Kuttl G. Coubonl and J. Wainer' 'Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052 'F'resent address: Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811 'Invertebrate Survey Section, Museum...

...,Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo, NSW 2830, Australia * Corresponding author: School of Human Health and Social Sciences, Central Queensland University Australia (Adelaide Campus), 44 Greenhill Road,Wayville, South Australia, Australia, 5034. Email: [email protected] Where wild carnivores...

..., Coomera, Qld, 4209, Australia 4Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo, NSW 2830, Australia *Author for correspondence - Dr Steve Johnston, School of Animal Studies, The University of Queensland, Gatton, QLD 4343, Australia; Phone - 61732026902; Fax - 61733655644; Email - [email protected] A B ST R...

... the fauna of the grassy woodlands on the Cumberland Plain and Southern Tablelands. The most significant impacts followed the clearing and fragmentation of the vegetation for agriculture. Changed fire regimes, the naturalization of exotic plants and animals, and disease were also factors in the decline...

... South Wales, the Bogong High Plains area (including sub-populations on Mt Bogong, the Bogong High Plains and Mt Higginbotham) and at Mt Buller in Victoria. Highest densities and breeding females are largely confined to periglacial blockfields and blockstreams (termed boulderfields) at altitudes above...

...). In north-eastern Queensland, regions such as the Gulf Plains and Mitchell Grass Downs are thought to be significant barriers between eastern and western fauna species and subspecies (Schodde and Mason 1999). However there is a steady smattering of records of arid and inland species occurring much further...

..., and 2.6% of the total number of kangaroos in the commercial zone. The four decades of records of the population sizes show that the numbers vary between about 5 million and 18 million for the western plains, where the counting has been consistent over the same area since the beginning of the surveys...

...Mick Andren; David Milledge; David Scotts; Jill Smith ABSTRACT The Northern Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus tridactylus is progressively disappearing from habitat remnants on the far north coast of New South Wales and is in danger of becoming extinct on the northern coastal plain...

... to the site from an estimated distance of ≥ 32 km and appeared to be resident over a period of ≥ 4 months, coinciding with a localised irruption of Plains mice Pseudomys australis. Dietary analysis confirmed that the owls specialised on small mammals, with rodent and dasyurid species accounting for c. 98...

...Murray Ellis; Jennifer Taylor Loss and fragmentation of the native vegetation of the Central Western Plains of New South Wales was followed by declines of woodland-dependent species. Drought is likely to have further suppressed many animal populations. Here we report on changes in woodland bird...

... been, and may still be, the major threat to koalas in Queensland. Contraction in the overall range has occurred on the northern and western margins of the distribution (the Wet Tropics, Gulf Plains, Mitchell Grass Downs, and Mulga Lands Bioregions). Distribution showed a latitudinal change during...

... presence and riparian River Red Gum E. camaldulensis forest / woodland. Nearest neighbour distances between records were similar to those found elsewhere on the NSW central west slopes and plains. Barking Owl habitat associations territory threatened species Ayers, D., Nash, S. and Baggett...

...Geoff Brown; Keith Cherry; Jennifer Nelson; Louise Grgat The Menindee Lakes system in the Darling Riverine Plains bioregion in western New South Wales supports a diverse terrestrial vertebrate fauna. A survey of this fauna in spring 2000 and summer 2001 for the New South Wales Department of Land...