...Linda M. Reinhold ABSTRACT Museum specimens have been used as a convenient alternative to live or fresh animals in an increasing number of studies on fur photoluminescence. Although effects of chemical preservation on specimens have been noted, they have not been experimentally tested. I used...

... Conservation 45 360 64 CORDEL, H. K. AND REED, P. C., 1990. Untrammelled by Man: Preserving Diversity Through Wilderness. In Preparing to Manage Wilderness in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Conference compiled by P. C. Reed. USDA Forest Service. Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. General...

...Robert N. Paddle; Kathryn M. Medlock ABSTRACT When the last known Tasmanian tiger or thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ) died in Hobart Zoo, during the night of 7 th September 1936, its body was reportedly forwarded to the Tasmanian Museum. The apparent failure of the museum to preserve the body...

... services to humans. Therefore, it is vital to preserve the reefs that remain and restore those that have been damaged or lost. Some of this natural habitat has been lost to coastal development making full habitat restoration near impossible. However, targeting habitat building bivalves in restoration...

...James Knight; Thomas Trnski The developmental ontogeny and morphology of the eggs, larvae and early juveniles of the endangered Nannoperca oxleyana is described based on collections of preserved wild fish, and preserved and live captive specimens reared at 25 ± 1° C. Eggs are telolecithal...

... Australia approaches the preservation of biodiversity, abundant birds, such as Australian warblers and pardalotes will decline towards extinction. Email: [email protected] Great Western Woodland insectivorous birds Acanthizidae Pardalotidae foraging behaviour threatened species conservation...

... sources of evidence, with five distinctly exclusive provenances proposed for this specimen. For a species whose extinction was hastened by anthropogenic interventions, we have a moral obligation to preserve as much factual detail as possible about the Thylacine. To this end, the authors have undertaken...

... by personal interviews, invitations to the community to report local koala sightings and a literature search. This paper also identifies those planning considerations and constraints that exist within the shire which are relevant to koala preservation. Examples of planning instruments that can affect koala...

..., these traditions have not been recognized outside of Aboriginal communities, and this loss of cultural heritage comes at great cost to the Australian environment, biodiversity and the health and preservation of vital resources. Water dingo dogs Australian history cultural keystone species environmental...

...Denis A. Saunders The aim of those developing and subsequently managing land in rural areas should be to ensure that the native flora and fauna are preserved, along with the agricultural productivity of the land. Unfortunately, there are few places where this has been achieved; land degradation...

... of nature reserves in Britain, the important role of research, and the central position of an ecological outlook on nature conservation, rather than the more limited label of preservation. Protected areas in Australia are often under–estimated, both for wildlife research and as havens for fauna populations...

...; (c) a contribution to food quality; and (d) a way to preserve and celebrate cultural and dietary diversity. Dietary diversity and reduced greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of animal-source food produced can be promoted through the consumption of all edible parts of the carcass, including highly...

...Robert Close; Steven Ward; David Phalen ABSTRACT The great public appeal of the Koala Phascolarctos cinereus gives it political power. Its appeal has been used successfully to publicise its vulnerability to the clearing of its habitat. The result is that the protected bushland also preserves...

... of distinctive marks could sometimes be used to identify individuals. Distinctive markings may be short term and useful until the next moult, or longer term and maintained over years. Females provided more identifying marks than males, with 28.6% of preserved adult female tails having black spots and/or bars...

... rainforest and savanna woodland containing rainforest elements at high altitude. A paucity of grassland specialists and endemics associated with balds concurs with evidence that grassy balds are of a relatively recent origin. Management intervention to preserve grassy balds will sustain small biodiversity...

...Glenn Shea Diets of Tiliqua multifasciata and Tiliqua occipitalis were studied by examination of stomach contents of 14 and 16 preserved individuals in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Both species are active foraging omnivores, feeding mostly on diurnally available food. Most...