... native mammals) employ periods of daily torpor or prolonged multi-day torpor (hibernation) to conserve energy. Daily torpor is used by dasyurids (e.g. dunnarts, antechinus, quolls), myrmecobiids (numbat), tarsipedids (honey-possum), petaurid possums (e.g. sugar glider), rodents (but only known...

...David Lindenmayer; Elle Bowd; Chris MacGregor; Lachlan McBurney ABSTRACT Fire can have marked impacts on biodiversity and on ecosystem condition. However, it is the sequence of multiple fires over a prolonged period of time which can have the most marked effects on biodiversity and on ecosystem...

... for this loss are unclear but may be due to a combination of factors including isolation of the reserve by urban development and highway upgrades, a lack of fire for 40 years, competition for food with the local population of the Australian Brush-turkey Alectura lathami , prolonged drought and possibly...

... events resulted in large numbers of Grey-headed Flying-foxes Pteropus poliocephalus requiring rescue and rehabilitation. Prolonged drought and intense bushfires reduced available foraging resources for the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby Petrogale penicillata and Mountain Pygmy-possum Burramys parvus...

... at the site. Bouts progressed from stereotyped wrestling to vigorous biting, causing severe lesions. This (apparently successful) mate defence constitutes the first report of prolonged mate-guarding behaviour in any pythonid species. * Corresponding author email: [email protected] © 2018...

... average rainfall in the spring and summer of 2008/2009. These observations indicate that productivity and avian abundance in these semi-arid woodlands (200 – 300 mm annual rain) decline with average rainfall. Episodes of high and possibly prolonged rainfall are required to restore productivity and allow...

... raised in isolation experienced slower growth and development, which resulted in a prolonged larval duration and reduced mass and jump distance at metamorphosis. These results suggest that conspecific interactions are important for healthy growth and development of striped marsh frog larvae...

... in zoological works, the photograph's prolonged uncritical reception demonstrates the deceptive potential of photography and suggests that we see what we are conditioned to see. Anderson, C. 1921. The objects of The Australian Museum Magazine. The Australian Museum Magazine 1: 3-4. The objects...

.... These disturbances have led to a reduction in old growth forest to 1/30th-1/60th of the extent of historical levels, a rapid collapse followed by a prolonged (≯30-year) shortage of populations of hollow-bearing trees throughout the Mountain Ash forests (which are critical habitat elements for many species of cavity...

...Sean FitzGibbon; Craig Franklin The ability of freshwater turtles to exchange respiratory gases with their aquatic environment is well known and facilitates prolonged dive durations among several species. Three main sites have been implicated in aquatic respiration (skin, cloaca and buccopharynx...

... stress event is prolonged octocorals are likely to fare poorly. Additionally, some interesting results in experimental heat stress of octocorals have helped us understand which species may or may not persist through heat stress in the field. For example, during manipulative bleaching of two octocorals...

...). Preoccupation with fads and bits of kit Ecology has long been plagued by fads and ill-conceived or poorly defined concepts. This approach does not help promote a culture of careful question-setting or foster a psyche of making prolonged sets of repeated measurements. Moreover, a culture has developed...

... and steep slopes. Finally, the devastating summer bush fires of 2019-2020 after prolonged drought burnt not only vast areas of eucalypt forest, but made major incursions into adjacent rainforests. This was a major extinction event, especially for many narrow range terrestrial invertebrate taxa. Williams...

... Australia has been subject to a prolonged period of extreme weather and fire events linked to climate change. Drought conditions worsened over four years of very high temperatures and increasing dryness, peaking in 2019, which was the hottest and driest year on record in Australia (Abram et al. 2021...

... 46: 408-409. Olsson, M.M. and Shine, R. 1998. Chemosensory mate recognition may facilitate prolonged mate guarding by male snow skinks, Niveoscincus microlepidotus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 43: 359-363. Richards, J.D. 1990. Size related physiology and morphology in the skink, Egernia...

.... A review of Elliot trapping methods for small mammals in Australia. Australian Mammalogy 23: 77-87. A review of Elliot trapping methods for small mammals in Australia Australian Mammalogy 23 77 87 Williams, J.L., Rogers, A.G. and Adler, A.P. 1990. Prolonged exposure to conspecific and predator...

... when there was less than 20% cloud cover and no significant rainfall events. The weather conditions varied during the surveys from drought to above average rainfall. Between 1997 and 2009 much of southeastern Australia experienced a prolonged period of dryness, the so-called Millennium drought (BOM...

... as the animal lands from flight onto the chosen roost-site. The neonatal flying fox has very well developed fore- and hind-limbs (Fig. 1). It is well known from other animal species that prolonged constraint of a limb in an abnormal position prevents normal bone growth, muscle development and innervation...