... information is available on the impact on rainforest specialised clutter dependant species such as the Golden-tipped Bat Phoniscus papuensis . Our aims were to assess the effects of fire on occupancy of habitat across the geographic range of P. papuensis in NSW, to determine the smaller scale effects of fire...

...Paul Adam ABSTRACT The thirtieth anniversary of the nomination of New South Wales rainforests for World Heritage listing provided an opportunity to reflect on the process by which the nomination came about. I discuss the development of ideas about ‘heritage’, as it applies to the natural...

..., an integral attribute of forest ecosystems that provides structurally diverse habitat for biota. This study aimed to determine whether the distribution of herpetofauna within an Australian subtropical rainforest remnant is significantly influenced by the presence or absence of coarse woody debris. Capture...

... Rainforest Snail). While difficulties in applying the TSC Act to the conservation of molluscs and other invertebrates do exist, the legislation does provide valuable opportunities for invertebrate conservation. molluscs land snails conservation NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995...

...Geoff Williams; Paul Adam Pollination is an essential process in the life cycle of most flowering plants and thus maintenance of the process is necessary for the long-term maintenance of rainforest ecosystems and their associated biota. As rainforest stands become fragmented will disruption...

...Lira Andrade; Anouk Klootwijk; Jonathan Parkyn; Alison Specht Mitchell's Rainforest Snail Thersites mitchellae Cox 1864 is listed as ‘endangered’ under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, as ‘critically endangered’ under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act...

...Patrick Couper; Conrad Hoskin Rainforest was formerly widespread on the Australian continent but underwent large-scale contraction to pockets on the east coast through the Miocene and Quaternary. This contraction was due to increasingly dry and seasonal climatic conditions across the continent...

...Karl Vernes; James Trappe The diet of the Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica has previously been described as comprising a range of dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plants, rainforest fruits, seeds, and some fungi. We collected T. stigmatica faecal samples from a rainforest-open forest...

...Greg Richards Rainforest bat conservation: Onique problems in a unique environment Greg Richards Division of Wildlife and Ecology, CSlRO, Canberra The article by Les Hall (Australian Zoologist, previous issue) shows wisely that bats in Australia require special attention to their conservation...

...Melinda J. Laidlaw; Harry B. Hines; Rhonda I. Melzer; Tracey B. Churchill ABSTRACT Bushfire severity mapping and analysis for Queensland’s Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area properties following wildfires in 2019/20 was found to under-predict the ecological impact within closed-canopy...

...Daniel J. Bickel The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests Geoff Williams Hardback| September 2020 | $A 195.00 ISBN: 978|4863|2917 | 392 pages | 270 x 210 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Book Review The Invertebrate World of Australia s Subtropical Rainforests Geoff...

... rainforests, already ravaged by clearing in the 1800's, was reduced to what is today less than five percent of its original area. In response, the super-flocks became scarce in the early part of the 20th Century. While they were able to adapt by feeding off paddock rainforest trees, another trial came...

... elevation rainforest, largely based on thermal tolerances and known habitat preferences. This paper reports on the detection of B. marinus over a five-year study in the Border Ranges National Park in northern NSW. More than 400 toads were detected in rainforests at elevations between 810 m and 1130 m...

...Jocelyn Bowyer; Graeme Newell; Cushla Metcalfe; Mark Eldridge Tree-kangaroos Dendrolagus sp. are a poorly known group of folivorous arboreal macropodid marsupials endemic to the rainforests of north-eastern Australia and New Guinea. Over the last century there has been little agreement...