...Jackie L O'Sullivan; Damian R Michael; Claire N Foster; Daniel Florance; David B Lindenmayer ABSTRACT Bushrocks provide critical habitat for reptiles and are a common feature in agricultural landscapes. Recent advances in soil amelioration practices have triggered a resurgence in the large-scale...

...A.S. Kutt; N.J. Colman ABSTRACT The choice of methods used for biodiversity assessments and monitoring are an important consideration for an effective inventory of species. There is little published data comparing trapping and active searching for reptile surveys. In this study we used data...

... the Cape Range IBRA sub-region and marks the most westerly record of P. reginae for mainland Australia. This finding raises the terrestrial reptile species richness for the Cape Range peninsula to 90. Previous surveys in this area failed to detect P. reginae , which demonstrates the value of repeated...

... and release of herpetofauna at 30 sample sites (15 with coarse woody debris present within a 20 m proximity and 15 with coarse woody debris absent within a 20 m proximity) using double-ended funnel traps determined that reptile capture frequencies were significantly higher at sites with coarse woody debris...

...Steven Sass Nombinnie Nature Reserve and State Conservation Area form a large reserve system of 116,000 hectares in central western New South Wales. Systematic surveys for reptile fauna in 2003 revealed 204 individuals from 33 species from within five different vegetation communities. A review...

...James Val; Damon Oliver; Michael Pennay; John McLaughlin; Peter Ewin; Else Foster Baseline surveys of reptiles, birds and small mammals that occur in Dune Mallee woodlands in the Lower Murray Darling catchment of south-western New South Wales were conducted at 60 sites between October 2007...

... Gulf region (that encompasses the Gulf Plains) revealed that of the 368 5-minute grid cells covering the region, 75% of these cells had no amphibian data and 56% had no reptile data (McDonald and Dawson 2004); a fairly dire situation for natural resource planning for biodiversity. Amphibians were...

..., and for developing holistic management practices for introduced species' predation impacts in an ecosystem. We describe two accounts of terrestrial reptiles in the diet of an introduced fish, rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in southern NSW, Australia. Our observations from the Southern Hemisphere together...

...Michael J. Murphy A survey of the herpetofauna of Yarrigan National Park (NP), in the southern Pilliga forest in northern inland New South Wales, was done over the period 2011 to 2013. The total identified herpetofauna community comprised 11 frog species (three families) and 35 reptiles (10...

...Garry Daly; Glenn Hoye Reptile surveys were conducted in the early 1990s in the Dorrigo Forest Management Area, an area formerly comprising timber-production forests managed by the Forestry Commission of New South Wales. The surveys consisted of searches for reptiles along 54 transects together...

...Michael J. Murphy; Jessica K. Murphy A survey of the herpetofauna of Merriwindi State Conservation Area, a small conservation reserve in the western Pilliga forest in northern inland New South Wales, was done over the period 2009 to 2011. In total, 14 frog species (three families) and 25 reptile...

...M.J. Bamford; M.C. Calver Fauna surveys to determine the species richness, relative abundance and community structure of reptile assemblages are often important first steps in their conservation. Several sampling techniques are commonly used. Most involve trapping and assume a simple relationship...

...Dudley Sergo; Richard Shrine Based on collaboration between a wildlife photographer and a scientist, this paper provides novel information and images of predation by birds (Black-necked Storks, White-bellied Sea-Eagles, Whistling Kites) on reptiles (Macleay's Water Snakes, Keelback Snakes, Long...

...Gerry Swan; Ralph Foster The herpetofauna of Mutawintji (previously Mootwingee) National Park (31°17′ S, 142°15′ E) was surveyed on five occasions from 1994 to 1996. From these surveys and other sources, a total of 49 reptile species and 5 amphibian species were recorded, or probably occur...

...Daniel Lunney; John Barker A survey of the reptiles and amphibians of the coastal forests, adjacent farmland and coastal National Park near Bega on the south coast of NSW was undertaken between 1980-84. A total of 33 species (21 reptiles, 12 amphibians) were found. Within the survey area 13 species...

...G. A. Webb Reptiles and amphibians in and around Bondi State Forest were surveyed between 1980 and 1984. Nineteen species of reptiles and 15 species of frogs were recorded from Bondi State Forest. Five additional reptiles and two additional frogs were recorded from surrounding areas. Bondi State...

... pit types and the two fence materials. Capture success was influenced by the fence material used, with mammals being more often captured when using flyscreen fences and reptiles more often when using dampcourse fences (28 versus 18 and 256 versus 283 captures, respectively). The arboreal skink...