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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 332–336.
Published: 17 March 2014
...Ross Goldingay; Brendan Taylor Road impacts on Australian frogs are poorly documented. This limits our ability to predict which species may be vulnerable to impacts and to develop strategies for mitigating impacts. We conducted foot-based surveys for road-killed frogs along two 100-m sections...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.019
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... Road kills were counted in peri-urban Sydney and in regional New South Wales on roads with different volumes of traffic. Initial studies were conducted in late winter. Approximately equal numbers of birds and mammals were observed dead, while herpetofauna were absent. Most species killed were...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.014
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... recorded in suburban bushland on two roads in the north-east of Sydney. The study was conducted over a 36-week period. Eighty four native animals were observed dead on or adjacent to the roads. The predominant species killed were swamp wallabies Wallabia bicolor , brushtail possums Trichosurus vulpecula...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.018
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... Vehicles and Koalas Phascolarctos cinereus collide frequently where the Pacific Highway crosses a 3.5 km stretch of forest in Bongil Bongil National Park. Despite the number of road-kills, resident Koalas survive in a 200-500m wide area of forest that lies between the highway and a parallel...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.083
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-7-2
..., if development reduces the carrying capacity (to 75 individuals on the headland), elevated adult mortality leads to increased chances of extinction in 20 years to 31%, 42% and 46% for the 3 levels. Hence the model showed that for bandicoots, managing the byproducts of urbanisation, such as road kills...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 130–141.
Published: 17 March 2014
... for the proposed Wahroonga-Berowra section of the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway No. 3. Prepared for the Department of Main Roads, Environmental and Urban Studies Report No. 68, Macquarie University, Sydney. BROWN, R. J., BROWN, M. N. AND PESOTTO, B., 1986. Birds killed on some secondary roads in Western Australia...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 102–117.
Published: 01 January 2019
... kangaroos by clearing a senescent orchard for further development, was resolved by using a community group to relocate at least 300 kangaroos to a location some 100 km to the east. At the time of the relocation this location was in drought and disoriented kangaroos were killed on the road. No information...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (3): 690–698.
Published: 29 October 2021
...). For example, standard kangaroo 690 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 42 (3) 2022 Evaluating the ShuRoo warning signs were ineffective at reducing the incidence of eastern grey kangaroo road-kills in a Before-AfterControl-Impact study (Coulson 1982). Another primary safety approach is deterrence, which aims...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 52–66.
Published: 14 March 2023
... the best tool to do this. Charley photographs and records koalas within 10 kilometres of Nebo and along the nearby Peak Downs Highway. There are many koala road-kills and injuries along this highway which links Mackay to the coal mines in the Bowen Basin. Charley does her sightings mainly along road...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 24 (2): 89–93.
Published: 17 March 2014
..., New South Wales Aust. J. Ecol. 2 137 59 COULSON, G. M., 1982. Road kills of macropods on a section of highway in central Victoria. Aust. Wildl. Res. 9: 21-6. Road kills of macropods on a section of highway in central Victoria Aust. Wildl. Res. 9 21 6 DIAMOND, J. M., 1975...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 201–208.
Published: 07 February 2013
... Pseudechis porphyriacus often lying across a track in the Blue Mountains National Park and are prone to being accidentally ridden over and killed. We predict that the risk of injury to animals is positively correlated with increasing numbers of bike riders in the same way that animal road kill is associated...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 568–575.
Published: 01 December 2018
... by foxes (Thompson 1983), and adult mortality is increasing (Spencer and Thompson 2005). Adult turtles frequently become victims of road kill or are killed by foxes as they emerge to nest or disperse throughout wetlands (Spencer and Thompson 2005). Turtles are also struck by boats, How Much Long-Term Data...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 576–589.
Published: 20 October 2011
... significant difference is overwhelming simply from a graphical display, so no formal assessment has been described. 1. Are there, or have been, foxes in Tasmania, and if so, how did they get there, and where are they? Following the discovery of the road-kill fox in early August 2006, this point might appear...