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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.2008.014
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... This study describes a survey of roadkill in a suburban area of Sydney, Australia. The study was conducted by a community activist motivated by the rejection of a roadkill mitigation proposal by state Roads and Traffic Authority on the basis of insufficient evidence of need. Roadkills were...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.020
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.015
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
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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.2008.016
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... relative to the road, particularly those of Macropus rufus , and was associated with increased kangaroo mortality. Further, the road altered the composition of small mammal and lizard communities and reduced the abundance of S. macroura . However, roadkill of kangaroos did not significantly affect...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.032
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
..., namely roadkill. The plenary sessions to this forum were filled with interesting details and some provocative challenges, such as that by Des Cooper, “…this discussion is really being conducted with a particular set of assumptions, which are assumptions made by rich, well-to-do people who live in cities...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 332–336.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of a road that traverses known frog habitat near Lennox Head, in north-eastern New South Wales. More than 1000 dead frogs were counted over 13 mornings. Two threatened species, the Wallum Sedge Frog Litoria olongburensis and the Wallum Froglet Crinia tinnula , accounted for at least 60% of these roadkills...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (3): 690–698.
Published: 29 October 2021
..., ultrasonic signal, signal detection, self-report diary, behavioural response, driver response, rebound effect, roadkill. Published: 29 October 2021 DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.042 Introduction Collisions between vehicles and macropodid marsupials, particularly the larger kangaroo species, pose a vexing...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.003
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... The town of Anglesea on the west coast of Victoria is famous for its Eastern Grey Kangaroos. However, conflicts have increased between people and kangaroos in the town. Many concerns are centred on the golf course, which can support a population of over 300 kangaroos at times. Roadkills...
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
... confirm that there is no one ‘quick fix’ that will overcome the generic problem of roadkills. Regional solutions that identify and address the main species adversely affected by collision mortality are required. ...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 487–491.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as soon as they re laid, so the vast majority of our nesting observations are dug up nests - there s really no disturbance in that sense. For the turtles, mostly are either roadkill, or maybe basking observations, because it s quite hard to actually see a turtle walking around apart from sometimes...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 244–254.
Published: 07 September 2023
... affected photoluminescence pre- and/ or post-mortem: I discovered that if someone brought me a roadkilled Didelphis virginiana, I could tell which side of the animal was down on the pavement and which side was up in the sunlight. The fur that had been on the pavement side fluoresced and the side that had...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 608–642.
Published: 22 April 2021
... enhances the capacity of spatially explicit public surveys to provide a rigorous and repeatable basis for ecological studies. One application is presented in this paper as we proceed to define the distribution of both dingoes/wild dogs and foxes in NSW. How we assembled and used survey data Roadkill...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 44 (1): 205–219.
Published: 07 September 2023
... Stephens, a radiotracking study revealed that 43% of koala deaths were from dog attack (Lunney et al. 2007). The same argument applies to roadkill and motor vehicle injury, which became detailed in studies by Rhodes et al. (2014) and Lunney et al. (2022d,e). In most of the cases in this study we...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (1): 119–126.
Published: 17 March 2014
... Society of Victoria 79: 627-636. Mammals recorded for the Mallee, Victoria Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 79 627 636 Watharow, S. 1998. Dietary and parasite observations from roadkilled snakes and lizards of north-western Victoria. Monitor 10: 51-60. Dietary and parasite...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (4): 419–425.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of detection: T = trapping. S = spotlighting, D = diurnal encounter, R = roadkill, P = prey in fox or dog scat, I = other indirect signs. Location and Habitat: 7MB = Seven Mile &ach NP, Com Is = Comerong Island NR, 0 = open forest, R = littoral rainforest, T = tcatree scrub, S = swamp reedland, M = mangrove...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (3): 419–435.
Published: 11 December 2023
... on the road is very small . Consequently, the missing roadkill argument should not be viewed as conclusive evidence for the extinction of elusive species like the Thylacine. Finally, the notion of an exhaustive survey as stipulated by the IUCN, has arguably never been 2024 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 43 (3...