..., and predictions of the possible impacts of large-scale phenomena (such as global climate change) will be assisted by basic research into documenting biodiversity, community dynamics, autecology, and eco-physiology of beach fauna and the linkages with adjacent ecosystems. As well, the use of human interventions...

... impacted areas. They are relatively easy to designate but can they be effectively policed or monitored? Such areas have substantial values of scale and pre emption of impacting activities within their boundaries but, as Allison et al. (1998) pointed out, just establishing marine reserves is not in itself...

... structure within the entire tropical, subtropical and temperate east Australian distribution of L. argentimaculatus . Although this species may exhibit clinal morphological and life-history variation at its southern range limit, we did not detect wide- or fine-scale spatial genetic structure to indicate...

... Box 2115, Queanbeyan 2620. Gaia Research 2001b. Assessment of habitat linkages and considerations for management. Select rural residential areas Eurobodalla Shire. Report prepared for Eurobodalla Shire Council. PO Box 99, Moruya 2537. Goldingay, R.L. 1987. Sap feeding by the marsupial...

...Robyn Alders; Richard Kock ABSTRACT We review the linkages between food security, nutrition and wildlife conservation in the early 21st century. Declines in wildlife populations and habitats have occurred in parallel with increasing human population and the global emergence of the double burden...

... in this species was identified. 297October 2008 AustralianZoologist volume 34 (3) Introduction The provision or maintenance of habitat linkages may be of significance to the long-term viability of the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea. In New South Wales (NSW), which makes up over 90...

... are also compared to broad-scale regional surveys (Date and Paull 2000; NSW NPWS 2000). Study area and Methods Yarrigan (also spelled Yarragin) NP (Figure 1 and Appendix 2) was formerly Yarrigan State Forest No. 272 and was managed primarily for timber production in accordance with the NSW Forestry Act...

..., this inspirational document celebrated the expansion and improved governance and management of protected and conserved areas around the world, but also cautioned that threats to nature, its biological diversity and protected areas are now at the highest level in human history, due to a convergence at immense scale...

... 33 (3) Australian References Caley, P. 1998. Broad-scale possum and ferret correlates of macroscopic Mycobacterium bovis infection in feral ferret populations. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 46: 157-162. Cowan, P.E. 1990. Brushtail Possum. Pp. 68-98 in The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals edited...

.... The Interim Council completely endorsed the views of "It is fair to say that, so far, no museum in Australia has the the integrating attempted, even on a moderate scale, to depictthe hitory the Museum's treatment of human and environmental of ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ l i ~ since the coming of the ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ w , he history...

... on the evidence for evolution: we begin with straightforward observation, on the small scale. If someone doubts that species can change at all, this evidence will be useful. Other people allow that change happens on the small scale, and doubt that it can accumulate to produce large scale change, such as new...

... picta (Barea and Watson 2007). For many species, including those above, nomadic movements can be overlaid on larger scale (often north south) migration patterns. However, the exact patterns of nomadic movement are rarely known, and for the majority of species, we have only a rudimentary understanding...

... to establish improved linkages between science and management in a systems approach that enhances sustainable resource management (Bosch et al 2003). Secondly, research and monitoring needs to occur over long temporal scales to enable the detection of trends in condition which are independent of any human...

... restoration on a regional scale. Research into ecosystem restoration should aim to demonstrate that self-sustaining agri- cultural systems can be integrated with conservation of native biota, but what form should the restored land- scape take? ls it to be a landscape the sole aim of which is to support self...

... and is based on a smartphone and web app. TurtleSAT was set up to collect spatial information on turtles in Australia, to answer large-scale questions useful for turtle conservation, such as the identification of nesting or mortality hotspots. From its launch to the beginning of this study, TurtleSAT collected...

... to exert the greatest pressures of all. He identified a simple equation to illustrate linkages of: I = PAT where I stands fo r the impacts, P for popula- tion growth, A for economic welfare, and T for the technology needed to produce the economic welfare. Myers considered that exist- ing policy...

... posed by Australia’s ecological attributes and the size of its scientific community. Open source, inherently cooperative and flexible, Motus provides a unique opportunity to leverage individual research effort into a larger collaborative achievement, thereby expanding the scale and scope of individual...

... at the national scale that empowers local community conservation, as an outgrowth of a more traditional citizen science program. As a community conservation program, the name 1 Million Turtles reflects our view that it is more feasible for 1 million individual people to each save one turtle than...

... of increased ground-level habitat complexity on mouse population dynamics Wildlife Research 30 565 72 Barton, P.S., Manning, A.D., Gibb, H., Lindenmayer, D.B. and Cunningham, S.A. 2009. Conserving ground-dwelling beetles in an endangered woodland community: Multi-scale habitat effects on assemblage...