... over water, feeding predominantly on aquatic prey items and selecting roosts close (<500m) to permanent water. These traits are broadly representative of all trawling bats and reflect convergence of the group on common, specialised behaviours. Such convergence places trawling bats at risk of very...

... fauna include either a lack of habitat specialisation or a habitat preference for moist environments, high fecundity, a lack of dietary specialisation, and small size. In contrast, a habitat specialisation for sandstone environments (other than caves), stenophagy, low fecundity and large size combined...

... are problems common to the census of birds throughout the world. Asynchronous reproduction and a high level of communal or co-operative nesting are special problems encountered in censuses of Australia’s terrestrial avifauna. Despite these unique features and the relatively recent use of bird censusing...

... in specially designed chambers in the laboratory. Two or three species of Koorrnonga and 17 species of Nousia have so far been identified but are yet to be confirmed by adult association. Factors affecting rearing success have been examined. ...

... the study of human behaviour and meaning entirely to the social sciences and humanities or, more rarely, to religion. I argue that the attacks from the right and the left echo the same concerns; that evolution challenges the specialness of humans (it does), and that a naturalist world view endorses...

... Conservation Act 1995 amended the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and resulted in threatened species considerations being integrated into the New South Wales planning system. The main focus of this paper is how threatened species are considered in the development of private land. Special...

... (environmental) factors. The latter include history and geography while poor dispersal capability is typically important amongst the former. Oceanic islands, seamounts and specialised deep-sea habitats, such as hot vents and cold seeps, often have significant numbers of narrow-range taxa. Low levels of narrow...

... policy and management attention, just as threatened species as a group have received special attention. The biological scores of a 1992 review of the status of all the native birds, mammals, frogs and reptiles in New South Wales were re-examined to identify the abundant species. Overabundant species...

... of, or trade in, reptiles or frogs for pets is permitted. Seven species of reptiles and two of frogs are declared under the Act as “threatened”, while a total of 26 lizard, 8 snake and 5 frog taxa are listed as Reserve List Fauna and five species of reptiles are declared to be “specially protected”. ...

... collecting sites. Many rare species were discovered only as a result of continuous or repeated trapping at a single site. Allowing for habitat differences, site richness is proportional to collecting intensity over time, and it is difficult to distinguish collecting history fro many inherent or special site...

... The Western Australian Threatened Species Scientific Committee was formed in 1997 following the disbanding of separate flora and fauna committees. Its role is to advise the Minister for the Environment on the listing of threatened and specially protected flora and fauna under the Wildlife...