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From the urban fringe to the Abrolhos Islands: management challenges of burgeoning marsupial populations

By Catherine A. Herbert

Book: Pest or Guest: The Zoology of Overabundance

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2007

DOI: 10.7882/FS.2007.017

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2

... Phascolarctos cinereus . Fertility control has been heralded as a future panacea for these problems, but after a decade of investigations, where are we? Large sterilisation programs have been the cornerstone of many koala management programs in Southern Australia to date, but evaluation of these programs has...

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Genetic analysis of scat samples to inform conservation of the Tasmanian devil

Catherine E. Grueber, Rowena Chong, Rebecca M. Gooley, Elspeth A. McLennan, Vanessa R. Barrs ...

Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 492–504.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.005

Published: 01 May 2020

... et al. 2016). To minimise the risk of contamination, all field equipment should be sterilised between each collection, fresh sterile gloves must be worn with each new sample and all samples should be stored in individual sealed containers (Goldberg et al. 2016). Protection against contamination doesn...

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What should we do with wild dogs? Taxonomic tangles and the management of dingo-dog hybridisation

Lily M. van Eeden, Christopher R. Dickman, Thomas M. Newsome, Mathew S. Crowther

Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 92–101.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.031

Published: 01 January 2019

... cats, Felis catus, Hetherington and Campbell 2013). In these situations, selective removal or sterilisation of hybrids (or individuals that may contribute genetic material perceived to be undesirable by managers) has been conducted. Importantly, incorporating sterilisation rather than culling...

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Killing for Conservation - Plenary 3

Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 140–150.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.013

Published: 01 January 2019

..., in theory, 100 per cent of the time. Now if you introduced - and this is all theoretical - a trait in a population that would turn every offspring into a male, or if you introduced a trait whereby you could sterilise all females, you could use this, in theory, to lead to a population crash. This is being...

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Wallingat National Park: The product of long-term, specialised, community-based science

A.W. White

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 713–723.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.027

Published: 01 December 2018

...: The critical value of long-term field studies and datasets A PP EN D IX 1 723 Red-backed Toadlet Pseudophr yne cariacea. Wallingat NP November 2014. Photo by Arthur White. Red-eyed Tree Frog Litoria chloris. Sugar Creek Quarry. December 2010. Photo by Arthur White. Boot and equipment sterilisation at the start...

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A Dangerous Idea in Zoology: Ignoring the Role of Genetics in Biodiversity Restoration

Shelley Burgin

Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 395–407.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.039

Published: 01 June 2017

... was restricted to sterilisation and translocation (Duka and Masters 2005), although humane culling of tammar wallabies was being undertaken on the Island at the time without vocal resistance (Wright and Scott 1999). Burgin 402 2017 Australian Zoologist volume 38 (3) This paper is part of the theme edition...

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Dunphy Lake in Warrumbungle National Park, NSW: aquatic animal community after the Wambelong fire in 2013

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Timothy J. Ralph, Jamie Lobb, Jan Miller, Gunther Theischinger ...

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (3): 469–479.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.035

Published: 01 September 2018

... 160 conductivity meter, Orion Research Inc., Massachusetts, USA) and turbidity (NTU) (HACH 2100 AN turbidimeter, Hach Company, Colorado, USA). For the determination of nutrient concentrations, three 30 mL subsamples were immediately taken from each water sample using a sterilised syringe (Termo, USA...

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The disappearance of the Stuttering Frog Mixophyes balbus at Macquarie Pass National Park, New South Wales

Garry Daly, Philip Craven

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 846–852.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2011.036

Published: 20 October 2011

... 6172300 400 13.12.04 19.38 - 20.08 South Arm 1 284150 6171575 270 4.1.05 20.50 - 21.20 8492011 AustralianZoologist volume 35 (3) Disappearance of the Stuttering Frog used to capture and transport tadpoles was either new in sterile packaging, or sterilised with 70% ethanol prior to arriving at the site...

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A review of the Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea breeding program at Taronga Zoo

Michael McFadden, Simon Duffy, Peter Harlow, Dion Hobcroft, Candice Webb ...

Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (3): 291–296.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2008.006

Published: 14 October 2011

... in order to prevent accidental introduction of pathogens and to allow for easy sterilisation. All adult bell frogs at the zoo are fed three times a week, whilst metamorphs and juveniles are fed daily. The diet consists mostly of crickets, but occasionally cockroaches and houseflies. Invertebrates...

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Zooplankton species richness and abiotic conditions in Thirlmere Lakes, New South Wales, Australia, with reference to water-level fluctuations

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Martin Krogh, Hiroyuki II, Russell J. Shiel, Hendrik Segers ...

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (1): 107–123.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.020

Published: 01 October 2020

... mL subsamples were immediately taken from each water sample using a sterilised syringe (Termo, USA). One subsample, unfiltered, was used for analysis of total nitrogen (TN, g L 1) and total phosphorus (TP, g L 1). Two subsamples were filtered through a cellulose acetate filter (pore size 0.45 m...

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Lethal biological control of rabbits – the most powerful tools for landscape-scale mitigation of rabbit impacts in Australia

Tanja Strive, Tarnya E. Cox

Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 118–128.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.016

Published: 01 January 2019

... wild type MYXV strains and achieve the required female sterilisation rates of 60-80% (Twigg et al. 2000) and work on this approach was discontinued in 2005 (van Leeuwen and Kerr 2007). Recent rapid advances in gene technologies has sparked considerable discussions about the potential to genetically...

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A field ecologist's guide to environmental DNA sampling in freshwater environments

Emily F. McColl-Gausden, Andrew R. Weeks, Reid Tingley

Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 641–651.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.025

Published: 01 June 2020

... species DNA. Such protocols should, at a minimum, involve the sterilisation of field equipment, such as boots, and the use of single-use gloves and sampling equipment (e.g. syringes). Decontamination of field equipment for re-use (e.g. boots, buckets, trays, sampling poles, bottles) can be undertaken...

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“Throw a koala on the barbie” ( Daily Telegraph 15 July 1997): an analysis of wildlife reporting in two daily newspapers

Daniel Lunney, Alison Matthews

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (2): 288–297.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2003.013

Published: 17 March 2014

... . The large photograph has a big koala in the foreground and a man standing nearby looking at the koala. The caption reads, Farmer Andrew Kelly with one of the endangered Kangaroo Island koalas. The text by Tim Dornin explains the headline: The NSW Government has agreed to a trial relocation of sterilised...

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Landscape, koalas and people: A historical account of koala populations and their environment in South Gippsland

Faye Wedrowicz, Wendy Wright, Rolf Schlagloth, Flavia Santamaria, Fred Cahir

Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (4): 518–536.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.007

Published: 01 September 2017

... Snake Island onto the mainland were sterilised. A history of the koala in South Gippsland 5212017 Australian Zoologist volume 38 (4) in this region. Land was first released in the Strzelecki Ranges by the government during the period from 1869 to 1874 (Legg 1986). At the time of settlement, koalas were...