... Australian Zoologist volume 40 (3) Development of light-weight video-tracking technology for use in wildlife research: A case study on kangaroos Herbert C.A.1*, Dassis M.2, Pye M.1, Jones P.W.3, Leong P.H.W.3, Thomas G.1, Cope H.1, Jarman A.1, Hobbs R.4, Murray P.E.5 and Machovsky Capuska G.E.6 1 School...

...; Chris Slade; Stuart A. Mackenzie; Philip D. Taylor ABSTRACT Technologies for remotely observing animal movements have advanced rapidly in the past decade. In recent years, Australia has invested in an Integrated Marine Ocean Tracking (IMOS) system, a land ecosystem observatory (TERN), and an Australian...

...C.R. Starr; R.T. Hughes; M.S. Hemmings; J.F. Coase; M. D. Jess ABSTRACT We present the results of field surveys and a radio-tracking study of the Greater glider Petauroides volans minor in the Bluff State Forest, North Queensland. Twenty-three spotlighting transects were surveyed twice in July 2018...

... the present day distribution of this species. Surveys were targeted at rock outcrops, which provide critical shelter sites during the year. Sites were stratified on the basis of proximity to walking tracks and roads as a surrogate for potential anthropogenic disturbance. Despite the apparent suitability...

... to identify those that should be targeted for management. Radio-tracking of M. macropus at one known roost was carried out to assess roost fidelity and identify key foraging areas within the estuary. Myotis macropus was widespread in Port Jackson, being present at 92.6 % of sites, but with high activity...

...Leroy Gonsalves; Brad Law; Chris Slade ABSTRACT Landscape-scale monitoring is used to track changes in the status of fauna populations, including identifying when and where change is occurring over large areas. Yet few programs at this scale exist despite calls for long-term monitoring, especially...

... and track different species of jellyfish, identify the advantages and limitations across these studies, and suggest methods to be adopted when using drones to monitor jellyfish. The effectiveness and applications of drones for monitoring jellyfish Claire E Rowe1,* and Shane T Ahyong1,2 1. Australian Museum...

...-tailed Bat Mormopterus norfolkensis . We undertook targeted surveys to capture M. norfolkensis and investigate the factors that influence roost selection. However, we were only able to capture and radio-track six individuals in two different regions of New South Wales (three in the Hunter Valley...

... the impacts of fire in future. Such monitoring will need to incorporate the effects of other disturbance factors, such as habitat fragmentation, drought, salvage logging and longwall mining, that interact with fire, and also trial new methods to track and assist fauna to cope with the changing fire regimes...

... on use of diurnal roosts in rainforest through radio tracking and to trial the use of artificial structures to temporarily increase roost availability in burnt habitat. We observed that widespread fire encroaching on rainforest has a negative association with occupancy by P. papuensis, with this metric...

... in northern China, Mongolia and Russia to East Asia and Australasia each year, traversing more than 20 countries while on migration. Studies within individual nations have identified rapid declines in many species, yet progress toward a fully unified scheme for continuous tracking of population change...

... of their switching their prey base to endemic land birds and breeding seabirds. Simultaneous point surveys and radio-tracking of two female owls over 14 months in 2009–2010 indicated that owls occupied small overlapping home ranges with smaller discrete home range cores. The population of Tyto novaehollandiae...

... and management of a species. Although threats can be identified and easily quantified and long-term data has demonstrated the extent of the decline of freshwater turtle populations in southern Australia, solutions to minimise risks of extinction need to be developed and fast-tracked before turtles throughout...

... and monitoring studies are critical to tracking the state of the environment, assessing the effectiveness of management interventions, and informing policy and practices. White and Travers, in their 38-year study of the changes in frog communities in response to sand mining, conclude that the impact of mining...

... banding data demonstrated little effect (either no effect, or minor positive and negative effects) of harvesting history on survival and no effect on abundance or body condition. Environmental protection measures (and tracks) appeared to mitigate the impacts of dense regrowth and bats likely used...

...David B. Lindenmayer; Lachlan McBurney; David Blair; Sam Banks ABSTRACT Many species of arboreal marsupials move regularly between den sites in hollow-bearing trees. We show, based on short-term radio-tracking data, that the Critically Endangered Leadbeater's Possum ( Gymnobelideus leadbeateri...

... in this RZS NSW forum all foreshadowed this vision as it applies to protected areas. Our focus in this theme edition of Australian Zoologist is on conserving fauna in Australia, and in protected areas in particular. Our concern is not so much whether we are on the right track as a society in establishing...