...J. K. Hanford; D. F. Hochuli; C. E. Webb ABSTRACT Urban freshwater wetlands have been identified as a potential source of mosquitoes of pest and public health concern in Australia. Mosquitoes most commonly associated with these habitats include Anopheles annulipes , Culex annulirostris , Culex...

... within the catchment. Agricultural clearing and urban development have also affected aquatic ecosystems. The pre-European environment was apparently characterized by creek and river systems subjected to periodic floods, but with clear water, low nutrient levels, and clean sandly or rocky substrates...

... of New South Wales. Under defined circumstances biodiversity impacts due to urban development may be offset elsewhere, often in rural areas, where equivalent biodiversity values are identified. This legislation was modelled on the United States of America (US) wetland mitigation banking approach. I...

... that the feral species was currently at a competitive advantage over the native species. aquatic vertebrate pest urban wetlands invasive aquatic species Australian freshwater turtle tortoise Sydney Basin Turtle Emydura macquarii dharuk Chelodina longicollis Beeton, R. J. S., Buckley, K. I...

... sex ratio, size structure, biomass, and density of Gambusia holbrooki populations in wetlands used for storage of 1) tertiary treated sewage effluent; 2) urban stormwater runoff; and 3) wetlands without effluent supplementation (control wetlands). Those wetlands that had previously been determined...

... Australia, the Oblong turtle (Chelodina oblonga) persists in a number of urban wetlands (Santoro et al. 2020); however, relative abundances in most wetlands are alarmingly low. In addition, the latter study revealed that adults made up ~90% of captures and juveniles were absent from captures at ~40...

... and from March 2013 to March 2014 the species had declined in abundance and distribution. Most of the recorded breeding occurred in ephemeral wetlands: dispersal from these sites involved movements over highly modified rural and urban landscapes. Refuge sites populated outside the breeding events were...

... and saline wetlands (Port Stephens). The spatial model developed for this endangered bird will help direct conservation efforts to maintain and promote habitat in areas where urban development is rapidly increasing. Key words: habitat variables, Burhinus grallarius, GIS, habitat preferences, shorebird...

... predicts landscape-scale effects of habitat loss in an amphibian community. Landscape Ecology 31: 2259-2274. doi: 10.1007/s10980-016-0398-2 Hamer, A. J. 2018. Accessible habitat and wetland structure drive occupancy dynamics of a threatened amphibian across a peri-urban landscape. Landscape and Urban...

... extensive urban development, the region contains a variety of streams and wetlands that provide habitat for freshwater turtles (e.g., Recher et al. 1993; Burgin et al. 2016). Data sources I downloaded location records for C. longicollis, E. macquarii and T. scripta from the Atlas of Living Australia...

... Park (D.R. Waterhouse, pers. comm. 2016; Fig. 2M). The reserve is part of the wider Rockdale Wetlands Corridor, a series of discrete urban bushland reserves (Gibbs 2004; White and Burgin 2004; White 2010). At the time of sighting, the observer did not realise the significance of the observation...