...Caragh G. Threlfall; Claire Farrell; Manuel E. Lequerica Tamara; Dieter F. Hochuli ABSTRACT Urbanisation is a leading cause of global biodiversity loss, imposing the most rapid and ecologically damaging impacts of any human driven land-use change. Despite the trend of biodiversity decline, urban...

... an audit of a virtual fence installation in south-east Queensland, Australia. We assessed its reliability in flows of traffic and the effect that installation parameters and site conditions had on its effective operation in an urban setting. We made observations on the behavioural response of Eastern Grey...

...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...

...Chris N. Thomson ABSTRACT Long-term monitoring of the Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae in a semi-urban landscape before, during and after large-scale habitat removal identified a positive response in breeding activity in the short-term and a change in prey selectivity. Over the longer term, the loss...

...Corey T. Callaghan; John H. Wilshire; John M. Martin; Richard E. Major; Mitchell B. Lyons; Richard T. Kingsford ABSTRACT Urbanisation is altering local flora and fauna, but urban greenspaces can provide refugia for a variety of taxa. However, we often lack basic biodiversity information (e.g...

...Catherine J. Price; Peter B. Banks ABSTRACT Despite their conspicuousness within urban environments, the ecology of commensal species is poorly understood. Urban environments are thought to provide abundant foraging and shelter resources for commensal species such as Black Rats Rattus rattus...

.... Are urban bandicoots solely to blame for tick concerns? Lydecker, HW, Stanfield, E, Lo, N, Hochuli, DF, and Banks PB School of Biological Sciences, A08 Heydon-Laurence Building, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia Email: [email protected] A BS TR A CT The paralysis tick Ixodes...

... was aware of the added stealth component. It paddled immediately behind the breaking waves about Observations of hunting behaviour in an urban predator: the domestic Dog Canis familiaris Graham R. Fulton School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, South Street Murdoch, Western Australia...

... detected on the outer edges of crevices. Survey results expand baseline information and inform future decisions aimed at promoting biodiversity in remnant bushland. Habitat fragmentation remnant bushland saxicolous lizard Sydney Metropolitan Area urban ecology Abramsky, Z. and Tracy...

...Aidan Davison; Ben Ridder Interest in urban nature has grown rapidly over recent years in Australia, and not just amongst ecologists and conservationists. Policy makers, social scientists, community groups, the media and urban residents in general have also begun to think about, represent...

... marinus, European carp, Cyprinus carpio and mosquito fish, Gambusia spp. are widely recognised to have had devastating impacts upon native wildlife. Overseas T. s. elegans has also had a major impact (eg. Confirmation of an established population of exotic turtles in urban Sydney. Shelley Burgin, Faculty...

...Tanya Hengl; Shelley Burgin Limnodynastes peronii was observed to successfully breed in small urban impoundments. Fecundity, egg viability and hatching success varied significantly, spatially and temporally. The predominant influence on breeding success was therefore deduced to be environmental...

...Peter Smith; Judy Smith The Koala population in Warringah Shire has declined over the last 50 years with increasing urbanization. Koalas were reported from various localities throughout the Shire in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. They now occur only at Barrenjoey Peninsula. Ku-ring-gai Chase...

... 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...

... distributed over agricultural land in the Pakenham area, on the south-eastern urban-fringe of Melbourne, Victoria, during the 2005/06 breeding season. Our aim was to identify key areas for the conservation of L. raniformis . We recorded L . raniformis at 14 waterbodies where we marked 31 males and 16 females...