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... to the interconnectedness of the vegetation across the reserve. This short study demonstrated the significance of this small conservation reserve for the protection of a high diversity of terrestrial vertebrate fauna due to its location in a biogeographic transition zone from the wetter east coast of Australia...

...Steven L. Stephenson; Todd F. Elliott; Kelsey Elliott; Karl Vernes ABSTRACT Little is known about species of myxomycetes associated with vertebrate dung in Australia. In the present study, dung samples of 15 species of mammals (eight marsupials, three native rodents and four domestic or feral...

... management and question-driven approach. * Author for correspondence: [email protected] Monitoring reptiles mammals arid ecology adaptive management conservation protected area night parrot A baseline terrestrial vertebrate fauna survey of Pullen Pullen; a significant conservation...

... review of Australian aerial vertebrate pest control, targeting dingoes and wild dogs 1946 - 2019 Justine Philip Honorary Associate, Museum Victoria, Australia E-mail: [email protected] This paper examines the history of aerial baiting in Australia since the first operations commenced in 1946...

...Justine Philip ABSTRACT This paper provides a chronological record of the history of poison in vertebrate species control in south-east Australia, since the first instance was recorded to target dingoes in 1814. Over this time, poison was employed first as a weapon against native wildlife...

...Anne Kerle; David Goldney; Mike Fleming The Central West and Lachlan Catchments lie west of the Great Dividing Range in central NSW and have been subjected to extensive land clearing, grazing and agricultural pressures beginning in the 1820s. Many vertebrate species are known to have disappeared...

... research and original fieldwork is used to review the impact of ethnophoresy / anthropogenic animal translocation from ancient times to the present on the vertebrate zoogeography of Wallacea, New Guinea and the Northern Melanesian Islands, referred to collectively as the Circum New Guinea Archipelago...

...Geoff Brown; Keith Cherry; Jennifer Nelson; Louise Grgat The Menindee Lakes system in the Darling Riverine Plains bioregion in western New South Wales supports a diverse terrestrial vertebrate fauna. A survey of this fauna in spring 2000 and summer 2001 for the New South Wales Department of Land...

...Darren Shelly Eighty-two species of vertebrates were recorded from an area of cypress pine and ironbark forest within Goonoo State Forest, located 42 Idiometres north-east of Dubbo. New South Wales. Grass-seed-eating birds were uncommon due to the lack of gasses within the forest. Small birds...

...A.S. Kutt; J.E. Kemp; K.R. McDonald; Y. Williams; S.E. Williams; H.B. Hines; J-M. Hero; G. Torr The patterns of composition and distribution of vertebrate fauna in Queensland's tropical savannas are poorly known. The sandstone landscapes of White Mountains National Park are considered...

...A. S. Kutt A short terrestrial vertebrate survey was conducted in November 1994 in the coastal wetlands surrounding the Cairns International Airport. Six discrete habitat types were recorded for the study area: sand ridge woodland; beach dune low woodland/shrubland; mangrove-intertidal; eucalyptus...

...Darren Shelly One hundred and thirty-three species of vertebrates were recorded from areas representing three different landsystems on a grazing property on the Paroo River, located 52 kilometres south of Wanaaring in the Western Division of New South Wales. Fauna diversity was highest along...

... research there need to be simple approaches to assess the costs and effectiveness of surveys that highlight where methods can be refocussed to address changing management aims. In this study we use data from a vertebrate fauna monitoring program to assess the extent to which the sampling has been effective...

...Michael Murphy The New South Wales South Western Slopes bioregion has been significantly altered by agricultural development and is likely to experience additional significant impacts as a result of anthropogenic climate change. A simple inventory survey of the vertebrate fauna of Currawananna...

...E.P. Vanderduys; A.S. Kutt; J.E. Kemp This paper reports the results of dry and wet season systematic terrestrial vertebrate fauna surveys carried out on Blackbraes, a National Park in the Einasleigh Uplands bioregion, North Queensland. It quantifies, for the first time, the biodiversity values...

...Michael Murphy; Sam Murphy Bruxner Park Flora Reserve and the adjoining Ulidarra National Park, on the NSW north coast, comprise a dual-tenure conservation area of 1090 ha dominated by rainforest and old-growth moist eucalypt forest. A field survey of the area's vertebrate fauna over the period...

... Australian Zoologist 33 530 561 Abbott I. 2008. Historical perspectives of the ecology of some conspicuous vertebrate species in south-west Western Australia. Conservation Science Western Australia 6: 1-214. Historical perspectives of the ecology of some conspicuous vertebrate species in south...

...J. E. Kemp; A. S. Kutt ABSTRACT A survey of vertebrate fauna was conducted in the lowlands of Clemant State Forest, a 5430 ha area of land that lies at the southern extremity of the Wet Tropics Bioregion, north of Townsville. The fauna of the area was previously poorly known and few surveys had...