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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.026
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... Dry rainforest occurs throughout the wet-dry tropics as isolated patches in a matrix of savanna woodland. Dry rainforests may provide important stepping stones for migrating forest birds, resources for woodland birds, and a significant component of bird diversity in arid inland landscapes. Dry...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.024
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... relatively broad distributions and species diversity is higher in the northern wet-dry tropics compared to the southern arid zone. Three species, Saccolaimus saccolaimus, Macroderma gigas and H. d. inornatus , are listed as threatened and a further three species, Taphozous kapalgensis, H. stenotis...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1993
10.7882/RZSNSW.1993.015
EISBN: 0-9599951-8-8
... from the Wet-Dry tropics to arid central Australia. Within regions, there is also pronounced variation in species composition from the limited upland areas to lowlands, and with variation in substrate. Fire patterns impose a further layer of environmental variability influencing the distribution...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (3): 311–320.
Published: 14 April 2015
.... Kennett, R. 1996. Growth models for two species of freshwater turtle, Chelodina rugosa and Elseya dentata, from the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia. Herpetologica 52: 383-395. Growth models for two species of freshwater turtle, Chelodina rugosa and Elseya dentata, from the wet-dry tropics...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (3): 68–70.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... A. AND TULLOCH, D. G., 1985. Rainfall in the wet-dry tropics: Extreme events at Darwin and similarities between years during the period 1870-1983 inclusive. Aust. J. Ecol. 10: 281-95. Rainfall in the wet-dry tropics: Extreme events at Darwin and similarities between years during the period 1870-1983 inclusive...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 36 (1): 59–74.
Published: 07 September 2012
... were investigated and several strong relationships emerged. Temporal patterns in the observed fauna were investigated and 20 species (15 birds, 5 reptiles) were found to be more numerous in different seasons (wet and dry). The avifauna recorded was consistent with much of Australia's tropical savanna...
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Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (2): 217–222.
Published: 01 January 2016
...-resource coupling in wet-dry tropical rivers. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 310-322. DOI:10.1111/j.1365- 2656.2011.01925.x Karim, F., Dutta, D., Marvanek, S., Petheram, C., Ticehurst, C., Lerat, J., Kim, S., Yang, A. 2015. Assessing the impacts of climate change and dams on floodplain inundation...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (4): 552–561.
Published: 01 September 2017
... along the 100 m transect were used to estimate percentage ground cover and rock cover. The bird communities were surveyed in a 1-ha plot at each site along the gradient. To account for seasonal and inter-annual variation, surveys were conducted in both the late wet (April/May) and late dry (November...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 95–96.
Published: 12 April 2023
... snake, Dendrelaphis punctulatus (Serpentes: Colubridae), in the wet dry tropics of north Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 58: 384-389. httpsdoi.org/10.1071/ZO10059 Glaudas, X., Kearney, T.C., Alexander, G.J. 2017. Museum specimens bias measures of snake diet: a case study using the ambush...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (2): 158–164.
Published: 10 October 2011
..., the distribution of bird species in relation to vegetation patterns Wildlife Research 15 171 96 Woinarski, J. C. Z. and Tidemann, S. C. 1991. The bird fauna of a deciduous woodland in the wet-dry tropics of Northern Australia. Wildlife Research 18: 479-500. The bird fauna of a deciduous woodland...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (2): 265–268.
Published: 17 March 2014
... unpubl. data 2003). The new locality represents a range extension of over 1000 km. This represents a marked biogeographic and climatic shift from the coastal and very wet (1200-1800 mm) monsoonal habitats of northern Cape York Peninsula to an upland wet-dry tropical biome (600-1200 mm). However...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 October 2020
... partitioned from the 135° E meridian (Kluge 1974). York Scaly-foot Pygopus robertsi is restricted to the James et al. (2001) found significant genetic divergence to dry woodlands peripheral to the rainforests of the warrant separate species status based on electrophoresis Wet Tropics and heathlands of eastern...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (4): 547–551.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Dicrurus bracteatus. Australian Field Ornithology 33: 83-89. http dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo33083089 Brooker, M.G., Braithwaite, R.W. and Estbergs, J.A. 1990. Foraging ecology of some insectivorous and nectarivorous species of birds in forests and woodlands of the Wet-Dry Tropics of Australia. Emu 90: 215-230...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (4): 731–737.
Published: 28 December 2020
...: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.044 INTRODUCTION Chameleon Dragons Chelosania brunnea Gray, 1845 are a medium-sized (90 mm snout-vent length) agamid lizard distributed throughout the savanna woodlands of Australia s wet-dry tropics: from the Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA); across the Top End...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (3): 420–430.
Published: 17 March 2014
... 35: 131-138. Diversity and the coevolution of competitors, or the ghost of competition past Oikos 35 131 138 Corbett, L. 1995. Does dingo predation or buffalo competition regulate feral pig- populations in the Australian wet-dry tropics - an experimental-study. Wildlife Research 22: 65...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (1): 17–38.
Published: 17 March 2014
... Tropics bioregion has been intensively studied (see references and data sources in Williams et al. 1996), but large-scale surveys in wet-dry tropics have only ever been undertaken sporadically in the past (Lavery 1968; Lavery and Johnson 1968; Lavery and Johnson 1974; Lavery and Seton 1974; Winter...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 462–478.
Published: 13 July 2022
... and was associated with wet sclerophyll and rainforest when described (Matthews 1974). Later records also note this wet forest association, although it has often been collected in small rainforest gullies within dry sclerophyll forest (Williams 2002; Williams and Williams 1982, 1983a, b, c). It is absent from...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 554–560.
Published: 20 October 2011
..., including small and isolated pockets of wet and dry rainforest and boulder fields. An array of factors allowed particular rainforest lineages to persist in particular locations, but here we highlight rock as an important factor. By rock we refer to extensive, exposed areas of layered rock...