... Some of the most fundamental questions of forest bat conservation cannot be answered without a stable species taxonomy, yet the taxonomy of Australian bats requires extensive research. Approximately two-thirds of species, affecting 80% of genera, require taxonomic clarification. This includes...

... on the Parramatta River, Sydney, New South Wales. The habitats examined consisted of mangrove forests with and without an adjacent saltmarsh habitat. The diversity and abundance of macrofauna were sampled during spring 1999 and summer 2000. Overall, there was a trend for the diversity of macrofauna to be greater...

... of extant public forests; this edition includes forest fauna which survived after the forest was cleared and fragmented. Without patient and skilled research, there could be no clear vision for fauna in our forests of the future, nor any intelligent way of implementing and evaluating whether current...

...% of the species account for less than 5% of all records. Further, most (60%) of the records are from the last 20 years. As most of our data are from large-scale, inventory type surveys, we recommend that greater attention should be devoted to targeted research and long-term monitoring. Without monitoring...