S. A. Thompson, G. Thompson, P. Withers, Emma M. Bennett
{"title":"Conservation detection dog is better than human searcher in finding bilby (Macrotis lagotis) scats","authors":"S. A. Thompson, G. Thompson, P. Withers, Emma M. Bennett","doi":"10.7882/az.2020.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/az.2020.012","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Conservation detection dogs have been widely used for finding scats, retreat sites and specific plant and animal species for a variety of purposes, including monitoring, management, biosec...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115879817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reverend George H. Judd’s Thylacines","authors":"Stephen R. Sleightholme, C. R. Campbell","doi":"10.7882/az.2020.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/az.2020.010","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A rare photograph by the Reverend George H. Judd of two Thylacines (Thylacinus cynocephalus) within their enclosure at the old Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart is published for the first time, and ...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114308648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ZoaTrack - an online tool to analyse and share animal location data: User engagement and future perspectives","authors":"P. Newman, R. G. Dwyer, L. Belbin, H. Campbell","doi":"10.7882/az.2019.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/az.2019.031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ZoaTrack.org is a web application for visualising and analysing animal biotelemetry data. This online facility offers a robust set of free and highly accessible tools, which enables the no...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115385776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First confirmed records of the Western Hooded Scaly-foot Pygopus nigriceps from New South Wales","authors":"G. Madani","doi":"10.7882/az.2020.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/az.2020.017","url":null,"abstract":"ABSRACT The Western Hooded Scaly-foot Pygopus nigriceps is a widespread pygopod concomitant with the sandy arid zone of inland and western Australia. The limited suitable habitat available and inac...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129360152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, M. Krogh, Hiroyuki, R. Shiel, H. Segers, J. Ling, Simon J. Hunter, T. Pritchard
{"title":"Zooplankton species richness and abiotic conditions in Thirlmere Lakes, New South Wales, Australia, with reference to water-level fluctuations","authors":"Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, M. Krogh, Hiroyuki, R. Shiel, H. Segers, J. Ling, Simon J. Hunter, T. Pritchard","doi":"10.7882/az.2020.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/az.2020.020","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Water-level fluctuations can have significant effects on lake biological communities. Thirlmere Lakes are a group of five interconnected lakes located near Sydney. Water levels in Thirlmer...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127141589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on the diet and foraging habits of the Giant Barred Frog Mixophyes iteratus","authors":"G. Madani","doi":"10.7882/AZ.2020.028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.028","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Australian anurans generally display little prey specialisation. Most data available of frog diet is limited to stomach content and faecal analysis with few direct observations of prey cap...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123894845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dingo dilemma: a brief history of debate","authors":"C. Dickman, T. Newsome, L. Eeden","doi":"10.7882/AZ.2020.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.029","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ancestral dingoes arrived in Australia at some time, or times, during the Holocene, heralding a period of long and uneasy coexistence with the human inhabitants of the continent. For the f...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"26 23","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114096213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mo, M. Roache, T. Reid, D. Oliver, L. Broome, Adam Fawcett, Katherine Howard, Piers Thomas, S. Tracey, G. Andersen, Rachel Lowry
{"title":"Corporate support for threatened species recovery efforts: three case studies from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season","authors":"M. Mo, M. Roache, T. Reid, D. Oliver, L. Broome, Adam Fawcett, Katherine Howard, Piers Thomas, S. Tracey, G. Andersen, Rachel Lowry","doi":"10.7882/AZ.2020.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A diverse range of corporations, businesses and organisations play an important role in threatened species conservation. During the unprecedented bushfire season in Australia in the 2019–2...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114069038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Range extensions for the hidden-ear frog (Cyclorana cryptotis) and Main’s frog (Cyclorana maini) in the Davenport Murchison Ranges bioregion, Northern Territory","authors":"M. Clancy, Etienne Littlefair","doi":"10.7882/AZ.2020.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.026","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Anurans inhabiting Australia’s semi-arid and arid zones display eruptive breeding patterns. They emerge in large numbers to reproduce after significant rainfall before burrowing deep under...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123048304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observations of an aggregation between two species of Australian elapid snakes: the threatened Little Whip Snake Parasuta flagellum and Common Eastern Brown Snake Pseudonaja textilis","authors":"N. Hansen, D. Oliver","doi":"10.7882/AZ.2020.030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.030","url":null,"abstract":"This short note presents field observations of a pair of adult threatened Little Whip Snakes Parasuta flagellum and a pair of juvenile Common Eastern Brown Snakes Pseudonaja textilis in an aggregat...","PeriodicalId":430003,"journal":{"name":"The Australian zoologist","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121748612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}