A5087756909- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Competency Development and Evaluation
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Higher Education and Employability
- Higher Education Learning Practices
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Statistics Education and Methodologies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission
2023
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
2023
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2020-2022
Machine Science
2020-2022
Engineering Systems (United States)
2020-2022
University of Memphis
2020-2022
Amherst College
2020-2021
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2020-2021
Reef Ecologic
2015-2021
The University of Texas at Arlington
2021
Summary The impact of bushfire events on wild Koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) populations is poorly understood. Following the 2019/2020 season in eastern Australia, we resurveyed 123 field sites for which contemporaneous (current koala generation) pre ‐fire survey data were available. Field distributed across six fire grounds between Foster and Ballina north coast New South Wales. At these sites, naïve occupancy levels by koalas ranged from 25% to 71% sampled habitat, while post 0% 47%....
In order to more effectively conserve Koalas, the National Koala Conservation and Management Strategy 2009 - 2014 promotes need for reliable approaches assessment of habitat. This work describes a point-based, tree sampling methodology that utilises presence/absence faecal pellets within prescribed search area around base trees derive measure activity. Confidence intervals associated with activity data from 405 randomly selected field plots which were recorded have been utilised assign...
An assessment of the tree species preferences koalas inhabiting forest and woodland communities growing on Quaternary deposits in Port Stephens area, New South Wales, was undertaken between November 1994 March 1996. Using a plot-based methodology, 3847 trees were sampled, comprising 15 Eucalyptus 17 non-eucalypt. Evidence use by koalas, specifically presence koala faecal pellets, recorded from beneath 10 9 Tree determined analyses log- likelihood ratios derived data based presence/absence...
Abstract: A critical issue affecting the long‐term management of koalas is their perceived conservation status. Koalas still occur in many areas throughout historical range, but numbers animals are estimated to vary from <100,000 at least one order magnitude higher. Complex factors limit free‐ranging koala populations, including food tree preferences, history disturbance, and Chlamydia infection, all which make longer‐term population trends populations difficult predict. Lack consensus...
The Australian National Koala Conservation Strategy recognizes the importance of conserving Koalas in their existing habitat, particularly through integration conservation into local government planning (ANZECC 1998). aim this study was to define, rank and map distribution habitat Port Stephens Shire, New South Wales. procedure merge results two independent survey techniques, each which interpreted using a vegetation specifically prepared for study. A field used plot-based sampling protocol...
Tree species preferences of a koala population inhabiting small area forest and woodland in the Campbelltown area, south-west Sydney, were investigated over two-year period. In total, 2499 trees from 45 independent field sites assessed, with tree determined on basis comparative analysis proportional data relating to presence/absence faecal pellets. The results established that grey gum (Eucalyptus punctata) blue-leaved stringybark (E. agglomerata) most preferred by koalas study but only when...
In the 1990s, Pilliga forests were carrying largest population of koalas west Great Dividing Range in New South Wales (NSW). Whereas NSW koala its entirety was thought to be decline, stood out as potentially increasing. By 2007, anecdotal evidence suggested that decline. We undertook surveys repeated undertaken between 1991 and 2011. found had declined only 21% sites which they observed initial – by any measure, a 5-fold drop occupancy less than two decades is severe. Declines occurred...
The effects of short-term disturbances that result in changes to movement patterns and/or behaviour wildlife are poorly understood. In this study the movements seven koalas were monitored before, during and after a five-day music festival. During monitoring program occupied home-range areas 0.6–13 ha with one or more core activity. Aversive form evacuation known ranging was demonstrated by three had within 525 m approximate centre festival area, associated responses comprising perpendicular...
In fire-prone regions, assessing stand age of obligate-seeding species provides an estimate time since last fire. If a relationship exists between tree and diameter, measuring the stem diameter trees is simple field method for determining age-class distribution within stand. this study, we examined whether obligate seeder Allocasuarina littoralis could be estimated from by using dendrochronological applications. Analysis radial samples established that A. puts down annual growth rings. The...
Radio-tracking studies enable insights into factors that contribute to koala mortality. Two radio-tracking investigating the impacts of disturbance events on koalas were undertaken in different areas over same period. Both employed similar techniques for capture, processing and monitoring. In one study, none nine died during a 5-month monitoring program following their translocation new habitat area, while second study 6 11 period an situ impact-monitoring study. The two populations differed...
hosted a workshop to establish research priorities that support the implementation of action items listed in current invasive species management plan, Quagga and Zebra Mussel Action Plan (QZAP) 2.0, are intended limit establishment spread quagga zebra mussels western United States.The focus was on developing for thematic areas addressed QZAP 2.0: 1) early detection monitoring, 2) prevention containment, 3) control management, 4) rapid response.In addition, were developed fifth area...
Biologists have traditionally been reluctant to study arboreal snakes due low rates of capture. Overlooking such taxa can mislead interpretations population trends for data-deficient species. We used regularly spaced transect searches and standard capture–mark–recapture techniques describe structure, growth rates, survival capture probability in a the pale-headed snake (Hoplocephalus bitorquatus) southern Queensland. obtained data from 194 captures 113 individual between 2009 2015. Using...
WITH a body weight of 15 - 19 g and mean headbody length just over 60 mm (Churchill 1998), the eastern blossom bat Syconycteris australis is one smallest members sub-order Megachiroptera. Within Australia S. restricted in distribution to east coast from Cape York Queensland near Forster on mid-north New South Wales (NSW) (Law 1994a). Habitat requirements include both rainforest and/or wet sclerophyll forest for roosting purposes proximal areas heathland foraging 1993). The species survives...
Book Review| September 01 2014 Review: Concrete and Culture: A Material History, by Adrian Forty FortyConcrete HistoryLondon: Reaktion Books, 2012, 336 pp., 127 b/w illus. $36 (cloth), ISBN 9781861898975 Stephen Phillips 1California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Search for other works this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society Architectural Historians (2014) 73 (3): 417–419. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.3.417 Views Icon Article contents...
This paper provides an institutional perspective of a single competency-based institution – Thomas Edison State University - and examines how the University’s history intersects with both renewed upsurge in interest CBE as well changing dynamic what constitutes robust successful program. It will also illustrate achievements obstacles core team encountered through their journey to realize modern direct assessment