William Landsborough's expedition of 1862 from Carpentaria to Victoria in search of Burke and Wills: exploration with native police troopers and aboriginal guides
- Authors: Jeffries, Peta
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Aboriginal story of Burke and Wills: Forgotten narratives p. 279-300
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Climate projection methodology
- Authors: Irving, Damien , Hennessy, Kevin , Katzfey, Jack , Kokic, Philip , Abbs, Deborah , Brown, Josephine , Chand, Savin , Lenton, Andrew , Sen Gupta, Alexander , Summons, Nicholas , Tory, Kevin
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research p. 79-86
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Projections based on downscaling
- Authors: Katzfey, Jack , Kokic, Philip , Perkins, Sarah , Abbs, Deborah , Arthur, Craig , Chand, Savin , Chattopadhyay, Mohar , Crimp, Steven , Irving, Damien , McBride, John , McGregor, John , Nguyen, Kim , Summons, Nicholas , Thatcher, Marcus , Tory, Kevin
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research p. 181-212
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Changes in vegetation condition following Kangaroo population management in Wyperfeld National Park
- Authors: Pegler, P. , Gibson, Matthew , Westbrooke, Martin , Gowans, Stacey
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Macropods: The biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-kangaroos p. 361-370
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- Description: Annual western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginsus) management programs have been implemented in Wyperfeld National Park, Victoria, as part of a strategy for the conservation and rehabilitation of vegetation communities. Due to public sensitivity to the culling of native animals is it essential to demonstrate that such activities it is essential to demonstrate that such actions result in environmental improvement. An assessment of the condition of the river red gum/black box woodland, pine/buloke woodland and lakebed herbfield vegation and communities was undertaken in 1998. Floristi and structural data were recorded from 162 quadrats across the park. "From the abstract".
Climate model reliability
- Authors: Brown, Josephine , Colman, Robert , Katzfey, Jack , Irving, Damien , Sen Gupta, Alexander , Abbs, Deborah , Perkins, Sarah , Arthur, Craig , Brown, Jaclyn , Chand, Savin , Chattopadhyay, Mohar , Church, John , Delage, François , Durack, Paul , Kokic, Philip , McGregor, John , Moise, Aurel , Muir, Les , Murphy, Brad , Nguyen, Kim , Platten, Skye , Power, Scott , Smith, Ian , Summons, Nicholas , Tory, Kevin , Wijffels, Susan , Zhang, Xuebin
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research p. 97-144
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The influence of Aboriginal country on artist and naturalist Ludwig Becker of the Victorian exploring expedition: Mootwingee, 1860-61
- Authors: Jeffries, Peta
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Aboriginal story of Burke and Wills: Forgotten natives p. 191-205
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A history of Australia's riverine habitats and vegetation
- Authors: Bickford, Sophie , Reid, Michael , Gell, Peter , Kenyon, Christine
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Vegetation of Australian riverine landscapes : biology, ecology and management Chapter 4 p. 45-58
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- Description: Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant. They are also among the most threatened ecosystems on the continent and have been dramatically altered as a result of human activities and climate change. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes brings together, for the first time, the results of the substantial amount of research that has been conducted over the last few decades into the biology, ecology and management of these important plant communities in Australia.
Habitat characteristics of a threatened arboreal marsupial and its resource use in a degraded landscape : The brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa tapoatafa) in central Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Mansfield, Caroline , Arnold, Andrew , Bell, Tina , York, Alan
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Wildlife Research Vol. 44, no. 2 (2017), p. 153-164
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- Description: Context. Habitat loss and degradation has contributed significantly to the decline of many species worldwide. To address this loss, we first require a comprehensive understanding of habitat requirements and resource-use patterns of the species under threat. Aims. The study aimed to quantify variation in the habitat of a species threatened by habitat loss and degradation, the brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa tapoatafa), by measuring several physical characteristics of trees and ground cover, as well as to determine potential foraging resource preferences using abundance data from a long-term monitoring study. Methods. Phascogale monitoring surveys were conducted over a 13-year period from 2000 to 2012. Habitat variables characterising tree communities, ground cover and coarse woody debris were used to develop explanatory models of phascogale abundance at the site scale. Tree species preference by foraging phascogales was evaluated by comparing usage (trees on which they were captured) and availability. Key results. The highest overall animal abundance was at sites characterised by associations of red stringybark, red box, grey box and broad-leaved and narrow-leaved peppermints. At these sites, red stringybark and grey box trees were of small diameter and tended to have small hollows. These sites also had low average tree height, low grass and/or herb and shrub cover and low volumes of coarse woody debris. From a resource-use perspective, phascogales foraged preferentially on certain species of Eucalyptus. Conclusions. Our study suggests that phascogale abundance is highly spatially and temporally variable, most likely as a response to heterogeneity in habitat and foraging resources operating at a range of spatial scales. Implications. This study has provided new information concerning spatial patterns of phascogale abundance and resource use within a forested area in central Victoria that has been subjected to multiple disturbances. Currently, the composition and age structure of tree communities and ground habitats are a response to severe disturbance due to past mining and harvesting activities. Successful conservation of this threatened species could be enhanced through active management of this forest to maintain the ongoing supply of nesting hollows and foraging resources.
Wildlife of the Otways and Shipwreck Coast
- Authors: Palmer, Grant
- Date: 2019
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- Description: The Otways and Shipwreck Coast is known for its natural beauty and attracts millions of visitors each year, particularly along the Great Ocean Road. The value of the region's rich biodiversity is recognised at the national and global level and its wildlife is markedly different to other regions, including eastern Victoria which supports similar vegetation types. This is a photographic field guide to the vertebrate wildlife of Victoria's south-west. It covers all the mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that occur in the region, including on land and in coastal waters. Each species profile includes a description and information on range, conservation status, habitat use and ecology and is complemented by an exquisite colour photograph and a detailed distribution map. It also includes chapters on habitat types, conservation and management and on 14 key spots in the region to view wildlife. This book will allow those interested in wildlife, including residents and visitors, to identify mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs found in the region. Readers will become more familiar with the region's remarkable wildlife and the distinct role the Otways region has in conserving Australia's biodiversity.
Dense regeneration of floodplain Eucalyptus coolabah : Invasive scrub or passive restoration of an endangered woodland community?
- Authors: Good, Megan , Price, Jodi , Clarke, Peter , Reid, Nick
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Rangeland Journal Vol. 34, no. 2 (2012), p. 219-233
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- Description: Clearing of native vegetation and changes to disturbance regimes have resulted in dense regeneration of native trees and shrubs in parts of Australia. The conversion of open vegetation to dense woodlands may result in changes to the composition of plant communities and ecosystem function if structure, composition and function are tightly linked. Widespread clearing of the floodplain tree Eucalyptus coolabah subsp. coolabah (coolibah), in New South Wales, Australia, has led to state and federal listings of coolibah woodland as an endangered ecological community. Dense regeneration of coolibah in the mid 1970s, however, also resulted in its listing as an 'invasive native species' in NSW, meaning it can be legally cleared under certain conditions. Dense regeneration could be a novel state dissimilar to the threatened community or it could represent the next generation of coolibah woodlands and may contribute to passive restoration of heavily cleared landscapes. This study investigated if dense stands are distinct from remnant woodland by comparing floristic composition of the ground-storey community and top-soil properties of four coolibah vegetation states: derived grassland, derived degraded grassland, dense regeneration and remnant woodland. Ground-storey composition was found to overlap broadly among states regardless of tree density. Most species were common to all states, although dense regeneration contained characteristic woodland species that were absent from grasslands. The carbon:nitrogen ratio of the soil was significantly higher in dense regeneration and remnant woodland than in either of the grassland states, indicating that the woody states are broadly similar in terms of nutrient cycling. The study demonstrates that structurally different vegetation states (grasslands, woodlands and dense regeneration) are not associated with distinct plant communities. The results also suggest that grazing management has a more pronounced effect on ground-storey composition of plant communities than tree density and that well managed derived grasslands and dense regeneration are floristically similar to remnant woodlands. Since dense regeneration and remnant woodlands are not floristically distinct from one another, dense regeneration could contribute to the conservation of endangered coolibah woodlands in cleared agricultural landscapes. © Australian Rangeland Society 2012.
Densely regenerating coolibah (Eucalyptus coolabah) woodlands are more species-rich than surrounding derived grasslands in floodplains of eastern Australia
- Authors: Good, Megan , Price, Jodi , Clarke, Peter , Reid, Nick
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Botany Vol. 59, no. 5 (2011), p. 468-479
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- Description: Woody plant encroachment the conversion of grasslands to tree- or shrub-dominated ecosystems occurs in rangelands and savannas worldwide. In eastern Australia, coolibah (Eucalyptus coolabah subsp. coolabah Blakely Jacobs) regenerated densely following floods in the mid 1970s, converting derived grasslands to dense woodlands. We compared soil and groundstorey vegetation attributes of dense coolibah regeneration to adjacent derived grasslands at three grazed sites in the northern riverine plains of New South Wales. Groundstorey species richness and diversity were significantly higher and groundstorey biomass was significantly lower in dense regeneration plots than in derived grassland plots. Soils from dense regeneration had higher C:N and pH, and lower Na than soils from derived grasslands. Although groundstorey species composition differed significantly between derived grasslands and dense regeneration within sites, variation among sites was more pronounced, indicating that site factors influence community composition more than dense regeneration of coolibah. Our findings suggest that, in contrast to other studies of woody plant encroachment, dense regeneration of coolibah does not result in a decrease in plant biodiversity or soil condition. © 2011 CSIRO.
Health service planning and sustainable development: considering what, where and how care is delivered through a pro-environmental lens
- Authors: Desmond, Sharon
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Australian Health Review Vol. 42, no. 2 (2018), p. 140-145
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- Description: The aim of the present paper was to review the opportunities currently available to health service planners to advance sustainable development in their future-facing roles within health service organisation. Critical challenges and enablers to facilitate health services planners in adopting a pro-environmental lens are discussed. What is known about the topic? Despite its harmful effect on the environment, health has been slower than other industries to embrace the sustainable development agenda. The attitudes and knowledge base of health service planners with regard to environmental sustainability has not been widely studied. For health service planners, embracing pro-environmental considerations in sustainable model of care development is a powerful opportunity to review care paradigms and prepare for the implementation of meaningful, improved health and system efficiency. What does this paper add? This paper advances the case for health service planners to embrace a pro-environmental stance and guides health service leaders in the preparation and implementation of sustainable and improved health and system efficiency. What are the implications for practitioners? Health service planers are in an ideal position to champion the sustainable development agenda as they explore what care is delivered, how care is delivered and where care is delivered. External policy, health service leadership and carbon literacy are advanced as critical contextual factors to facilitate the key role that health service planners can play in building sustainable healthcare organisations.
Acidity fractions in acid sulfate soils and sediments : Contributions of schwertmannite and jarosite
- Authors: Vithana, Chamindra , Sullivan, Leigh , Bush, Richard , Burton, Edward
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Soil Research Vol. 51, no. 3 (2013), p. 203-214
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- Description: In Australia, the assessment of acidity hazard in acid sulfate soils requires the estimation of operationally defined acidity fractions such as actual acidity, potential sulfidic acidity, and retained acidity. Acid-base accounting approaches in Australia use these acidity fractions to estimate the net acidity of acid sulfate soils materials. Retained acidity is the acidity stored in the secondary Fe/Al hydroxy sulfate minerals, such as jarosite, natrojarosite, schwertmannite, and basaluminite. Retained acidity is usually measured as either net acid-soluble sulfur (SNAS) or residual acid soluble sulfur (SRAS). In the present study, contributions of schwertmannite and jarosite to the retained acidity, actual acidity, and potential sulfidic acidity fractions were systematically evaluated using S NAS and SRAS techniques. The data show that schwertmannite contributed considerably to the actual acidity fraction and that it does not contribute solely to the retained acidity fraction as has been previously conceptualised. As a consequence, SNAS values greatly underestimated the schwertmannite content. For soil samples in which jarosite is the only mineral present, a better estimate of the added jarosite content can be obtained by using a correction factor of 2 to SNAS values to account for the observed 50-60% recovery. Further work on a broader range of jarosite samples is needed to determine whether this correction factor has broad applicability. The SRAS was unable to reliably quantify either the schwertmannite or the jarosite content and, therefore, is not suitable for quantification of the retained acidity fraction. Potential sulfidic acidity in acid sulfate soils is conceptually derived from reduced inorganic sulfur minerals and has been estimated by the peroxide oxidation approach, which is used to derive the S RAS values. However, both schwertmannite and jarosite contributed to the peroxide-oxidisable sulfur fraction, implying a major potential interference by those two minerals to the determination of potential sulfidic acidity in acid sulfate soils through the peroxide oxidation approach. © 2013 CSIRO.
Graduate employment trends in the life sciences : Implications for microbiology educators
- Authors: Smith, John , Grando, Danilla , Fotinatos, Nina
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Microbiology Australia Vol. 2, no. (2016), p. 56-59
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- Description: Graduates in the Life Sciences, including microbiology have experienced similar employment trends to graduates in other fields over the past 30 years. Recent downward trends in graduate employment levels have raised concerns among educators and the community in general. Awareness of the diverse opportunities for graduates of microbiology is needed. For many, explicit education in ‘employability skills’ is also considered to be needed to enable graduates to succeed in the competitive job market.
Managing projected midwifery workforce deficits through collaborative partnerships
- Authors: McIntyre, Meredith , Patrick, Alison , Jones, Linda , Newton, Michelle , McLachlan, Helen , Morrow, Jane , Morton, Harriet
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Australian Health Review Vol. 36, no. 1 (2012), p. 75-78
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- Description: To address workforce shortages, the Australian Government funded additional nursing and midwifery places in 2009 pre-registration courses. An existing deficit in midwifery clinical placements, combined with the need to secure additional clinical placements, contributed to a serious shortfall. In response, a unique collaboration between Midwifery Academics of Victoria (MIDAC), rural and metropolitan maternity managers (RMM andMMM)groups and Department of Health (DOH) Victoria was generated, in order to overcome difficulties experienced by maternity services in meeting the increased need. This group identified the large number of different clinical assessment tools required to be being completed by midwives supervising students as problematic. It was agreed that the development of a Common Assessment Tool (CAT) for use in clinical assessment across all pre-registration midwifery courses in Victoria had the potential to reduce workload associated with student assessments and, in doing so, release additional placements within each service. The CAT was developed in 2009 and implemented in 2010. The unique collaboration involved in the development of theCATis a blueprint for future projects. The collaboration on this project provided a range of benefits and challenges, as well as unique opportunities for further collaborations involving industry, government, regulators and the tertiary sector. © 2012 AHHA.
A DNA toolbox for non-invasive genetic studies of sambar deer (Rusa unicolor)
- Authors: Davies, Chris , Wright, Wendy , Wedrowicz, Faye , Hogan, Fiona
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Mammalogy Vol. 42, no. 1 (2020), p. 58-66
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- Description: Invasive sambar deer (Rusa unicolor) are having significant detrimental impacts on natural environments in south-eastern Australia. Little, however, is known about their ecology, limiting evidence-based management strategies directed at reducing deer impacts. Genetic data, generated from DNA isolated from deer scats, can be used to fill ecological knowledge gaps. This study outlines a non-invasive genetic sampling strategy by which good-quality DNA from a single deer scat can be used to determine (1) species of origin, (2) sex and (3) a unique DNA profile. DNA from deer tissue and sambar deer scat samples were used to develop and optimise molecular methods to collect reliable genetic information. A DNA toolbox is presented that describes how to find, collect and store scat samples, isolate DNA and use molecular markers to generate informative genetic data. Generating genetic data using this approach will support studies aimed at acquiring ecological knowledge about sambar deer. Such knowledge will be critical for developing evidence-based recommendations to improve on-ground management decisions for sambar deer.
Shorebird monitoring in Australia : a successful long-term collaboration among citizen scientists, governments and researchers
- Authors: Hansen, Birgita , Clemens, Robert , Gallo-Cajiao, Eduardo , Jackson, Micha, , Kingsford, Richard
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities p. 149-164
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- Description: **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Birgita Hansen” is provided in this record**
Wildlife conservation in farm landscapes
- Authors: Lindenmayer, David , Michael, Damian , Crane, Mason , Okayda, Sachiko , Florance, Daniel , Barton, Philip , Ikin, Karen
- Date: 2016
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- Description: An increasing number of Australians want to be assured that the food and fibre being produced on this continent have been grown and harvested in an ecologically sustainable way. Ecologically sustainable farming conserves the array of species that are integral to key ecological processes such as pollination, seed dispersal, natural pest control and the decomposition of waste. Wildlife Conservation in Farm Landscapes communicates new scientific information about best practice ways to integrate conservation and agriculture in the temperate eucalypt woodland belt of eastern Australia. It is based on the large body of scientific literature in this field, as well as long-term studies at 790 permanent sites on over 290 farms extending throughout Victoria, New South Wales and south-east Queensland. Richly illustrated, with chapters on birds, mammals, reptiles, invertebrates and plants, this book illustrates how management interventions can promote nature conservation and what practices have the greatest benefit for biodiversity. Together the new insights in this book inform whole-of-farm planning. Wildlife Conservation in Farm Landscapes is an ideal resource for land managers and farmers interested in integrating farming and environmental values and anyone interested in biodiversity in woodlands and agricultural zones. Recipient of a 2017 Whitley Awards Certificate of Commendation for Conservation in Action
The lay of the land : the geological evolution of the landscape
- Authors: Dahlhaus, Peter
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Geelong's Changing Landscape : Ecology, Development and Conservation p.
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Charophytes of Australia’s Northern Territory – I. Tribe Chareae
- Authors: Casanova, Michelle , Karol, Kenneth
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Systematic Botany Vol. 36, no. 1 (2023), p. 38-79
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- Description: This study of Northern Territory charophytes documents 22 species in 3 of the genera in tribe Chareae, family Characeae, including 15 previously described species (Chara benthamii, C. erythrogyna, C. globularis, C. karolii, C. lucida, C. porteri, C. protocharoides, C. setosa, C. submollusca, C. wightii, C. zeylanica, Lamprothamnium capitatum, L. compactum, L. stipitatum, Lychnothamnus barbatus) of which 2 are new for the Australian flora (C. erythrogyna and C. wightii), as well as 5 varieties raised to species rank (C. aridicola, C. arnhemensis, C. bancroftii, C. behriana, C. duriuscula), and 2 newly described species (C. lamprothamniformis, C. schultae). Three previously reported species in the tribe (C. braunii, C. corallina, C. fibrosa) are not recorded from the Northern Territory in this study, as previous records were based on erroneous identifications or localities. Although Northern Territory specimens of Lychnothamnus barbatus have not been seen, it has been included in this treatment, because it occurs in south-eastern Queensland, the Gulf of Carpentaria, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. A key, illustrations and descriptions of all the species are provided.