Studies in the Cunoniaceae. I. The genera Ceratopetalum, Gillbeea, Aistopetalum, and Calycomis

1960 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 318 ◽  
Author(s):  
RD Hoogland
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Collection ◽  
Blue Mountains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Critical Notes

This first series of studies in the Cunoniaceae offers revisions of the genera Ceratopetalum Sm., Gillbeea F. Muell., Aistopetalum Schltr., and Calycomis D. Don. Full synonymy, bibliography, descriptions, and critical notes are given for the genera and species, and keys to the species are included. The genus Cemtopetalum comprises five species in eastern Australia and New Guinea. C. tetrapterum Mattf., described from New Guinea, is reduced in synonymy under C. succirubrum C. T. White, previously known only from northeastern Queensland. The genus Gillbeea comprises two species, one in north-eastern Queensland and one in New Guinea. The genus Aistopetalum comprises two species in New Guinea; one species is widespread in the northern parts of the island, the other is known only from the type collection. A. tetramerum Kan. et Hat. is reduced in synonymy under A. viticoides. The genus Calycomis is monotypic; its only species, C. australis (A. Cunn.) Hoogl. comb. nov. (Weinmannia australis A. Cunn.) is found in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and is currently known as Acrophyllum verticillatum or A. venosum.

Population ranges of Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera) in south-eastern Australia

1969 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 665 ◽  
Author(s):  
PD Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Navigational Cues ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Western Victoria ◽  
South Eastern Australia

In south-eastern Australia banding of M. schreibersii has been concentrated in four areas: north-eastern New South Wales, south-eastern New South Wales, south-eastern Victoria, and south-western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia. The present paper analyses 2083 reported movements. Only 17 of these are from one of the four areas to another with the longest movement being 810 miles. Biologically and geographically separate populations of M. schreibersii are recognized in both north-eastern and south-eastern New South Wales. Each population has its basis in dependence upon a specific nursery site which is used annually by nearly all adult females in that population. Boundaries of population ranges in New South Wales are considered to be prominent features of physiography (i.e. divides). Bats move between population ranges less often than they move within population ranges. This cannot be explained solely in terms of the distances separating roosts. Available movement records from Victoria and South Australia are consistent with the pattern described for New South Wales. Two biologically recognizable populations (i.e, different birth periods) occur in south-western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia but these may have overlapping ranges. Only one nursery colony of M. schreibersii is known from south-eastern Victoria. On present evidence it remains possible that the apparent integrity of the population associated with this nursery is merely a consequence of distance from other areas of banding activity. Detailed analyses of movements in bats may provide direct evidence as to the kinds of cues by which a given species navigates. Thus the physiographic basis described for population ranges in New South Wales is consistent with the view that M. schreibersii may orientate to waterways or divides or both. The probability that there are area differences in the subtlety or nature of navigational cues is implied by the different physiographic circumstances of south-western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia. It is suggested that knowledge of population range boundaries may aid planning of meaningful homing experiments.

Agropyron scabrum and its role in the epidemiology of Puccinia graminis in north-eastern Australia

1972 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 789 ◽  
Author(s):  
RG Rees
Keyword(s):  
Somatic Hybridization ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Clay Soils ◽  
Puccinia Graminis ◽  
Formae Speciales ◽  
Black Clay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern

The perennial A. scabrum var. plurinerve is an important graminaceous host for P. graminis f. sp. tritici in north-eastern Australia. Rust uredosori were present on the grass in at least some localities during a 3-year period. The grass is of particular significance in the oversummering of P. grarninis f. sp. tritici, supplementing survival on volunteer cereals. Two distinct forms of the variety plurinerve have been identified. One is largely confined to the heavy black clay soils of the Darling Downs and parts of northern New South Wales and is of particular importance in the epidemiology of P. graminis. P. graminis f. sp. tritici, P. graminis f. sp. secalis, and a range of intermediate types occur on the grass, which is apparently a convenient site for somatic hybridization between different formae speciales and strains of P. graminis. P. graminis f. sp. tritici is particularly prevalent on the grass during the summer while the wheat-avirulent intermediate types normally predominate during the balance of the year. The occasional isolation of older strains of P. graminis f. sp. tritici from A. scabrum var. plurinerve suggests that development on the grass acts to some extent as a gene reservoir for the rust population.

Indices for Measuring the Efficacy of Aerial Baiting for Wild Dog Control in North-Eastern New South Wales.

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 665 ◽  
Author(s):  
PJS Fleming ◽  
JA Thompson ◽  
HI Nicol
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Canis Familiaris ◽  
The Other ◽  
Treatment Site ◽  
South Wales ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Wild Dog ◽  
Wild Dogs

The efficacy of aerial baiting with 1080 poison (sodium fluoroacetate) for the control of wild dogs (Canis familiaris familiaris and C. familiaris dingo) in the temperate rangelands of north-eastern New South Wales was studied. In each year from 1991 to 1993, 2 indices of the abundance of dogs, one a raw count of sets of footprints per km of transect (SF) and the other an ln-transformed frequency corrected for sightability of signs (CI), were used to quantify the changes in abundance caused by aerial baiting. Abundance of dogs at a nil-treatment site was estimated concurrently. The SF index found the 1991 baiting to be efficacious. Both measures of abundance showed baiting to be efficacious in 1992 and 1993. Reductions of 66.3-84.5% in the abundance of dogs at the treatment site were found for the CI measure. The SF measure displayed abundance changes of 76.1-91.1%. The indices of abundance measured prior to the annual baiting in 1992 and 1993 were similar, indicating that populations returned to their initial abundance within 1 year.

Population attributes of the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) in north-eastern New South Wales

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Glen
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
High Abundance ◽  
Morphometric Data ◽  
Wild Populations ◽  
Apparent Survival ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern

The spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) is an endangered marsupial carnivore endemic to eastern Australia. A paucity of information on the dynamics of wild populations has hindered conservation of the species. The population dynamics of spotted-tailed quolls were investigated in an area of unusually high abundance in north-eastern New South Wales, where density is conservatively estimated at 0.3 km−2. Sixty individual quolls were captured on 331 occasions over 22 months. Apparent survival, timing and rate of reproduction, and morphometric data were compared with those of quolls from other areas. Population models were employed to investigate patterns in the behaviour and apparent survival of quolls in the study area. The high abundance of D. maculatus identifies the study area as vital to the conservation of quolls on mainland Australia, and to the future study of the species.

Preliminary Report on a Petrological Study of Ground-Edge Artefacts from North-Eastern New South Wales, Australia

1970 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 229-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Binns ◽  
I. McBryde
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Museum ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
History Department ◽  
University Museum

Petrological and chemical analyses of stone, bronze and iron implements are playing an increasingly important role in the study of prehistoric economies. Their contributions, long familiar to students of European prehistory, were recently discussed in a paper which also reviewed the evidence from Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia (Clark, 1965). Apart from some studies limited to stone artefacts from individual archaeological sites, these techniques have not previously been applied to material from Australian prehistory (Gutsche in McBryde, 1966; Branagan and Megaw, 1969). In this brief communication we present some of the results of a petrological analysis of ground-edge artefacts from north-eastern New South Wales.The widespread dispersal of stone for axe-making based on organized exploitation of definite quarry sites is well documented in the historical and anthropological literature for eastern Australia at the time of European settlement. Unfortunately few of these historical records are sufficiently detailed, so even for the recent past as well as for prehistory, techniques of petrological analysis may make vital contributions to our knowledge both of quarry sites in eastern Australia and of the distribution of their products. Our preliminary discussion here is based on an investigation of some 200 axes mainly taken from the archaeological collections in the History Department of the University of New England and various local museum and private collections, but also including axes from northern New South Wales in the Australian collections of the British Museum, the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Anthropological Museum of Aberdeen University.

Ecology of the Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia-Bicolor) in Northeastern New-South-Wales .1. Diet

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 355 ◽  
Author(s):  
CJ Hollis ◽  
CJ Hollis ◽  
JD Robertshaw ◽  
JD Robertshaw ◽  
RH Harden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The Other ◽  
Seasonal Differences ◽  
South Wales ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Wallabia Bicolor ◽  
Swamp Wallaby

The diet of the swamp wallaby Wallabia bicolor was determined by identifying plant fragments from the forestomachs of animals collected at two sites (Diamond Flat and the Styx River State Forest) in forests on the edge of the eastern escarpment of the Great Dividing Range in north-eastern New South Wales. Seventy-seven and 72 genera of plants were recorded in the diets at the two sites respectively. The dietary items were grouped into six categories, the overall occurrence of which ranged frcm forbs (26%), ferns (19%), shrubs (19%), grasses, sedges and rushes (17%) and fungi (15%) to vines (3%). There were broad similarities in the diets of the animals from both sites, though there were some seasonal differences both within and between sites, the most marked being an increase in grasses, sedges and rushes and a decrease in fungi in spring. It is suggested that fungi may be an important source of nitrogen during the other seasons. The wide array of plant species eaten by the swamp wallaby indicates that it is a generalist rather than specialist feeder, and more of a browser than the larger macropodids.

Helminth communities of pademelons, Thylogale stigmatica and T. thetis from eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.E. Griffith ◽  
I. Beveridge ◽  
N.B. Chilton ◽  
P.M. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Helminth Community ◽  
Northern Limit ◽  
Gastrointestinal Helminths ◽  
Helminth Communities ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia

AbstractGastrointestinal helminths were collected from pademelons of the genus Thylogale (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) in eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea. Examined were 12 Thylogale stigmatica stigmatica and 13 T. s. wilcoxi, the latter subdivided into eight specimens from the northern limit of their distribution and five from southern areas, all from eastern Queensland, Australia, one T. s. oriomo from Papua New Guinea and ten T. thetis from southeastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia. Six species of cestodes and 40 species of nematodes were found. The helminth community of T. s. stigmatica was similar to that found in northern specimens of T. s. wilcoxi, while differences from the helminth community present in southern T. s. wilcoxi could be accounted for by parasites acquired from sympatric T. thetis. Thylogale thetis harboured a community of helminths distinct from but related to that in T. stigmatica. The evidence suggests that all subspecies of T. stigmatica examined share a common helminth community, but that in areas of sympatry, T. stigmatica and T. thetis share some of their parasites.

scholarly journals Two new frog species from the Litoria rubella species group from eastern Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5071 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
J. J. L. ROWLEY ◽  
M. J. MAHONY ◽  
H. B. HINES ◽  
S. MYERS ◽  
L.C. PRICE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Species Group ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Tree Frog ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Phylogeographic Break ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern

The bleating tree frog (Litoria dentata) is one of the more prominent pelodryadid frogs of eastern Australia by virtue of its extremely loud, piercing, male advertisement call. A member of the Litoria rubella species group, L. dentata has a broad latitudinal distribution and is widespread from coastal and subcoastal lowlands through to montane areas. A recent mitochondrial DNA analysis showed a deep phylogeographic break between populations of L. dentata on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Here we extended the mitochondrial survey with more geographically comprehensive sampling and tested the systematic implications of our findings with nuclear genome wide single-nucleotide polymorphism, morphological and male advertisement call datasets. While similar in appearance and in male advertisement call, our integrative analysis demonstrates the presence of three species which replace each other in a north-south series. We redescribe Litoria dentata, which is restricted to coastal north-eastern New South Wales, and formally describe Litoria balatus sp. nov., from south-eastern Queensland, and Litoria quiritatus sp. nov., from the mid-coast of New South Wales to north-eastern Victoria.  

New genus of Megalopsalidinae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Monoscutidae) from north-eastern Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2130 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER K. TAYLOR ◽  
GLENN S. HUNT
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Male Dimorphism ◽  
Secondary Sexual Characteristics ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Sexual Characteristics ◽  
Secondary Sexual

Neopantopsalis n. gen. represents a previously unrecognised radiation of Opiliones from Queensland and northern New South Wales. Neopantopsalis quasimodo n. sp. is described from specimens examined but never published by the late G. S. Hunt. N. pentheter n. sp., N. psile n. sp. and N. thaumatopoios n. sp. are also described, while Pantopsalis continentalis and Spinicrus camelus are recombined as N. continentalis n. comb. and N. camelus n. comb., respectively. Neopantopsalis is distinguished from other genera of Monoscutidae by humps on the dorsal prosomal plate, lengthened spine rows on leg I, reduced bristle groups on the penis, and a long, dorsoventrally flattened glans. Male dimorphism is postulated for N. quasimodo, N. pentheter and N. psile, with rarer minor males that are considerably smaller and have less developed secondary sexual characteristics than the more common major males. A new terminology is introduced to facilitate descriptions of the propeltidium of Megalopsalidinae.

No evidence of protracted population decline across 17 years in an unmanaged population of the green and golden bell frog in north-eastern New South Wales

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Ross L. Goldingay ◽  
Jonathan Parkyn ◽  
David A. Newell
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Population Models ◽  
Litoria Aurea ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Management And Conservation

Describing the population trends of threatened species over time is central to their management and conservation. The green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea) is a formerly common species of south-eastern Australia that has declined to ~40 populations in New South Wales, and experienced a substantial contraction of its geographic range. We aimed to determine whether an unmanaged population at the northern end of its range had declined across a 17-year period. We estimated population size at the beginning and end of this period, using several population models to fully characterise this population. Different modelling approaches gave different population estimates. Based on a similar number of survey occasions the adult male segment of the population was estimated using the Popan model at 112.0 (±13.5, s.e.; 95% CI: 85.5–138.8) in 1998/99 and 95.2 (±17.6; 60.8–129.7) in 2015/16. With the inclusion of maturing subadults following the practice of earlier studies, the population was estimated at 163.6 (±25.9; 112.8–214.5) males in 2015/16. These estimates represent an index of a larger population because the largest wetland was subsampled. Our data provide no evidence of a declining population. Our study highlights the need to understand the implications of using different population models and two age-classes to estimate population parameters.

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