Variation in the composition of apatite in the Munni Munni Complex and associated intrusions of the West Pilbara Block, Western Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 57 (18) ◽  
pp. 4467-4477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan E. Boudreau ◽  
Coleen Love ◽  
Dean M. Hoatson
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
The West

Breeding biology and movements of Australian sea-lions, Neophoca cinerea, off the west coasst of Western Australia

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 405 ◽  
Author(s):  
NJ Gales ◽  
AJ Cheal ◽  
GJ Pobar ◽  
P Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Breeding Season ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Breeding Cycle ◽  
Sea Lion ◽  
The West ◽  
Breeding Sites ◽  
Sea Lions ◽  
Neophoca Cinerea

The Australian sea-lion, Neophoca cinerea, has a 17-18-month breeding cycle on islands off the west coast of Western Australia. Buller, North Fisherman and Beagle Is are the main pupping sites, with several very small colonies (n> 3) at the Abrolhos Is. The 4-5-month pupping seasons are synchronised at North Fisherman and Beagle Is, but the sea-lions from Buller I. breed one month later and those from the Abrolhos Is two months earlier. Pup production and pup mortality were highly variable between seasons over which observations were recorded: 129 pups were born at the main breeding sites in early 1988, the mortality in the first five months was 7.1%, whereas 181 pups were born in late 1989 of which 24.3% died. Pups remain in the vicinity of their natal islands for the first 4-5 months of life before leaving, perhaps on foraging trips, with their mothers. Most return to their natal island, although others haulout on islands up to 27 km away. Some male N. cinerea congregate in bachelor colonies on islands adjacent to the Perth metropolitan region during the non-breeding season and migrate up to 280 km north each breeding season. The status of the isolated, west-coast N. cinerea population is unknown. The current high level of human pressure on sea-lion terrestrial habitats and their food resources indicate a need for further monitoring of this species.

New phallodrilines (Annelida: Clitellata: Tubificidae) from Western Australian groundwater

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1304 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADRIAN M. PINDER ◽  
S. M. EBERHARD ◽  
WILLIAM F. HUMPHREYS
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
West Coast ◽  
The State ◽  
Karst Aquifers ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Australian

Four species of phallodriline tubificids (Clitellata: Tubificidae) from karst aquifers and caves along the west coast of the state of Western Australia are the first records of this subfamily from nonmarine waters in the southern hemisphere. Aktedrilus parvithecatus (Erséus 1978) and Pectinodrilus ningaloo n. sp. occur in anchialine groundwater of Cape Range, along with other taxa of marine affinity. Aktedrilus leeuwinensis n. sp. and Aktedrilus podeilema n. sp. occur in caves of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge and Perth Basin respectively and are the first taxa of marine lineage to have been collected from these systems.

Indefinite Detention Meets Colonial Dispossession

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Blagg ◽  
Tamara Tulich ◽  
Zoe Bush
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure ◽  
Alcohol Exposure ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The West ◽  
Indefinite Detention ◽  
History Of ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
Colonial Settlement

Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a non-diagnostic umbrella term encompassing a spectrum of disorders caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. This article reports on a qualitative research project undertaken in three Indigenous communities in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia, intended to develop diversionary pathways for Indigenous young people with FASD at risk of enmeshment in the justice system. Rates of FASD in some parts of the West Kimberley are comparable to the highest identified internationally. A diagnosis of FASD amplifies the chances of Indigenous youth being caught up in the justice system in Western Australia, including indefinite detention in prison if found unfit to stand trial. A fresh diversionary paradigm is required. Employing a postcolonial perspective, we explore issues surrounding law and justice intervention – and non-intervention – in the lives of Indigenous children and their families. The FASD problem cannot be uncoupled from the history of colonial settlement and the multiple traumas resulting from dispossession, nor can solving the problem be isolated from the broader task of decolonizing relationships between Indigenous people and the settler mainstream. The decolonizing process involves expanding the role of Indigenous owned and place-based processes and services embedded in Indigenous knowledge.

Rediscovery of the scaly-tailed possum (Wyulda squamicaudata) in the eastern Kimberley

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 260 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Sean Doody ◽  
David Rhind ◽  
Christina M. Castellano ◽  
Michael Bass
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
The West ◽  
Mammal Fauna ◽  
Climate Envelope

The tropical mammal fauna of Australia is both understudied and, in some cases, imperiled, and the former hinders a complete understanding of the latter. An enigmatic and poorly understood species is the scaly-tailed possum (Wyulda squamicaudata), a species endemic to the Kimberley Region, Western Australia. We describe the rediscovery of the scaly-tailed possum in the east Kimberley, where it has not been recorded since 1917. The discovery: (1) reinforces the hitherto-questioned validity of the east Kimberley record; (2) confirms an extension of the range by 200–300 km to the east from populations in the west Kimberley; and thus (3) broadens the climate envelope occupied by the species. Implications of the known distribution for the biology, genetics and conservation of the scaly-tailed possum are briefly discussed.

A taxonomic revision of Pseudochitinopoma Zibrowius, 1969 (Annelida, Serpulidae) with description of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3507 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
ELENA K. KUPRIYANOVA ◽  
HARRY A. TEN HOVE ◽  
EJIROH NISHI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
The West ◽  
Reproductive Patterns ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Affinities

This study is a revision of the poorly known genus Pseudochitinopoma Zibrowius, 1969 (Annelida, Serpulidae), erected for Hyalopomatopsis occidentalis Bush, 1905 from the West Coast of North America. Subsequently, an unnamed Pseudochitinopoma sp. nov. from the Seychelles (ten Hove 1994) (described herein as P. amirantensis sp. nov.) and P. pavimentata Nishi, 1999 were added to the genus. Ficopomatus capensis Day, 1961 is herein referred to Pseudochitinopoma, based on examination of the type material. Finally, Pseudochitinopoma beneliahuae sp. nov. was described from Western Australia and the Red Sea. Reproductive patterns and phylogenetic affinities of Pseudochitinopoma spp. are discussed.

scholarly journals Reproductive biology is alive and well in the west

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 439
Author(s):  
Jim Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Biology ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
The West ◽  
Recent Meeting

This report describes a recent meeting of the Endocrine and Reproductive Biology Society of Western Australia (ERBSWA) on 23 July 2019, and summarises the research presented and the prizes awarded.

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