Ecological traits and conservation biology of five fossorial ‘sand-swimming’ snake species (Simoselaps: Elapidae) in south-western Australia

1999 ◽  
Vol 249 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. How ◽  
Richard Shine
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Ecological Traits ◽  
Snake Species

scholarly journals Conservation and management of Australasian birds

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
H. F. Recher
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conservation And Management

This is a special issue of Pacific Conservation Biology on the conservation and management of Australasian birds. Originally, the papers were presented at the Southern Hemisphere Ornithological Congress (SHOC) held in October 1996 at Albany, Western Australia. The Congress was organized by the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union following discussions in 1990 at the International Ornithological Congress in Christchurch, New Zealand on the need for regular, scientific ornithological meetings in Australia. The intent of those discussions was for a meeting of Australian/New Zealand ornithologists every two years.

scholarly journals The ground beetle tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the southern Levant: dichotomous and interactive identification tools, ecological traits, and distribution

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1044 ◽  
pp. 449-478
Author(s):  
Thorsten Assmann ◽  
Estève Boutaud ◽  
Jörn Buse ◽  
Claudia Drees ◽  
Ariel-Leib-Leonid Friedman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Ground Beetle ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Sinai Peninsula ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
Ecological Traits ◽  
Knowledge Database ◽  
Anchomenus Dorsalis ◽  
Species Taxonomy

The carabids of the tribe Platynini from the southern Levant (Egypt: Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Jordan) and adjacent regions of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are reviewed in terms of species taxonomy, ecological, distributional traits, and conservation biology. In addition to a classical dichotomous identification key to the 14 species of the region, identification tools are made freely available via the Xper3 knowledge database “Platynini, southern Levant”. Besides an interactive identification key, a matrix with character states for the species and single access identification keys are available. A database including all available records from the southern Levant is also provided. First faunistic records are recorded for Anchomenus dorsalis infuscatus from Sinai (Egypt), Olisthopus fuscatus from Lebanon and Iraq, and for O. glabricollis from Iraq. Threatened species are discussed, also with regard to the reasons of their decline. The majority of species lives in wetlands, especially on the shore of winter ponds and streams, which have been extremely degraded in the last decades.

scholarly journals From the Editor's Desk

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Harry F. Recher
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
North American Society ◽  
Local Society ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Regional Branch ◽  
American Society ◽  
Western Australian

IN a previous editorial (Recher 2002), I expressed an opinion that the opportunity should have been taken at the 1993 Conservation Biology meeting in Queensland to establish an Australasian Society for Conservation Biology. In my view, a local society would be preferable to supporting an Australasian branch of the North American Society of Conservation Biology. Mack et al. (2002) disagreed and encouraged us to support the Society for Conservation Biology's initiative to establish a regional branch. They also said that Pacific Conservation Biology should be supported as a regional journal and "expanded to reflect work being conducted throughout the region rather than its present focus on Western Australia". The last comment surprised me and I decided I needed to review the origin and content or scope of papers we have been publishing in Pacific Conservation Biology. It would be unfortunate if the journal did have a Western Australian focus, especially as my accepting Western Australia as part of the Pacific Region requires some creative geography. Such a review, I felt, would also identify subject areas and regions where we needed to make a greater effort to encourage papers for the journal.

scholarly journals New easternmost and southernmost records of Pseudoboa coronata Schneider, 1801 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Pseudoboini), with a distribution map

Check List ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1624
Author(s):  
Henrique Caldeira Costa ◽  
Giselle Agostini Cotta ◽  
Ross D. MacCulloch
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Distribution Range ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Snake Species ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
The Guianas ◽  
Significant Data

The snake species Pseudoboa coronata has wide distribution from central Brazil to coastal Venezuela and the Guianas, eastern Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In this note, the known distribution range of P. coronata is extended eastward to the border between the states of Bahia and Pernambuco, and southward to Cachoeira Alta, state of Goiás, both in Brazil. Considering the limited biogeographic information for most taxa, reports like this add significant data for future studies on biogeography, taxonomy, and conservation biology.

Zoo Conservation Biology

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Fa ◽  
Stephan M. Funk ◽  
Donnamarie OConnell
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Biology

Persistence of giants: population dynamics of the limpet Scutellastra laticostata on rocky shores in Western Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 646 ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
RE Scheibling ◽  
R Black
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Maximum Size ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Adult Survival ◽  
Rocky Shores ◽  
Adult Size ◽  
Decadal Time Scale

Population dynamics and life history traits of the ‘giant’ limpet Scutellastra laticostata on intertidal limestone platforms at Rottnest Island, Western Australia, were recorded by interannual (January/February) monitoring of limpet density and size structure, and relocation of marked individuals, at 3 locations over periods of 13-16 yr between 1993 and 2020. Limpet densities ranged from 4 to 9 ind. m-2 on wave-swept seaward margins of platforms at 2 locations and on a rocky notch at the landward margin of the platform at a third. Juvenile recruits (25-55 mm shell length) were present each year, usually at low densities (<1 m-2), but localized pulses of recruitment occurred in some years. Annual survival rates of marked limpets varied among sites and cohorts, ranging from 0.42 yr-1 at the notch to 0.79 and 0.87 yr-1 on the platforms. A mass mortality of limpets on the platforms occurred in 2003, likely mediated by thermal stress during daytime low tides, coincident with high air temperatures and calm seas. Juveniles grew rapidly to adult size within 2 yr. Asymptotic size (L∞, von Bertalanffy growth model) ranged from 89 to 97 mm, and maximum size from 100 to 113 mm, on platforms. Growth rate and maximum size were lower on the notch. Our empirical observations and simulation models suggest that these populations are relatively stable on a decadal time scale. The frequency and magnitude of recruitment pulses and high rate of adult survival provide considerable inertia, enabling persistence of these populations in the face of sporadic climatic extremes.

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