| Description |
xi, 498 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Reflections on the evolution of bat research / Elery Hamilton-Smith -- Bats in the post / Elery Hamilton-Smith -- How did I get interested in bats / Les Hall -- Recent developments in studies of the community structure, foraging ecology and conservation of Western Australian bats / R.D. Bullen and N.L. McKenzie -- Blind to bats: traditional prejudices and today's bad press render bats invisible to public consciousness / Daniel Lunney and Chris Moon -- Roost fidelity in spectacled flying-foxes Pteropus conspicillatus: implications for conservation and management / Jennifer G Parsons, Simon KA Robson and Louise A Shilton -- Ecological specialisation and conservation of Australia's large-footed myotis: a review of trawling bat behaviour / Susan Campbell -- Are hand-raised flying-foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) better learners than wild-raised ones in an operant conditioning situation? / Brigitta Flick, Hugh Spencer and Rick van der Zwan -- Grey-headed Flying-foxes drinking water in the river beside Belligen Island, January and February 2007 - a photographic essay / Vivien Jones -- One hundred and forty days in the life of a flying-fox tooth-fairy: estimating the age of pups using tooth eruption and replacement / Anja Divljan, Kerryn Parry-Jones and Glenda M Wardle -- Echolocation calls of eight microchiroptera from Papua New Guinea / Tanya Leary and Michael Pennay -- The novel reproductive biology of the female flying-fox and its implications for the successful development of an artificial insemination programme / D.F. Melville, G.M. O'Brien and S.D. Johnston -- The Spectacled Flying-fox - a review of past and present knowledge / Samantha Fox -- Phenotypic plasticity of flying-fox reproduction aligns the genome-encoded rhythm to environmental conditions / G.M. O'Brien -- Resource partitioning by two closely-related sympatric freetail bats, Mormopterus spp. / A.E. Reside and L.F. Lumsden -- Practical solutions for capturing and processing Grey-headed Flying-foxes, Pteropus poliocephalus, based on a camp study at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney / Anja Divljan ... [et al.] -- "Diverse weights and diverse measures": factors affecting the post-natal growth of the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus and implications for ageing juvenile flying-foxes / Kerryn Parry-Jones -- Can radar technology overcome the current limitations of surveying for the Southern Bent-wing Bat Miniopterus schreibersii bassanii at the wind farms? / Rob Gration -- A proposal for using GPS-logger equipped flying-foxes as monitors of change in tropical rainforest resource distribution / Hugh J. Spencer and Tim Miller / Determination of the minimum bat sample group size to provide reliable parasite indices / Art Polkanov -- The status and conservation of bats in the Northern Territory / D.J. Milne and C.R. Pavey -- Review of the distribution and status of the bat fauna of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory / Michael Pennay, Bradley Law and Daniel Lunney -- The current status of bats in Western Australia / Kyle N. Armstrong -- The 2007 amendments to the EBPC Act 1999 and their relevance to bat conservation / David G. Jackson -- The outcomes and costs of relocating flying-fox camps: insights from the case of Maclean, Australia / Billie J. Roberts ... [et al.] -- A comparison of the roosting behaviour of Gould's wattled bats Chalinolobus gouldii using bat boxes and tree hollows in suburban Melbourne / Lisa N Evans and Lindy F Lumsden -- The status of microbats on Norfolk Island, southwest Pacific / Glenn Hoye -- Bat activity in ephemeral stream-beds in the Pilliga forests: clarifying the importance of flyways and buffer widths in open forest and woodland / Bradley S Law, Mark Chidel and Patrick Tap -- Investigation of the success of artificial roosts for Myotis macropus at Koala Beach NSW / Chels Marshall -- Status and conservation of bats in Tasmania / Michael Driessen, Raymond Brereton and Matthew Pauza -- Is the fat lady singing? Contemplations on the amendment of an environment Act / Nicola Markus -- The Priorities Action Statement (PAS) for the threatened bats of New South Wales / Daniel Lunney ... [et al.] -- Pteropus, pestilence and politics - managing flying-foxes in an inane environment / Tim Holmes and Craig Walker -- 'Bats in Your Backyard': a baseline monitoring project for the Northern and Yorke Region of South Australia / Annika Everaardt and Andy Sharp -- A preliminary assessment of the impact of forest thinning on bat activity: towards improved clutter-based hypotheses / Maria D Adams and Bradley S Law -- Is the fruit you eat flying-fox friendly? The effects of orchard electrocution grids on Australian flying-foxes (Pteropus ssp., Megachiroptera) / L. Martin -- Grey-headed Flying-foxes in orchards: a collaborative project on damage estimates, contributing factors and mitigation strategies - triumphs and tribulations of flying-fox conservation and management in NSW / K.L. McClelland, P.J.S. Fleming and P.J. Malcolm -- Four issues influencing the management of hollow-using bats of the Pilliga forests of inland New South Wales / Harry Parnaby, Daniel Lunney and Mike Fleming -- The 'Devil's rope': flying-foxes in barbed wire fences / Jenny Maclean -- The use of bat boxes by insectivorous bats and other fauna in the greater Brisbane region / Monika Rhodes and Darryl Jones --Bat roost boxes at Organ Pipes National Park, Victoria: seasonal and annual usage patterns / Rober Bender -- The use of a building for breeding by the white-striped freetail-bat Tadarida australis at Newington, Sydney, New South Wales / Margaret Turton and Glenn Hoyle -- Factors in the design of an urban microbat flyway / Arthur W. White --Roosting dynamics of Eastern Bent-wing Bats Miniopterus schreibersii oceanensis in disused military sites in eastern Sydney / Arthur W. White -- Turning the spotlight onto the conservation of Australian bats and the extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle / Daniel Lunney ... [et al.] |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Follows from a 3 day forum held at the Australian Museum, Sydney, April 2007 organised jointly by the |
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Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W and the Australasian Bat Society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Bats -- Australasia -- Biology
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Bats -- Conservation -- Australasia.
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Bats -- Conservation -- Australia.
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Bats -- Ecology -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Bats -- Ecology -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Bats -- Ecology -- Australia.
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Bats -- Australasia -- Congresses.
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Bats -- Australasia.
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Bats -- Australia.
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Flying foxes -- Conservation -- Australia.
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Wildlife conservation -- Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Law, Bradley.
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Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.
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| ISBN |
9780980327243 (paperback) |
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