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Australian Zoologist June 1999

Volume 31 (1) of the refereed scientific journal Australian Zoologist

• Editorial
  D Lunney, L Dawson and B Law

• The business of biodiversity
  H Possingham and K Shea

• The state of Australia’s avifauna: a personal opinion and prediction for the new millennium
  H F Recher

• Still many miles from Babylon: a response to Harry Recher
  S Garnett

• Distribution of Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus in the Richmond River Catchment, northern New South Wales
  D A Rohweder and P R Baverstock

• The conservation status of the Spectacled Flying Fox Pteropus conspicillatus in Australia
  S Garnett, O Whybird and H Spencer

• Aspects of the morphology and reproductive biology of the Australian Earless Dragon Lizard Tympanocryptis tetraporophora
  A E Greer and S Smith

• The conservation value of small woodland remnants on the New South Wales Western Slopes: a case study from Wagga Wagga
  M J Murphy

• Avian prey of the Australian Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas (Microchiroptera: Megadermatidae): prey characteristics and damage from predation
  W E Boles

• The harvest of wild birds for aviculture: an historical perspective on finch trapping in the Kimberley with special emphasis on the Gouldian Finch
  D C Franklin, A H Burbidge and P L Dostine

• Current limitations in the use of bat detectors to assess the impact of logging – a pilot study in south-east Queensland
  M C de Oliveira, G C Smith and L D Hogan

• Effectiveness of pitfall/drift-fence systems for sampling small ground-dwelling lizards and frogs in southeastern Australian forests
  G A Webb

• The use of faecal cuticle examination to determine the dietary composition of koalas
  W Ellis, F Carrick, P Lundgren, A Veary and B Cohen

• Fish assemblages at Julian Rocks and the adjacent waters of northern New South Wales, Australia
  P G Parker

• A comparison of sample and total census data for a population of the Eastern Longneck Turtle Chelodina longicollis in a farm dam north-west of Sydney, New South Wales
  S Burgin, S Emerton and M Burgin

• A survey for the Southern Myotis Myotis macropus (Vespertilionidae) and other bat species in River Red Gum Eucalyptus camaldulensis forests of the Murray River, New South Wales
  B Law and J Anderson

• The maternal behaviour and development of a Little Red Flying-fox Pteropus scapulatus in captivity
  E Gonzalez and R Close

• The introduced Honeybee Apis mellifera and the Precautionary Principle: reducing the conflict
  G H Pyke

• Management of water regimes in River Red Gum Eucalyptus camaldulensis wetlands for waterbird breeding
  S V Briggs and S A Thornton

• The distribution, abundance and conservation status of riverine frogs in Kosciuszko National Park
  D Hunter and G R Gillespie

• Patterns of decline in the native mammal fauna of the north-west slopes of New South Wales
  D C Paull and E M Date

• A new locality for the threatened Green-thighed Frog Litoria brevipalmata in coastal north-east New South Wales
  M J Murphy and J Turbill

• Dynamics of co-occurring frog species in three ponds utilized by the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea
  G H Pyke and A W White

• The distribution, abundance and vulnerability to population reduction of a nomadic nectarivore, the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus in New South Wales, during a period of resource concentration
  P Eby, G Richards, L Collins and K Parry-Jones

• Ethel Mary Read Research Grants

• Book Reviews

• 1998 Whitley Awards

• President’s Report 1997-1998

Special Section: Aerial Surveys for Kangaroo Management

• Preface
  A R Pople

• Choice of survey platforms and technique for broad-scale monitoring of kangaroo populations
  T F Clancy

• Accuracy and consistency in the aerial survey of kangaroos
  S C Cairns

• Repeatability of aerial surveys
  A R Pople

• Training observers
  L A Beard

• Aerial survey of kangaroos in South Australia 1978-1998: a brief report focusing on methodology
  G C Grigg, L A Beard, P Alexander, A R Pople and S C Cairns

• An overview of the Queensland macropod monitoring programme
  G Lundie-Jenkins, D W Hoolihan and G W Maag

• Kangaroo monitoring in relation to kangaroo management in New South Wales
  J Gilroy

• How to count kangaroos
  H I McCallum

• Outcomes of the workshop: refining aerial surveys of kangaroos
  G C Grigg and A R Pople
  

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