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Gibson, Michelle Rene. "Movement ecology of Australian arid-zone birds." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12778/.
Full textBerry, Lainie 1975. "Nest predation in some Australian forest, woodland and shoreline-breeding birds." Monash University, Dept. of Biological Sciences, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9088.
Full textPalmer, Grant Campbell, and grant palmer@deakin edu au. "Ecological value of riparian zones to birds in forest landscapes." Deakin University. School of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2007. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20071115.083927.
Full textRollinson, Daniel J., and n/a. "Synanthropy of the Australian Magpie: A Comparison of Populations in Rural and Suburban Areas of Southeast Queensland, Australia." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040924.152124.
Full textZharikov, Yuri. "Feeding ecology of shorebirds (Charadrii) spending the non-breeding season on an Australian subtropical estuarine flat /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16734.pdf.
Full textIshigame, Go. "Biological effects of backyard feeding the Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) in south-east Queensland /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18294.pdf.
Full textWatson, James Edward Maxwell. "Bird responses to habitat fragmentation at different spatial scales : illustrations from Madagascan and Australian case studies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:abbeb257-d2b1-4c4a-bb87-195c51995e38.
Full textRogers, Andrew M. (Andrew Munro). "Avian assemblages of invasive Australian Acacia thickets in the Western Cape." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20303.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Human-modified habitats form increasingly large components of landscapes, threatening biodiversity and creating challenges for conservation. In some cases altered habitats form entirely novel ecosystems that may support new combinations of species and species abundances, and create habitat space in otherwise transformed landscapes. In the Western Cape of South Africa, woody invasive species contribute to landscape-level habitat transformation and form novel ecosystems. Invasive Australian Acacia species are especially problematic in lowland areas where they create dense thickets and substantially transform both biotic communities and abiotic processes. Despite the prominence of Acacia thickets across the Western Cape, their ability to support native fauna is not well understood and the objective of this study was to assess the significance of Acacia thickets as habitat for the region’s avifauna. Birds were surveyed in Acacia thickets in the south-western Western Cape in three seasons to examine species richness, abundance and functional abundance. Furthermore, I examined the extent to which differences in patch-level vegetation structure alter bird communities. Between survey sites and seasons, significant variation was observed in assemblage richness, density, median body size and biomass. Variation in vegetation density, stem density, mean vegetation height and total canopy cover best explained variation in bird assemblages. Eighty species were estimated to utilize Acacia thickets and assemblages had a mean density of 7.78 birds per ha. The most abundant feeding guilds were the mixed feeders and insectivores. The median body size observed was 15.2 g and the body size frequency distribution of all species in Acacia spanned a similar range compared to the body size frequency distribution for the species list for the entire Western Cape. The mean biomass of bird communities was 0.224 kg per ha. Using data on bird density and biomass, Acacia thickets across the Fynbos Biome support and estimated average of over 21 million birds with a combined biomass of over 600 thousand kg. This study found that Acacia thickets in the Western Cape support a subset of the region’s birds with the most abundant species being small mixed feeders, which are also frequently urban-adapted. Compared with other habitat types, Acacia support bird assemblages with moderate species richness and density. This study shows that Acacia thickets, as a novel habitat, provide a significant amount of habitat space in a highly transformed landscape and highlights the need for comprehensive evaluation of altered habitats before assumptions are made about their ecological value.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Getransformeerde habitatte maak vermeerderend groot deel uit van die omgewing, dit bedreig biodiversiteit en skep groter uitdagings vir bewaring. In sommige gevalle vorm hierdie getransformeerde habitatte geheel nuwe ekosisteme wat moontlik nuwe kombinasies van spesies en spesie volopheid kan onderhou. Verder skep nuwe ekosisteme habitat spasie in anders veranderde landskappe. In die Wes-Kaap van Suid-Afrika dra die Australiese Acacia indringer spesies is veral problematies in laagliggende areas, aangesien dit digte ruigtes vorm, asook beide die biotiese gemeenskappe en die abiotiese prosesse aansienlik transformeer. Ten spyte daarvan dat daar volop Acacia ruigtes in die WesKaap is, word min verstaan van hul vermoë om inheemse fauna te onderhou. Die hoofdoel van hierdie studie was om die belang van Acacia ruigtes as habitat vir die area se voëllewe te bepaal. Voël-opnames in die suidwestelike dele van die Wes-Kaap is gedoen in Acacia ruigtes oor drie seisoene, om spesierykheid, volopheid en funksionele volopheid te ondersoek. Verder is die mate waartoe verskille in die plotte van die plantegroei struktuur, die voëlgemeenskappe verander, geondersoek. Daar was aansienlike variasie waargeneem in die spesiesamestelling rykheid, voorkoms digtheid, mediaan liggaamsgrootte en biomassa van die voëls tussen die onderskeie voëlopnaam plotte en die seisoene. Die variasie in plantegroei digtheid, stam digtheid, mediaan plantegroeihoogte en totale kroonbedekking verduidelik hierdie variasie in spesiesamestelling die beste. Tagtig voëlspesies Acacia ruigtes benut en die populasiesamestelling het ‘n gemiddelde digtheid van 7,78 voëls per ha. Die mees algemene voel-voeding-guldes was die gemengde-voedsel-vreters en insekvreters. Die median liggaamsgrootte waargeneem was 15,2 g en die liggaamsgrootte frekwensieverspreiding van alle spesies in Acacia ruigtes is ooreenkomstig met die liggaamsgrootte frekwensieverspreiding vir die spesielys vir die hele Wes-Kaap. Die gemiddelde biomassa van voel gemeenskappe was 0.224 kg per ha. Acacia ruigtes oor die fynbosbioom wat ‘n geskatte gemiddelde van meer as 21 miljoen voels ondersteun, met ‘n gesamentlike biomassa van meer as 600 duisend kg. Hierdie studie het bevind dat Acacia ruigtes in die Wes-Kaap ‘n onderafdeling van die streek se voels ondersteun, met die mees algemene spesies as die klein gemengde-voedsel-vreters, wat ook dikwels stedelik aangepas is. In vergelyking met ander habitattipes ondersteun Acacia ruigtes voel samestellings met matige spesierykheid en digtheid. Hierdie studie toon dat die Acacia ruigtes, as ‘n nuwe habitat, ‘n beduidende hoeveelheid habitat ruimte in ‘n hoogs getransformeerde omgewing skep en beklemtoon die behoefte aan ‘n omvattende evaluering van veranderde habitatte, voor aannames gemaak word oor hul ekologiese waarde.
Shephard, Jill, and n/a. "A Multi-Scale Approach to Defining Historical and Contemporary Factors Responsible for the Current Distribution of the White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster (Gmelin, 1788) in Australia." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20041012.142221.
Full textTubelis, Dárius Pukenis. "Patch-matrix interactions and bird species conservation in a plantation-dominated landscape in Australia." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://tede.ibict.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=327.
Full textNicholson, Lisa W. "Breeding strategies and community structure in an assemblage of tropical seabirds on the Lowendal Islands, Western Australia /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2002. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040929.134652.
Full textNicholson, Lisa. "Breeding Strategies and Community Structure in an Assemblage of Tropical Seabirds on the Lowendal Islands, Western Australia." Murdoch University, 2002. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040929.134652.
Full textGates, Jody. "An ecological study of Bush stone-curlews Burhinus grallarius on Kangaroo Island, South Australia." Title page, abstract and contents only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SM/09smg259.pdf.
Full textHarrison, Sofie Alice. "The influence of seabird-derived nutrients on island ecosystems in the oligotrophic marine waters of south-western Australia." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2007.0010.html.
Full textAmbrosio, Marjorie. "Une esthétique de la déstabilisation : poétique de la fugue dans Birds of Passe, After China, The Garden Book et The Bath Fuges de Brian Castro." Thesis, Avignon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AVIG1140/document.
Full textAustralian writer Brian Castro is the author of ten novels, among which Birds of Passage (1989), After China (1992), The Garden Book (2005) and The Bath Fugues (2009) – the four works at the core of the present study. Owing to his Chinese origins and his elaborate style, literary criticism in Australia has labelled him an ethnic writer whose novels are deemed overly – and overtly – complex and opaque.Our thesis aims at establishing why Castro’s works, precisely because of their sophistication, deserve an alternate approach. We start with a historical survey of Australia’s “national” and “multicultural” literature. This will bring to light how Castro, being well aware of his nation’s love for social, cultural and literary categorizations, strives to break free from them.This desire permeates the whole of his literary endeavour, and our analysis borrows from several traditions of literary criticism to determine the characteristics of Castro’s unique aesthetics. To achieve this, the musical form of the fugue is a particularly powerful analytic tool, in that this musical genre allows us to better understand the elaborate mechanisms at work in the way the author approaches, among others, characterization, plot and diegesis.Far from the easy reads that Australia’s literature market promotes, Brian Castro’s unique works of fiction are an invitation to embrace destabilization in order to examine a prose whose poetic force will help the reader liberate themselves from established racial, cultural and literary categories
St, John Barbara J. "Ecology and management of the Little Corella (cacatua sanguinea) in the southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SM/09sms143.pdf.
Full textHaslem, Angie, and angie haslem@deakin edu au. "Landscape Pattern, Countryside Heterogeneity and Bird Conservation in Agricultural Environments." Deakin University. Life and Environmental Sciences, 2008. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20090114.101341.
Full textRadford, James, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Conservation ecology and breeding biology of the white-browed treecreeper climacteris affinis." Deakin University. School of Ecology and Environment, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050825.122602.
Full textMunyenyembe, F. E., and n/a. "Bird density and species richness in suburban Canberra, Australia : relationships with street vegetation, age of suburb and distance from bird source areas of native vegetation." University of Canberra. Applied Science, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061027.115542.
Full textLuck, Gary. "Bird population responses and artificial nest predation at inherent and induced edges in the Murray Mallee, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AEVH/09aevhl941.pdf.
Full textau, s. shan@murdoch edu, and Songhua Shan. "Development and evaluation of DNA vaccines in chickens against a wild bird H6N2 avian influenza virus from Western Australia." Murdoch University, 2010. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100211.201257.
Full textShan, Songhua. "Development and evaluation of DNA vaccines in chickens against a wild bird H6N2 avian influenza virus from Western Australia." Shan, Songhua (2010) Development and evaluation of DNA vaccines in chickens against a wild bird H6N2 avian influenza virus from Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2010. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/1689/.
Full textShan, Songhua. "Development and evaluation of DNA vaccines in chickens against a wild bird H6N2 avian influenza virus from Western Australia /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100211.201257.
Full textLaws, Rebecca, and n/a. "The causes of nest failure and effects of inbreeding depression in a historically small population of New Zealand Stewart Island robins." University of Otago. Department of Zoology, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20090813.114240.
Full textDe, Barro Paul Joseph. "Ecology of the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the low rainfall wheat belt of South Australia." Adelaide Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Waite Institute, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21616.
Full textTitle page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Crop Protection, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, 1992
Stewart, Annabelle Greer. "Dibblers on the Jurien islands : the influence of burrowing seabirds and the potential for competition from other species." University of Western Australia. School of Animal Biology, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0066.
Full textKlövekorn, Henning Andreas. "Endangered bird species in South Australia : are current recovery practices for the Orange-bellied parrot and Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo succeeding? /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envk66.pdf.
Full textBancroft, Wesley J. "Environmental response to burrowing seabird colonies : a study in ecosystem engineering." University of Western Australia. School of Animal Biology, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0064.
Full textThomson, Belinda. "A cost effective grassland management strategy to reduce the number of bird strikes at the Brisbane airport." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16576/.
Full textWolf, Isabelle Diana Felicitas Gudula Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science UNSW. "Towards sustainable tourism in outback Australia: the behaviour and impact of nature-based tourists on vegetation and selected wildlife species." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44572.
Full textLederer, Margareth Rose Elisabeth [Verfasser]. "Studies on avian haematozoa in australian birds / vorgelegt von Margareth Rose Elisabeth Lederer." 2000. http://d-nb.info/962768626/34.
Full textBurton, Stephen Leslie. "Comparative aspects of the thermal biology of African and Australian parrots." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4718.
Full textThesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.
Willoughby, Nigel. "Comparative ecology, and conservation, of the Melithreptus genus in the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37786.
Full textThesis (Ph.D.)--School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2005.
Moise, Dragos. "Ecology and behaviour of Pachycephala rufogularis and P. inornata (Aves: Pachycephalidae) in woodlands of South Australia." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/58580.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2009
Chuang, Fu-Man, and 莊馥蔓. "Bird Species Richness and Seasonal Environmental Factors in East Asia and Australia." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84129485654655172172.
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To examine the effects of environmental factors on breeding and non-breeding bird species richness, this study compiled distribution ranges of 3,599 bird species and environmental factors in the region between 70° E and 180° E. The breeding and non-breeding distribution ranges of bird species were transformed into 96.3 × 96.3 km grid system. Enhanced vegetation index (EVI), temperature, precipitation, latitude, range of elevation, land area, and distance to mainland within each grid were calculated. Generalized linear regression analyses by model selection method were used to select best models for interpreting breeding and non-breeding bird species richness. The effects of environmental factors on bird species richness were examined by path analysis. Results revealed that, in mainland East Asia, summer EVI was strongly positively correlated with breeding bird species richness (BSR), and winter temperature was strongly positively correlated with non-breeding bird species richness (NSR). In Australia, summer EVI was strongly positively correlated with BSR, and winter precipitation was strongly positively correlated with NSR. The seasonal change in temperature was the most important factors for the seasonal difference of species richness in East Asia and Australia. Bird species richness of islands was affected by different set of environmental factors, among which island area and temperature were most important. In brief, positively species-energy relationship was obvious in both BSR and NSR. Primary productivity was strongly and positively correlated with BSR, and temperature was strongly positively and positively correlated with NSR. The seasonal change in temperature should be the main force to drive the migration. The effects of environmental factors on bird species richness vary in different regions.
Klövekorn, Henning Andreas. "Endangered bird species in South Australia : are current recovery practices for the Orange-bellied parrot and Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo succeeding?" 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envk66.pdf.
Full textJames, Kristine. "The bio-geomorphological evolution of a former flood tidal delta (Bird Island) in the Murray Mouth estuary of South Australia." 2004. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/81347.
Full textIt has been possible to place tight time restraints on the progressive development of Bird Island over this 60 year period. Its sand dunes and marshes of different ages can be distinguished clearly from an analysis of successive aerial photographs. Evidence suggests they represent different phases in the growth and development of the island, resulting from an interplay of factors including the position and migration of the Murray Mouth relative to the island as well as the availability of sediment and conditions conducive to aeolian sand transport.
The landforms of Bird Island present a unique opportunity for the assessment and study of progressive plant colonisation and succession on a pristine landscape in a coastal/estuarine setting. Bird Island comprises 19 different dune and marsh vegetation types. Research has identified several trends suggesting that the environmental gradients associated with the marsh-dune landforms has influenced some characteristics of species distribution. It also appears that in a general way, species distributions may represent succession on the sand dunes, but this was not as clearly demonstrated across the marshes of different ages on Bird Island.
Research suggests that the construction of the lower River Murray barrages in 1940, which has reduced the median annual flow to the estuary by nearly 75%, and has reduced the tidal prism by up to 90%; has facilitated the development of Bird Island. Bird Island contributed to the closure of the mouth of the River Murray in 1981; inlet behaviour not demonstrated in the 100 years prior to barrage construction according to the results of this research.
The continuing development of Bird Island suggests considerable potential for more blockages in the future. The continuing sedimentation in the Murray Mouth reflects the inability of the current flow regime and marine processes in maintaining the mouth as they did prior to the construction of regulatory works on the Lower River Murray.
Thesis (MApSc(EnvironmentRecreationMg))--University of South Australia, 2004