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Edwards, Marlene. "The social organization of a secondhand clothing store : informal strategies and social interaction amongst volunteer workers." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phe2655.pdf.
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Williams, J. Gary. "Supervised autonomy : medical specialties and structured conflict in an Australian General Hospital /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw7242.pdf.
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Carroll, Paul Geoffery. "Pre-Permian structure and prospectivity at Gidgealpa, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SM/09smc3195.pdf.
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Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Adelaide, National Centre of Petroleum Geology & Geophysics, 1992.Vol. 2 consists of 30 col. & folded maps & charts. Includes five overlays in vol. 1. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-162).
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Dexter, Anthony Roger. "Soil mechanical properties and the behaviour of roots in structured soil : published works." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SD/09sdd526.pdf.
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Christiansen, Sigrid Aurora. "Visionary or reactionary? : social purity in South Australia, 1881-1885 /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arc5554.pdf.
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McKeown, Daniel J. "The lithology, structure and genesis of the Iron Duchess orebody, Middleback Ranges, South Australia /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09S.B/09s.bm157.pdf.
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Swarts, Derek Juan. "Soil community structure and litter decomposition under irrigated Eucalyptus Globulus in South Western Australia." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2006.0051.html.
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Kivior, Irena. "Geophysical study of the structure and crustal environment of the Polda Rift, South Australia." Adelaide Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18736.
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Kivior, Irena. "Geophysical study of the structure and crustal environment of the Polda Rift, South Australia." Thesis, Adelaide Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18736.
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Swarts, Derek J. "Soil community structure and litter decomposition under irrigated Eucalyptus Globulus in South Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/100.
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Plantations provide a range of benefits, including the potential to ameliorate salinity and soil erosion, enhance biodiversity, and provide timber and wood chips. They are increasingly important because of their role in carbon sequestration (Adolphson, 2000; Anonymous, 2005; Jones et al. , 2005; Kozlowski, 2002; Paul and Polglase, 2004). Recent research has highlighted the connection between plantation health and soil fertility (Johnston and Crossley Jr, 2002). Within an Australian context there is little published data on the composition of the soil and litter fauna and their contribution to litter decomposition under plantation systems (Adolphson, 2000). The Albany Effluent Irrigated Tree Farm provided an opportunity to research plantation (Eucalyptus globulus ) soil flora and fauna communities, rates of litter decomposition and to describe the impact of irrigation (both mains-water and effluent) on these communities.
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Cronin-O'Reilly, Sorcha. "Benthic community structure, health and function of a microtidal estuary in south-western Australia." Thesis, Cronin-O'Reilly, Sorcha (2021) Benthic community structure, health and function of a microtidal estuary in south-western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2021. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/61786/.
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Microtidal estuaries are prone to anthropogenic degradation, with natural features of those in south-western Australia making them more susceptible. However, the benthic ecological health of these systems is rarely assessed, despite the importance of the benthos and frequent application of benthic indices in estuaries elsewhere, particularly macrotidal systems in the northern hemisphere. The aim of this research was to assess the current status of the benthic macroinvertebrate community and its role in the function and management of the microtidal Peel-Harvey Estuary. After accounting for the effects of natural hydrological conditions (e.g. salinity, temperature), the benthic macroinvertebrate community was shown to respond to anthropogenic stress as represented by sediment condition (i.e. oxygenation, organic enrichment, mud content, sulphide presence), demonstrating its potential utility for assessing estuarine health. However, existing benthic indices commonly used in macrotidal estuaries (e.g. the multivariate AZTI Marine Biotic Index) yielded results inconsistent with sediment condition, demonstrating their limitations when applied to highly adaptive, stress-tolerant macroinvertebrate communities that are common in microtidal estuaries. A new multi-metric Estuarine Benthic Community Index was developed, following a multivariate approach to select community metrics that showed greater responses to sediment condition than natural stress. Overall, the benthic macroinvertebrate community in the Peel-Harvey Estuary was typically in good to fair health, with decreased health in the summer and deeper depositional areas. It is largely dominated by small-bodied, opportunistic species, and apparently retained in early succession due to chronic natural and anthropogenic stress. This was further reflected by the community’s limited impacts on solute fluxes of benthic metabolism, nutrient exchange and denitrification, with sediment condition being more influential. These findings demonstrate that these benthic faunal communities do not play a substantial role in estuarine function, with the application of resulting benthic indices restricted to assessing more structural aspects (e.g. diversity) of benthic ecological health.
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Brice, Jeremy. "Pursuing quality wine in South Australia : materials, markets, valuations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8ef1e0d-587e-4985-a088-9a1abdc24379.
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This thesis presents an ethnography of the processes and practices through which Australian grape and wine producers attempt to produce, and to assess, quality and value in the materials with which they work. Drawing on participant observation research conducted within two wine companies in South Australia – one owned by a multinational beverage conglomerate, one a family-owned boutique winery – this thesis engages with three overarching questions, which engage with the concerns of agro-food studies and of social studies of markets. First, how – and with what economic effects – are the sensory qualities of materials made to matter within the Australian wine industry? Second, how do grape and wine producers pursue wine quality in a more-than-human world, and in what ways might their endeavours problematise extant theorisations of economic agency? Finally, what might be the consequences of Australian wine producers’ recent engagements with principles of grape and wine quality centred upon geographical origin? In response to these questions, this thesis explores time-reckoning and value production in viticultural practice, the pricing of winegrapes during a fungal disease epidemic, the commercial relationships convened through the production of large-volume mass-market wine blends, and Australian wine producers’ recent attempts to produce ‘wines from somewhere.’ These empirical engagements lead it to argue that the qualification and valuation practices deployed within the Australian wine industry do not simply affect the qualities and prices of grapes and wines. They also shape economic agencies and vulnerabilities, organise and value commercial relationships among grape growers and wine producers, and reassemble the economic geographies of Australian grape production. This thesis concludes that because different ways of pursuing quality enact these phenomena in different ways, much may depend not only upon how successfully, but also upon how – through what techniques, practices, and associations – quality is pursued.
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Cohen, Erez. "Re-thinking the 'migrant community' : a study of Latin American migrants and refugees in Adelaide." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc6782.pdf.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 259-270) Based on 18-months fieldwork, 1997-1999, in various organisations, social clubs and radio programs that were constructed by participants and 'outsiders' as an expression of a local migrant community. Attempts to answer and challenge what it means to be a Latin American in Adelaide and in what sense Latin American migrants and refugees in Adelaide can be spoken about as members of an 'ethnic/migrant community' in relation to the official multiculturalism discourse and popular representations of migrants in Australia.
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Southcott, Jane Elizabeth, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Music in state-supported schooling in South Australia to 1920." Deakin University, 1997. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050915.104134.
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This thesis is a study of the establishment of the music curriculum in state-supported schools in South Australia from the beginnings of such schooling until 1920. There will be a discussion of issues to be explored and the method by which this investigation will proceed. A literature survey of relevant research will be included, after which there will be a sketch of the development of state-supported schooling in South Australia. Several broad themes have been chosen as the means of organising the historical material: the rationales offered for the inclusion of music in schooling, the methodologies, syllabi and materials of such music instruction, the provisions for teacher training in music, both preservice and as professional development for established teachers, and the place and function of music in schooling. Each of these themes will form the framework for a chronological narrative. Comparisons will be made with three neighbouring colonies/States concerning each of these themes and conclusions will be drawn. Finally, overall conclusions will be made concerning the initial contentions raised in this chapter in the light of the data presented.
Although this study is principally concerned with the establishment of music in state-supported schooling, there will be a brief consideration of the colony of South Australia from its proclamation in 1836. The music pedagogical context that prevailed at that time will be discussed and this will, of necessity, include developments that occurred before 1836. The period under consideration will close in 1920, by which time the music curriculum for South Australia was established, and the second of the influential figures in music education was at his zenith. At this time there was a new school curriculum in place which remained essentially unchanged for several decades.
As well as the broad themes identified, this thesis will investigate several contentions as it attempts to chronicle and interpret the establishment and development of music in state-supported schooling in South Australia up to 1920. The first contention of this thesis is that music in state-supported schooling, once established, did not change significantly from its inception throughout the period under consideration. In seeking a discussion of the existence and importance of the notion of an absence of change or stasis, the theory of punctuated equilibria, which identifies stasis as the norm in the evolutionary growth of species, will be employed as an insightful analogy. It should be recognised that stasis exists, should be expected and may well be the prevailing norm.
The second contention of this thesis is that advocates were and continue to be crucial to the establishment and continued existence of music in state-supported schooling. For change to occur there must be pressure through such agencies as motivated individuals holding positions of authority, and thus able to influence the educational system and its provisions. The pedagogical method introduced into an educational system is often that espoused by the acknowledged advocate. During the period under consideration there were two significant advocates for music in state-supported schools.
The third contention of this thesis is that music was used in South Australia, as in the other colonies/States, as an agent of social reform, through the selection of repertoire and the way in which music was employed in state-supported schooling. Music was considered inherently uplifting. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the music selected for school singing carried texts with messages deemed significant by those who controlled the education system. The repertoire was not that of the receiving class but came from a middle class tradition of fully notated art music in which correct performance and notational reading were emphasised. A sweet, pure vocal tone was desired, as strident, harsh, speaking tones were perceived as a symptom of incipient larrikinism which was not desired in schooling. Music was seen as a contributor to good order and discipline in schooling.
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McDavitt, Karen. "School social work: Supporting children’s primary education in the South West of Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1979.
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In many countries, social workers play a role in the education of children. In Australia, this is evident in the state of Victoria which has a long history of school social work. However, it is not the case in Western Australia where there are very few government-funded social work roles in public schools. With the barriers to education rising for increasing numbers of students, the social work profession could be one component in a multi-disciplinary whole that supports students and the broader community so that each child has the best chance of reaching their full potential.
This thesis poses the question: Is there a role for social workers in regional primary schools in the South West of Western Australia in relation to identifying and addressing external barriers to education? The term external barriers to education is used in this thesis to denote barriers which, unlike disability or illness, are external to the child. The Australian Association of Social Workers’ Practice Standards for School Social Workers provide a list of the range of issues that may impact on a student’s ability to engage with education, identifying areas where a social worker is well placed to provide support and direction. For the purpose of this study, the focus is on those matters external to the child, such as (but not limited to) family changes, drug and/or alcohol misuse within the home environment, poverty, violence, abuse and neglect, transiency or instability of housing.
To answer the research question, this study first reviews literature pertaining to education, social work and government policy and then explores the experiences of five Edith Cowan University social work students who undertook a field placement in one of three host regional government primary school in the South West of Western Australia. The study also explores the perspectives of five staff from the three host schools and the external field educator who supervised all five students. Data was collected by way of interviews and focus groups with the participants, with the data then being subject to thematic analysis.
The rich data derived from this study depicts the work undertaken by the social work students, the possibilities for the profession of social work and the implications this research may have in relation to identifying and addressing external barriers to children’s learning and education. The findings are distinct and unambiguous, identifying a major gap in the support that is offered to students and their families. This thesis suggests that the gap identified by this study may result in children having reduced possibilities to learn and, as a result, they may be denied life opportunities; a matter which it is argued could impinge upon children’s human right to education.
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Kasper, Marta L. "The population ecology of an invasive social insect, Vespula germanica (Hymenoptera : vespidae) in South Australia /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phk1928.pdf.
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Kapetas, John. "The structure of the Clarendon - Mt. Bold region : southern Adelaide fold belt, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbk17.pdf.
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Buhrer, Daniel Anton. "The structure of Myponga River-Carrickalinga Creek area, Southern Adelaide Fold Belt, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbb931.pdf.
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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1996.National Grid reference (SI 54) 6527-36 ; 44, 45, 36, 37 1:10 000 sheets. Includes bibliographical references.
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Smailes, Peter John, and peter smailes@adelaide edu au. "Redefining the Local: the social organisation of rural space in South Australia, 1982-2006." Flinders University. Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20061005.151832.
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This thesis brings together a series of existing and ongoing pieces of research, conducted over a period of some years. There are five primary aims.
The first is to construct a coherent empirical picture of the social organisation of space in rural South Australia by the early 1980s, at the outset of a period of turmoil and rapid change. The second is to bring together two relevant but disparate levels of theory (globalisation/structural change and localism/place attachment), to understand the impact of the rural crisis of 1984-94 on rural communities, families and individuals. The third is to trace the context and development of the crisis itself, the resultant poverty, demographic change, and reduced socio-economic viability of communities. Fourthly, the theoretical and empirical findings are applied to the search for an altered accommodation between society and space, through which a modified and regrouped but still essentially intact rural society can survive beyond the crisis. Finally, I reflect on the methodological contribution and limitations of the thesis, and also on the ethical concerns and values confronting an academic researcher reporting on a local- or micro-level social tragedy, concealed and rationalised by national macro-level success.
Chapter 1 deals with fundamental concepts and epistemology.
Chapter 2 sketches the evolution of the South Australian rural habitat up to the 1980s.
Chapter 3 examines macro-level theory on globalisation in the structuralist and political economy traditions, which seek to explain the forces changing the politico-economic ground rules within which rural communities have to operate.
Chapter 4 examines theory relating to the world of the individual person and his/her most immediate social reference groups - family, neighbourhood and community. It presents a model of place-making, and evaluates the contributions of various disciplines towards understanding specific aspects of this process, particularly rural sociology, social and humanistic geography, structuration theory and theory relating to human territoriality.
Chapter 5 reveals how individuals and local social groups actually occupied space and developed place-attachment in rural South Australia in the early 1980s. It draws on field studies carried out between 1979 and 1986, and on a 1982-83 postal sample survey of 2000 rural households.
Chapter 6 traces the course of a decade of almost continuous rural crisis, from about 1984. It shows how the global economy and political decisions (international, national and State) flowed through to rural people and places. Demographic and economic impacts are examined at State level, with a regional example.
Chapters 7 (quantitative) and 8 (qualitative) examine the changes wrought by the crisis on rural society and the social organisation of space. They draw on a 1992/93 replication of the previous postal survey to demonstrate the persistence and continuity of major features of the rural society, but also the fragility of the current spatial organisation. The widespread rural poverty in the early 1990s and its impact on the state of rural morale are demonstrated, along with perceived changes in key community characteristics, and divergence of the economic from the social organisation of rural space.
Chapter 9 assesses requirements for a socially sustainable rural Australia, in the light of the last ten years� developments in rural research. It argues the need for the focus of localism to be re-defined upwards from individual community to regional level
Finally in Chapter 10, I reflect on the contribution and limitations of the thesis, and on the wider problem of the role academics could, should and do play in relation to the deeply meaningful social transformations we purport to study.
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Harris, Mark Anglin. "Some organic amendments for heavy metal toxicity, acidity and soil structure in acid-sulphate mine tailings /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phh3148.pdf.
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Webala, Paul. "Bat community structure and habitat use across logging regimes in jarrah eucalypt forests of south-western Australia." Thesis, Webala, Paul (2010) Bat community structure and habitat use across logging regimes in jarrah eucalypt forests of south-western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2010. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/4867/.
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In many parts of the world, the increasing demand for timber and other forest products has led to loss, fragmentation, degradation or modification of natural forest habitats. The consequences of such habitat changes have been well studied for some animal groups, however not much is known of their effects on bats. In Australia, logging of native forests is a major threat to the continent‘s biodiversity and while logging practices have undergone great changes in the past three decades to selective logging (including ecologically sustainable forest management), which is more sympathetic to wildlife, there is still concern about the effects of logging on the habitat of many forest-dwelling animals. The goal of this thesis was to investigate the effects of logging on the bat species assemblages at both community and individual species levels in terms of their foraging and roosting ecology in jarrah forests of south-western Australia. This information is necessary to strengthen the scientific basis for ecologically sustainable forest management in production forests. The outcome of this research may help in the formulation of policy and management decisions to ensure the long-term maintenance and survival of viable populations of forest-dwelling bats in these altered environments. Bats were selected because they comprise more than 25% of Australia‘s mammal species and constitute a major component of Australia‘s biodiversity. In addition, bats play key roles in forest dynamics and may act as indicators of disturbance. In the jarrah forests, bats are a significant proportion of the mammal fauna (9 of around 30 native extant species).
As a basis of understanding how bats use modified habitats, nine species of bats were investigated by assessing their foraging and commuting habits (measured as bat activity) in different forest types (logged, young regrowth and old regrowth forest). To assess patterns of habitat use across a gradient of managed forest conditions, and to help predict impacts of logging on bats, four replicates were selected from each of three distinct post-harvest management treatments, recently logged forest or gaps (<6 years since logging), young regrowth forest (12–30 years since logging) and old regrowth forest (> 30 years old). Sites were monitored for bat activity on two nights, with Anabat detectors placed on track and off-track positions. The relationships between bat species assemblages in terms of their relative use and foraging activity and various forest structural variables, and the relationship between bats and the insect biomass were examined in order to identify the effects on the bat fauna of historical logging practices. Overall, 12 sites were sampled (four sites for each forest type) with bat activity and vegetation structure conducted on-track and off-track at each site and insect abundance sampled only at off-track sites.
Secondly, because roosts are an important resource for bats, and may be a limiting factor in modified landscapes, we investigated the roosting requirements of two sympatric species of jarrah forest-dwelling vespertilionid bats, the Southern forest bat Vespadelus regulus and Gould‘s long-eared bat Nyctophilus gouldi. Their sensitivity to the loss of roost sites from logging and the effectiveness of current management practices at conserving appropriate roost sites were examined. As part of the research, tree (age, size, type, condition, presence of hollows, loose bark) and landscape characteristics (elevation, logging history, distance to water holes and creeklines, etc) of roosting sites were compared with random trees and their surrounding forest structure at local roost tree and broader landscape scales to determine whether bats selected roost trees and sites with particular characteristics.
The fieldwork was carried out during 2007 – 2009 and information was gathered through capture, radiotelemetry and passive monitoring using echolocation call detectors. Specifically, harp traps and radiotelemetry were used for roost-selection studies while Anabat bat detectors were used to assess bat activity (commuting, foraging) among different logging histories and in response to forest structural attributes and insect activity. Light traps were used to assess insect availability in relation to bat activity and forest structure.
The activity of different bat species related in different ways to the structural vegetation parameters, generally reflecting bat echolocation ability and manoeuvrability. Bats tended to use tracks more than off-track locations, thereby avoiding clutter at off-track locations. At the same time, tracks recorded similar activity across logging histories. However, off-track activity in old regrowth was significantly greater than either young regrowth or recently logged forest. Two taxa, Vespadelus regulus and Nyctophilus spp. were more active in old regrowth than other logging histories. Similarly, V. regulus, Nyctophilus spp., Chalinolobus gouldii, C. morio and Falsistrellus mackenziei activity was significantly greater on-track than off-track, but this activity was similar on-track across forest types, suggesting bats‘ use of forest tracks was unaffected by logging. As an indication of the association of low bat activity off-track with clutter, negative relationships of under-storey clutter were the most consistent predictors of bat habitat use. Conversely, reduced clutter and abundant roost resources seemed the most likely explanations for greater activity at old regrowth sites.
There were both inter-specific similarities and differences in the selection and location of roost trees and roost sites between V. regulus and N. gouldi. Both species were highly selective, preferring old large trees (> 80 cm diameter at breast height over bark – DBHOB) at intermediate or advanced stages of decay, crown senescence and deterioration with a lower percent bark cover compared to random trees. Both species also selected hollows for roosting, with V. regulus roosting exclusively in hollows but a few N. gouldi also used roosts under decorticating bark, cracks and under balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii) skirts. V. regulus preferred tall trees in the canopy with roost entrances high above the ground with little surrounding vegetation while N. gouldi preferred roosting closer to the ground and in dense clutter. In general, little evidence was found of bats roosting in either shelterwood creation or gap release silvicultural treatments, although a few N. gouldi bats roosted in retained habitat, or remnant, trees in these silvicultural treatments. Only riparian buffers and structurally mature forests appeared to provide multiple alternate roosts, containing a higher density of trees with hollows required by bats for roosting. In contrast, gap release and shelterwood creation sites contained substantially lower densities of hollow bearing trees. Pockets of mature forest that were previously only lightly and selectively logged before the introduction of Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management (ESFM) were important roosting sites for bats. However, although some N. gouldi bats selected roosts in retained or remnant trees in gap release and shelterwood creation silvicultural treatments, it remains unclear if bats can successfully breed in such regrowth forests in the absence of older forest stands and this should be a priority for future studies.
This study demonstrated that unharvested buffer strips surrounding ephemeral streams, and more open mature forests, with reduced midstoreys, were important roosting habitats for bats because they provided a large pool of older and mature trees in a variety of decay classes as roost sites. With short logging rotations in the jarrah forests and with only approximately 39 % total forest area currently reserved from logging in the study area, the roosting requirements of bats may be affected negatively as the abundance of old trees with hollows, exfoliating bark and other forms of senescence may be reduced. Thus, although this study demonstrated the importance of mature forest and buffers as mitigating measures on bat roost sites, it was unclear whether the area of retained habitat is adequate for for roosting bats given the dynamics of logging regimes in the jarrah forests, and this should be a priority to address in future research.
As the only mammals capable of true flight, bats may persist in selectively logged forests. However, as this study showed, bats are specialised in their foraging and roosting requirements. Therefore, the maintenance of forest tracks and the protection, and sustained recruitment, of hollow-bearing trees are essential for the conservation of these animals in such modified landscapes. Current management practices in the jarrah forests have created a mosaic of successional stages within logged landscapes that may satisfy the foraging requirements of many bat species. This is especially true because tracks and unlogged buffers and structurally mature forest with reduced clutter provided access to post-disturbance forests such as regrowth areas. The study also demonstrated that habitat retention, as provided by adjacent streamside buffers and mature forest in the jarrah forests were important roost sites for bats, and could mitigate against logging impacts in the long term. However, retained habitat trees in logged coupes were avoided by roosting bats and further studies are required to demonstrate if these can be used effectively by viable bat populations, especially in the absence mature unlogged forest and unlogged riparian buffers nearby. In addition, further research is required to shed light on bat overwintering and maternity roost sites that are important for the survival of bat populations. In addition, a long-term study to clarify temporal/seasonal and intra-specific variation in bat distribution and roost site selection needs to be undertaken in the jarrah forests of south-western Australia to better determine if current ESFM practices are effective at maintaining bat populations in logged forests.
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Evans, Ruth Lynette. "Picnics, principles and public lectures : the social, cultural and intellectual role of the Baptist Church in South Australian country towns /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09are919.pdf.
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Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of History, 1994?"Extensive use of written records including both minute books and published matter has been supplemented with oral histories." Tapes include conversations with members of various local communities, with an index to these: leaves 41-42. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-44).
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Twining, Marc. "The structure of an imbricate thrust fan in the Snelling Beach, Cape Dutton region, Kangaroo Island, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbt973.pdf.
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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1993.On title page: National Grid reference (51-53) 6326-4 (1-50,000). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-50).
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Goodall, Anthony. "Basement structure of the Simpson Desert region, South Australia and its control on overlying sedimentation and structural development /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbg646.pdf.
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Whittaker, William Joshua, and joshua whittaker@rmit edu au. "Vulnerability to bushfires in south-eastern Australia: a case study from East Gippsland, Victoria." RMIT University. Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090401.122025.
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This thesis is an analysis of human vulnerability to bushfires in the Wulgulmerang district of East Gippsland, Victoria, in south-eastern Australia. On January 30, 2003, bushfires devastated the small population of this isolated farming district. The fires destroyed homes, livelihood assets and public infrastructure. They also adversely affected the health, livelihoods and social lives of many local people. Australian bushfire research has traditionally focused on the geophysical dimensions of fire hazards and disasters, with little consideration of how cultural, economic, political and social factors shape people's exposure to hazards and their capacities to cope and adapt to bushfire impacts. To date, there have been no systematic, social science analyses of human vulnerability to bushfires. The vulnerability analysis presented in this thesis concentrates on two key research questions: (1) How and why were people exposed to hazards during the bushfires? and (2) How and why were people differentially capable of coping and adapting to the fires' impacts? Qualitative methods were primarily used to investigate these questions, including semi-structured interviews with residents and landholders of the Wulgulmerang district, representatives of government departments and authorities, and others who participated in responses to the fires. The thesis develops a multifaceted understanding of how and why people were vulnerable to the January 30 fires. Vulnerability is shown to arise from the circumstances of people's day to day lives, which are shaped by factors both within and beyond their control. Local pressures and challenges - such as drought, declining farm incomes, depopulation, limited access to essential services, and political marginality - are shown to increase people's exposure to bushfire hazards and reduce their capacities to cope and adapt. The thesis demonstrates the fundamental importance of sustainable livelihoods and regional economic and social vitality to the long-term goal of vulnerability reduction.
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Morrison, Judith Ellen. "Independent scholarly reporting about conflict interventions: negotiating aboriginal native title in south Australia." Thesis, Morrison, Judith Ellen (2007) Independent scholarly reporting about conflict interventions: negotiating aboriginal native title in south Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/210/.
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This thesis uses an action research methodology to develop a framework for improving independent scholarly reporting about interventions addressing social or environmental conflict. As there are often contradictory interpretations about the causes and strategic responses to conflict, the problem confronting scholar-reporters is how to address perceptions of bias and reflexively specify the purpose of reporting. It is proposed that scholar-reporters require grounding in conventional realist-based social theory but equally ability to incorporate theoretical ideas generated in more idealist-based peace research and applied conflict resolution studies. To do this scholar-reporters can take a comparative approach systematically developed through an integrated framework as described in this thesis.
Conceptual and theoretical considerations that support both conventional and more radical constructions are comparatively analysed and then tested in relation to a case study. In 2000 Aboriginal people throughout South Australia deliberated whether their native title claims could be better accorded recognition through conservative court processes or a negotiation process to allay deep-seated conflict. The author, in a scholar-reporter capacity, formulated a report attributing meaning to this consultative process.
As such a report could have been formulated according to alternative paradigms, methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks, the analysis of the adopted framework highlights how different approaches can bias the interpretation of the process and prospects for change. Realist-based conservative interpretations emphasise 'official' decision-making processes where legitimacy is expressed through political and legal frameworks based on precedent. Idealist-based interpretations emphasise that circumstances entailing significant conflict warrant equal consideration being given to 'non-official' 'resolutionary' problem-solving processes where conflict is treated as a catalyst for learning and outcomes are articulated as understanding generated about conflict and how different strategies can transform it.
The developed integrated framework approach establishes the independence of scholarly reporting. Its purpose goes beyond perpetuating scholarly debate about alternative 'objective' understandings of conflict; it focuses primarily on communicating a more inclusive understanding of the contradictions inherent in a particular conflict. It increases the capacity to understand when, where, why and how conflict precipitates social change, and articulates possibilities for reconceptualising what might be the more sustainable direction of change.
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Morrison, Judith Ellen. "Independent scholarly reporting about conflict interventions : negotiating Aboriginal Native Title in South Australia /." Morrison, Judith Ellen (2007) Independent scholarly reporting about conflict interventions: negotiating aboriginal native title in south Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/210/.
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This thesis uses an action research methodology to develop a framework for improving independent scholarly reporting about interventions addressing social or environmental conflict. As there are often contradictory interpretations about the causes and strategic responses to conflict, the problem confronting scholar-reporters is how to address perceptions of bias and reflexively specify the purpose of reporting. It is proposed that scholar-reporters require grounding in conventional realist-based social theory but equally ability to incorporate theoretical ideas generated in more idealist-based peace research and applied conflict resolution studies. To do this scholar-reporters can take a comparative approach systematically developed through an integrated framework as described in this thesis.
Conceptual and theoretical considerations that support both conventional and more radical constructions are comparatively analysed and then tested in relation to a case study. In 2000 Aboriginal people throughout South Australia deliberated whether their native title claims could be better accorded recognition through conservative court processes or a negotiation process to allay deep-seated conflict. The author, in a scholar-reporter capacity, formulated a report attributing meaning to this consultative process.
As such a report could have been formulated according to alternative paradigms, methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks, the analysis of the adopted framework highlights how different approaches can bias the interpretation of the process and prospects for change. Realist-based conservative interpretations emphasise 'official' decision-making processes where legitimacy is expressed through political and legal frameworks based on precedent. Idealist-based interpretations emphasise that circumstances entailing significant conflict warrant equal consideration being given to 'non-official' 'resolutionary' problem-solving processes where conflict is treated as a catalyst for learning and outcomes are articulated as understanding generated about conflict and how different strategies can transform it.
The developed integrated framework approach establishes the independence of scholarly reporting. Its purpose goes beyond perpetuating scholarly debate about alternative 'objective' understandings of conflict; it focuses primarily on communicating a more inclusive understanding of the contradictions inherent in a particular conflict. It increases the capacity to understand when, where, why and how conflict precipitates social change, and articulates possibilities for reconceptualising what might be the more sustainable direction of change.
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Weaver, Paul R. "Maritime resource exploitation in southwest Australia prior to 1901." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/915.
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This ethnohistorical study identifies maritime resources of southwest Australia which were subject to human exploitation prior to 1901 and provides an overview of how, when and why this took. place by integrating historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and natural-science information. The resources included for discussion arc whales, seals, seabirds, guano, oysters and pearls, and fish. An argument is developed that the socio-spatial relationship which existed between peoples and marine• estuarine species in the region was determined by the physiography and climate. This relationship has always been imperfect, if not chaotic because of the unpredictability of the resources through long and short term cyclic phenomena. Control of access was the key to furthering economic and social advantage for all peoples, and this control could be sustained by a complex matrix of customary beliefs and/or law. An abundant resource could occasionally engender friendly interaction, however ruthless competition, and resource over-exploitation emerged as predominant themes. The study proposes that regardless of cultural origins, the finite nature of southwest Australian maritime and estuarine resources has long been recognised, and the resultant priority of people was to maximise effort at the most opportune times in order to augment socioeconomic advantage.
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Hornborg, Alf. "Dualism and hierarchy in lowland South America trajectories of indigenous social organization /." Uppsala : Stockholm, Sweden : Academiae Upsaliensis ; Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18210588.html.
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McElhinny, Chris, and chris mcelhinny@anu edu au. "Quantifying stand structural complexity in woodland and dry Sclerophyll Forest, South-Eastern Australia." The Australian National University. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, 2005. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20060322.133914.
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In this thesis I present and test a methodology for developing a stand scale index of structural complexity. If properly designed such an index can act as a summary variable for a larger set of stand structural attributes, providing a means of ranking stands in terms of their structural complexity, and by association, their biodiversity and vegetation condition. This type of index can also facilitate the use of alternative policy instruments for biodiversity conservation, such as mitigation banking, auctions and offsets, that rely on a common currency the index value that can be compared or traded between sites. My intention was to establish a clear and documentable methodology for developing a stand scale index of structural complexity, and to test this methodology using data from real stands.¶
As a starting point, I reviewed the literature concerning forest and woodland structure and found there was no clear definition of stand structural complexity, or definitive suite of structural attributes for characterising it. To address this issue, I defined stand structural complexity as a combined measure of the number of different structural attributes present in a stand, and the relative abundance of each of these attributes. This was analogous to approaches that have quantified diversity in terms of the abundance and richness of elements. It was also concluded from the review, that stand structural complexity should be viewed as a relative, rather than absolute concept, because the potential levels of different structural attributes are bound within certain limits determined by the inherent characteristics of the site in question, and the biota of the particular community will have evolved to reflect this range of variation. This implied that vegetation communities with naturally simple structures should have the potential to achieve high scores on an index of structural complexity.¶
I proposed the following five-stage methodology for developing an index of stand structural complexity:
1. Establish a comprehensive suite of stand structural attributes as a starting point for developing the index, by reviewing studies in which there is an established relationship between elements of biodiversity and structural attributes.
2. Develop a measurement system for quantifying the different attributes included in the comprehensive suite.
3. Use this measurement system to collect data from a representative set of stands across the range of vegetation condition (highly modified to unmodified) and developmental stages (regrowth to oldgrowth) occurring in the vegetation communities in which the index is intended to operate.
4. Identify a core set of structural attributes from an analysis of these data.
5. Combine the core attributes in a simple additive index, in which attributes are scored relative to their observed levels in each vegetation community.¶
Stage one of this methodology was addressed by reviewing a representative sample of the literature concerning fauna habitat relationships in temperate Australian forests and woodlands. This review identified fifty-five studies in south-east and south-west Australia, in which the presence or abundance of different fauna were significantly (p<0.05) associated with vegetation structural attributes. The majority of these studies concerned bird, arboreal mammal, and ground mammal habitat requirements, with relatively fewer studies addressing the habitat requirements of reptiles, invertebrates, bats or amphibians. Thirty four key structural attributes were identified from these fifty-five studies, by grouping similar attributes, and then representing each group with a single generic attribute. This set, in combination with structural attributes identified in the earlier review, provided the basis for developing an operational set of stand level attributes for the collection of data from study sites.¶
To address stages two and three of the methodology, data were collected from one woodland community Yellow Box-Red Gum (E. melliodora-E. Blakelyi ) and two dry sclerophyll forest communities Broadleaved Peppermint-Brittle Gum (E. dives-E. mannifera ), Scribbly Gum-Red Stringybark (E. rossii E. macrorhyncha ) in a 15,000 km2 study area in the South eastern Highlands Bioregion of Australia. A representative set of 48 sites was established within this study area, by identifying 24 strata, on the basis of the three vegetation communities, two catchments, two levels of rainfall and two levels of condition, and then locating two sites (replicates) within each stratum. At each site, three plots were systematically established, to provide an unbiased estimate of stand level means for 75 different structural attributes.¶
I applied a three-stage analysis to identify a core set of attributes from these data. The first stage a preliminary analysis indicated that the 48 study sites represented a broad range of condition, and that the two dry sclerophyll communities could be treated as a single community, which was structurally distinct from the woodland community. In the second stage of the analysis, thirteen core attributes were dentified using the criteria that a core attribute should:¶
1. Be either, evenly or approximately normally distributed amongst study sites;
2. Distinguish between woodland and dry sclerophyll communities;
3. Function as a surrogate for other attributes;
4. Be efficient to measure in the field.
The core attributes were: Vegetation cover <0.5m Vegetation cover 0.5-6.0m; Perennial species richness; Lifeform richness; Stand basal area of live trees; Quadratic mean diameter of live stems; ln(number of regenerating stems per ha+1); ln(number of hollow bearing trees per ha+1);ln(number of dead trees per ha+1);sqrt(number of live stems per ha >40cm dbh); sqrt(total log length per ha); sqrt(total largelog length per ha); Litter dry weight per ha. This analysis also demonstrated that the thirteen core attributes could be modelled as continuous variables, and that these variables were indicative of the scale at which the different attributes operated.¶
In the third and final stage of the analysis, Principal Components Analysis was used to test for redundancy amongst the core attributes. Although this analysis highlighted six groupings, within which attributes were correlated to some degree, these relationships were not considered sufficiently robust to justify reducing the number of core attributes.¶
The thirteen core attributes were combined in a simple additive index, in which, each attribute accounted for 10 points in a total index value of 130. Attributes were rescaled as a score from 0-10, using equations that modelled attribute score as a function of the raw attribute data. This maintained a high correlation (r > 0.97, p< 0.0001) between attribute scores and the original attribute data. Sensitivity analysis indicated that the index was not sensitive to attribute weightings, and on this basis attributes carried equal weight. In this form my index was straightforward to apply, and approximately normally distributed amongst study sites.¶
I demonstrated the practical application of the index in a user-friendly spreadsheet, designed to allow landowners and managers to assess the condition of their vegetation, and to identify management options. This spreadsheet calculated an index score from field data, and then used this score to rank the site relative to a set of reference sites. This added a regional context to the operation of the index, and is a potentially useful tool for identifying sites of high conservation value, or for identifying sites where management actions have maintained vegetation quality. The spreadsheet also incorporated the option of calculating an index score using a subset of attributes, and provided a measure of the uncertainty associated with this score.¶
I compared the proposed index with five prominent indices used to quantify vegetation condition or habitat value in temperate Australian ecosystems. These were: Newsome and Catlings (1979) Habitat Complexity Score, Watson et al.s (2001) Habitat Complexity Score, the Site Condition Score component of the Habitat Hectares Index of Parkes et al. (2003), the Vegetation Condition Score component of the Biodiversity Benefits Index of Oliver and Parkes (2003), and the Vegetation Condition Score component of the BioMetric Assessment Tool of Gibbons et al. (2004). I found that my index differentiated between study sites better than each of these indices. However, resource and time constraints precluded the use of a new and independent data set for this testing, so that the superior performance of my index must be interpreted cautiously.¶
As a group, the five indices I tested contained attributes describing compositional diversity, coarse woody debris, regeneration, large trees and hollow trees these were attributes that I also identified as core ones. However, unlike these indices, I quantified weeds indirectly through their effect on indigenous plant diversity, I included the contribution of non-indigenous species to vegetation cover and did not apply a discount to this contribution, I limited the direct assessment of regeneration to long-lived overstorey species, I used stand basal area as a surrogate for canopy cover, I quantified litter in terms of biomass (dry weight) rather than cover, and I included the additional attributes of quadratic mean diameter and the number of dead trees.¶
I also concluded that Parkes et al. (2003), Oliver and Parkes (2003), and Gibbons et al. (2004), misapplied the concept of benchmarking, by characterising attributes in terms of a benchmark range or average level. This ignored processes that underpin variation at the stand level, such as the increased development of some attributes at particular successional stages, and the fact that attributes can respond differently to disturbance agents. It also produced indices that were not particularly sensitive to the differences in attribute levels occurring between stands. I suggested that a more appropriate application of benchmarking would be at the overarching level of stand structural complexity, using a metric such as the index developed in this thesis. These benchmarks could reflect observed levels of structural complexity in unmodified natural stands at different successional stages, or thresholds for structural complexity at which a wide range of biota are present, and would define useful goals for guiding on-ground management.
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Leah, Peter A. "Petrology, structure and stratigraphy of the Willyama Supergroup and Olarian granitoids, west of Plumbago Homestead, Olary Block, South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbl435.pdf.
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Jennings, Reece. "The medical profession and the state in South Australia, 1836-1975 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MD/09mdj54.pdf.
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Hutchings, Suzi J. "Social contexts, personal shame : an analysis of Aboriginal engagement with juvenile justice in Port Augusta, South Australia /." Title page, contents and synopsis only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phh973.pdf.
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Larwood, Andrew John. "Cleaner production : promoting and achieving it in the South Australian foundry industry." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envl336.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 123-130. The literature search and the findings from the investigation have been used to provide recommendations for a sector specific cooperative approach using regulation, self-regulation, voluntary agreements, economic incentatives and educational/information strategies to promote and acheive cleaner production in the South Australian foundry industry.
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Fletcher, Jennifer. "Traditional values and capitalism in contemporary South Korea." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27631.
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Max Weber argued that traditional values impede the development of capitalism in Confucian societies. Korea is an economic success, yet is also known as the most Confucian of East Asian countries. This thesis seeks to explain the marriage between a thriving consumer-based economy and a traditional Confucian value system.
Broadly, it was found that Koreans are committed to uniquely adapted values that while faithful to their Confucian origins, are also products of contemporary Korean history. What results are core values that appear to be staid in traditional terms, but are in effect driving forces for economic growth and national unity.
Within these findings, it is revealed that (1) Confucian ideals of family relationships, rank and essential virtues are at the forefront of the Korean imaginary; (2) it is possible to harmonize the terms modern and traditional, (3) that capitalism is culturally constructed and therefore not fully subject to Weberian limitations.
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Robinson, Geoffrey 1963. "How Labor governed : social structures and the formation of public policy during the New South Wales Lang government of November 1930 to May 1932." Monash University, Dept. of History, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9164.
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Thomas, Erin J. "Diatoms and invertebrates as indicators of pH in wetlands of the south-west of Western Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1065.
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Increased groundwater usage, rainfall decline and activities such as mining have resulted in the acidification of certain wetlands in the south-west of Western Australia. This study investigated the influence of pH, the factor most commonly associated with acidification, on the invertebrate and diatom community structure of 20 wetlands in the south-west region of Western Australia. Few studies in Western Australia have investigated both biotic groups, particularly in relation to pH. Consequently, this study examined the comparative sensitivity of the two biotic groups to pH in order to identify the most effective biotic tool for assessing the ecological impacts of pH decrease. The wetlands included in this study displayed a wide range of pH from acidic (pH < 6.5) to alkaline (pH > 7.5). Other environmental parameters were also variable. Separation of the wetlands into three pH groups; Group 1 – acidic, Group 2 – circumneutral and Group 3 – alkaline, demonstrated that the acidic Group 1 wetlands generally had higher electrical conductivity than the remaining groups. This was probably due to the association of many Group 1 sites with mining and acid sulphate soils. Seasonal trends in environmental variables across the three pH groups were mostly unclear although some trends were evident within the individual pH groups. The study showed that invertebrate community structure differed in response to pH. However, the results also demonstrated that invertebrate distribution patterns were influenced by other factors.Potential indicator species identified from the study included Macrothrix indistincta and Tanytarsus fuscithorax/semibarbitarsus which were abundant in acidic waters and Alona quadrangularis which was common in circumneutral sites. Taxa such as Calamoecia tasmanica subattenuata were common over a wider range of pH (acidic to circumneutral) but may still have potential to act as indicators of pH decline. Diatom community structure was also shown to be influenced by pH, with the variable identified as a major determinant of diatom distribution patterns. Nitzschia paleaeformis and Navicula aff. cari were generally recorded from acidic wetlands and are potentially useful as indicators of low pH conditions. Brachysira brebissonii and Frustulia magaliesmontana were also identified as species with the potential to indicate pH decline. In contrast, taxa including Gomphonema parvulum, Staurosira construens var. venter and Nitzschia palea were generally associated with moderate to high pH levels. A comparative study of the two biotic groups using multivariate analyses revealed that diatoms were more sensitive to pH than invertebrates. Further investigation with a larger number of environmental variables would be necessary to ascertain the other factors primarily influencing invertebrate community structure. Nonetheless, the findings imply that diatoms and invertebrates differ in their responsiveness to various environmental factors and may provide complementary information on the integrity of a system. Multivariate analyses on an expanded data-set of 40 sites found that pH accounted for the greatest amount of variation in the data and was conducive to the development of a diatom-based pH inference model.The strongest model was produced using weighted averaging (WA) with classical deshrinking. While the model displayed a high correlation coefficient, the prediction error was also relatively high, probably as a result of the comparatively small and heterogeneous data-set. Incorporation of the data into a larger training set would be likely to improve the predictive ability. Applications for the model include pH reconstructions or use in monitoring programs. The current study has shown that pH is an important variable influencing both invertebrate and diatom community structure in wetlands in the south-west of Western Australia. However, the greater sensitivity of diatoms to pH suggests that they would be the most effective tool for the biological monitoring of pH in wetlands threatened or impacted by acidification. An integrated monitoring program including both diatoms and invertebrates may provide additional information on the impacts of pH decline and the overall integrity of the systems and should be investigated further.
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Edwards, Marlene. "The social organisation of a secondhand clothing store : informal strategies and social interaction amongst volunteer workers / Marlene Edwards." 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18614.
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Bibliography: leaves [282]-290vii, 290 leaves ; 20 cm.
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Edwards, Marlene. "The social organisation of a secondhand clothing store : informal strategies and social interaction amongst volunteer workers / Marlene Edwards." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18614.
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Fuller, Nicholas Crown. "Landscape genetics and sociobiology of Gould's long-eared bat (Nyctophilus gouldi) and the lesser long-eared bat (N. geoffroyi) in fragmented populations of south-eastern Australia." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/90752.
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Habitat fragmentation represents one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, yet for the second largest mammalian order Chiroptera we have only just begun to assess the impacts of this threatening process on population connectivity and genetic diversity. Many aspects of chiropteran ecology remain unknown due to their cryptic lifestyle and difficulties in applying traditional observational and field-based techniques. At the time of this PhD project‘s conception there were no published studies utilising genetic techniques to address the influence of habitat fragmentation on any chiropteran species. Since that time two studies have been published, in 2009 and 2011. I add to this new body of literature by conducting genetic analyses to assess population connectivity and genetic diversity in two congeneric vespertilionids, Nyctophilus gouldi and N. geoffroyi. The study was conducted in western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia across a landscape comprising continuous and fragmented regions of native habitat. Populations within continuous forest provided a benchmark for parameters including gene flow, genetic diversity and social structure, for comparison with forest fragments. This thesis also capitalises on the underutilised potential of molecular techniques for the study of chiropterans. I applied molecular approaches to assess dispersal strategies and social structure in both species offering novel ecological insights. Four data chapters covering these topics are outlined below. Chapter 2 describes the isolation and characterisation of 16 microsatellite markers developed to facilitate this research. I utilised next generation sequencing technology (454) to generate a microsatellite DNA library and employed Multiplex Ready Technology (MRT) as a flexible and cost effective method to test primers and design marker panels for screening. DNA was isolated from N. gouldi resulting in 15 loci, while cross amplification in N. geoffroyi produced 7 reliable loci. Chapter 3 addresses the impact of habitat fragmentation on the forest and woodland specialist N. gouldi, which is listed as endangered in South Australia. Based on roosting requirements, rarity in the agricultural landscape and limited dispersal ability I predicted that N. gouldi populations would display reduced gene flow and signs of isolation as a result of habitat fragmentation. This prediction was confirmed by my analyses which identified reduced population connectivity, decreased genetic diversity, elevated measures of relatedness and inbreeding, and altered demography within fragmented populations isolated by ≥27km of agricultural land. Agricultural distances <2km did not influence population connectivity providing a benchmark for habitat restoration to improve connectivity and mitigate population isolation in this species. Management recommendations include the enhancement of population connectivity between threatened SA populations, and recognition of a unique Management Unit at the Grampians National Park. The forth chapter investigates the influence of habitat fragmentation on N. geoffroyi for comparison with N. gouldi. In contrast to N. gouldi, N. geoffroyi is a habitat generalist that occupies a diverse range of ecosystems and which is commonly recorded within agricultural landscapes. N. geoffroyi‘s presence in modified habitat coupled with plastic ecology and roosting requirements led to the prediction that the species would display limited impacts from habitat fragmentation. My analyses again confirmed this prediction with N. geoffroyi displaying virtually no response to habitat fragmentation and a panmictic population structure across the study region. The comparison between N. geoffroyi and N. gouldi provided an opportunity to test the merit of several proposed predictors of bat vulnerability to habitat fragmentation, in particular wing morphology, matrix tolerance, specialisation and geographic range. The much touted predictor wing morphology failed to predict differing responses from the two species while the following three predictors listed above received further support from this study. I conclude that wing morphology may still be a useful predictor of bat vulnerability to habitat fragmentation when coupled with other indicators such as matrix tolerance and habitat specialisation. The fifth and final data chapter utilises molecular analyses to assess several previously unknown aspects of N. gouldi and N. geoffroyi ecology, dispersal strategies, mating systems and social structure. N. gouldi displayed patterns consistent with female natal philopatry, male biased dispersal and a polygynous mating system, while no such evidence was found for N. geoffroyi. Results for N. geoffroyi may have been influenced by larger population sizes which, coupled with higher dispersal rates, may have masked any evidence of sex-biased dispersal. Both species displayed significant numbers of relatives at the population level, with N. gouldi displaying particularly high levels of related females. N. geoffroyi displayed higher numbers of relatives at the roost level indicating that kin selection may play an important role in social structure and cooperative roosting. Despite significant numbers of related N. geoffroyi at the roost level, the vast majority of pairwise comparisons indicated no relationship between individuals suggesting that the dominant driver of sociality and cooperative behaviour may not be solely based on relatedness. Nevertheless, high incidence of related females at the population level for N. gouldi, and at the roost level for N. geoffroyi, suggests that the bonds between related females are an important aspect of Nyctophilus behavioural ecology and social structure.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2013
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Carroll, Paul Geoffrey. "Pre-Permian structure and prospectivity at Gidgealpa, South Australia." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/112765.
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Munn, Peter. "Service coordination in rural South Australia." 2005. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/46693.
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This study identifies informal networks as the most accepted method of sharing information. Enhancing service delivery is shown as being a key trigger of coordination while rigid funding approaches are perceived to be a major inhibitor. Organisational type, position, practice approaches and location are shown to influence people's perception of coordination.
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Harris, Mark Anglin. "The effects of green manure on soil structure in calcareous sodic and non-sodic soils." 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09A/09ah315.pdf.
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Losoncz, Ibolya. "Absence of respect : South Sudanese experiences of Australian government and social institutions." Phd thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151579.
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This micro empirical research reports on the resettlement experiences of South Sudanese Australians. It develops an argument to explain why the South Sudanese community persistently report a strong sense of disrespect from the Australian Government and Australian society more generally. The study demonstrates that the community's call for respect is a summation of their protest against economic and social exclusion in the public domain and interference from care and protection authorities in the private domain of the family. Members of the Sudanese community see education and employment as the main pathways to inclusion in their new society and to regaining their dignity lost in forced migration. But their efforts to obtain employment are often thwarted by structural impediments and discrimination from employers. As a consequence they feel robbed of the opportunity to participate and to attain respect in their new environment. The experience of being prevented from fully realising identities to which they aspire in their new society heightened the importance of preserving heritage values and structures within Sudanese families. These structures, while giving form and meaning to family members, have also become highly contested in their new cultural environment both from within and outside the Sudanese community. Care and protection authorities were quick to respond to inter-generational conflict and violence among Sudanese families. Yet, lack of cultural knowledge and understanding of the reasons for non-compliance with Australian family law among Sudanese parents led to inappropriate interventions, undermining Sudanese family structures. Parents at large were left feeling disempowered in their parenting roles and confused about the purpose of government interventions. Rather than engaging with the confusion of Sudanese parents, agencies rebuffed their growing grievance and anger adding to the emerging narrative in the Sudanese community of their unfair and disrespectful treatment at the hands of authorities. Threatened and distrustful that care and protection were eroding their families' future and the heritage virtues underpinning their cultural and self-identities, Sudanese parents responded by socially distancing themselves. The last part of the thesis takes a psycho-social approach to show how the Sudanese Australians' strong sense of disrespect is linked to a range of systemic barriers or threats from the government and its authorities to pursue and cultivate aspects of their selves that are fundamental to their core identity. The community's call for respect was an expression of grievance and resistance to elicit some response of care and concern from those holding economic and social power over them. It was their protest, the purpose of which was to assert their personal dignity and to object to their neglectful treatment. It was an appropriate and responsible demonstration of engagement with their new country: the Australian Government needed and had a responsibility to hear their voices. The research concludes by arguing that a more inclusive and responsive handling of resettlement support by the government is more likely to result in positive resettlement outcomes, including a sense among humanitarian migrants that their treatment is fair, just, and respectful of their positive understanding of themselves.
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Loughry, Maryanne 1955. "Psychological and social adaptation of Vietnamese refugee adolescents in South Australia." 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arml887.pdf.
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Barreira, C. Paul. "Methodists and the social conscience in South Australia and New South Wales, 1949-1972." Master's thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10389.
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Along with Protestant Churchmen of other denominations throughout the Western world in the 1960s, many Australian Methodists felt obliged to re-assess the nature and place of the Christian Church in an
increasingly affluent, liberal and secular society. From the mid-1940s
to the 1960s consistently fewer Methodists could respond affirmatively to the question put shortly after World War Two by the Director of the South Australian Methodist Church's Department of Social Service, the Reverend E.H. Woollacott: 'Are we dedicated to the task of making society conform
2 to the will of God'? Woollacott perceived the 'will of God' in terms of the Nonconformist conscience which in Woollacott's day was the cornerstone of the Methodists' thinking and activity on social questions. From at least the 1880s the political and social questions which
interested Australian Nonconformity 'were generally those which had plain moral implications'. After 1945 restrictive social legislation such as six o'clock closing was under threat as many more prosperous Australians rejected the ascetic legacy of late nineteenth century Protestantism. Numerous Methodists, too, rejected the Nonconformist conscience and eventually
even the institutional Methodist Church rejected Woollacott's call. In
1966, when the Church had lost sight of Woollacott's question and the terms in which it was framed, the Reverend John Barrett confessed on behalf of the Annual Conference of the South Australian Church that 'we
are often the Church that does not know what to say'…
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Dexter, Anthony Roger. "Soil mechanical properties and the behaviour of roots in structured soil : published works / by Anthony Roger Dexter." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/38501.
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Campbell, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mary). "Structure and surface in the Gawler Ranges, South Australia / by Elizabeth M. Campbell." 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19086.
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Lockwood, Anthony J. M. "Delineation of the geospatial dimensions of the residential real estate submarket structure." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/48489.
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While it is generally accepted that residential submarkets exist, this is not the case for either their definition or delineation. This study has developed and assessed a methodology for deriving the geospatial dimensions of residential real estate submarkets based on the behaviour of the marketplace with respect to the underlying dimensions of the residential real estate living structure (RLS). Importantly, the methodology makes no prior assumptions about where the spatial boundaries might be. They were empirically derived from the data alone. It is achieved by building on previous work in the field and seeking to identify the fundamental issues in residential real estate market behaviour. The first basic premise of the thesis is that when a dwelling is sold, the commodity traded is a piece of real estate geography comprising a complex bundle of both spatial and structural attributes. The second basic premise is the recognition in the methodology of the importance of ‘location’. The price of the real estate geography varies across geographical space in a continuous fashion and it is this price variability that is defined, in this study, to be the geospatial submarket identifier. The study adopts a two-stage methodology reflecting these two basic premises. Firstly, a complex bundle of attributes is collected for every property in the study area and distilled into its underlying dimensions using principal component analysis. The resulting factors are used in the second stage as independent variables in a hedonic geographically weighted regression model to determine the price variability across geographical space of the underlying residential real estate structure. User-defined breaks in the continuous price surface delineate the geospatial submarket boundaries. The study represents a new approach to the delineation of geospatial submarket boundaries and is yet to be fully assessed by the two major identified users (the planning profession and the valuation profession). However, initial feedback indicates that the ability of the methodology to describe the geospatial submarket boundaries in terms of ‘how’ and ‘where’ location affects the market price of the underlying real estate geography, gives the land professional a better understanding of the submarket structure in which they are working.http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1330874
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2008
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Crook, Christopher J. "Cultural practices and socioeconomic attainment in Australia." Phd thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144425.
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