Journal articles: 'Tropical North Queensland'

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Hanson, Joshua P. "Tropical sprue in Far North Queensland." Medical Journal of Australia 182, no. 10 (May 16, 2005): 536–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb00022.x.

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Callaghan, Jeff. "Weather systems and extreme rainfall generation in the 2019 north Queensland floods compared with historical north Queensland record floods." Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 71, no. 1 (2021): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/es20005.

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Earlier papers have addressed floods from warm-air advection (WAA) in southeast Australia and around the globe, and extreme rainfall in US hurricanes and Australian tropical cyclones (TCs). This is the first paper to address the WAA phenomena in causing monsoon and TC floods and in TC-like systems which develop over the interior of northern Australia. The inland events help explain Australia’s worst tropical flooding disaster in 1916. A disastrous series of floods during late January and early February 2019 caused widespread damage in tropical north Queensland both in inland regions and along the coast. This occurred when some large-scale climate influences, including the sea surface temperatures suggested conditions would not lead to major flooding. Therefore, it is important to focus on the weather systems to understand the processes that resulted in the extreme rainfall responsible for the flooding. The structure of weather systems in most areas involved a pattern in which the winds turned in an anticyclonic sense as they ascended from the low to middle levels of the atmosphere (often referred to as WAA) which was maintained over large areas for 11 days. HYSPLIT air parcel trajectory observations were employed to confirm these ascent analyses. Examination of a period during which the heaviest rain was reported and compared with climatology showed a much stronger monsoon circulation, widespread WAA through tropical Queensland where normally its descending equivalent of cold-air advection is found, and higher mean sea level pressures along the south Queensland coast. The monsoon low was located between strong deep monsoon westerlies to the north and strong deep easterlies to the south which ensured its slow movement. This non-TC event produced heavy inland rainfall. Extreme inland rainfall is rare in this region. Dare et al. (2012), using data from 1969/70 to 2009/10, showed that over north Queensland non-TC events produced a large percentage of the total rainfall. The vertical structure associated with one of the earlier events that occurred in 2008 had sufficient data to detect strong and widespread WAA overlying an onshore moist tropical airstream. This appears to have played a crucial role in such extreme rainfall extending well inland and perhaps gives insight to the cause of a 1916 flooding disaster at Clermont which claimed around 70 lives. Several other events over the inland Tropics with strong WAA also help explain the 1916 disaster.

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Sanderson, Rachel. "Many Beautiful Things: Colonial Botanists' Accounts of the North Queensland Rainforests." Historical Records of Australian Science 18, no. 1 (2007): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr07004.

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Colonial botanists played an important role in both elucidating and reshaping the nature of the North Queensland rainforests between 1860 and 1915. The Government Botanist of Victoria, Ferdinand von Mueller, was the first to begin to document the plant life of North Queensland. In 1859, on separation from New South Wales, Queensland's first Colonial Botanist was appointed to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens; this role was filled initially by Walter Hill, then by Frederick Manson Bailey.They were based at a distance from the northern rainforests and largely relied on local collectors to supply them with specimens that they would then identify, name and describe. They were also part of a network that assisted in the introduction of plants to North Queensland from other tropical locations for acclimatization purposes, and they worked to promote the development of tropical agriculture in the region. Colonial botanists not only promoted the settlement of rainforest areas and utilization of rainforest species, they also recorded and commented on the associated processes of environmental change that they observed.

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Hall, Trevor J. "Rehabilitating degraded frontage soils in tropical north Queensland." Tropical Grasslands - Forrajes Tropicales 2, no. 1 (2014): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17138/tgft(2)66-67.

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Waltham, Nathan, Jane Hughes, and Peter Davie. "Freshwater crabs occupying tropical north Queensland coastal creeks." Australian Zoologist 37, no. 2 (January 2014): 256–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/az.2014.005.

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Claussen, Jeff W., and Colin R. Maycock. "Stem Allometry in a North Queensland Tropical Rainforest." Biotropica 27, no. 4 (December 1995): 421. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2388953.

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Davis, Stephen, and Rainforest Conservation Society. "Tropical Rainforests of North Queensland: Their Conservation Significance." Kew Bulletin 42, no. 3 (1987): 772. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4110092.

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Berger, Daria, Felicity Smith, Vana Sabesan, Aimee Huynh, and Robert Norton. "Paediatric Salmonellosis—Differences between Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions of Queensland, Australia." Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 4, no. 2 (April 10, 2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed4020061.

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Salmonellosis is an important cause of morbidity in tropical regions.This study aims to describe the epidemiology of non-typhoidal Salmonellae (NTS) in children presenting to public hospitals in Queensland, Australia, over the past 20 years, with a focus on differences between tropical and sub-tropical zones in the region. This is a retrospective and descriptive cohort study of 8162 NTS positive samples collected in 0–17-year-olds from the Queensland public hospital pathology database (Auslab) over a 20-year period from 1997 to 2016. There were 2951 (36.2%) positive NTS samples collected in tropical zones and 5211 (63.8%) in the sub-tropical zones of Queensland, with a total of 8162 over the region. The tropical zone contributed a disproportionately higher number of positive NTS samples by population sub-analysis. Of the specimens collected, 7421 (90.92%) were faecal, 505 (6.2%) blood, 161 (1.97%) urine, 13 (0.16%) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and 62 of other origin. Other categories of specimen types isolated include swab, fluid, aspirate, lavage, bone, tissue, isolate and pus, and these were not included in sub-analysis. The most commonly identified serovars were Salmonella Typhimurium, Salmonella Virchow and Salmonella Saintpaul. This is the first and largest study that emphasises the high burden of invasive and non-invasive NTS infections resulting in hospital presentations in the paediatric population of tropical north Queensland, compared to the sub-tropics.

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P. Trenerry, M., W. F. Laurance, and K. R. McDonald. "Further evidence for the precipitous decline of endemic rainforest frogs in tropical Australia*." Pacific Conservation Biology 1, no. 2 (1994): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc940150.

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In Queensland, Australia, severe declines or possible extinctions have been reported for a number of stream-dwelling frogs, all in montane rainforest environments (Covacevich and McDonald 1993). The declines have followed a distinctive geographic pattern, commencing in southern Queensland in the late 1970s (Czechura and Ingram 1990) then progressing to central Queensland (McDonald 1990) and finally to north Queensland in the mid-1980s (Richards et ai. 1993).

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Johnson, C. N., and A. P. McIlwee. "Ecology of the Northern Bettong, Bettongia tropica, a Tropical Mycophagist." Wildlife Research 24, no. 5 (1997): 549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr96034.

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The diet and seasonal ecology of the northern bettong, Bettongia tropica, was studied at three sites along a moisture gradient from closed Allocasuarina-Eucalyptus forest to dry open woodland in north-eastern Queensland. At each site, fungi (sporocarps of hypogeous ectomycorrhizal species) were the major food, and most of the remainder of the diet consisted of grass leaf and stem, roots and tubers, and lilies. Forbs and invertebrates were also eaten, but in small quantities. Fungus consumption was greatest at the wettest forest type and least at the driest site. Seasonal variation was insignificant except at the driest site, where fungus consumption peaked in the late wet season and dropped during the dry season; this seasonal fall in fungus consumption was associated with an increase in consumption of grass and roots and tubers. There was little seasonal variation in body condition, except at the driest site, where the dry-season decline in the proportional representation of fungus in the diet was associated with a decline in body condition. Breeding was continuous and aseasonal. B. tropica is found only in a narrow zone of sclerophyll forest along the western edge of wet tropical rainforest in north-eastern Queensland. We suggest that this species (like bettongs and potoroos in southern Australia) depends on hypogeous fungi, and that expansion of its geographical range into drier forest types is prevented by shortages of fungus during the dry season.

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Chapman, Angela, and Christopher P. Kofron. "Tropical Wet Sclerophyll Forest and Bird Diversity in North-east Queensland, Australia." Pacific Conservation Biology 16, no. 1 (2010): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc100020.

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Wet sclerophyll forest (also called tall open forest) is unique to Australia, being dominated by tall trees of the genus Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae). In this paper, we refer to the wet sclerophyll forest in north-east Queensland as tropical wet sclerophyll forest. Tropical wet sclerophyll forest is a threatened ecosystem which is maintained by fire. Our study describes the community, relative abundance and trophic structure of birds using the tropical wet sclerophyll forest. We surveyed the birds and recorded 100 taxa, of which = 29% (n = 29) are endemic to north-east Queensland. The community is comprised predominantly of insect-eaters (58% of the species) and nectar-feeders (26%), along with smaller guilds of fruit-eaters (11%) and seed-eaters (5%). Despite comprising only a small geographic area (82 800 ha), tropical wet sclerophyll forest supports a high diversity of birds. We believe it is essential that the tropical wet sclerophyll forest be conserved and managed to maintain the full range of its biodiversity. Because the tropical wet sclerophyll forest is fire-adapted and fire-dependent, the use of prescribed fire as a modern management tool is imperative. Unless fire has a central role in managing tropical wet sclerophyll forest, then this forest type and its dependent species will cease to exist.

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Diczbalis, Y. A. "NUTRITION MANAGEMENT OF TROPICAL FRUITS GROWN IN NORTH QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA." Acta Horticulturae, no. 772 (August 2008): 375–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.2008.772.64.

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McJannet, David, Jim Wallace, Peter Fitch, Mark Disher, and Paul Reddell. "Water balance of tropical rainforest canopies in north Queensland, Australia." Hydrological Processes 21, no. 25 (2007): 3473–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6618.

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Alexander, Jan, Chris R. Fielding, and Geoff D. Pocock. "Flood behaviour of the Burdekin River, tropical north Queensland, Australia." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 163, no. 1 (1999): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.1999.163.01.03.

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Spence, JR, and HP Ramsey. "Biogeography of the subfamily Bryoideae (Bryaceae, Musci) in north-eastern Queensland." Australian Systematic Botany 9, no. 2 (1996): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb9960185.

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The biogeography of Bryum and its relatives in the tropical and subtropical regions of north-eastern Queensland is analysed. The flora is small compared to other tropical areas, with six genera and 30 species. This low diversity results from the lack of high mountains in the study area. The principal floristic affinities are widespread – cosmopolitan (20%), pantropical (20%), and Australian endemic (17%). The strongest floristic affinities are with Indonesia-Malaya and New Guinea among tropical regions. Tropical-subtropical elements make up 50% of the flora, with Paleotropical and Indo-Malesian groups represented as well as the pantropical element. The southern temperate element only makes up 13% of the flora. Speciation from ancestral taxa has occurred primarily in monsoonal subtropical, montane, and adjacent temperate regions rather than in the more humid and less seasonal coastal rainforest refugia. Most endemic species are widespread in Australia. This element has diverse origins, including ancient Gondwanan as well as cosmopolitan and pantropical. The genus Rosulabryum (based on Bryum sect. Rosulata) is very diverse in the study area, and Australia is a major centre of speciation for this genus.

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Hyde, KD. "Tropical Australian freshwater fungi. I. Some ascomycetes." Australian Systematic Botany 5, no. 1 (1992): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb9920109.

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Three fungi considered new to science were collected from submerged wood, at Millaa Millaa Falls in north Queensland, Australia. Ascagilis bipolaris, gen. et sp. nov., Aniptodera lignatilis, sp. nov. and Massarina australiensis, sp. nov. are described and illustrated.

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Trembath, Dane F., Simon Fearn, and Eivind Andreas Baste Undheim. "Natural history of the slaty grey snake (Stegonotus cucullatus) (Serpentes:Colubridae) from tropical north Queensland, Australia." Australian Journal of Zoology 57, no. 2 (2009): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo08091.

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Slaty grey snakes (Stegonotus cucullatus) are medium to large members of the Colubridae that are common throughout the eastern and northern tropics of Australia. Although intensive field studies have been conducted on populations in the Northern Territory for over 10 years, no ecological data have been presented on free-ranging specimens of populations inhabiting tropical north Queensland. During a 10-year period we collected opportunistic data on 120 free-ranging specimens from the seasonally Wet Tropics in north Queensland. These snakes provided data on body sizes, activity times, food habits and reproduction. Male S. cucullatus were larger than females and had larger heads. More snakes were found during the warmer, humid parts of the year (wet season). S. cucullatus ate a wide range of vertebrate prey, including reptile eggs that were obtained seasonally. Females produced one clutch per year, and no relationship was found between maternal snout–vent length and clutch size.

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Winston, Edward C. "SCREENING OF MANGO (MANGIFERA INDICA) CULTIVARS IN TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA." Acta Horticulturae, no. 341 (May 1993): 271–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.1993.341.29.

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Ross, Glenn F. "Tourist Destination Images of the Wet Tropical Rainforests of North Queensland." Australian Psychologist 26, no. 3 (November 1991): 153–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050069108257241.

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TURTON, S. M. "Light environments within montane tropical rainforest, Mt Bellenden Ker, North Queensland." Austral Ecology 15, no. 1 (March 1990): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.1990.tb01018.x.

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Hawkins, P. R. "The zooplankton of a small tropical reservoir (Solomon Dam, North Queensland)." Hydrobiologia 157, no. 2 (January 1988): 105–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00006963.

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MILLER, REBECCA E., RIGEL JENSEN, and IAN E. WOODROW. "Frequency of Cyanogenesis in Tropical Rainforests of Far North Queensland, Australia." Annals of Botany 97, no. 6 (March 6, 2006): 1017–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcl048.

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McCracken, C. R. "Some Aboriginal walking tracks and camp sites in the Douglas Shire, North Queensland." Queensland Archaeological Research 6 (January 1, 1989): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/qar.6.1989.140.

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The Douglas Shire is a small coastal shire in the wet tropics of North Queensland, lying between Buchan Point in the south and Bloomfield in the north. It is dominated by steep rainforest-covered mountains with a narrow coastal strip, rising from sea level to 1370m in only 6km. Annual rainfall varies from 1000mm in the south to 3750mm in the north. It is a very well watered district with four main rivers and several good creeks, all of which are very fast-flowing. Before clearing began, two-thirds of the Shire was under heavy tropical rainforest, the other third was timbered grassland (eucalypt and wattle) with some melaleuca and mangrove swamps. There are also beaches, sand ridges, mangrove-lined rivers and creeks, and some salt pans.

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Engström, Kajsa L., Jane Mills, William J. H. McBride, and Caroline M. Johansson. "General practitioners' patterns of treatment of febrile travellers in north Queensland: an exploratory study." Australian Journal of Primary Health 18, no. 2 (2012): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py11039.

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In north Queensland, recurring epidemics of dengue fever are a public health concern. Each epidemic is initiated by an index case: an infected person arriving from an endemic country or region with dengue activity who then transmits the disease to local mosquitoes. A timely diagnosis of dengue in an index case and notification to public health services is essential to prevent epidemics. This qualitative study explores north Queensland general practitioners’ experiences and patterns of treatment of febrile travellers. Individual, semi-structured interviews with 50 general practitioners working in north Queensland were conducted. Analysis of the data resulted in four themes for discussion: characteristics of febrile travellers presenting to local general practitioners, the cost of pathology tests as a barrier to diagnosis, appropriate pathology testing, and notifying tropical public health services. Recommendations from this study point to a need for ongoing education and training for general practitioners in best practice with regards pathology testing for suspected dengue fever cases. As well, there is a need to provide clearer guidelines to general practitioners on when to notify tropical public health services of suspicious diagnoses of dengue.

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Eady, SJ, DA Pritchard, and PK O'Rourke. "Effects of genotype and environment on wool production of Merinos at pasture at two locations in semi-arid tropical Queensland." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 30, no. 6 (1990): 735. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea9900735.

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The problem of low wool production in central- western and north- western Queensland led to a study of the relative wool production of different genotypes of Merino sheep in these 2 regions. A number of the bloodlines of sheep introduced to central western and north-western Queensland attained a higher mature liveweight (P<0.01) and produced more wool (P<0.05) than the locally bred sheep. Annual wool production was closely related to mature liveweight, and the strong wool South Australian Merinos were consistently the heaviest and produced the most wool. Ranking on fleece characteristics and liveweight was consistent for both locations. Under severe nutritional stress, the sheep introduced to north-western Queensland showed a significantly (P<0.05) greater drop in tensile strength of their wool than locally bred sheep. There was a significant difference (P<0.05) between productivity levels of the sheep at each location, with the environment in central-western Queensland being more suited to wool production. The results of this experiment suggest that some bloodlines of Merinos offer the potential to improve the wool production of sheep bred in central- western and northwestern Queensland; however, the effect of rearing environment may also be important.

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McIvor, John G., and David J. Reid. "Germination characteristics of tropical and sub-tropical rangeland species." Rangeland Journal 33, no. 2 (2011): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj10026.

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A study was made of the germination characteristics of a broad spectrum of rangeland species by studying their behaviour under different conditions. Seeds of common species (both native and exotic) were collected from tropical (north-east Queensland) (36 species) and sub-tropical areas (south-east Queensland) (47 species). The seeds were exposed to three storage treatments: in a shade-house for 60 months, in a seed store (tropical collection) or freezer (sub-tropical collection) for 60 months, or in an oven with fluctuating temperatures (25/60°C) for 3 (tropical collection) or 4 (sub-tropical collection) months. Germination was tested during and after storage under standard conditions of 30/25°C (tropical collection) or 30/20°C (sub-tropical collection) with light during the 12-h period of higher temperature. In addition, germination of the sub-tropical collection was tested in the dark and at lower temperature (20/10°C). The species were divided into groups on the basis of changes in germination during storage in a shade-house or in a seed store or freezer. The species showed a wide range of germination behaviour, changes during storage, and responses to germination conditions. Differences in the responses of seed lots of the same species in the two collections show that care is needed when extrapolating results from one experiment to other collections and regions.

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van Ingen, Laura T., Ricardo I. Campos, and Alan N. Andersen. "Ant community structure along an extended rain forest–savanna gradient in tropical Australia." Journal of Tropical Ecology 24, no. 4 (July 2008): 445–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467408005166.

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AbstractIn mixed tropical landscapes, savanna and rain-forest vegetation often support contrasting biotas, and this is the case for ant communities in tropical Australia. Such a contrast is especially pronounced in monsoonal north-western Australia, where boundaries between rain forest and savanna are often extremely abrupt. However, in the humid tropics of north-eastern Queensland there is often an extended gradient between rain forest and savanna through eucalypt-dominated tall open forest. It is not known if ant community structure varies continuously along this gradient, or, if there is a major disjunction, where it occurs. We address this issue by sampling ants at ten sites distributed along a 6-km environmental gradient from rain forest to savanna, encompassing the crest and slopes of Mt. Lewis in North Queensland. Sampling was conducted using ground and baited arboreal pitfall traps, and yielded a total of 95 ant species. Mean trap species richness was identical in rain forest and rain-forest regrowth, somewhat higher in tall open forest, and twice as high again in savanna woodland. The great majority (78%) of the 58 species from savanna woodland were recorded only in this habitat type. MDS ordination of sites based on ant species composition showed a continuum from rain forest through rain-forest regrowth to tall open forest, and then a discontinuity between these habitat types and savanna woodland. These findings indicate that the contrast between rain forest and savanna ant communities in tropical Australia is an extreme manifestation of a broader forest-savanna disjunction.

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RENTZ, DCF, YOU NING SU, and NORHIRO UESHIMA. "Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: new Phaneropterine Katydids from Queensland Rainforests (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Phaneropterinae)." Zootaxa 1964, no. 1 (December 15, 2008): 1–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1964.1.1.

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New species of Phaneropterinae are described from the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. A number of new species of the widespread Australian genus Caedicia (C. webberi, C. goobita and C. kuranda) are described with notes on biology and ecology. C. flexuosa I. Bolivar is recorded from Australia for the first time. Currimundria and Kurandoptera are described as new genera each with very distinctive species and a new species of Ephippithyta, E. kuranda, is also described from north Queensland. Two species of Diastella are described, D. kuranda and D. hilleri. One species of Diastella, D. hilleri, is described from the mountains of southeast Queensland. Cytological information is presented for several taxa. A key to the relevant Australian genera in the “Group” Ephippithytae is presented.

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Usher, Kim, Petra Buettner, Caryn West, Jane Millis, Cindy Woods, Matt Mason, Helen Boon, and Jennifer Chamberlain-Salaun. "Preparedness for and Impact of Tropical Cyclone Yasi in North Queensland, Australia." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 28, no. 3 (March 27, 2013): 272–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x13000204.

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AbstractIntroductionTropical cyclone (TC) Yasi, thought to be the largest and most severe cyclone to cross the Queensland coast since 1918, made landfall on the southern tropical coast near Mission Beach and continued to track westward across Northern Queensland on February 3, 2011. The warning and response model (WRM) suggests that situational factors, personal characteristics, and social contextual variables influence the degree of threat perceived and protective actions taken.AimThe aim of this study was to examine preparation for this impending natural disaster by residents of the affected regions, and to identify the residents’ resource losses and symptoms of psychological distress following TC Yasi.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted 6-12 months after the cyclone using an adapted tool designed to measure preparedness, loss and psychosocial distress. Four hundred and thirty-three responses were received. Statistical analysis was conducted using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Categorical characteristics were described using sample size and percentages.ResultsAlmost all respondents perceived the cyclone warning as serious or very serious, and more than a third started preparing for the cyclone at least three days before it reached landfall. Overall, 115 (26.7%) respondents reported moderate and 59 (13.7%) reported major property damage; 72 (17.1%) reported a moderate and 49 (11.6%) reported a major change in their feeling of whether they have control over their life; 55 (13.1%) reported a major change in their motivation of getting things done; and 33 (7.9%) reported a major change in their perception of feeling valuable to others. Overall, 142 (34.1%) documented at least one of five symptoms of acute distress.ConclusionThe findings document the experiences of Australians who have lived through tropical cyclone Yasi. The results support the WRM theory which proposes that people with previous experience take threatened disasters seriously.UsherK,BuettnerP,WestC,MillisJ,WoodsC,MasonM,BoonH,Chamberlain-SalaunJ.Preparedness for and impact of tropical cyclone Yasi in North Queensland, Australia.Prehosp Disaster Med.2013;28(3):1-7.

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Balanzategui, Bianka Vidonja. "Female Invisibility in the Male’s World of Plantation-Era Tropical North Queensland." Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 26 (October 26, 2020): 143–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.07.

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Steinberger, Lincoln. "Human influences on the Holocene tropical rainforest mosaic of North Queensland, Australia." Quaternary International 279-280 (November 2012): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.1553.

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Osunkoya, Olusegun O., Julian E. Ash, Andrew W. Graham, and Mike S. Hopkins. "Growth of tree seedlings in tropical rain forests of North Queensland, Australia." Journal of Tropical Ecology 9, no. 1 (February 1993): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467400006891.

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ABSTRACTThe effects of forest habitat, canopy light condition, vertebrate herbivory and species mean seed size on growth of tree seedlings were evaluated for six widely different species of North Queensland tropical rain forests. Two forest localities differing in size and rainfall intensity were used for the trial. In each forest, seedlings were transplanted three weeks after germination into small to medium-sized canopy gaps and into the forest interiors, with half protected by cages and the other half unprotected. Growth measurements were made over a period of 16 months. All growth parameters examined differed significantly between the six species. At the end of the study period, for most species, forest site and protection from vertebrates did not affect seedling biomass. For all species, growth was higher in gaps than in forest interior, but most biomass allocation patterns did not differ between the two habitats. This was attributed to the small difference in photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) levels between the two habitats (interior, 0.48–2.53% PAR; gap, 3.58–7.09% PAR). Between species, seedling growth in the forest interior and sensitivity to increasing light were significantly correlated with initial mean seed size. The growth ability of the six species in and out of canopy gaps is discussed in terms of regeneration status of forest tree species.

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Setzer, Mary C., William N. Setzer, Betsy R. Jackes, Glenn A. Gentry, and Debra M. Moriarity. "The Medicinal Value of Tropical Rainforest Plants from Paluma, North Queensland, Australia." Pharmaceutical Biology 39, no. 1 (January 2001): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/phbi.39.1.67.5944.

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Jardine, Timothy D., Ian A. Halliday, Christina Howley, Vivian Sinnamon, and Stuart E. Bunn. "Large scale surveys suggest limited mercury availability in tropical north Queensland (Australia)." Science of The Total Environment 416 (February 2012): 385–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.11.022.

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Williams, Paul, Eleanor Collins, and Chris Crafter. "Dynamics in tropical sandstone vegetation in north-west Queensland: Insights for management." Ecological Management & Restoration 8, no. 2 (August 2007): 143–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-8903.2007.00352.x.

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McJannet, David, Peter Fitch, Mark Disher, and Jim Wallace. "Measurements of transpiration in four tropical rainforest types of north Queensland, Australia." Hydrological Processes 21, no. 26 (2007): 3549–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6576.

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Visser, Fleur, Christian H. Roth, Robert Wasson, and Gerard Govers. "A sediment budget for a cultivated floodplain in tropical North Queensland, Australia." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32, no. 10 (2007): 1475–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.1475.

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Eyre, Bradley. "Nutrient Biogeochemistry in the Tropical Moresby River Estuary System North Queensland, Australia." Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 39, no. 1 (July 1994): 15–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ecss.1994.1046.

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Smyth, Wendy, Vicki Hartig, Megan Hayes, and Valli Manickam. "PATIENTS' ADHERENCE TO ASPECTS OF HAEMODIALYSIS REGIMENS IN TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA." Journal of Renal Care 41, no. 2 (January 16, 2015): 110–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jorc.12108.

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Vanclay, Jerome K. "Sustainable timber harvesting: simulation studies in the tropical rainforests of north Queensland." Forest Ecology and Management 69, no. 1-3 (November 1994): 299–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-1127(94)90237-2.

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FRISCH, Andreas, John A. ELIX, and Göran THOR. "Herpothallon biacidum, a new lichen species from tropical Australia." Lichenologist 42, no. 3 (March 25, 2010): 285–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0024282909990697.

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AbstractHerpothallon biacidum Frisch et al. is described from Queensland, tropical Australia. The new species is characterized by a thick byssoid thallus that is loosely attached to the substratum, globular to claviform to short cylindrical pseudoisidia, a brown to brownish black hypothallus, and by the presence of gyrophoric and norstictic acids. This is the first reported co-occurrence of gyrophoric and norstictic acids in the genus. The differences between H. biacidum and other species containing either norstictic acid or gyrophoric acid are discussed. Herpothallon biacidum is also compared with Cryptothecia eungellaeae. Both occur in north Queensland and have the same chemistry, but the latter has a closely adnate thallus and lacks the dark hypothallus and pseudoisidia. The circumscription of Herpothallon and its distinction from Cryptothecia are discussed.

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Lambkin, Kevin J. "Conrad Kelsall: “Butterflying” on the Little Mulgrave River, north Queensland, in 1903." Archives of Natural History 40, no. 1 (April 2013): 111–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2013.0140.

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In 1900, an English immigrant, Conrad Kelsall (1873–1936), settled on a block of virgin lowland rainforest on the Little Mulgrave River in tropical north Queensland. Four letters written to his family in Devon in 1903 tell of his butterfly collecting, both as a personal interest and a potential commercial activity. He supplied specimens to local natural history dealer, Alfred Bernie Bell, who sold them to major Australian butterfly collectors, G. A. Waterhouse and George Lyell, English natural history dealers Watkins and Doncaster, and famed lepidopterist Walter Rothschild. One letter also records Kelsall's contact with little-known Australian beetle collector, Horace Brown. The four letters provide a glimpse of the local enthusiasm for “butterflying” in north Queensland in the early twentieth century, as well as a record of how north Queensland specimens found their way to some of the major butterfly collectors of the day. Annotated transcripts of the letters are provided.

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Davies, Peter J., Philip A. Symonds, David A. Feary, and Christopher J. Pi gram. "FACIES MODELS IN EXPLORATION — THE CARBONATE PLATFORMS OF NORTH-EAST AUSTRALIA." APPEA Journal 28, no. 1 (1988): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj87012.

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The carbonate platforms of north-east Australia encapsulate a record of tectonic, eustatic, climatic and oceanographic dynamism that has controlled their formation. Collectively, the Great Barrier Reef and the Queensland and Marion Plateaus, together with the rift basins that separate them, define a new model for carbonate platform evolution with important exploration consequences. Cretaceous rifting, Paleocene breakup, Cainozoic northward drift with concomitant climatic changes, Neogene subsidence pulses, and sea-level perturbations have combined to produce tropical carbonate platforms overlying temperate, mixed carbonate/siliciclastic facies. The Great Barrier Reef tropical shelf platform thins to the south; reefs first developed in the north in the Early to Middle Miocene along the west- to east-trending distal margin of a foreland basin. The reefs of the Queensland and Marion Plateaus developed in the Middle Miocene and are the precursors of the carbonate platforms of the central and southern Great Barrier Reef. The Miocene Marion Plateau barrier and platform reefs backstepped to become the Plio-Pleistocene Great Barrier Reef. Three energy- and climate-related carbonate facies associations define new prospecting scenarios: the tropical, high energy reef model; the tropical, low energy, Halimeda bioherm model; and the subtropical, low energy, deep water, red algal/ foram/bryozoan bioherm model. These facies occur within four distinct structural/sedimentological associations: the progradative platform margin, the backstepped platform margin, the foreland basin, and the fault block association. The models can be readily applied to the Gulf of Papua/Torres Shelf and the Canning Basin and may produce exciting new insights into carbonate plays in these areas.

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Chapman, Angela, and Graham N. Harrington. "Responses by birds to fire regime and vegetation at the wet sclerophyll/tropical rainforest boundary." Pacific Conservation Biology 3, no. 3 (1997): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc970213.

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Changes in fire regime have been identified as the cause of the loss of nearly 50% of wet sclerophyll forest in north Queensland in the last 50 years. In the absence of fire, rainforest invades and eventually eliminates the specialized wet sclerophyll forest biota. Bird populations and foraging behaviour were monitored in areas selected to encompass both recent and advanced rainforest invasion. Foraging guilds are discussed in relation to increasing rainforest biomass. Some species, such as the Pale Yellow Robin Tregallasia capito nana were advantaged by the expansion of rainforest. Other species, such as the Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis showed no significant response, whereas the endemic subspecies of the Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis magnirostris was clearly disadvantaged. The latter species is of particular concern because in north-east Queensland it is dependent upon wet areas adjacent to rainforest and requires open ground in which to forage. Over the longer term the White-naped Melithreptus lunatus and White-cheeked Phylidonyris nigra Honeyeaters are also threatened by habitat loss. These honeyeaters favour the wetter areas adjacent to the rainforest which are gradually being lost to the invasive process. To maximize biological diversity in the wet tropics of north Queensland, it is necessary to maintain the full spectrum of natural habitats. Fire management is therefore required to maintain the wet sclerophyll forest and its dependent fauna.

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Webster, Patrick, and Henry Stoetzel. "First confirmed record of Chestnut-backed Button-quail Turnix castanotus in Queensland." Australian Field Ornithology 38 (2021): 145–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo38145150.

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The Chestnut-backed Button-quail Turnix castanotus is widely distributed in monsoonal tropical woodland but previously known only from the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Here we provide the first verified record in Queensland. We observed at least eight birds during October and November 2020 at Westmoreland Station, which is located in far north-western Queensland. These observations represent a significant (~215 km) easterly range extension and are the first confirmed records of this species for Queensland. Chestnut-backed Button-quail had gone undetected in Queensland likely owing to the difficulty in locating and identifying button-quail generally and the low number of birdwatchers in the region. A potential record made by W.R. McLennan in 1910 may represent a previously unreported record of this species in Queensland. Here we describe our observations in 2020 and the habitat where the species was recorded.

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Paltridge, Matthew, Simon Smith, Aileen Traves, Robyn McDermott, Xin Fang, Chris Blake, Brad Milligan, Andrew D’Addona, and Josh Hanson. "Rapid Progress toward Elimination of Strongyloidiasis in North Queensland, Tropical Australia, 2000–2018." American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 102, no. 2 (February 5, 2020): 339–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.19-0490.

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MARRINAN, MATTHEW J., WILL EDWARDS, and JILL LANDSBERG. "Resprouting of saplings following a tropical rainforest fire in north-east Queensland, Australia." Austral Ecology 30, no. 8 (December 2005): 817–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01513.x.

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Lanyon, Janet M., and Helene Marsh. "Temporal changes in the abundance of some tropical intertidal seagrasses in North Queensland." Aquatic Botany 49, no. 4 (March 1995): 217–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-3770(94)00435-o.

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Miles, Jinx. "Paronella Park: Conserving a Tropical Pleasure Garden with Ruined Concrete Structures." Queensland Review 10, no. 2 (November 2003): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600003366.

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Paronella Park, near Innisfail in far north Queensland, is a 1930s pleasure garden of around five hectares on the old route of the Bruce Highway between Townsville and Cairns. The focus of the garden is the Mena Creek waterfalls close to the road crossing of Mena Creek. The garden stretches from the road eastwards along the north bank of the creek. The park is set in the sugarcane fields surrounding the South Johnstone Mill but the tropical planting within the garden has developed to a degree where this landscape setting in uniform cane fields is hard to believe.

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Holt, JA, MJ Hodgen, and D. Lamb. "Soil respiration in the seasonally dry tropics near Townsville, North-Queensland." Soil Research 28, no. 5 (1990): 737. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr9900737.

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The contribution of root respiration to total soil respiration has been examined in an Australian tropical semi-arid woodland. Respiration rates were estimated by measuring CO2 released from untreated soil and from soil where roots had been severed and were extensively decomposed. The amount of C released as CO2 by soil respiration was estimated to be 3800 kg ha-1 year-1, and by root respiration to be 1500 kg C ha-l year-1. Soil moisture was found to have a major effect on soil respiration, with temperature being less significant. Consequently, most respiratory activity in the soil was confined to the relatively short wet season, with respiration rates being much lower during the dry season.

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