2009

This page lists the publications, reports and journals from the Flora and Fauna Division in 2009.

For enquiries about any of the publications or journals listed below send an email to biodiversity.denr@nt.gov.au.

Publications and reports

Boggs G, Edyvane K, de Carvalho N, Penny S, Rouwenhorst J, Brocklehurst P, Cowie I, Barreto C Amaral, Smit N, Monteiro J, Pinto P, Mau R, Amaral J, Fernandes L. (2009). Marine and Coastal Habitat Mapping in Timor Leste (North Coast) – Final Report. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Government of Timor Leste.

Dethmers K, Chatto R, Meekan M, Amaral A, de Cunha C, de Carvalho N, Edyvane K. 2009. Marine Megafauna Surveys in Timor Leste: Identifying Opportunities for Potential Ecotourism – Final Report. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Government of Timor Leste.

Brim Box J, Brock C, Davis J, Duguid A, McBurnie G, McConnell K and Palmer CM (2009). Response and resilience of waterbodies in Central Australia: West MacDonnell Ranges and George Gill Range. Report to the Natural Resource Management Board (NT) for NT RIS Project No. SR006.

Edwards G.P. and McConnell K. (eds) (2009). Proceedings of the Desert Fire Symposium. DKCRC Working Paper 35. Desert Knowledge CRC, Alice Springs.

Edwards GP (2009). Introduction and overview of Desert Fire. In ‘Proceedings of the Desert Fire Symposium’. Pp. 1-4. DKCRC Working Paper 35. Desert Knowledge CRC, Alice Springs.

Edwards GP and Allan GE (eds ) (2009). Desert Fire: Fire and regional land management in the arid landscapes of Australia. DKCRC Report 37, Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, Alice Springs.

Edyvane K.S. (2009). Northern Territory Priorities for a Northern Australian Observing System (NAOS). A Discussion Paper to assist IMOS EIF prioritization. Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport. Northern Territory Government, 53pp.

Edyvane K, de Carvalho N, Penny S, Fernandes A, de Cunha CB, Amaral JL, Mendes M, Pinto P. (2009). Conservation Values, Issues and Planning in the Nino Konis Santana Marine Park, Timor Leste – Final Report. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Government of Timor Leste.

Edyvane KS, McWilliam A, Quintas J, Turner A, Penny S, Teixeira I, Pereira C, Tibirica Y, Birtles A. 2009. Coastal and Marine Ecotourism Values, Issues and Opportunities on the North Coast of Timor Leste – Final Report. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, National Directorate of Tourism, Government of Timor Leste.

Edwards GP and Allan GE (eds ) (2009). Introduction and overview of Desert Fire. In: ‘Desert Fire: Fire and regional land management in the arid landscapes of Australia’. Pp. 9-15. DKCRC Report 37, Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, Alice Springs.

Gill, M., Williams, R.J., and Woinarski, J.C.Z.  (2009).  Fires in Australia’s tropical savannas: interactions with biodiversity, global warming and exotic biota.  PDF (7.7 MB) In Tropical fire ecology: climate change, land use and ecosystem dynamics. (Ed. M.A. Cochrame.) pp. 113-141. (Springer, Berlin.)

Harrison L, McGuire L, Ward S, Fisher A, Pavey C, Fegan M and Lynch B (2009).  An inventory of sites of international and national significance for biodiversity values in the Northern Territory. Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, Darwin, NT.

Hempel, C., Preece, N.D., Harvey, K., and Woinarski, J.C.Z. (2009). Modelling weed distribution across the Top End using very extensive transects. In: Innovations in remote sensing and photogrammetry. (eds S. Jones and K. Reinke.) pp.373-392. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).

Nambatu, Jimmy, Patrick Nudjulu, J. Nama (†), Jeannie Jongmin, J. Munar (†), Rex Munar, Killinang Benedict Tchinburrurr, Bernadine Kungul, Aloysius Kungul, Mark Crocombe and Glenn Wightman. (2009) Marri Ngarr and Magati Ke plants and animals; Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from the Moyle River and Kuy areas, north Australia. , Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin No. 32. Dept. of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, jointly published with Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education. Aboriginal knowledge: plants and animals.

Neave, H. (2009). Macropods. In: Cattle and Land Management Best Practices in the Katherine Region 09. Northern Territory Government Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines, pp. 211–213.

Palmer C (2009) PDF (3.6 MB). Ecology of the Australian Snubfin Orcaella heinsohni and Indo-Pacific Humpback Sousa chinensis dolphins in Kakadu National Park. Unpublished 3rd interim report submitted to Kakadu National Park. NRETAS Library call number: 599.33.

Palmer C, Fitzgerald P, Wood A and McKenzie A (2009). Conservation Assessment of Priority Non-Fish Marine Threatened Species in the NT: Project no. 2007 / 134. Monitoring and assessment of inshore dolphins in Coburg Marine Park (Garig Gunak Barlu National Park). Unpublished Final Report. NRETAS Library call number: 599.33.

Palmer CM (2009). Presence of the rusty plum aphid Hysteroneura setariae (Thomas) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) in central Australia. Australian Entomologist 36 (3): 105-110.

Palmer CM (2009). Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) is a host for the sugarcane whitefly Neomaskellia bergii(Signoret) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in central Australia. Australian Entomologist 36 (2): 89-95.Russell-Smith, J., Edwards, A.C., Woinarski, J.C.Z., McCartney, J., Kerin, S., Winderlich, S., Murphy, B.P., and Watt, F.  (2009). Fire and biodiversity monitoring for conservation managers: a 10-year assessment of the ‘Three Parks’ (Kakadu, Litchfield and Nitmiluk) programs. In: Culture, ecology and economy of fire management in northern Australia: rekindling the wurrk tradition. (eds J. Russell-Smith, P.J. Whitehead, P. Cooke)  pp. 257-286.  (CSIRO Publications: Melbourne)

Ward, S. and Harrison, L. (2009). Recognising sites of conservation significance for biodiversity values in the Northern Territory. Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport, Darwin, NT.

White, Doris Lidawi †, Elsie Ajibak OBrien †, Dolly Mabul Fejo †, Roger Wurdirdi Yates †, Ada Ajibak Goodman †, Mark Harvey and Glenn Wightman. (2009) Warray plants and animals, Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from the upper Adelaide and upper Finniss Rivers, northern Australia. Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin No. 33. Dept. of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, jointly published with Diwurruwurru-jaru (Katherine Region Aboriginal Language Centre). Aboriginal knowledge: plants and animals.

Wightman, G. (2009) 'Passing it on' – traditional biological knowledge preservation and promotion report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Australia. Aboriginal knowledge: plants and animals.

Woinarski, J.C.Z., Russell-Smith, J., Andersen, A., and Brennan, K.  (2009).  Fire management and biodiversity of the western Arnhem Land plateau. PDF (878.2 KB) In: Culture, ecology and economy of fire management in northern Australia: rekindling the wurrk tradition. (eds J. Russell-Smith, P.J. Whitehead, P. Cooke)  pp. 201-228. CSIRO Publications: Melbourne.

Woinarski, J.  (2009).  Introduction – why the bush book?  In The bush book: a manual for managing native vegetation across Northern Australia  (eds. M. Kraatz, P. Jacklyn and M. Clark).  pp. 6-8.  Greening Australia, Darwin.

Woinarski, J.  (2009).  Fire and animals.  In The bush book: a manual for managing native vegetation across Northern Australia  (eds. M. Kraatz, P. Jacklyn and M. Clark).  pp. 62-63.  Greening Australia, Darwin.Woinarski, J.  (2009).  Small mammal responses to fire.  In The bush book: a manual for managing native vegetation across Northern Australia  (eds. M. Kraatz, P. Jacklyn and M. Clark).  pp. 64-65.  Greening Australia, Darwin.

Journals

Anderson, S.J. and Braby, M.F. (2009) Invertebrate diversity associated with tropical mistletoe in a suburban landscape from northern Australia. Northern Territory Naturalist 21: 2-23.

Braby, M.F. (2009) Rectification of the type status for Philiris ziska titeus D’Abrera, 1971 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 25: 121-123.

Braby, M.F. (2009) The life history and biology of Euploea alcathoe enastri Fenner, 1991 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from northeastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. The Australian Entomologist 36: 51-62.

Dostine, P.L. (2009). The ecology and conservation of the Flock Bronzewing Pigeon Phaps histrionica. PhD thesis, Australian National University.

Garnett, S.T., Crowley, G.M., Hunter-Xenie, H.M., Kozanayi , W, Sithole, B,. Palmer, C., Southgate, R. and K. K. Zander. (2009). PDF (95.4 KB) In the right hands: paying community researchers as an exercise in transformative knowledge transfer. Biotropica: 41(5): 571-577.

Milne, D.J., Jackling, F.C., Sidhu, M. and Appleton, B.R. (2009) Shedding new light on old species identifications: morphological and genetic evidence suggest a need for conservation status review of the critically endangered bat,Saccolaimus saccolaimus. Wildlife Research 36: 496-508.

Morton, S.R., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Lindenmayer, D.B., Harriss Olson, M., Hughes, L., McCulloch, M.T., McIntyre, S.,  Nix, H.A., Prober, S.M., Saunders, D.A., Andersen, A.N., Burgman, M.A., Lefroy, E.C., Lonsdale, W.M., Lowe, I., McMichael, A.J., Parslow, J.S., Steffen, W., Williams, J.E., and Woinarski, J.C.Z.  (2009).  The big ecological questions inhibiting effective environmental management in Australia.  Austral Ecology 34, 1-9.

Palmer, C., Fitzgerald, P., Wood, A., Harley, S. and McKenzie, A. (2009) PDF (469.6 KB). False Killer Whales Pseudorca crassidens, regular visitors to Port Essington and Darwin Harbour in the Northern Territory, Australia. NT Naturalist 21: 49-53.

Parr, C.L., Woinarski, J.C.Z., and Pienaar, D.J.  (2009).  Cornerstones of biodiversity conservation? Comparing the management effectiveness of Kruger and Kakadu National Parks, two key savanna reserves. Biodiversity and Conservation 18, 3643-3662.

Pavey, C. R., and Nano, C. E. M. (2009). Bird assemblages of arid Australia: Vegetation patterns have a greater effect than disturbance and resource pulses. Journal of Arid Environments 73, 634-642.

Willan, R.C. Köhler, F., Kessner, V. and Braby, M.F. (2009) Description of four new species of limestone-associated Torresitrachia snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae) from the Katherine District of the Northern Territory, with comments on their conservation.  PDF (1.4 MB)The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 25: 87-102.

Woinarski, J.C.Z., Rankmore, B., Hill, B., Griffiths, A.D., Stewart, A., and Grace, B.  (2009).  Fauna assemblages in regrowth vegetation in tropical open forests of the Northern Territory, Australia.  Wildlife Research 36, 675-690.


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