Maintenance of karst biodiversity, with an emphasis upon Australian populations
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 14 Mar 2017
ABSTRACT – Biospeleology – the study of cave-dwelling organisms – has long been recognised as making a major contribution to the understanding of both evolutionary and adaptive processes and community ecology. ...
Cave fauna monitoring and management at Ida Bay, Tasmania
ABSTRACT – The Ida Bay karst in southern Tasmania contains a diverse and significant cave fauna. Conservation management of the cave fauna has involved: 1, legislative protection of rare and threatened species; 2, protection of sensitive habitats within c ...
Groundwater calcrete aquifers in the Australian arid zone: the context to an unfolding plethora of stygal biodiversity
ABSTRACT – The Western Shield of Australia has been above sea level since the Palaeozoic. It is incised by ancient palaeovalieys now containing groundwater calcretes that are found throughout much of arid Australia. The calcretes are deposited, owing to s ...
Stygofauna diversity and distribution in Eastern Australian cave and karst areas
ABSTRACT – This paper reviews the diversity and distribution of the stygofauna of Eastern Australia on a regional basis. Most of the stygofauna is concentrated in the highland karsts of New South Wales and Tasmania. Two hundred and thirty-eight taxa are p ...
Subterranean biodiversity in New South Wales: from rags to riches
ABSTRACT – The karst areas of New South Wales, Australia, support a diverse invertebrate subterranean fauna with up to 422 taxa recognised to date, of which 83 are obligate subierranean taxa. The terrestrial fauna is dominated by arachnids and insects and ...
Allozyme variation in the troglobitic millipede Stygiochiropus communis (Diplopoda: Paradoxosomatidae) from arid tropical Cape Range, northwestern Australia: population structure and implications for the management of the region
ABSTRACT – The millipede genus Stygiochiropus is endemic to Cape Range in the arid tropics of northwestern Australia. The genus is restricted to caves throughout the range and is highly troglomorphic. Millipedes collected from 36 caves were examined for g ...
Twixt two worlds: taxonomic and functional biodiversity at the surface water/groundwater interface
ABSTRACT – Between the familiar surface habitats of rivers and streams and the less well known groundwater environment lies an ecotone whose ill-defined boundaries oscillate in response to changes in surface discharge and groundwater pressure. This ecoton ...
A new species of fruit bat (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae: Thoopterus) from Sulawesi and adjacent islands, Indonesia
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017
Records 27 Part 1 2012 68 68 Ibnu Maryanto, Mohamad Yani, Siti Nuramaliati Prijono and Sigit Wiantoro 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.27(1).2012.068-084 ABSTRACT : A new species of fruit bat in the genus Thoopterus , T. suhaniahae , is described from Sulawesi, Talaud and Wowoni Islands in Indonesia. The new ...
A new species of the genus Pheropsophus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae) from northern Australia
Records 27 Part 1 2012 62 62 Martin Baehr 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.27(1).2012.062-067 ABSTRACT – A new species of the brachinine genus Pheropsophus Solier is described from far northern and north-western Australia: P. windjanae sp. nov. The new species which previously was not discriminated from P. ...
A new species of Synsphyronus (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypidae) from Western Australia
Records 27 Part 1 2012 55 55 Mark S. Harvey 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.27(1).2012.055-061 ABSTRACT – A new species of Synsphyronus, S. christopherdarwini , is described from Charles Darwin Reserve, Western Australia. The species occurs on several granite outcrops where they congregate under exfoliating pieces of ...