Wet Tropics
State of Wet Tropics Report 2015-2016: ancient, endemic, rare and threatened vertebrates of the wet tropics
... In the Wet Tropics, vertebrate diversity in the rainforests is concentrated in the mountains. The highest biodiversity levels are found in the mountainous parts of the Mount Windsor, Carbine, Atherton, ...
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Gap Analysis of Environmental Research Needs in the Australian Wet Tropics
... the Wet Tropics landscape and presents a detailed picture of landscape change since the late Pleistocene (34; ...the Wet Tropics has oscillated with climatic fluctuations during the ...
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Wet Tropics Traditional Owners Strategic Research Directions Workshop Report
... To help us keep our focus on why we were all concerned with research in the Wet Tropics, each participant was given a number of green paper leaf cut-outs. Participants were asked to write down something ...
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Learning for Stewardship in the Anthropocene: A Study with Young Adolescents in the Wet Tropics
... This research will apply an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design to map and review environmental stewardship in the Australian Curriculum’s sustainability cross-curriculum priority and in Year 10 students ...
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Ecology of microhylid frogs in the Australian Wet Tropics and implications for their vulnerability to chytridiomycosis
... Temperature and moisture profoundly affect many aspects of the biology of terrestrial amphibians, including their susceptibility to disease. Both can vary over fine spatial scales, and the environments experienced by ...
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Simulation of management strategies for feral pig control in the wet tropics
... This Feral Pig Management Model (FPMM) is a bio-economic simulation model developed for assessment in the Wet Tropics in north Queensland. Natural rainforest, National Parks, horticultural plantations, ...
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The vulnerability of microhylid frogs, Cophixalus spp., to climate change in the Australian Wet Tropics
... Australian Wet Tropics Bioregion (AWT), and illustrate this effect on an example taxa, the endemic Microhylid frogs, genus ...are wet, cool, and aseasonal (Shoo & Williams, ...
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Ecology of streams in a biogeographic isolate— the Queensland Wet Tropics, Australia
... Queensland Wet Tropics bioregion (QWT), which makes up ...predictable wet seasons, but unpredictable fl oods, have shaped a resilient and op- portunistic ...the tropics, but the species pool is ...
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Ecology of microhylid frogs in the Australian Wet Tropics and implications for their vulnerability to chytridiomycosis
... Chytridiomycosis is an emerging infectious disease of amphibians caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), and is responsible for causing mass mortality, population declines and extinctions of ...
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World Heritage in the life of communities: an analysis from the Wet Tropics of Queensland
... understanding needs for improvement in management, collaboration, communication, research, education, and industry practices at any given World Heritage Area. This understanding contributes towards ensuring that the ...
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The macroecology of rainforest ants of the Australian Wet Tropics under climate change
... Australian Wet Tropics is not strongly driven by thermal ...in wet regions there is often a negative correlation between precipitation and CTmax (Kellermann et ...In wet regions, precipitation ...
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Questionnaire design, sampling strategy and preliminary findings: the Wet Tropics region
... the Wet Tropics is mainly used for growing sugar cane (Emtage & Herbohn, ...The Wet Tropics is one of the key sugar cane growing regions in the GBR catchment and productivity varies from ...
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Guide to the riffle invertebrates of Australian Wet Tropics streams with a bibliography of their ecology
... The guide was produced as part of a joint project between the ACTFR (now TropWATER) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management, and received generous support from the Land and ...
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Art and identity: Aboriginal rock art and dendroglyphs of Queensland's Wet Tropics
... the Wet Tropics, and holds the headwaters of the eastern flowing Daintree River and the western flowing Mitchell ...the Wet Tropics, logging and other tracks often followed Aboriginal walking ...
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Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area Tour Guide Handbook
... the Wet Tropics but not normally in rainforest, preferring the more open forest types on the drier western side of the Great Dividing ...tall, wet sclerophyll forest component of Northern Bettong ...
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The values of meaning and the meanings of ‘values’: Environmental language in text and concept system in a Wet Tropics World Heritage context
... The values of meaning and the meanings of ‘values’: Environmental language in text and concept system in a Wet Tropics World Heritage context Thesis submitted by Denise Bridget DILLON BP[r] ...
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Participatory evaluation of co-management in wet tropics country: interim report
... in wet tropics country recognizes that the aspiration of Rainforest Aboriginal peoples is to run country themselves from their own cultural authority, and shared management is a stage of this ...
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Ground dwelling ants as surrogates for establishing conservation priorities in the Australian wet tropics
... Altitudinal pattern of ground dwelling ants The complementarity analysis revealed a narrow altitud- inal range for Australian Wet Tropics ground dwelling ants (c 69% distinctness between altitudinal ...
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Rainforest frogs of the wet tropics, north-east Australia
... the Wet Tropics region: 14 species ( 11 Cophixalus and ...the Wet Tropics region and are found in rainforest or neighbouring wet sclerophyll forest or boulder ...the Wet ...
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How well the Cairns Municipal Council performed in the Wet Tropics, 1885-1903
... This thesis provides a detailed analysis of some of the local government Acts of both municipal and divisional boards, and through the case study of Cairns shows how this legislation worked within the wet ...
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