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Annual Report 2008-2009 Annual Report 0
Department of Environment and Conservation and Environment of Department Department of Environment and Conservation 2008-2009 Annual Report 2008-2009 Annual Report Annual 2008-2009 0 ' "p 2009195 E R N M O V E G N T E O H T F W A E I S L T A E R R N A U S T Acknowledgments This report was prepared by the Corporate Communications Branch, Department of Environment and Conservation. For more information contact: Department of Environment and Conservation Level 4 The Atrium 168 St Georges Terrace Perth WA 6000 Locked Bag 104 Bentley Delivery Centre Western Australia 6983 Telephone (08) 6364 6500 Facsimile (08) 6364 6520 Recommended reference The recommended reference for this publication is: Department of Environment and Conservation 2008–2009 Annual Report, Department of Environment and Conservation, 2009. We welcome your feedback A publication feedback form can be found at the back of this publication, or online at www.dec.wa.gov.au. ISSN 1835-1131 (Print) ISSN 1835-114X (Online) 8 September 2009 Letter to THE MINISter Back Contents Forward Hon Donna Faragher MLC Minister for Environment In accordance with section 63 of the Financial Management Act 2006, I have pleasure in submitting for presentation to Parliament the Annual Report of the Department of Environment and Conservation for the period 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009. This report has been prepared in accordance with provisions of the Financial Management Act 2006. Keiran McNamara Director General DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION 2008–2009 ANNUAL REPORT 3 DIRECTOR GENERAL’S FOREWORD Back Contents Forward This is the third annual report of the Department of Environment and Conservation since it was created through the merger of the former Department of Environment and Department of Conservation and Land Management. -
A New Earwigfly from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Mecoptera
Cretaceous Research 66 (2016) 136e140 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cretaceous Research journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/CretRes Short communication A new earwigfly from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Mecoptera: Meropeidae) ** Xiangdong Zhao a, b, Qingqing Zhang b, c, Edmund A. Jarzembowski b, d, Lei Chen a, b, , * Bo Wang b, e, a Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266510, PR China b State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China c University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China d Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK e Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, PR China article info abstract Article history: A new species of Meropeidae (earwigfly) is described and figured based on an exceptionally well- Received 24 April 2016 preserved individual in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Burmomerope clara Zhao and Wang, sp. Received in revised form nov. is distinguished from the type species B. eureka Grimaldi and Engel, 2013 by presence of broader 13 June 2016 wings with six longitudinal veins in radial sector and seven in medial field, CuA with two terminal Accepted in revised form 14 June 2016 branches, and long setae on the anterior margin of the wing. A detailed comparison of the forewings Available online 16 June 2016 venation in all fossil and extant species is given. The new find is the third fossil species of Meropeidae and also the first fossil female to be described. -
Biogeography and Speciation of Terrestrial Fauna in the South-Western Australian Biodiversity Hotspot
UC Merced UC Merced Previously Published Works Title Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2127d386 Journal Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 90(3) ISSN 1464-7931 Authors Rix, Michael G Edwards, Danielle L Byrne, Margaret et al. Publication Date 2015-08-01 DOI 10.1111/brv.12132 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Biol. Rev. (2015), 90, pp. 762–793. 762 doi: 10.1111/brv.12132 Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot Michael G. Rix1,2,∗, Danielle L. Edwards3, Margaret Byrne4, Mark S. Harvey2,5, Leo Joseph7 and J. Dale Roberts2,5,6 1Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia 2Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia 3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A. 4Science Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley DC, Western Australia 6983, Australia 5School of Animal Biology, Centre for Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 6Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, University of Western Australia, PO Box 5771, Albany, Western Australia 6332, Australia 7Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO National Facilities and Collections, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia ABSTRACT The south-western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia. -
Volume 2, Chapter 12-16: Terrestrial Insects: Holometabola-Mecoptera
Glime, J. M. 2017. Terrestrial Insects: Holometabola – Mecoptera. Chapt. 12-16. In: Glime, J. M. Bryophyte Ecology. Volume 2. 12-16-1 Bryological Interaction. Ebook sponsored by Michigan Technological University and the International Association of Bryologists. Last updated 19 July 2020 and available at <http://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/bryophyte-ecology2/>. CHAPTER 12-16 TERRESTRIAL INSECTS: HOLOMETABOLA – MECOPTERA TABLE OF CONTENTS MECOPTERA – SCORPIONFLIES ............................................................................................................... 12-16-2 Choristidae ................................................................................................................................................ 12-16-3 Boreidae .................................................................................................................................................... 12-16-3 Boreus ................................................................................................................................................ 12-16-4 Caurinus ............................................................................................................................................ 12-16-9 Hesperoboreus ................................................................................................................................. 12-16-20 Nannochoristidae .................................................................................................................................... 12-16-21 Panorpidae.............................................................................................................................................. -
Evolution of the Insects
CY501-PIND[733-756].qxd 2/17/05 2:10 AM Page 733 Quark07 Quark07:BOOKS:CY501-Grimaldi: INDEX 12S rDNA, 32, 228, 269 Aenetus, 557 91; general, 57; inclusions, 57; menageries 16S rDNA, 32, 60, 237, 249, 269 Aenigmatiinae, 536 in, 56; Mexican, 55; parasitism in, 57; 18S rDNA, 32, 60, 61, 158, 228, 274, 275, 285, Aenne, 489 preservation in, 58; resinite, 55; sub-fossil 304, 307, 335, 360, 366, 369, 395, 399, 402, Aeolothripidae, 284, 285, 286 resin, 57; symbioses in, 303; taphonomy, 468, 475 Aeshnoidea, 187 57 28S rDNA, 32, 158, 278, 402, 468, 475, 522, 526 African rock crawlers (see Ambermantis wozniaki, 259 Mantophasmatodea) Amblycera, 274, 278 A Afroclinocera, 630 Amblyoponini, 446, 490 aardvark, 638 Agaonidae, 573, 616: fossil, 423 Amblypygida, 99, 104, 105: in amber, 104 abdomen: function, 131; structure, 131–136 Agaoninae, 423 Amborella trichopoda, 613, 620 Abies, 410 Agassiz, Alexander, 26 Ameghinoia, 450, 632 Abrocomophagidae, 274 Agathiphaga, 560 Ameletopsidae, 628 Acacia, 283 Agathiphagidae, 561, 562, 567, 630 American Museum of Natural History, 26, 87, acalyptrate Diptera: ecological diversity, 540; Agathis, 76 91 taxonomy, 540 Agelaia, 439 Amesiginae, 630 Acanthocnemidae, 391 ages, using fossils, 37–39; using DNA, 38–40 ametaboly, 331 Acari, 99, 105–107: diversity, 101, fossils, 53, Ageniellini, 435 amino acids: racemization, 61 105–107; in-Cretaceous amber, 105, 106 Aglaspidida, 99 ammonites, 63, 642 Aceraceae, 413 Aglia, 582 Amorphoscelidae, 254, 257 Acerentomoidea, 113 Agrias, 600 Amphientomidae, 270 Acherontia atropos, 585 -
Austromerope Poultoni (Insecta, Mecoptera) in South-West Western Australia: Occurrence, Modelled Geographical Distribution, and Phenology
Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 90: 97–106, 2007 Austromerope poultoni (Insecta, Mecoptera) in south-west Western Australia: occurrence, modelled geographical distribution, and phenology I Abbott, T Burbidge & A Wills Department of Environment and Conservation, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Bentley 6983 Western Australia Manuscript received November 2006; accepted May 2007 Abstract Forest monitoring in the period 2001–2006, using pitfall and light trapping, resulted in the collection of 27 specimens of the endemic earwig fly Austromerope poultoni. These new locality records are combined with previously known records with precise locality data, and together with detailed vegetation maps available for the Regional Forest Agreement area, were used to model the potential distribution of the earwig fly in south-west Western Australia forests. This species is likely to occur widely in south-west forests and woodlands. Information collected from monitoring sites in Jarrah Eucalyptus marginata forest provides no strong indication that this species shows a preference for, or aversion to, a particular silvicultural treatment or period since the most recent fire. Key words: Austromerope poultoni , modelled geographical distribution, phenology, south-west Western Australia Introduction Advancement of Science held its annual meeting for the first time in Australia (Howarth 1922, Gilbert 2001). An Austromerope poultoni is an insect species (earwig advance party of 70 scientists reached WA in July 1914. fly) of scientific and conservation interest, being endemic The zoologists present visited Mundaring Weir and the at the generic level to south-west Western Australia (WA) caves area near and south of Yallingup. One member of and belonging to the primitive family (Meropeidae), the party, the distinguished Oxford University which is unrepresented elsewhere in Australia (Riek entomologist Professor (later Sir) Edward Poulton, 1954, Smithers 1987, Smithers 1988). -
Mecoptera: Meropeidae) Collected in Association with Carrion in Greene County, Ohio, USA: an Infrequent Collection of an Elusive Species Author(S) :Jennifer L
Merope tuber Newman (Mecoptera: Meropeidae) Collected in Association with Carrion in Greene County, Ohio, USA: An Infrequent Collection of an Elusive Species Author(s) :Jennifer L. Pechal, M. Eric Benbow, and Jeffery K. Tomberlin Source: The American Midland Naturalist, 166(2):453-457. 2011. Published By: University of Notre Dame DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-166.2.453 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1674/0003-0031-166.2.453 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions BioOnerequests sees sustainable should scholarlybe directed publishing to the as anindividual inherently collaborativepublisher asenterprise copyright connecting holder. authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. Am. Midl. Nat. (2011) 166:453–457 Notes and Discussion Merope tuber Newman (Mecoptera: Meropeidae) Collected in Association with Carrion in Greene County, Ohio, USA: An Infrequent Collection of an Elusive Species ABSTRACT.—Collections of the earwigfly, Merope tuber Newman (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), have been sparse. Little is known about the life history, behavior or ecology of this elusive mecopteran species. -
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 2016 Current disposition of earwigflies, Merope tuber Newman and Austromerope poultoni Killington (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods James C. Dunford Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, [email protected] Louis A. Somma Florida State Collection of Arthropods, [email protected] David Serrano Broward College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, and the Entomology Commons Dunford, James C.; Somma, Louis A.; and Serrano, David, "Current disposition of earwigflies, Merope tuber Newman and Austromerope poultoni Killington (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods" (2016). Insecta Mundi. 975. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/975 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0467 Current disposition of earwigfl ies, Merope tuber Newman and Austromerope poultoni Killington (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods James C. Dunford McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity Florida Museum of Natural History PO Box 112710 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 USA Louis A. Somma Division of Herpetology Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7800 USA David Serrano Environmental Sciences Department Broward College Bldg 7, Rm 140 3501 SW Davie Rd. -
Biogeography and Speciation of Terrestrial Fauna in the South-Western Australian Biodiversity Hotspot
Biol. Rev. (2015), 90, pp. 762–793. 762 doi: 10.1111/brv.12132 Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot Michael G. Rix1,2,∗, Danielle L. Edwards3, Margaret Byrne4, Mark S. Harvey2,5, Leo Joseph7 and J. Dale Roberts2,5,6 1Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia 2Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia 3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A. 4Science Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley DC, Western Australia 6983, Australia 5School of Animal Biology, Centre for Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 6Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, University of Western Australia, PO Box 5771, Albany, Western Australia 6332, Australia 7Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO National Facilities and Collections, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia ABSTRACT The south-western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia. Renowned for its extraordinary diversity of endemic plants, and for some of the largest and most botanically significant temperate heathlands and woodlands on Earth, SWWA has long fascinated biogeographers. Its flat, highly weathered topography and the apparent absence of major geographic factors usually implicated in biotic diversification have challenged attempts to explain patterns of biogeography and mechanisms of speciation in the region. -
Report on a Large Collection of Merope Tuber Newman, 1838 (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), from Arkansas, with Notes on Collection Technique, Sex Ratio, and Male Clasper Size
Hindawi Publishing Corporation Psyche Volume 2014, Article ID 530757, 6 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/530757 Research Article Report on a Large Collection of Merope tuber Newman, 1838 (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), from Arkansas, with Notes on Collection Technique, Sex Ratio, and Male Clasper Size Michael J. Skvarla, Jessica A. Hartshorn, and Ashley P. G. Dowling Department of Entomology, University of Arkansas, 319 Agriculture Building, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Michael J. Skvarla; [email protected] Received 1 July 2014; Accepted 21 August 2014; Published 31 August 2014 Academic Editor: Russell Jurenka Copyright © 2014 Michael J. Skvarla et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A large collection of earwigflies, Merope tuber, is reported from Arkansas, and flight period and sex ratio are discussed. In contrast to previous studies, earwigflies were caught more frequently in pan traps than in Malaise traps and male clasper size was found not to be bimodal. 1. Introduction the Appalachian Mountains. Since then, the known range has been extended north to southern Ontario [8–10], west to Merope tuber Newman, 1838, known as earwigflies or for- Minnesota [11, 12], Iowa [13], Missouri [14–16], Arkansas [13, cepflies,areuncommonlycollectedandhavefascinated 16, 17], and Kansas [13], and south to Alabama [18], Georgia entomologists since their discovery in 1837 (Figure 1). This [17], and Florida [19, 20]. Rather than true emigration, fascination was initially due to their presumed rarity— this range expansion is best explained by the increased use only 16 specimens were collected between their discovery of various passive trapping techniques [14]. -
Mecoptera: Meropeidae), from Arkansas, with Notes on Collection Technique, Sex Ratio, and Male Clasper Size
Hindawi Publishing Corporation Psyche Volume 2014, Article ID 530757, 6 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/530757 Research Article Report on a Large Collection of Merope tuber Newman, 1838 (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), from Arkansas, with Notes on Collection Technique, Sex Ratio, and Male Clasper Size Michael J. Skvarla, Jessica A. Hartshorn, and Ashley P. G. Dowling Department of Entomology, University of Arkansas, 319 Agriculture Building, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Michael J. Skvarla; [email protected] Received 1 July 2014; Accepted 21 August 2014; Published 31 August 2014 Academic Editor: Russell Jurenka Copyright © 2014 Michael J. Skvarla et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A large collection of earwigflies, Merope tuber, is reported from Arkansas, and flight period and sex ratio are discussed. In contrast to previous studies, earwigflies were caught more frequently in pan traps than in Malaise traps and male clasper size was found not to be bimodal. 1. Introduction the Appalachian Mountains. Since then, the known range has been extended north to southern Ontario [8–10], west to Merope tuber Newman, 1838, known as earwigflies or for- Minnesota [11, 12], Iowa [13], Missouri [14–16], Arkansas [13, cepflies,areuncommonlycollectedandhavefascinated 16, 17], and Kansas [13], and south to Alabama [18], Georgia entomologists since their discovery in 1837 (Figure 1). This [17], and Florida [19, 20]. Rather than true emigration, fascination was initially due to their presumed rarity— this range expansion is best explained by the increased use only 16 specimens were collected between their discovery of various passive trapping techniques [14]. -
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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE The Department of Environment and Conservation’s (DEC’s) policies and operations need to be underpinned by the incorporation of up-to-date knowledge. The Science Division is DEC’s prime source of new conservation biology knowledge and information based on scientific research. With about 166 scientific, technical and administration staff, (excluding Perth Observatory staff) the division is the largest and most scientifically diverse group of conservation scientists in Western Australia. The Perth Observatory (10 staff), a program within the Science Division, focuses on delivering astronomy services in the areas of research, information and education. The conservation and land management work of the division reflects a significant investment by the State Government, through DEC, in multi-disciplinary biodiversity conservation research, monitoring and biological survey, and this year we formed the Biodiversity and Climate Change Unit (see page 59) to address an important emerging issue. Science, operational research and active adaptive management The Science Division carries out activities that deliver on-ground conservation and land management outcomes as well as generating new knowledge. The pie chart below shows that ~33% of the division’s staff time (F.T.Es) is committed to biological survey, taxonomy and plant collections management. These activities are fundamental to the mission of a conservation and land management agency such as DEC – if we don’t know what we have, where it is, why it is where it is and what condition it’s in, we can’t begin to manage it. A further 29% of staff time is committed to understanding landscape-scale ecosystem processes such as fire, introduced/feral animals/plants, altered hydrology, genetics, climate change, pests and diseases and timber harvesting.