SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS November 2001 - January 2002 VolumeScience 1, Issue Division 1 Mission: Provide up-to-date and scientifically sound informationOctober to uphold 2000 effective conservation and land management in WA

on multilocus genotypic data. Science Communications lists titles of Molecular Ecology 10. pp. 2867- publications, reports etc prepared by 2876. Science Division staff. This issue is for the period November 2001 to January Halse, S.A. and McRae, J.M. (2001). 2002. If you require a copy of any Calamoecia trilobata n.sp. listings please contact the authors or Lisa (Copepoda: Calanoida) from salt Wright at Woodvale lakes in south-western . Journal of the Royal Society of Neil Burrows 84. pp. 5-11. Director Science Division Langford, D. and Burbidge, A.A. (2001). Translocation of mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus) from the Tanami Desert, Northern Territory to Trimouille Island, Western Australia. Australian Mammalogy pp. 37-46.

Pinder, A. (2001). Notes on the Journal Publications diversity and distribution of

Australian Naididae and Abbott, I. (2001). The bilby, Macrotis Phreodrilidae (Oligochaeta: lagotis (Marsupialia: Peramelidae) in Annelida). Hydrobiologia 463. pp. south-western Australia: original range 49-64. limits, subsequent decline and presumed regional extinction. Records of the Robinson, R.M. and Morrison, D.J. Western Australian Museum 20. pp. 271- (2001). Lesion formation and host 305. response to infection by Armillaria

ostoyae in the roots of western Abbott, I. and Wills, A. (2001). Biodiversity larch and Douglas-fir. Forest of canopy arthropods in jarrah forest of Pathology 31. pp. 371-386. south-west Western Australia: review of ecological theory and conservation Wilkinson, C.J., Holmes, J.M., Dell, management. Pacific Conservation B., Tynan, K.M., McComb, J.A., Biology 7. pp. 101-117. Shearer, B.L., Colquhoun, I.J. and

Hardy, G.E.S. (2001). Effect of Broadhurst, L.M., Coates, D.J. and Tan, phosphite on in planta zoospore B.H. (2001). Patterns of morphological production of Phytophthora variation and allelic distribution across a cinnamomi. Pathology 50. pp. zone of overlap between two subspecies 587-593. of Geleznowia verrucosa Turcz.. Australian Journal of Botany 49. pp. 451- Williams, M.R., Abbott, I., Liddelow, 458. G.L., Vellios, C., Wheeler, I.B. and

Mellican, A.E. (2001). Recovery of Eldridge, M.D.B., Kinnear, J.E. and Onus, bird populations after clearfelling of M.L. (2001). Source population of tall open eucalypt forest in Western dispersing rock-wallabies (Petrogale lateralis) identified by assignment tests (Continued on page 2)

Page 1 (Continued from page 1) Harwood, C.E. and Mazanec, R.A. (2001). Part 2: Eucalyptus Australia. Journal of Applied Ecology camaldulensis: genetic improvement 38. pp. 910-920. strategy in southern Australia. In: Compendium of Hardwood Breeding Reports Strategies: a Report for the RIRDC/ Alacs, A.E. (2001). Conservation LWA/FWPRDC Joint Venture genetics of the quokka, Setonix Agroforestry Program Rural Industries brachyurus. Thesis (B.Sc.Hons.) -- Research and Development Murdoch University. pp. 1-123. Corporation, Canberra. RIRDC Publication 01/100. pp. 27-47. Algar, D., Angus, G.J., Onus, M.L. and Fuller, P.J. (2001). Optimising large Keighery, G. and Sercombe, N. (2001). scale cat predation control for wildlife Verbesina encelioides (golden crown recovery: a progress report to the Wind beard) on the Abrolhos Islands. Over Water Foundation. Department of Department of Conservation and Land Conservation and Land Management, Management, Western Australia, pp. 1- Western Australia, pp. 1-13. 14.

Burrows, N.D. (2001). Fire regimes for Mazanec, R.A. and Harwood, C.E. the conservation of biodiversity in (2001). Part 6: spotted gum: genetic south-west forest ecosystems: a improvement strategy in southern planning framework. - Draft. Australia. In: Compendium of Department of Conservation and Land Hardwood Breeding Strategies: a Management, Western Australia, pp. 1- Report for the RIRDC/LWA/FWPRDC 10. Joint Venture Agroforestry Program Rural Industries Research and Byrne, M. (2001). Genetic diversity in Development Corporation, Canberra. Western Australian sandalwood RIRDC Publication 01/100. pp. 114- ( spicatum): report to the 140. Forest Products Commission. Department of Conservation and Land Morris, K., Burbidge, A.A., Drew, M. and Management, Western Australia, pp. 1- Kregor, G. (2001). Mammal monitoring, 44. Barrow Island Nature Reserve, October 2001. Department of Guthrie, N.A. (2001). Aspects of the Conservation and Land Management, taxonomy and ecology of the ground Western Australia, pp. 1-29. beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblage of the Swan Coastal Plain: Onus, M.L., Fuller, P.J., Angus, G.J. and with particular reference to habitat Algar, D. (2002). Assessment of feral fragmentation and the Quindalup Dune cat abundance and control options at System. Thesis (M.Sc.) -- Edith Cowan the Sir Samuel Mines N.L., Cosmos University. pp. 1-287. Nickel Project: a report to Jubilee Mines, N.L.. pp. 1-10. Halse, S.A., Scanlon, M.D. and Cocking, J.S. (2001). First National Assessment Wills, A., Stukely, M., Tay, F. and of River Health: Western Australian Burbidge, T. (2001). Crown decline in program, milestone report 5 and final wandoo: supplement 2001. report. Department of Conservation Department of Conservation and Land and Land Management, Western Management, Western Australia, pp. 1- Australia, pp. 1-88. 26.

Harper, R.J. (2001). Putting trees in their Popular (Landscope, Newsletters, Letters, etc.) place: 2000-01 progress report to Natural Heritage Trust. Department of Brennan, G. and Hingston, B. (2001). Conservation and Land Management, Processing reveals good recovery Western Australia, (Continued on page 3)

Page 2 (Continued from page 2) Science Division, Department of Conservation and Land rates for Tasmanian blue gum. Management, Western Australia Agroforestry News 10(3). pp. 10-11. (2001). Regional Herbaria Network (PAMPHLET). Department of Burbidge, A.H. (2001). Companion to Conservation and Land Biodiversity of the southern Carnarvon Management, Western Australia, Basin. Department of Conservation and pp. 1-2. Land Management, Western Australia, pp. 1-17. Science Division, Department of Conservation and Land Burbidge, A.H. (2001). More on Management, Western Australia currawongs. Western Australian Bird (2001). Western Australian Notes 98. pp. 11. Herbarium (PAMPHLET).

Department of Conservation and Burbidge, A.H. (2001). Quail and button- quail in southern WA. Western Australian Land Management, Western Bird Notes 98. pp. 15-16. Australia, pp. 1-4.

Burbidge, A. (2001). Rare birds survive Start, A.N. (2001) Kimberley: & animals (Internet URL: http:// wilderness wildfire. Conservation News Nov. pp. 2. savanna.ntu.edu.au/information/r1/ t6/r1_t6.html). Cochrane, A. (2001). Threatened Flora Centre (PAMPHLET). Department Vernes, T. (2002). Sandalwood research newsletter. - Issue 15. of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia, pp. 1-6. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Huxtable, D. (2002). The SEARCH Project: Australia, pp. 1-8. Melaleucas. Western Wildlife: Newsletter of the Land for Wildlife Scheme 6(1). pp. Williams, M. (2001). The western xenica (Geitoneura minyas). 3. Newsletter of the Western Keighery, G. and Costello, V. (2001). The Australian Insect Study Society art of science. Landscope 17(2). pp. 23- Aug. pp. 5-6.

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Ryan, P.C. and Brand, J.E. (2002). Abbott, I. Aboriginal fire regimes in Techniques to improve sandalwood south-west Western Australia: (Santalum spicatum) regeneration at evidence from historical documents. Shark Bay, Western Australia: stem In: Fire in South-Western Australian coppice and direct seeding. Sandalwood Ecosystems: Impacts and Research Newsletter 15. pp. 4-7. Management

Science Division, Department of Alacs, E., Alpus, D., De Tores, P., Conservation and Land Management, Dillion, M. and Spencer, P. Western Australia (2001). Botany for Identifying the presence of quokkas schools (PAMPHLET). Department of (Setonix brachyurus) using Conservation and Land Management, cytochromb analysis from faeces Western Australia, pp. 1-2. collected in the hill. Wildlife Science Division, Department of Research

Conservation and Land Management, Byrne, M. Phylogenetics and the Western Australia (2001). FloraBase: conservation and utilization of information on the Western Australian Acacia in Western Australia: flora (PAMPHLET). Department of proceedings of Acacia Symposium. Conservation and Land Management, CALMScience Western Australia, pp. 1-2. (Continued on page 4)

Page 3 (Continued from page 3) Monks, L. and Coates, D. The translocation of two critically Byrne, M., Macdonald, B. and Brand, J. endangered Acacia species. Diversity in the chloroplast genome of CALMScience Western Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum). Heredity Morris, K.D. and Burbidge, A.A. Bountiful Barrow. Landscope Byrne, M., Macdonald, B., Broadhurst, L. and Brand, J. Genetic diversity in Morris, K.D. and Lapwood, M. Development of a joint Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) as revealed by nuclear management strategy between RFLP analysis. Theoretical and Aboriginal communities and WA Department of Conservation and Applied Genetics Land Management for the Crawford, A., Cochrane, A. and Probert, conservation of marine turtles in the R. Acid scarification: an effective Dampier Peninsula region of method of increasing the speed and Western Australia: progress report synchrony of germination in five to Environment Australia. Western Australian Acacia (Mimosaceae) species. Patrick, S. Flora and vegetation of Burnerbinmah Station: a study of Crawford, A., Cochrane, A. and Probert, the plant communities in the mulga R. Acid scarification: an effective shrublands of the Murchison region. method of increasing the speed and CALMScience synchrony of germination in five Patrick, S. Georgina Molloy, a Western Australian Acacia remarkable woman. Landscope (Mimosaceae) species. In: Seed Conservation: Turning Science into Patrick, S. Night and day under an Practice outback sky: an astronomical

Cuneen, S. and Cochrane, A. The adventure, Ningham Station 2001. alleviation of dormancy in the Department of Conservation and horticulturally important Chamelaucium Land Management, Western uncinatum (Myrtaceae). Australia, Landscope Expeditions

Grant, M. and Barrett, S. The distribution Pinder, A.M. New species and records of Phreodrilidae (Annelida: and impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands in the south coast region of Clitellata) from Western Australia. Western Australia. In: Proceedings of Records of the Western Australian Museum Phytophthora in Forests & Natural Ecosystems Rye, B.L. Pimeleas: the original

Keighery, G.J. Impacts on biodiversity of Banksias!. Western Wildlife: future salinisation. In: Centre for Land Newsletter of the Land for Wildlife Scheme Rehabilitation: Revegetation of Saline and Waterlogged Land Workshop Shiel, R.J., Halse, S.A. and Green,

J.D. Microfaunal biodiversity in Keighery, G. and Gibson, N. The Flinders Expedition in Western ephemeral waters: temperate and arid Australia (ABSTRACT). In: 5th Australia: Robert Brown, the plants and their influence on Western Australian Invertebrate Biodiversity and Conservation Conference botany. In: Flinders 200 Conference

Lawley, J., Hickey, R., Wayne, A. and Sinclair, E.A. and Friend, J.A. Wright, G. Spatio-temporal GIS Conservation biology of Australia's most endangered marsupial. development to aid multiple-use forest management. Pacific Conservation Start, A.N. Fire management in heath Biology (Continued on page 5)

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