A Summary of Current and Projected Scientific and Environmental Activities
This publication is, in large part, a SUIDIIJ.ary of a Symposium held at The Australian Museum 30 Nov.-1 Dec., 1979.
Edited by H.F. Recher and W.F. Ponder The Australian Museum
Sydney, 1981
725A-1 ISBN 0 7240 2060 8 i
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1
A SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION 1
Management and the environment 2
The concept of a Lord Howe Island National Park 3 Future scientific research on Lord Howe Island 4
CONCLUSION 4
.ABSTRACTS OF SCIENTIFIC WORK
A. GEOLOGY 6
Origin and evolution - I. McDougall, B.J.J. Embleton and D.B. Stone 6
Geology - C.V.G. Phipps 6
The caves at North Head - L.S. Hall, H. Shannon and R. Shannon 8
B. INVERTEBRATES 9 Corals and coral communities - J.E.N. Veron and T.J. Done 9 Non-marine annelids - P. Hutchings 9
Marine Mollusca - W.F. Ponder 10
Freshwater snails - W.F. Ponder 11
Land Mollusca - J. Stanisic 12
Punctidae - minute land snails - F.M. Clime 13
Crustacea - J.K. Lowry 13 Amarinus lacustris (Chilton), a freshwater crab - J.S. Lucas 15
Terrestrial isopods - T.J. and S.C. Kingston 15
Spiders - M.R. Gray 16
Insects - C.N. Smithers 17
Patterns of distribution of some Hemiptera - J.W. Evans 21
Acalyptrate flies - D.K. McAlpine 21 ll
\ B. INVERTEBRATES ) . ~ Wasps - G. Holloway 22 Abundance invertebrates at potential Woodhen release sites - T.J. Kingston 23
C. VERTEBRATES 25 Fish - J.R. Paxton and D.F. Hoese 25 Reptiles - H. Cogger 25 Phylogeny and biogeography of Meiolaniid turtles - E.S. Gaffney 26
Birds - H.F. Recher 29 Fossil, subfossil and early historic birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islams - G.F. van Tets, P.V. Rich, P.J. Fullager and P.M. Davidson 29 Studies of the Fleshy-footed Shearwater, Puffinus carneipes - H.J. de S. Disney and P.J. Fullager 31
Studies on the Woodhen, Tricholimnas sylvestris - H.J. de S. Disney and P.J. Fullager 32
Do PLANTS 35 Annotated botanical bibliography - J. Pickard 35 Keys to vegetation - J. Pickard 36 Marine algae - T. Kraft 36 Bryophytes - H.P. Ramsay 37 Handbook of the ferns - J. Pickard 38 Key to the angiosperms - J. Pickard 41 Pandanus - B.C. Stone and J. Pickard 41 Some aspects of the problem of palm seed yields - H. Dowden 41 Catastrophic disturbance on Little Slope - J. Pickard 42
E. CONSERVATION 43
Proposal for marine reserves - D.A. Pollard 43 Conservation of marine environments as affected by development alternatives - S. Rooney 44 Conservation of terrestrial and marine environments as affected by development alternatives - S. Clark 44 iii
E. CONSERVATION (Cont.)
Conserving an endangered species, the Howe Island Woodhen - B, Miller 46 The energy crisis - G.J. Bowden 47 F. GENERAL 51 Biogeography of the non-marine fauna and flora - W.F. Ponder 51 Geographical place names - J. Pickard 52 Cartography - J. Pickard 52
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REFERENCES 53
BIBLIOGRAPHY 54