SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS No. 34 (January 2014) Science & Conservation Division Mission: The provision of up-to-date and scientifically sound information to uphold effective evidence-based conservation of biodiversity and sustainable natural resource management in Western Australia Science Communications lists titles of Davison EM, McGurk LE, Bougher NL, Syme K, publications, reports etc prepared by Science Watkin ELJ (2013). Amanita lesueuri and and Conservation Division staff. This issue is for Amanita wadjukorum (Basidiomycota), two new the period August 2013.-January 2014 species from Western Australia, and an If you require a copy of a submitted paper please expanded description of Amanita fibrillopes. contact the author. For all other titles please Nuytsia 23, 589-606 \\KENS-file-001 contact [email protected] \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/080057-23.031.pdf Gosper CR, Prober SM, Yates CJ (2013). Multi- Margaret Byrne century changes in vegetation structure and fuel Director availability in fire-sensitive eucalypt woodlands. Science & Conservation Division Forest Ecology and Management 310, 102-109 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19292.pdf Journal Publications Gosper C, Prober S, Yates C (2013). The role of Barrett RL, Lowrie A (2013). Typification and fire in plant conservation in wheatbelt remnants. application of names in Drosera section Australasian Plant Conservation 22, 21-22 Arachnopus (Droseraceae). Nuytsia 23, 527-541 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19281.pdf \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\FullTextFiles/080057- 23.029.pdf Gosper CR, Yates CJ, Prober SM (2013). Floristic diversity in fire-sensitive eucalypt woodlands Biggs LJ, Parker CL (2013). Updates to Western show a U-shaped relationship with time since Australia's vascular plant census for 2012. fire. Journal of Applied Ecology 50, 1187-1196 Nuytsia 23, 503-526 \\KENS-file-001 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19321.pdf \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/080057-23.028.pdf Kenneally KF, Lowrie A, Keighery G (2013). Bode M, Brennan KEC, Helmstedt K, Desmond A, Tropical triggerplants. Australian Plants 27, 64- Smia R, Algar D (2013). Interior fences can 75 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/ reduce cost and uncertainty when eradicating C19287.pdf invasive species from large islands. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4, 819-827 \\KENS-file- Lewington M (2013). Clarification of the locality of 001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19365.pdf William Blackall’s collection of the threatened species Grevillea phanerophlebia (Proteaceae). Burrows N, McCaw L (2013). Prescribed burning Nuytsia 23, p. 477. \\KENS-file-001 in southwestern Australian forests. Frontiers in \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/080057-23.025.pdf Ecology and the Environment 11, e25-e34 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19282.pdf Maslin BR, Barrett MD, Barrett RL (2013). A baker's dozen of new wattles highlights Clarke J, Warren K, Calver M, de Tores P, Mills J, significant Acacia (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) Robertson I (2013). Hematologic and serum diversity and endemism in the north-west biochemical reference ranges and an Kimberley region of Western Australia. Nuytsia assessment of exposure to infectious diseases 23, 543-587 \\KENS-file-001 prior to translocation of the threatened western \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/080057-23.030.pdf ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 49, 831-840 \\KENS Pacioni C, Robertson ID, Maxwell M, van Weenen -file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19363.pdf J, Wayne AF (2013). Hematologic characteristics of the woylie (Bettongia Davison EM, Davison PJN, Barrett MD, Barrett RL penicillata ogilbyi). Journal of Wildlife Disease (2013). Licea xanthospora E.M. Davison, P.J.N. 49, 816-830 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/ Davison, M.D. Barrett & R.L. Barrett, sp. nov. C19338.pdf Persoonia 31, 278-279 \\KENS-file-001 \Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19394.pdf (Continued on page 2) Page 1 (Continued from page 1) Toon A, Joseph L, Burbidge AH (2013). Genetic Peacock D, Abbott I (2013). The role of quoll analysis of the Australian whipbirds and (Dasyurus) predation in the outcome of pre-1900 wedgebills illuminates the evolution of their introductions of rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) plumage and vocal diversity. Emu 113, 359-366 to the mainland and islands of Australia. \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19385.pdf Australian Journal of Zoology 61, 206-280 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19291.pdf Wege J (2013). Untangling the taxonomy of the triggerplants. Australian Plants 27, 53-63 \\KENS Radford IJ, Andersen AN, Graham G, Trauernicht -file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19286.pdf C (2013). The fire refuge value of patches of a Conference/Workshop Papers/Posters fire-sensitive tree in fire-prone savannas: Callitris intratropica in northern Australia. Biotropica 45, Hammer T, Thiele K, Davis R, Motley T (2013). 594-601 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/ Preliminary ITS phylogeny of the Australian C19279.pdf genus Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae). Poster presented at Botany 2013: Celebrating Diversity, Robinson R (2013). First record of Favolaschia July 27-31, New Orleans. \\KENS-file-001 \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/C19280.pdf calocera in Western Australia. Australasian Mycologist 31, 41-43 \\KENS-file-001 Prince B, Whiting S, Raudino H, Vitenbergs A, \Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19364.pdf Pendoley K (eds) (2013). Proceedings of the Rye BL (2013). An update to the taxonomy of First Western Australian Marine Turtle some Western Australian genera of the Symposium, 28-29th August 2012. Department Myrtaceae tribe Chamelaucieae. 1, Calytrix. of Parks and Wildlife, Kensington, WA. 65 p. Nuytsia 23, 483-501 \\KENS-file-001 \\KENS-file-001 \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/080057-23.027.pdf \Inmagic\FullTextFiles\924452.pdf Schmidt DJ, Grund R, Williams MR, Hughes JM Robinson R, Stefani F, May T (2013). Comparing (2014). Australian parasitic Ogyris butterflies: morphological species as used in ecological east-west divergence of highly-specialized surveys against molecular barcoding with the relicts. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society ITS region: a case study of Cortinarius in the 111, 473-484 \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/ south-west of Western Australia. II, an illustrated C19393.pdf phylogenetic tree. Poster presented at Fungimap VII, Rawson, Victoria, 23-27 May 2013. \\KENS- Smith LA, McKenzie NL (2013). An early record of file-001\Inmagic\FullTextFiles/C19300.pdf Hutton's shearwater (Puffinus huttoni) from Augustus Island, Kimberley, Western Australia. Tucker T, Whiting S, Corey B (2013). FAQ: Cape Western Australian Naturalist 29, 8-10 \\KENS- Domett flatback turtle rookery: monitoring in file-001\Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19301.pdf 2013 (POSTER). Department of Parks and Wildlife, Kensington, WA. \\KENS-file-001 Speed CW, Babcock RC, Bancroft KP, Beckley \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/C19317.pdf LE, Bellchambers LM, Depczynski M et al. [Field SN, Friedman KJ, Moore JAY, Nutt CD, Wills AJ, van Heurck PF, Farr JD (2013). Shedrawi G, Simpson CJ, Wilson SK] (2013). Persistence of velvet worms (Onychophora: Dynamic stability of coral reefs on the west Peripatopsidae): effects of fire and climate in Australian coast. PLoS One 8(7), 1-12 \\KENS- forests of south-west Western Australia. Poster file-001\Inmagic\FullTextFiles/C19277.pdf presented at Australian Entomological Society 44th AGM & Scientific Conference, 29 Stephen SL, Burrows N, Buyantuyev A, Gray RW, September-2nd October 2013, Invertebrates in Keane RE, Kubian R et al. (2014). Temperate extreme environments. Department of and boreal forest mega-fires: characteristics and Environment and Conservation, Kensington, challenges. Frontiers in Ecology and the WA. \\KENS-file-001\Inmagic\FullTextFiles/ Environment 12, 115-122 \\KENS-file-001 C19336.pdf \Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19399.pdf Abstracts Thiele KR (2013). Hibbertia sericosepala Friend T, Bougher N, Button T, Hill S (2013). Use (Dilleniaceae), a new species from Western of pioneer animals to assess reintroduction sites Australia. Nuytsia 23, 479-482 \\KENS-file-001 in the recovery of the world's rarest marsupial, \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/080057-23.026.pdf Gilbert's potoroo (ABSTRACT). IN: 11th Thiele K (2013). Hibbertia sp. Mt Lesueur (M. International Mammalogical Congress: Queen's Hislop 174) cannot be maintained as distinct University of Belfast, 11th-16th August 2013: from H. crassifolia. Nuytsia 23, 475-476 \\KENS- Programme and Abstracts p. 57. \\KENS-file-001 file-001\Inmagic\FullTextFiles/080057- \Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19334.pdf 23.024.pdf (Continued on page 3) Page 2 (Continued from page 2) Thums M, Meekan M, Whiting S, Reisser J, Friend JA, Hill RF, Mosen CC (2013). Baiting feral Pendoley K, Harcourt R (2013). Understanding cats in conservation areas within an agricultural the early offshore migration patterns of turtle landscape: challenges and possible solutions hatchlings and the effects of anthropogenic (ABSTRACT). Newsletter of the Australian light: a pilot study using acoustic tracking Mammal Society Nov, 28-29 \\KENS-file-001 (ABSTRACT). IN: Proceedings of the First \Inmagic\StaffOnly/C19395.pdf Western Australian Marine Turtle Symposium, 28-29th August 2012 (eds B Prince, S Whiting, Holley D, Friedman K, Reinhold L, Cowell T H Raudino et al.). p. 32. Department of Parks (2013). Implementation of a camera monitoring and Wildlife, Kensington, WA. \\KENS-file-001 program for the loggerhead turtle (Caretta \Inmagic\FullTextFiles/924874.023.pdf caretta) rookery at Turtle Bay, Dirk Hartog Island, Shark Bay (ABSTRACT). IN: Whiting AU, Whiting SD, Thomson A (2013). Proceedings of the First Western Australian High density flatback turtle nesting at