SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS No. 22 (May 2007) Science 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 http://calmweb.calm.wa.gov.au/drb/science/index.html Burrows ND, Burbidge AA, Fuller PJ, Behn G (2006). Evidence of altered fire regimes in the Western Desert region of Australia. CONSERVATION OFFICER Conservation Science Western Australia 5(3), (FLORA) 14-26 DEC Byrne M, Elliott CP, Yates C, Coates DJ (2007). ESPERANCE Extensive pollen dispersal in a bird-pollinated shrub, Calothamnus quadrifidus, in a fragmented landscape. Molecular Ecology 16, 1303-1314 Science Communications lists titles of publications, reports etc prepared by Chapman AR (ed) (2006). Nuytsia. - Vol. 16, no. Science Division staff. This issue is for the 1. 1-264 Department of Environment and period ending May 2007. Conservation, Kensington, WA. If you require a copy of a submitted paper please contact the author. For all other titles please contact Lisa Wright at Woodvale. Cochrane A, Probert R (2006). Temperature and dormancy-breaking treatments: germination of Neil Burrows endemic and geographically restricted Director herbaceous perennials. Australian Journal of Botany 54, 349-356 Cranfield R, Keighery G (2006). Logania Journal Publications wendyae (Loganiaceae), a new species from Abbott I (2006). Extension of the known south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 16, 11- geographic range of the Princess Parrot: a 14 record from Eucla, 1872. Western Australian Naturalist 25, 192-193 Crawford AD, Steadman KJ, Plummer JA, Cochrane A, Probert RJ (2007). Analysis of Abbott I, Cranfield R, van Heurck P, Middleton T seed-bank data confirms suitability of (2006). The vegetation, flora and fauna of international seed-storage standards for the Saddle Island, near Walpole, Western Australian flora. Australian Journal of Botany Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 25, 55, 18-29 153-168 Dethmers KEM, Broderick D, Moritz C, Allison L, Gibson LA, Aberton JG (2006). Dietary Fitzsimmons NN, Limpus CJ, Lavery S et al. preference of the swamp antechinus [Prince RIT] (2006). The genetic structure of (Antechinus minimus) in the heathlands of Australasian green turtles (Chelonia mydas): Victoria. Wildlife Research 33, 67-76 exploring the geographical scale of genetic Beaulieu J-P, Bennett DP, Fouqué P, Williams A, exchange. Molecular Ecology 15, 3931-3946 Dominik M, Jørgensen UG et al. [Martin R] Gibson N (2006). Reinstatement of Patersonia (2006). Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth occidentalis var. angustifolia and Patersonia masses through gravitational microlensing. occidentalis var. latifolia (Iridaceae). Nuytsia Nature 439, 437-440 16, 21-27 Bougher N (2006). Coprinopsis stangliana: a Honkoop PJC, Pearson GB, Lavaleye MSS, recently introduced fungus expanding in urban Piersma T (2006). Spatial variation of the bushlands of the Perth region of Western intertidal sediments and macrozoo-benthic Australia. Nuytsia 16, 3-10 assemblages along Eighty-Mile Beach, north- Bougher NL (2007). The genus Campanella in western Australia. Journal of Sea Research Western Australia. Mycotaxon 99, 327-335 (Continued on page 2) Page 1 (Continued from page 1) of Conservation and Land Management, 55, 278-291 Kensington, WA. 106 p. McCaw WL (2006). Asplenium aethiopicum Jayasekera AU, McComb JA, Shearer BL, Hardy recolonises karri forest following timber GE St J (2007). In planta selfing and oospore harvesting and burning. Journal of the Royal production of Phytophthora cinnamomi in the Society of Western Australia 89, 119-122 presence of Acacia pulchella. Mycological Research 111, 355-362 Pinder AM, Eberhard SM, Humphreys WF Keighery GJ (2006). Systematics and biology of (2006). New phallodrilines (Annelida: Clitellata: the southern Western Australian Tubificidae) from Western Australian Centrolepidaceae. Western Australian groundwater. Zootaxa 1304, 31-48 Naturalist 25, 25-36 Pringle HJR, Watson IW, Tinley KL (2006). Keighery GJ, Alford JJ, Trudgen ME, Muir WR Landscape improvement, or ongoing (2006). Floristics of the Shark Bay world degradation: reconciling apparent heritage site, Western Australia: vegetation contradictions from the arid rangelands of and flora of 34 small islands. Western Western Australia. Landscape Ecology 21, Australian Naturalist 25, 111-134 1267-1279 Kellermann J, Rye BL, Thiele KR (2006). Polianthion, a new genus of Rhamnaceae Radford IJ, Dickinson KJM, Lord JM (2006). (Pomaderreae) from Western Australia and Nutrient stress and performance of invasive Queensland. Australian Systematic Botany 19, Hieracium lepidulum and co-occurring species 169-181 in New Zealand. Basic and Applied Ecology 7, 320-333 Kinal J, Stoneman GL, Williams MR (2006). Calibrating and using an EM31 Radford IJ, Dickinson KJM, Lord JM (2007). electromagnetic induction meter to estimate Functional and performance comparisons of and map soil salinity in the jarrah and karri invasive Hieracium lepidulum and co-occurring forests of south-western Australia. Forest species in New Zealand. Austral Ecology 32, Ecology and Management 233, 78-84 338-354 Lyons M, Keighery G (2006). A new species of Raidalm SR, Shearer PL, Prince RIT (2006). Tribonanthes (Haemodoraceae) from saline Chronic shoulder osteoarthritis in a loggerhead wetland margins in Western Australia. Nuytsia turtle (Caretta caretta). Australian Veterinary 16, 77-80 Journal 84, 231-234 Martin R (2006). Supernova 2006bc in NGC Rye B (2006). New combinations and 2397. International Astronomical Union, lectotypifications for the south-western Circular CBET 449, Australian genus Astartea (Myrtaceae). Nuytsia Maslin B, Elliott C (2006). Acacia splendens 16, 149-156 (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), a new, rare Rye B (2006). A partial revision of the south- species from near Dandaragan, Western western Australian species of Micromyrtus Australia. Nuytsia 16, 81-86 (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 16, 117- 147 Matheny PB, Bougher NL (2006). The new genus Auritella from Africa and Australia Shearer BL, Fairman RG (2007). A stem (Inocybaceae: Agaricales): molecular injection of phosphite protects Banksia species systematics, taxonomy and historical and Eucalyptus marginata from Phytophthora biogeography. Mycological Progress 5, 2-17 cinnamomi for at least four years. Australasian Matheny PB, Bougher NL (2006). Validation of Plant Pathology 36, 78-86 Auritella (Inocybaceae: Agaricales). Mycotaxon Shepherd KA, Bennett E, Wilkins C, Sage L 97, 231-233 (2006). Lasiopetalum pterocarpum (Malvaceae Matheny PB, Curtis JM, Hofstetter V, Aime CM, s.l.: Lasiopetaleae), a new and rare species Moncalvo J-M, Ge Z-W et al. [Bougher NL] from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 16, (2006). Major clades of Agaricales: a 175-181 multilocus phylogenetic overview. Mycologia Smith JD, Wright LJ, Morris KD (comps) (2006). 98, 982-995 BiblioBarrowIsland: an annotated bibliography Mathiesen B (ed) (2006). Conservation science of the natural history of Barrow Island, 1622- Western Australia. - Vol. 5, no. 3. Department (Continued on page 3) Page 2 (Continued from page 2) fragments of kwongan in south-west Australia. 2004. Conservation Science Western Australia Biological Conservation 136, 306-314 5(3), 38-106 Yates CJ, Hopper SD, Taplin RH (2005). Native Start AN, Moro D, Adams M, Bencini R (2006). insect flower visitor diversity and feral Dunnarts from Boullanger Island: new honeybees on jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) in evidence and a reassessment of a taxonomic Kings Park, an urban bushland remnant. issue with resource implications. Australian Journal of the Royal Society of Western Mammalogy 28, 51-58 Australia 88, 147-153 Stukely MJC, Crane CE, McComb JA, Bennett IJ Books/Chapters (2007). Field survival and growth of clonal, micropropagated Eucalyptus marginata Abbott I (2006). Flora and fauna. In: The selected for resistance to Phytophthora Millendon Memoirs: George Fletcher Moore's cinnamomi. Forest Ecology and Management Western Australian Diaries and Letters, 1830- 238, 330-334 1841 (ed JMR Cameron). pp. 496-503. Hesperian, Carlisle. Stukely MJC, Webster JL, Ciampini JA, Kerp NL, Colquhoun IJ, Dunstan WA et al. (2007). A Huisman J, Phillips J, Parker C (2006). Marine new homothallic Phytophthora from the jarrah Plants of the Perth Region. Bush Books forest in Western Australia. Australasian Plant Department of Environment and Conservation, Disease Notes 2, 49-51 Kensington, WA. 72 p. Wege J (2006). Reinstatement of Stylidium rigidulum (Stylidiaceae), with notes on the Verdonschot PFM, Wang H, Pinder A, Nijboer R morphologically allied S. kalbarriense. Nuytsia (eds) (2006). Aquatic Oligochaete Biology. IX, 16, 199-206 Selected Papers From the 9th Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, 6-10 October 2003, Wege J (2006). Stylidium diplotrichum Wageningen, the Netherlands. Springer, (Stylidiaceae): a new scale-leaved trigger plant Dordrecht. 222 p. from south-west Western Australia, with taxonomic and anatomical notes on allied species. Nuytsia 16, 183-197 Conference/Workshop Papers Wege J (2006). Stylidium hymenocraspedum, Algar D (2006). An overview of baiting strategies (Stylidiaceae): a new species for Western for feral cat control. In: Feral Animals, Australia, and the lectotypification of S. Threatened Species and the Role of the maitlandianum. Nuytsia 16, 247-253 Community: Conference Convened by the Threatened Species Network, Tasmania, Wege J (2006). Taxonomic notes on the locket Hobart, March 2005