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Australian Journal of Zoology is an international journal covering the evolutionary, molecular and comparative zoology of Australasian fauna. More

Editor-in-Chief: Paul Cooper

 
 
 

The peer-reviewed and edited version of record published online before inclusion in an issue.


 
Published online 21 May 2012
Do experimental methods affect estimates of pollen digestion by birds? 
Patricia A. Fleming and Tracey L. Moore
 
  


 
Published online 09 May 2012
The nature of nutrition: a unifying framework 
Stephen J. Simpson and David Raubenheimer
 


 
Published online 03 April 2012
Spatial trade-offs in the digestive and reproductive systems of grape phylloxera 
K. B. Andrews, D. Kemper, K. S. Powell and P. D. Cooper
 
  


 
Published online 27 March 2012
Seasonal field metabolic rate and water influx of captive-bred reintroduced yellow-footed rock-wallabies (Petrogale xanthopus celeris) 
Steven J. Lapidge and Adam J. Munn
 
  


 
Published online 20 March 2012
Characterisation of cellulose and hemicellulose digestion in land crabs with special reference to Gecarcoidea natalis 
Benjamin J. Allardyce and Stuart M. Linton
 
  


 
Published online 20 March 2012
Nutritional ecology of essential fatty acids: an evolutionary perspective 
A. J. Hulbert and Sarah K. Abbott

 
  



Australian Journal of Zoology
Volume 59 Number 5 2011

 
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Characteristics of tree hollows used by Australian arboreal and scansorial mammals 
Ross L. Goldingay
pp. 277-294
 
  
 


 
Diet analysis of mammals, raptors and reptiles in a complex predator assemblage in the Blue Mountains, eastern Australia 
Jack H. Pascoe, Robert C. Mulley, Ricky Spencer and Rosalie Chapple
pp. 295-301
 
  
 


 
Reversed sexual dimorphism and altered prey base: the effect on sooty owl (Tyto tenebricosa tenebricosa) diet 
Rohan J. Bilney, John G. White and Raylene Cooke
pp. 302-311
 
  
 


 
Ecology of the Australian mudskipper Periophthalmus minutus, an amphibious fish inhabiting a mudflat in the highest intertidal zone 
Tatsusuke Takeda, Masahiro Hayashi, Atsushi Toba, Kiyoshi Soyano and Atsushi Ishimatsu
pp. 312-320
 
  
 


 
Histological study of gonadal development and sex differentiation in Salvelinus fontinalis under Tasmanian climate conditions 
Shafaq Fatima, Mark Adams and Ryan Wilkinson
pp. 321-331
 
  
 


 
Habitat characteristics may override climatic influences on ant assemblage composition: a study using a 300-km climatic gradient 
Michelle L. Yates, Heloise Gibb and Nigel R. Andrew
pp. 332-338
 
  
 


 
Ecological attributes and trade of white-lipped pythons (Genus Leiopython) in Indonesian New Guinea 
Daniel J. D. Natusch and Jessica A. Lyons
pp. 339-343
 
  
 


 
Corrigendum to: Phylogenetic relationships in the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray and resurrection of Lucasium Wermuth (Gekkota, Diplodactylidae) 
Paul M. Oliver, Mark N. Hutchinson and Steven J. B. Cooper
pp. 344-345
 
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These articles have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication. They are still in production and have not been edited, so may differ from the final published form.

    ZO12018  Accepted 21 May 2012
    Energetic costs of digestion in Australian crocodiles
    Chris Gienger, Christopher Tracy, Matthew Brien, S. Manolis, Grahame Webb, Roger Seymour, Keith Christian
    Abstract


    ZO11098  Accepted 15 May 2012
    The influence of habitat on home range size in the short beaked echidna
    Jenny Sprent, Stewart Nicol
    Abstract


    ZO12020  Accepted 04 May 2012
    Morphological and acoustic evidence for hybridisation between two broadly sympatric south-eastern Australian tree frogs; Litoria ewingii and L. verreauxii
    Katie Smith, Paul Oliver, Murray Littlejohn
    Abstract


    ZO12022  Accepted 20 April 2012
    Glochidia ecology in wild fish populations and laboratory determination of competent host fishes for an endemic freshwater mussel of south-western Australia
    Michael Klunzinger, Stephen Beatty, David Morgan, Gordon Thomson, Alan Lymbery
    Abstract


    ZO11105  Accepted 24 April 2012
    Co-expressed peJK genes of lobster Jasus edwardsii
    Ermin Schadich, Frank Sin
    Abstract


    ZO12013  Accepted 23 April 2012
    Diversity of MHC class II DAB1 in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
    Sarah Jobbins, Claire Sanderson, Joanna Griffith, Mark Krockenberger, Katherine Belov, Damien Higgins
    Abstract




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1. Published 8 July 2011
The effect of environmental variables on the activity patterns of the southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) in captivity: onset, duration and cessation of activity

Lindsay A. Hogan, Steve D. Johnston, Allan T. Lisle, Alan B. Horsup, Tina Janssen and Clive J. C. Phillips

2. Published 8 July 2011
Spatial behaviour of yellow-footed rock-wallabies, Petrogale xanthopus, changes in response to active conservation management

Matt W. Hayward, Keith Bellchambers, Kerryn Herman, Joss Bentley and Sarah Legge

3. Published 13 March 2012
Is body size variation in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) associated with environmental variables?

Elise Furlan, J. Griffiths, N. Gust, R. Armistead, P. Mitrovski, K. A. Handasyde, M. Serena, A. A. Hoffmann and A. R. Weeks

4. Published 10 October 2011
Genetic diversity and biogeographic history inform future conservation management strategies for the rare sunset frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea)

D. L. Edwards and J. D. Roberts

5. Published 11 April 2011
Reproductive behaviour of the southern-hairy nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons)

Lindsay Hogan, Clive Phillips, Allan Lisle, Alan Horsup, Tina Janssen and Stephen Johnston

6. Published 13 March 2012
Biogeographic barriers in north-western Australia: an overview and standardisation of nomenclature

Mark D. B. Eldridge, Sally Potter and Steven J. B. Cooper

7. Published 11 April 2011
Microclimate preferences of the grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in the Sydney region

Stephanie Snoyman and Culum Brown

8. Published 16 June 2005
Effects of hatchery shading and nest depth on the development and quality of Chelonia mydas hatchlings: implications for hatchery management in Peninsular, Malaysia

Jason van de Merwe, Kamarruddin Ibrahim and Joan Whittier

9. Published 28 June 2010
Home ranges of, and habitat use by, the grassland earless dragon (Tympanocryptis pinguicolla) in remnant native grasslands near Canberra

Toni A. Stevens, Murray C. Evans, William S. Osborne and Stephen D. Sarre

10. Published 10 October 2011
Lizard diversity on a rainforest–savanna altitude gradient in north-eastern Australia

A. S. Kutt, B. L. Bateman and E. P. Vanderduys

11. Published 22 December 2008
Movements and distribution of dugongs (Dugong dugon) in a macro-tidal environment in northern Australia

Scott D. Whiting

12. Published 8 July 2011
Tantalising tongues: male carpet pythons use chemoreception to differentiate among females

G. L. Bryant, P. W. Bateman and P. A. Fleming

13. Published 16 May 2012
Characteristics of tree hollows used by Australian arboreal and scansorial mammals

Ross L. Goldingay

14. Published 24 March 2009
Conservation status and biogeography of Australia's terrestrial mammals

Andrew A. Burbidge, N. L. McKenzie, K. E. C. Brennan, J. C. Z. Woinarski, C. R. Dickman, A. Baynes, G. Gordon, P. W. Menkhorst and A. C. Robinson

15. Published 11 April 2011
Heading for greener pastures? Defining the foraging preferences of urban long-nosed bandicoots

Nelika K. Hughes and Peter B. Banks

16. Published 8 July 2011
How many mature microhabitats does a slow-recolonising reptile require? Implications for restoration of bauxite minesites in south-western Australia

Michael D. Craig, Angela M. Benkovic, Andrew H. Grigg, Giles E. St J. Hardy, Patricia A. Fleming and Richard J. Hobbs

17. Published 17 February 2012
Distribution, abundance and demography of green pythons (Morelia viridis) in Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Daniel James Deans Natusch and David Francis Stewart Natusch

18. Published 21 July 2000
A review of feeding and diet selection in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)

Benjamin D. Moore and William J. Foley

19. Published 8 July 2011
Loss of tooth-supporting bone in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) with age

Elizabeth F. Lee, Srinivas Varanasi, Lyndall M. Pettett, Philip S. Bird and Anne L. Symons

20. Published 8 July 2011
Maternal strategies of the Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) at Dangerous Reef, South Australia

Andrew D. Lowther and Simon D. Goldsworthy

21. Published 10 October 2011
Genetic differentiation and introgression amongst Thylogale (pademelons) taxa in eastern Australia

M. D. B. Eldridge, K. Heckenberg, L. E. Neaves, C. J. Metcalfe, S. Hamilton, P. M. Johnson and R. L. Close

22. Published 10 October 2011
Ecology of Stimson's python (Antaresia stimsoni) in the MacDonnell Ranges of central Australia

Peter J. McDonald, Gary W. Luck, Skye Wassens and Chris R. Pavey

23. Published 18 February 2004
Annual variation in arrival and departure times of carrion insects at carcasses: implications for succession studies in forensic entomology

M. S. Archer

24. Published 23 October 1997
Morphology and Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Australian Folivorous Possums

Olivia Crowe and Ian D. Hume

25. Published 17 February 2012
Habitat use, population dynamics and species identification of mulgara, Dasycercus blythi and D. cristicauda, in a zone of sympatry in central Australia

Chris R. Pavey, Catherine E. M. Nano, Steven J. B. Cooper, Jeff R. Cole and Peter J. McDonald

26. Published 17 February 2012
Cryptic grey-bellied dunnart (Sminthopsis griseoventer) discovered in South Australia: genetic, morphological and subfossil analyses show the value of collecting voucher material

Catherine M. Kemper, Steven J. B. Cooper, Graham C. Medlin, Mark Adams, David Stemmer, Kathleen M. Saint, Matthew C. McDowell and Jeremy J. Austin

27. Published 11 April 2011
Natural history of the common tree snake, Dendrelaphis punctulatus (Serpentes : Colubridae), in the wet–dry tropics of north Queensland

S. Fearn and D. F. Trembath

28. Published 8 July 2011
Determining optimal incubation temperature for a head-start program: the effect of incubation temperature on hatchling Burnett River snapping turtles (Elseya albagula)

Yvonne A. Eiby and David T. Booth

29. Published 13 March 2012
Redescription of the western desert taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis (Serpentes : Elapidae), with notes on its distribution, diet and genetic variation

Karl E. C. Brennan, Terry Morley, Mark Hutchinson and Steve Donnellan

30. Published 8 February 2008
The development of habitat selection by subadult koalas

G. Tucker, A. Melzer and W. Ellis

31. Published 26 October 2009
Breeding behaviour of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in captivity

Margaret Hawkins and Adam Battaglia

32. Published 10 October 2011
Worker heterozygosity and immune response in feral and managed honeybees (Apis mellifera)

E. C. Lowe, L. W. Simmons and B. Baer

33. Published 26 October 2009
Thermoregulation in monotremes: riddles in a mosaic

Peter H. Brice

34. Published 29 May 2009
Field metabolic rate and water turnover of red kangaroos and sheep in an arid rangeland: an empirically derived dry-sheep-equivalent for kangaroos

A. J. Munn, T. J. Dawson, S. R. McLeod, D. B. Croft, M. B. Thompson and C. R. Dickman

35. Published 27 January 2011
Predator odour does not influence trappability of southern brown bandicoots (Isoodon obesulus) and common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Valentina S. A. Mella, Christine E. Cooper and Stephen J. J. F. Davies

36. Published 11 April 2011
Discovery of stream-cling-goby assemblages (Stiphodon species) in the Australian Wet Tropics

Brendan C. Ebner and Paul Thuesen

37. Published 8 December 2009
Interactions between chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii) and introduced predators: a review

A. S. Glen, P. J. de Tores, D. R. Sutherland and K. D. Morris

38. Published 26 October 2009
Reproductive strategies of the short-beaked echidna – a review with new data from a long-term study on the Tasmanian subspecies (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus)

Gemma Morrow, Niels A. Andersen and Stewart C. Nicol

39. Published 4 November 2010
The mongoose in Australia: failed introduction of a biological control agent

David Peacock and Ian Abbott

40. Published 8 February 2010
High possum mortality on urban roads: implications for the population viability of the common brushtail and the common ringtail possum

Tracey C. Russell, Catherine A. Herbert and James L. Kohen

41. Published 1 March 1970
Obsevations on the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus harrisii (Marsupialia : Dasyuridae) I. Numbers, home, range, movements and food in two populations

ER Guiler

42. Published 1 February 1992
The Stereotyped Behavior of Sexual Cannibalism in Latrodectus-Hasselti Thorell (Araneae, Theridiidae), the Australian Redback Spider

LM Forster

43. Published 1 September 1971
A revision of the Scarabaeine Dung Beetles of Australia. I. Tribe Onthophagini

EG Matthews

44. Published 17 February 2012
Climate-driven variation in food availability between the core and range edge of the endangered northern bettong (Bettongia tropica)

Brooke L. Bateman, Sandra E. Abell-Davis and Christopher N. Johnson

45. Published 28 June 2010
The genetic mating system, male reproductive success and lack of selection on male traits in the greater bilby

Emily J. Miller, Mark D. B. Eldridge, Neil Thomas, Nicola Marlow and Catherine A. Herbert

46. Published 11 April 2011
Population biology of the long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales

Melinda A. Norton, Andrew W. Claridge, Kris French and Alison Prentice

47. Published 11 April 2011
Distribution and population genetic structure of the critically endangered skink Nangura spinosa, and the implications for management

Adrian C. Borsboom, Patrick J. Couper, Andrew Amey and Conrad J. Hoskin

48. Published 13 March 2012
Distribution, ecological attributes and trade of the New Guinea carpet python (Morelia spilota) in Indonesia

Daniel J. D. Natusch and Jessica A. Lyons

49. Published 24 March 2009
A phylogeny and timescale for the living genera of kangaroos and kin (Macropodiformes : Marsupialia) based on nuclear DNA sequences

Robert W. Meredith, Michael Westerman and Mark S. Springer

50. Published 23 April 2001
Predator avoidance, feeding and habitat use in the red-necked pademelon, Thylogale thetis, at rainforest edges

Geoffrey M. Wahungu, Carla P. Catterall and Mike F. Olsen

51. Published 27 January 2011
Habitat associations of the long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) at multiple spatial scales

Melinda A. Norton, Kris French and Andrew W. Claridge

52. Published 1 October 1977
The comparative serology of Marsupialia, and a classification of marsupials

JAW Kirsch

53. Published 27 January 2011
Socio-seasonal changes in scent-marking habits in the carnivorous marsupial Dasyurus maculatus at communal latrines

Monica Ruibal, Rod Peakall and Andrew Claridge

54. Published 17 February 2012
Levels of dispersal and tail loss in an Australian gecko (Gehyra variegata) are associated with differences in forest structure

Paul E. Duckett and Adam J. Stow

55. Published 26 February 1999
Histone H3 and U2 snRNA DNA sequences and arthropod molecular evolution

D. J. Colgan, A. McLauchlan, G. D. F. Wilson, S. P. Livingston, G. D. Edgecombe, J. Macaranas, G. Cassis and M. R. Gray

56. Published 1 April 1986
Comparison of Skull Shape in Marsupial and Placental Carnivores

L Werdelin

57. Published 8 July 2011
Haemorheology of the eastern grey kangaroo and the Tasmanian devil

Michael J. Simmonds, Oguz K. Baskurt, Herbert J. Meiselman, Michael Pyne, Michael Kakanis, Ekua Brenu, James Keane, Rhys Christy and Sonya M. Marshall-Gradisnik

58. Published 13 March 2012
Foraging trip strategies and habitat use during late pup rearing by lactating Australian fur seals

Roger Kirkwood and John P. Y. Arnould

59. Published 23 September 2010
Evaluating migratory fish behaviour and fishway performance: testing a combined assessment methodology

Lee J. Baumgartner, Craig A. Boys, Ivor G. Stuart and Brenton P. Zampatti

60. Published 10 October 2011
Urinary corticosterone responses and haematological stress indicators in the endangered Fijian ground frog (Platymantis vitiana) during transportation and captivity

Edward Narayan and Jean-Marc Hero

61. Published 1 April 1954
An outline of the dynamics of animal populations.

AJ Nicholson

62. Published 1 March 1970
Observations on the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus harrisii (Marsupialia : Dasyuridae) II. Reproduction, breeding and growth of pouch young

ER Guiler

63. Published 1 October 1993
A Field-Study of Communication and Social-Behavior of the Tasmanian Devil at Feeding Sites

D Pemberton and D Renouf

64. Published 23 September 2010
Phylogeography of the Australian sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps): evidence for a new divergent lineage in eastern Australia

Mansoureh Malekian, Steven J. B. Cooper and Susan M. Carthew

65. Published 1 August 1993
Vigilance and Grouping in the Eastern Gray Kangaroo, Macropus giganteus

AML Colagross and A Cockburn

66. Published 26 October 2009
Population genetics of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus): a fine-scale look at adjacent river systems

Stephen H. Kolomyjec, Josephine Y. T. Chong, David Blair, Jaime Gongora, Tom R. Grant, Christopher N. Johnson and Chris Moran

67. Published 26 October 2009
The enigma of the platypus genome

Wesley C. Warren and Frank Grützner

68. Published 23 April 2001
Temperature variation within and between nests of the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas (Chelonia: Cheloniidae) on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef

David T. Booth and Katherine Astill

69. Published 14 August 2008
Estimating the sex ratio of loggerhead turtle hatchlings at Mon Repos rookery (Australia) from nest temperatures

Cuong The Chu, David T. Booth and Colin J. Limpus

70. Published 8 February 2010
Vigilance in a solitary marsupial, the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus)

François-René Favreau, Peter J. Jarman, Anne W. Goldizen, Anne-Laure Dubot, Stéphane Sourice and Olivier Pays

71. Published 16 May 2012
Diet analysis of mammals, raptors and reptiles in a complex predator assemblage in the Blue Mountains, eastern Australia

Jack H. Pascoe, Robert C. Mulley, Ricky Spencer and Rosalie Chapple

72. Published 26 October 2009
A review of mucormycosis in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Joanne H. Connolly

73. Published 12 December 2002
Secondary metabolites in Eucalyptus melliodora: field distribution and laboratory feeding choices by a generalist herbivore, the common brushtail possum

I. R. Wallis, M. L. Watson and W. J. Foley

74. Published 26 October 2009
Activity and behaviour of lactating echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus multiaculeatus) from hatching of egg to weaning of young

Peggy D. Rismiller and Michael W. McKelvey

75. Published 28 October 2004
Influence of season and weather on activity patterns of the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) in captivity

C. E. Cooper and P. C. Withers

76. Published 10 October 2011
Geographic distribution of Rhyncholestes raphanurus Osgood, 1924 (Paucituberculata : Caenolestidae), an endemic marsupial of the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest

Gabriel M. Martin

77. Published 1 December 2000
Reproduction and demography of the northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus, in the lowland savanna of northern Australia

Meri Oakwood

78. Published 28 May 2007
Diet of the tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) in south-eastern Australia

C. A. Belcher, J. L. Nelson and J. P. Darrant

79. Published 13 March 2012
Rate of passage through the digestive tract of the kultarr (Antechinomys laniger)

Hayley J. Stannard and Julie M. Old

80. Published 18 February 2004
Demographics of tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus maculatus) populations in south-eastern Australia

C. A. Belcher


      
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