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Optimisation of Drop-Sheet Sampling in Macadamia ( Macadamia integrifolia ) Orchards: An Optimised Method for Monitoring Insect Ecology
1 Introduction Macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia) orchard insect ecology is monitored frequently during the months of crop development (DAF 2004). Entomologists commonly use an array of survey techniques to best provide representative samples to estimate populations of pests and beneficial insects (Upton and Mantle 2010).
Is Australia’s scorched earth baiting program actually paving the way for fire ant invasion? Original
Right now, Australia is undertaking the world’s largest removal of invasive ants. The goal: eradicate fire ants (Solenopsis invicta). These aggressive South American ants are named for the burning sensation of their sting. They pose risks to many native species – and to human health. Fire ants have made it to Australia nine times, arriving in cargo ships. Eight times, authorities were able to stamp them out early.
Broadcast Baiting May Ultimately Help Fire Ants Spread, Not Eradicate Them
Disclosure The authors have nothing to report. Conflicts of Interest Nigel R. Andrew is an Editor with Austral Ecology. However, he played no part in the editorial decision-making process for this manuscript. Data Availability Statement Supporting Evidence Spreadsheet attached as per Hot Topic Authorship guidelines in . Supporting Information Filename Description aec70174-sup-0001-DataS1.xlsxExcel 2007 spreadsheet , 68.6 KB Data S1: aec70174-sup-0001-DataS1.xlsx.
Human contributions to global soundscapes are less predictable than the acoustic rhythms of wildlife - Nature Ecology & Evolution
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Abstract Across the world, human (anthropophonic) sounds add to sounds of biological (biophonic) and geophysical (geophonic) origin, with human contributions including both speech and technophony (sounds of technological devices). To characterize society’s contribution to the global soundscapes, we used passive acoustic recorders at 139 sites across 6 continents, sampling both urban green spaces and nearby pristine sites continuously for 3 years in a paired design.
By Panu Somervuo, Tomas Roslin, Brian Fisher, Bess Hardwick, Deirdre Kerdraon, Petteri Lehikoinen, Pekka Niittynen, Orlando Acevedo-Charry, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, Maaz Ahmad, Nigel R. Andrew, Sten Anslan, Alexandre Antonelli, Joaquín Baixeras, Rosario Balestrieri, Pedro Beja, Benjamin Bergerot, Elizabeth Biro Verified, Pedro G. Blendinger, Leslie Brown, Hannah L. Buckley, Erika Buscardo, Luciano Cagnolo, Alice Calvente, Bradley S Case, JenYu Chang, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Thomas Dirnböck, Torbjørn Ekrem, Emanuele Ferrari, Axa Simões Figueiredo, Laura Garzoli, Olivier Gilg, Brigitte Gottsberger, Patrícia Mota Guedes, Peter Haase, Jari Hänninen, Rohit Jha, Rhea Kahale, Dave Karlsson, Asghar Khan, Qaisar Khan, Sebastian König, Nicolas Lecomte, Erin Lecomte, Daijiang Li, John Loehr, Michael Maroschek, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Paul McDonald, Ángela M. Mendoza-Henao, Sébastien Moreau, Anna Mrázová, Simona Musazzi, Marko Mutanen, Jörg Müller, Jenni Nordén, Erin O’Connell, Thomas Pagnon, Mikko Pentinsaari, Thiago Pinheiro, Luke Powell, Paola Pulido-Santacruz, Rui Rebelo, Gonzalo Torres, Ines Rosario, Douglas Santos, Niels Martin Schmidt, Sebastian Seibold, Rupert Seidl, Elise Sivault, Renata Sousa-Lima, Angela Stanisci, Stefan Stoll, Elisabeth Stur, Janne Sundell, Leho Tedersoo, Catalina Espinosa, Karl Vernes, Phillip C. Watts, Per Weslien, Patrik Lauha, Lukas Griem, Julieta Soledad Arena, Ines Aster, Laura Carreón-Palau, Suzanne Carriere, Francisco Collado Rosique, Anamaria Dal Molin, Ika Djukic, Jeremías Domínguez Masciale, Thiago Dorigo, Errol Douwes, Inga Freiberga, Leivur Janus Hansen, Reid Harrop, Masae Iwamoto Ishihara, Keishi Kimoto, Clemens Klante, Mårten Klinth, Agnes-Katharina Kreiling, Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber, Pascaline Le Gouar, Paula Moraes Leitman, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Gabriela Giselle Mangini, Nancy Wangari Mungai, Armin Niessner, Mark Tristan Quilantang, Wolfram Remmers, Carole Saliba, Benjamin Schattanek-Wiesmair, Ayaka Soda, Willem Maartin Strauss, Maija Sujala, Emma Vatka, Jana Helga Wisniewski
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The association between pasture systems, dung removal and colonization by a local Australian temperate dung beetle assemblage
INTRODUCTION Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) feed directly on the nutrient and microbial rich moisture component of dung (Holter, 2000, 2016; Holter et al., 2002; Jost et al., 2011; Kazuhira et al., 1991) while using dung to create reproductive brood balls (Byrne et al., 2013).
The interaction between Onthophagus binodis and cattle dung pH: Impacts on reproduction and offspring phenology
INTRODUCTION The environment surrounding invertebrates can influence the physiology of larval offspring. Abiotic factors known to influence the physiology of invertebrates include temperature, rainfall, soil moisture and pH, with pH impacting the availability of nutrients within soil environments (Neina, 2019; Nicol et al., 2008; Pietri & Brookes, 2008).
A great year to be a cabbage white butterfly: Why are there so many and how can you protect your crops?
Cabbage white butterflies—Pieris rapae—are one of the most common garden visitors across southern and eastern Australia. The butterfly looks elegant in white with black dots on its wings: females have a pair of black spots and males a single spot on each forewing. But their velvety green caterpillars are ravenous beasts on brassicas—the plant family that includes common vegetable crops such as cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, kale and bok choy.
A great year to be a cabbage white butterfly: why are there so many and how can you protect your crops?
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A great year to be a cabbage white butterfly: why are there so many and how can you protect your crops?
Cabbage white butterflies – Pieris rapae – are one of the most common garden visitors across southern and eastern Australia. The butterfly looks elegant in white with black dots on its wings: females have a pair of black spots and males a single spot on each forewing. But their velvety green caterpillars are ravenous beasts on brassicas – the plant family that includes common vegetable crops such as cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, kale and bok choy.
Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification - Nature Communications
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Abstract Dung removal by macrofauna such as dung beetles is an important process for nutrient cycling in pasturelands. Intensification of farming practices generally reduces species and functional diversity of terrestrial invertebrates, which may negatively affect ecosystem services. Here, we investigate the effects of cattle-grazing intensification on dung removal by dung beetles in field experiments replicated in 38 pastures around the world.
By Jorge Noriega, Joaquín Hortal, Luis Mauricio Bini, Nigel R. Andrew, Mario E. Favila, Kevin D. Floate, Finbarr G. Horgan, Rosa Menéndez, Tanja Milotic, Antonio Rolando, Thomas Wassmer, Gergely Boros, Christian M. Deschodt, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan, Benjamin Hernandez, Maurice Hoffmann, Megan Lewis, Cecilia Lozano, William Perrin, Angela Roggero, Ada Sánchez-Mercado, Jutta Stadler, Indradatta deCastro-Arrazola, Fernanda Alves-Martins, Lucrecia Arellano, Claudia Palestrini, Yakup Senyüz, José Luis Barragan-Ramírez, Bram D’hondt, Kemal Dindar, José Rafael Ferrer-Paris, Pierre Jay-Robert, Diego Marín-Armijos, Seena Narayanan Karimbumkara, José D. Pablo-Cea, Marcelo Bruno Pessoa, László Somay
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Ecology in South America: Present state and future prospects
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Artificial Intelligence text generators for overcoming language barriers in ecological research communication
REFERENCES , , , , , et al. (2023) The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments. Nature Sustainability, 6, 845–854. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01087-8 , , , , , et al. (2021) Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity. PLoS Biology, 19, e3001296. , , , , , et al. (2023) The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science. PLoS Biology, 21, e3002184.
Trends in Austral Ecology publications 2021 and 2022
Graphical Abstract Subject and geolocation of study for manuscripts published in Austral Ecology from different countries in Volume 46 and 47. Open Research The data that support the findings of this study are openly available from publications published on the Austral Ecology website, Volume 46 and Volume 47 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/14429993. REFERENCES (2009) Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal.
Austral Ecology Volume 47 Issue 8 Editorial
EDITORIAL Austral Ecology Volume 47 Issue 8 Editorial First published: 24 November 2022 No abstract is available for this article.
Austral Ecology Editorial Volume 47 Issue 7
Corresponding Author Nigel R. Andrew Editor-in-Chief University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence Nigel R. Andrew, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Introduction to the Insect Ecology Special Issue
Editorial Nigel R. Andrew, Corresponding Author Nigel R.
Activity patterns and temporal niche partitioning in sympatric red‐legged and red‐necked pademelons
Research Article Lucy E. V. Smith, Corresponding Author Lucy E. V. Smith lucyevsmith@gmail.com orcid.org/0000-0002-8560-5935 Ecosystem Management, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, 2350 Australia Corresponding author.
Impacts of macrocyclic lactones on larval survival, growth and development of three dung beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Original Article Sigrid L Mackenzie, Corresponding Author Sigrid L Mackenzie sigrid_mackenzie@yahoo.com.au Insect Ecology Lab, Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351 Australia sigrid_mackenzie@yahoo.com.auSearch for more papers by this author Graham Hall, Graham Hall Insect Ecology Lab, Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351 Australia Office of Research and Development, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana Search for more papers by this author Timothy M...
What's hot and what's not - Identifying publication trends in insect ecology
Invited Review Nigel R. Andrew, Corresponding Author nigel.andrew@une.edu.au orcid.org/0000-0002-2850-2307 Insect Ecology Lab, Zoology, Natural History Museum, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, 2351 Australia Corresponding author.
How to Hack the Case
Nigel Andrew is an MSc ’21 candidate who believes that data-driven insights are the future of business. In his article below, he writes about his experience with the Hack the Case analytics competition, held virtually April 8-20, and the challenges he and his team faced over the course of two weeks. Hack the Case is a fast-paced, intense, two week-long case competition hosted by Ivey with corporate partners SAS, Deloitte, and Scotiabank.
Quantifying shifts in topic popularity over 44 years of Austral Ecology
Editorial ‐ Invitation Only Martin J. Westgate Corresponding Author E-mail address: martin.westgate@anu.edu.au https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0854-2034 Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT, 2601 Australia Corresponding author. Search for more papers by this author Get access to the full version of this article. View access options below. Institutional Login Loading institution options...
Design flaws and poor language: Two key reasons why manuscripts get rejected from Austral Ecology across all countries between 2017 and 2020
Editorial PDF ShareShare Supporting Information Filename Description aec12908-sup-0001-TableS1.pdfPDF document, 56.7 KB Table S1. Summary table of rejected manuscripts from all countries from January 2017 to April 2020 allocated to ten different ‘rejection’ categories. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors.
Austral Ecology
Mike Bull Award Announced The ESA is pleased to announce the following receipients of the Mike Bull award for the Best Student Paper in Austral Ecology: Award Winner Josh Hodges, for his paper 'Evidence for direct effects of fire‐cues on germination of some perennial forbs common in grassy ecosystems,' Runner Up Catherine Dickson, for her paper 'Spatial variation in the ongoing and widespread decline of a keystone plant species' The ESA would like to congratulate both receipients.
Alastair Glegg | Learning to read at prep school | Slightly Foxed
The library at Fonthill Preparatory School was just what I imagined a Gentlemen’s Club to be like: shiny brown leather armchairs with velvet cushions, long oak tables, panelled walls, a coal fire in the corner, and windows looking on to the branches of an enormous beech tree. And, of course, books. It was there that I came to know the schoolboy classics of the time: the adventures of Biggles, the misadventures of William, and the voyages of the Swallows and the Amazons.
The British Library | Oldest Paper in the World | Slightly Foxed magazine
It is not surprising that having invented paper over 2,000 years ago, the Chinese found a wide variety of ways to use it. Though the seventeenth-century landscape artist and arbiter of taste, Wen Zhengheng, considered painted wallpaper vulgar, Li Yu (1611–80), owner of the Mustard Seed Garden, advocated brown rather than white wallpaper, and Chinese painted wallpaper depicting birds, flowers, garden architecture and butterflies became popular in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Slightly Foxed literary review magazine
When she died in 2010, at the astonishing age of 104, the novelist and biographer Elizabeth Jenkins was all but forgotten, her name known only to a few aficionados, her books mostly long out of print. And yet, in her day, her reputation had been up there with the other distinguished Elizabeths of mid-twentieth-century fiction, Bowen and Taylor. What happened? I had never heard of Elizabeth Jenkins myself until a chance conversation with a bookseller friend.
Slightly Foxed literary review magazine
When she died in 2010, at the astonishing age of 104, the novelist and biographer Elizabeth Jenkins was all but forgotten, her name known only to a few aficionados, her books mostly long out of print. And yet, in her day, her reputation had been up there with the other distinguished Elizabeths of mid-twentieth-century fiction, Bowen and Taylor. What happened? I had never heard of Elizabeth Jenkins myself until a chance conversation with a bookseller friend.
Assessing insect responses to climate change: What are we testing for? Where should we be heading?
Assessing how the research community is attempting to measure climate change impacts can be done by identifying research agendas within publications and identifying trends and gaps across published literature. Here we assessed published research on climate change and insects to assess the type of research being carried out, its geographic location and identify the Orders, variables and factors being tested.
Herbivore damage along a latitudinal gradient: relative impacts of different feeding guilds
Nigel R. Andrew, Lesley Hughes, N. R. Andrew and L. Hughes, Key Centre for Biodiversity and Bioresources, Dept of Biological Sciences, Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia ( nandrew@bio.mq.edu.au). PDF ShareShare Abstract We present the first broad-scale test for a latitudinal gradient in herbivory made with consistent methods, in similar habitat type, over the entire lifespan of leaves (phyllodes).
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