2024

This page lists the books, reports and publications from the Flora and Fauna Division in 2024.

For enquiries about any of the publications listed below send an email to biodiversity.dlpe@nt.gov.au.

Journals

Brackhane, S., Fukuda, Y., Xavier, F. M. E., Araujo, V. de, Gusmao, M., Trindade, J., Carvalho, D. do A. de, Pires, R. D. R., & Webb, G. (2024). Wildlife conservation through traditional values: alarming numbers of crocodile attacks reported from Timor-Leste. Oryx, 58(3), 347–350. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324000036

Clancy, T.F., 2024. The Next Decade of Management of the Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in the Northern Territory: Where To Now for a Conservation Success Story, in: Proceedings of the 27th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196, Gland, Switzerland, Darwin, Australia, pp. 25–31. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383092138_The_Next_Decade_of_Management_of_the_Saltwater_Crocodile_
Crocodylus_porosus_in_the_Northern_Territory_Where_To_Now_for_a_Conservation_Success_Story

Fukuda, Y., Moritz, C., FitzSimmons, N., Jang, N., Webb, G., Lindner, G., Campbell, H., Christian, K., Leeder, S., & Banks, S. (2024). Natal origin and dispersal of problem saltwater crocodiles in the Darwin Harbor, Australia. Journal of Wildlife Management, 88(2), e22525. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22525

Ruykys, L., Hanrahan, N., Stokeld, D. (2024) Novel acoustic lure methodology facilitates detection of the cryptic ghost bat at a landscape scale. Wildlife Research 51, WR33289. doi: 10.107I/WR22189

Woolley, L., Radford, I. J., Cremona, T., Woinarski, J. C. Z., Hill, B. M., Lawes, M. J., & Murphy, B. P., (2024). Nestbox use indicates declining arboreal mammals in an Australian savanna may be limited by tree hollow availability. Forest Ecology and Management, 561, Article 121915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121915

Oliver, P. M., McDonald, P. J., Dahl, G., Nagombi, E., & Richards, S. J., (2024). A new species of treefrog (Litoria: Pelodryadidae) from the karstic South-fold Mountains of New Guinea. Zootaxa, 5514(6). 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.6.4

McDonald, P. J., Stewart, A., Ward, S. J., Oliver P. M., & Nano, C. E. M., (2024). Assessing the suitability of a surveillance fauna-monitoring program for detecting future changes in reptile occupancy. Wildlife Research, 51(6). https://doi.org/10.1071/WR24008

McDonald, P. J., Fenner, A. L., Torkkola, J., & Oliver, P. M., (2024). Vicars in the desert: Substrate specialisation and paleo-erosion underpin cryptic speciation in an Australian arid-zone lizard lineage (Diplodactylidae: Diplodactylus). Vertebrate Zoology, 74, 577-594. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.74.e128775

McKenzie N. L., Bullen R. D., Milne D. J. (2024) What can echolocation recordings reveal about the species composition, habitat specificity and structure of mangrove bat communities in the Northern Territory?. Australian Mammalogy 46, AM24001. https://www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM24001

Shaw R.E., Brockett B., Pierson J.C., Sarre S.D., Doyle P., Cliff H.B., Eldridge M.D.B., Miller K.A., Ottewell K., Parrott M.L., Rossetto M., Sunnucks P., Banks S.C., Byrne M., Campbell B.L., Chong C., Ens E.L., Ferraro P.A., Grueber C.E., Harrison P.A., Hogg C., Hutton M., Roycroft E., Sowersby W., Karajarri Rangers, Kiwirrkurra Rangers, Ngurrara Rangers, Nyangumarta Rangers, Ngururrpa Rangers, & Neaves L.E. Building meaningful collaboration in conservation genetics and genomics. Conservation Genetics 25, 1127–1145 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-024-01636-4

Vijay Kumar, D., Jeevamani, J. J. J., Fukuda, Y., Muruganandam, R., Biswal, M., Ramachandran, R., & Ramachandran, P. (2024). Managing the recovering saltwater crocodile population in a marine protected area with human-wildlife conflict: A population viability analysis approach. Journal for Nature Conservation, 84, 126812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2024.126812

Reports

Clancy TF and Fukuda, Y (2024). NT Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) Wildlife Trade Management Plan: 2022 Monitoring Report Northern Territory Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security.

Clancy TF, Welch M and Fukuda Y. (2024).  Management Program for the Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in the Northern Territory of Australia 2024-2034. Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security, Palmerston. March 2024.

Radke, L., Fortune, J., & Salum. R., (2024). Darwin Harbour Integrated Marine Monitoring and Research Program Pressure Monitoring Report 2023-24(No. 11/2024). Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Northern Territory Government, Darwin, Northern Territory

Radke, L., Majid, M., & Low Choy, D., (2024). Darwin Harbour Integrated Marine Monitoring and Research Program Benthic Sediment Monitoring Report 2023-24 (No. 008/2024). Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Northern Territory Government, Darwin, Northern Territory

Fortune, J., & Majid, M., (2024). Baseline benthic fluxes – supporting sediment quality monitoring of Darwin Harbour 2023 (No. 15/2024). Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Darwin, NT

Ruykys, L., Leiper, I., Stokeld, D., McDonald, P., Lewis, D., Cowie, I. and Nano, C. (2024) Mapping the Future – Katherine. Biodiversity Assessment of the Katherine Area. Technical Report 04/2024. Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security, Northern Territory Government, Darwin, Australia. Available at: https://territorystories.nt.gov.au/10070/938535

Books

Seccin, R., Dick, A., King, E., Lorraine, M., Friday, M., Moreland, E., Hogan, A., George, T., George, P., Pedro, C., George, I., Mary Star, M., Cubby, L., Aplin, D., Laughren, M., & Wightman, G., (2024). No. 57 Waanyi Plants and Animals; Aboriginal biocultural knowledge from the Boodjamulla National Park, Kanalanja (Nicholson) and Bidangku (Gregory) Rivers, north Australia. Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin no. 56. Jointly published with Papulu Apparr-kari Aboriginal Corporation, Tennant Creek (www.papak.com.au)