Common names: Philodendron Angra dos Reis, Heart Leaf Philodendron Philodendron 'Marijke' from the collection of Joep Moonenin French Guiana Philodendron martianianumEngl. Incorrectly known as Philodendron cannifolium Anthurium papillilaminumCroat
Where found:Australia The lovely fairywren is an Australian rainforest bird found in the northeast of the country. It often lives on the rainforest edge, and is frequently seen high in the rainforest canopy. The species lives in small family groups. The lovely fairywren lives in the rainfor...
throated Treecreeper is found in rainforests and wet and dry sclerophyll forests with rough-barked eucalypts around the east coast of the mainland and nearby ranges, north to tablelands near Cooktown, Queensland, and southwest to southeast and Mt Lofty Ranges, Gulf St Vincent in South Australia...
Rabbits in Queensland Rabbits inQueensland: Friend or Foe? Rabbits should be brought back to Australia but only known as pets as long as the animal has been dissected. Since 1859 rabbits were known as pests throughout Australia. Thomas Austin introduced these animals for sporting hunters‚ but...
Beetles are the most species-rich animal radiation and are among the historically most intensively studied insect groups. Consequently, the vast majority of their higher-level taxa had already been described about a century ago. In the 21st century, thus
Queensland, Australia: tropical rainforestTropical rainforest vegetation, Queensland, Australia.(more) Queensland has a highly varied flora and fauna. At one extreme are the tropical and subtropical rainforests, scattered in coastal and near-coastal valleys and ranges, with a remarkable diversity of pl...
whereas theforestsofGreat Britainand of easternNorth Americaare home to fewer than 200. Acoral reefoff northernAustraliamay have 500 species offish, while the rocky shoreline ofJapanmay be home to only 100 species. Such numbers capture some of the differences between places—the tropics, for exam...
In tropical areas, refuge theory has been rejected in the Amazonian basin but remains an active hypothesis in tropical Africa and Australia (Ghazoul and Sheil, 2010). Climate-induced altitudinal, but not latitudinal, shifts and postglacial population expansion have recently been suggested in Africa ...
Australia National Univer- sity Press, Canberra Plotkin JB, Potts MD, Yu DW, Bunyavejchewin S, Condit R, Foster R, Hubbell S, LaFrankie J, Manokaran N, Lee HS, Sukumar R, Nowak MA, Ashton PJ (2001) Predicting species diversity in tropical forests. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:10850–...
Most research on this topic has been done on indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, the US, parts of Europe and New Zealand, leaving indigenous communities in other parts of the world largely unrepresented. This study focuses on alcohol and drug consumption among the Baka: a former hunter...