Download 2004 Toowoomba Conference

Wednesday 14 April 2004
Registration: 8.00 – 9.00
9.00
Welcome and opening remarks
Bats in agricultural landscapes
Chair: Greg Ford
9.15
Keynote address: On the agricultural and economic services of insecteating bats: the case of Brazilian free-tailed bats and cotton bollworms.
Gary F. McCracken, John K. Westbrook, Ya-Fu Lee, and Erin H. Gillam
10.15
Bat sonar disrupts moth behaviour over cotton crops.
Martin Dillon, Trudy Staines, Patrick Halloway, Rachael Long, and Greg
Richards
10.30
The value of scattered paddock trees in rural landscapes as foraging and
roosting habitat for insectivorous bats in south-eastern Australia.
Lindy Lumsden and Andrew Bennett
MORNING TEA 10.45 – 11.30
Flying-foxes
Chair: Greg Richards
11.30
Daytime behaviour of the Grey-headed Flying Fox, Pteropus poliocephalus
(Pteropodidae: Megachiroptera), at an autumn/winter roost site in Sydney,
Australia.
Kristin Connell and Ursula Munro
11.45
The impact of high ambient temperatures on a maternity roost of Greyheaded flying foxes Pteropus poliocephalus.
Peggy Eby, Vivien Jones, Mary-Clare Fisher, Mark Graham and Martin Smith
12.00
Treatment of soft, bent bones and swollen, painful joints in young flyingfoxes (Genus Pteropus).
Gemma M. O'Brien and Mary-Clare G. Fisher
12.15
Comparative hair and tongue ecomorphology in the Pteropodidae
community of New Britain Island – Papua New Guinea.
Steve Hamilton
LUNCH 12.30 – 2.00
Flying-foxes (cont’d)
Chair:
Peggy Eby
2.00
A sink or a source? : The Grey-headed Flying-fox, Pteropus poliocephalus
at an urban colony site.
Kerryn Parry-Jones and Glenda Wardle
2.15
The establishment and growth of the most southern permanent roost of
Grey-headed Flying-foxes.
Rodney van der Ree, Mark J. McDonnell, Ian Temby, John Nelson and Elaine
Whittingham
2.30
Insitu management of the Grey-headed Flying-fox: Adaptive procedures
within an exsitu conservation project.
Michael Kidman
2.45
Conservation of Melanesian Island Archipelago Pteropus and Pteralopex –
Preliminary application of IUCN Threatened Species Criteria to sub
species.
Steve Hamilton
AFTERNOON TEA: 3.00 – 3.30
3.30
Poster session
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Preliminary Observations of the Establishment of a Camp of Grey-headed
Flying Fox Pteropus poliocephalus in Eastern Park, Geelong Victoria, in
2003
Grant Baverstock and Richard Dilena
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What makes a flying-fox feel at home?
Clague, S. D., Jensen, R., Whybird, O.J., McKenna, S. and Warburton, N.
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Age determination of wild Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus
poliocephalus): A study of cementum and morphometric parameters
Anja Divljan, Kerryn Parry-Jones and Glenda Wardle
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The relationship between inside and outside temperature of hibernacula
sites at the timing of hibernation and arousal in Myotis formosus
Sun-Sook Kim and Jeong-Chil Yoo
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Monitoring Australia’s largest roost of Eastern Horseshoe Bats
Brad Law, Mark Chidel, Alf Britton and Adam Fawcett
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Tolga Bat Hospital Projects 2002-4
Jenny Maclean
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Distinction between southern Victorian
morphological features and echolocation calls
Patrick Prevett and Matt Gibson
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In-flight photography made easy with digital cameras
Terry Reardon
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Tent roosting by the Common Blossom Bat in north coastal New South
Wales
Greg Richards and Brett Campbell
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Remote sensing: A tool for locating flying fox camps?
Louise A. Shilton, David A. Westcott, Peter Latch and Les Searle
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Monitoring of a colony of Southern Myotis Myotis macropus during the
replacement of Millfield Bridge, Hunter Valley, NSW – a progress report
Ray Williams
Vespadelus
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Thursday 15 April 2004
Microbat foraging
Chair:
Terry Reardon
9.00
Structure and environmental relationships of bat communities in tropical
Australian savannas.
Damian Milne, Martin Armstrong, Alaric Fisher, Trish Flores and Chris Pavey
9.15
Relationship between call frequency and moth predation in Top End bats.
Chris J. Burwell, Damian J. Milne, Chris R. Pavey
9.30
Food habits of insectivorous bats of the wet-dry tropics of the Northern
Territory.
Chris R. Pavey, Chris J. Burwell and Damian J. Milne
9.45
Fixed foraging, flexible roosting: can we call Myotis macropus an ecological
specialist?
Susan Campbell, Lindy Lumsden and Graeme Coulson
10.00
Nightly bat activity in relation to temperature and insect abundance,
Lower Glenelg National Park, Victoria.
Bronwyn K. Stratman
10.15
Vegetation structure and assessment of microbat habitat: an experimental
approach.
Patrick Prevett and Bronwyn Stratman
MORNING TEA 10.30 – 11.15
Bats and forests
Chair:
Brad Law
11.15
Bats and forests: A synthetic view based on meta-analysis.
Matina C. Kalcounis-Rueppell, Jennifer M. Pysllakis and R. Mark Brigham
11.30
Use of indices to monitor bat populations in a logged forest.
Daniel H. Lunney, Alison L. Matthews, Peggy L. Eby, Harry E. Parnaby and
Christopher J. Corben
11.45
The effectiveness of riparian buffers in maintaining bat commuting and
foraging activity in riparian zones for timber production forests in NSW.
Anna Lloyd, Brad Law and Ross Goldingay
12.00
Vertical stratification of insectivorous bats in harvested forests: the effects
of logging history, vegetation structure and insect abundance.
Maria D. Adams, Bradley S. Law and Kristine O. French
12.15
Summary of Nandewar Bioregion bat surveys
Phil Spark and Mick Andren
LUNCH 12.30 – 2.00
Urban bats and bat boxes
Chair:
Gary McCracken
2.00
Bats from urban and rural areas near Adelaide.
Ken Sanderson and Monika Rhodes
2.15
Suburban micro-bat biodiversity in the Greater Brisbane area.
Clare Hourigan
2.30
Results of an initial trial of bat boxes at Mt Owen Coal Mine,
Ravensworth, New South Wales.
Glenn Hoye
2.45
The value of bat boxes for conservation and management.
Monika Rhodes, Ann Greisbach, Darryl Jones, James McBroom and Janet
Chaseling.
3.00
Bat Boxes at Organ Pipes NP Victoria. Box usage: seasonal use of summer
and winter roosts, usage by minor species and by maternity groups.
Robert Bender and Robert Irvine
AFTERNOON TEA: 3.15 – 4.00
4.00
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Friday 16 April 2004
Microbat roosting ecology
Chair
Mark Brigham
9.00
Physiological ecology of forest roost selection by North American big
brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus).
Craig K.R. Willis and R. Mark Brigham
9.15
Roost fidelity in Tadarida australis: An example of fission-fusion?
Monika Rhodes
9.30
Bats hanging out with birds in southern NSW.
Brad Law and Mark Chidel
9.45
The maternity population of Large Bentwing Bats at Riverton Cave,
Queensland: have traditional patterns changed in 40 years?
Greg Richards and Alison Martin
10.00
A census of major maternity roosts of the Large Bent-wing Bat
Miniopterus schreibersii oceanensis within New South Wales.
Glenn Hoye, Andy Spate and Andrew Steed
10.15
Abandoned mine gating: An attempt at Large Bentwing Bat (Miniopterus
schreibersii) and Eastern Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus megaphyllus)
roosting habitat conservation, in southern NSW.
Chris P. Slade, Brad Law and Peter Jarman
MORNING TEA 10.30 – 11.15
Surveys and techniques
Chair:
Monika Rhodes
11.15
Anabat verses radio tracking – techniques for investigating the foraging of
fast-flying microchiropterans.
Chris Grant
11.30
The effect of weather on the detection of bats.
Kimberly Livengood, Chris Corben, Ronald Drobney, and Richard Clawson
11.45
Automated identification of bat calls.
Matthew Gibson and Lindy Lumsden
12.00
Ecological studies of the bat fauna of Brunei Darussalam
Roger B. Coles, Bruce G. Thomson, Jonathon Soo, David J.W. Lane, Pg Hj
Ismail Bin Pg Hj Apong
12.15
Lukim Rika stap long Tetepare Island (Looking for bats on Tetepare
Island)
David Gee
12.30
The importance of determining genetic population structure for the
management of Ghost Bats, Macroderma gigas, in the Pilbara region of
Western Australia.
Kyle N. Armstrong and Jessica Worthington Wilmer
LUNCH 12.45 – 2.15
Standards for surveys
Chair
Dan Lunney or Lindy if Dan talking
2.15
Ethics – Dan Lunney – or if he only wants a few minutes he can chair the
session and just have a couple of minutes rather than a full 15 mins.
2.30
Industry Training Packages: Do they have a role to play in the
accreditation of bat researchers?
Rob Gration
2.45
Draft National Survey Standards for Threatened Bats
Terry Reardon
3.00
Discussion on survey standards
AFTERNOON TEA: 4.00 – 4.30
4.30
Conference awards
5.00
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