Australian Natural Resources Atlas

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Australian Terrestrial Biodiversity Assessment 2002

Paul Sattler and Colin Creighton
National Land and Water Resources Audit, 2002
ISBN 0 642 3713

Acknowledgments

The Australian Terrestrial Biodiversity Assessment 2002 report is a compilation of many contributions. The three specialty chapters were written by teams of experts and edited by the Audit. We would like to acknowledge the authors and contributors for these sections.

Chapter 5 - Birds

Primary authors:

This chapter could not have been produced without the support of several thousand birdwatchers around Australia who enthusiastically sent in records during the two Atlas periods. We are also indebted to Andrew Silcocks, Warwick Sayers, Jeanette Stevens and Rory Poulter for assistance with data manipulation and mapping and to Ross Cunningham for undertaking the analysis of national reporting rates. Valuable advice on bioregional trends and idiosyncrasies of local data collection was received from Allan Burbidge, John Blyth, Don Franklin, Peter Menkhorst, and John Woinarski. Financial assistance and other logistical support were provided by the National Land and Water Resources Audit and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. Rochelle Lawson, Paul Sattler, Jim Tait and Jann Williams provided valuable comments on the text.

Chapter 6 - Mammals

Primary authors:

This chapter was compiled by Audit staff based on the scientific report by the primary authors. The State and Territory collaborators were a vital component of this work. We thank John Woinarski, Greg Gorgon, Mike Cavanagh, Peter Menkhorst, Raymond Brereton and Tony Robinson for their assistance. Alex Baynes of the Western Australian Museum provided information on the former distribution of many rare and extinct mammals from sub-fossil records and also contributed his comprehensive knowledge of historical records. Any errors and misinterpretations in this report are our own and not our collaborators' responsibility.

Rick Tomlinson and Robyn Wilson from the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management's Information Management Branch carried out all GIS compilations and analyses and we are very grateful for their help. Matt Williams of CALM's Science Division assisted with the final regression analysis, that involved four independent variables.

Some of the data on species' distribution and conservation status provided by State and Territory collaborators was contributed by a variety of agencies, especially State museums. Several mammalogists helped with data on taxonomy and species characteristics, including Fred Ford, Peter Kendrick and Norah Cooper.

Chapter 7 - Acacias and eucalypts

Primary authors:

These analyses were only made possible through the enthusiastic collaboration of the custodians of herbaria in each State and Territory. We acknowledge the cooperation of the Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) and thank the Directors of each of the following herbaria for making the data available: Australian National Herbarium, National Herbarium of New South Wales, National Herbarium of Victoria, Northern Territory Herbarium, Queensland Herbarium, State Herbarium of South Australia, Tasmanian Herbarium, Western Australian Herbarium. Matt Bolton and Arthur Chapman of the ERIN Unit, Environment Australia provided valuable help with compiling and cleaning the databases, and Vanessa Chewings assisted in writing programs for extracting data.

Chapter 10 - Regional biodiversity management

Case studies were written by States and Territories and edited to fit a 2 page layout. The extensive work carried out in compiling these case studies is acknowledged and in particular:

The extrapolation analysis of case studies was carried out by Craig James and A.O. Nichols of CSIRO and this work is gratefully acknowledged.

Overall

We would like to acknowledge the extensive contribution of those involved in completing the terrestrial biodiversity assessment project. In particular, the inter-State/Territory coordinating team of John Woinarski (NT), Norm McKenzie (WA), Tony Robinson (SA), David Parkes (Vic), David Peters and Louise Gilfedder (Tas), Mike Cavanagh (NSW), David Shorthouse (ACT), and Andrea Leverington (Qld).

Thank you to the members of the Audit Biodiversity Assessment Advisory Committee for their advice: Keiran McNamara (chair) (WA CALM), Gus McGown (Agforce), Ray Nias (WWF), Hugh Possingham (BDAC), Denis Saunders (CSIRO), Christine Schweizer (EA), Geoff Barrett (Birds Australia), Cynthia Maher (NFF), Stephen Hunter (Audit Advisory Council), and Phil Pritchard (AFFA).

The difficult tasks of database integration and map production were accomplished by the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency team of Wayne Martin, Roger Thompson Sally Egan, Andrea Leverington and Julia Playford.

We are indebted to Bruce Cummings, Environment Australia, for his assistance with the reserves chapter, the list of threatened ecosystems by NVIS group and other generous support. David Carter, Environment Australia, for making available the SPRAT data and Geoff L'armour, Environment Australia, for comments on wetland assessment criteria.

Thank you to Richard Kingsford for his contribution on waterbirds in the wetland and riparian zones chapter.

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