Publications by authors named "Rohan Bilney"
With large wildfires becoming more frequent, we must rapidly learn how megafires impact biodiversity to prioritize mitigation and improve policy. A key challenge is to discover how interactions among fire-regime components, drought and land tenure shape wildfire impacts. The globally unprecedented 2019-2020 Australian megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, prompting major investment in biodiversity monitoring.
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- The giant burrowing frog, Heleioporus australiacus, is found in southeastern Australia, particularly in sclerophyll forest habitats, and has two genetically distinct lineages revealed through DNA analysis.
- These lineages show morphological differences, such as variations in body proportions, spot patterns, and mating call characteristics, making them distinguishable from each other.
- The northern subspecies is limited to the Sydney Basin, while the newly identified southern subspecies is distributed from the mid-southern coast of New South Wales to central Gippsland in Victoria, both occupying similar forest floor habitats.
Over two field seasons during 2014-15, 35 long-nosed potoroos (Potorous tridactylus) were captured in state forests in South Eastern New South Wales for translocation to Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, Australia. Animals were anesthetized for physical examination and collection of samples to assess general health and screen for select diseases identified during a disease risk assessment. Morphologic, hematologic, and biochemical parameters were determined, and parasites were identified where possible.
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