Lissotes menalcas (the Mt Mangana Stag Beetle) is an obligate beetle and is presently classified as vulnerable under the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995. The distribution, habitat and conservation status of this species were Inv"esturated through a combination of collation of known locations and searches for the in decaying logs across likely areas of occurrence. L. menalcaswas...

BacKground A number of fire danger rating systems, which integrate selected quantifiable factors contributing to fire danger, have been developed to provide numerical indices relating to fire protection needs. it is important to note that fire danger indices have no real physical manifestation – they are just indices. Calculation of fire danger indices generally rely on information relating to ...

The chemical composition of lipophilic extractives from process waters throughout a totally chlorine free (TCF) bleaching sequence after kraft pulping of eucalypt wood has been studied. These compounds are among the most problematic wood constituents for both TCF and zero liquid effluent (ZLE) processes, since they tend to accumulate in circuits resulting in the formation of the so-called pitch...

Food habits of jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi) (Geoffroy, 1803) (Carnivora, Felidae) were studied between November 2000 and November 2001, in a 24.9 km(2) area of secondary Atlantic Rainforest and eucalypt plantation, in the Serra de Paranapiacaba, São Paulo State, Brazil. Analyses of 26 fecal and regurgitate samples, obtained over a stretch of 570.1 km, showed the consumption of 19 prey items a...

We conducted 2 markÐrecapture experiments in urban landscapes to examine the dispersal behavior of the eucalyptus longhorned borer, Phoracantha semipunctata (F.), a crepuscular beetle whose larvae bore into woody tissues of stressed or weakened eucalypts and fallen branches. Temporal changes in attractiveness of trees to beetles resulted in a correlation between beetle abundance and sampledate....