Urban and road ecology at SCB Oceania 2016

9:50 AM – Room P7

Connecting To Nature In Urban Green Space: Benefits Perceived By Green

Space Users In Perth, Western Australia
Dawn Dickinson* (University of Western Australia), Richard J. Hobbs, Leonie E. Valentine, Susan A. Moore

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10:30 AM – Room P7

Urban Residents’ Relationship with Nature Helps Explain their Proenvironmental
Behaviour in Wellington City, New Zealand
Julie Whitburn* (Victoria University of Wellington), Wayne L. Linklater, Taciano L. Milfont

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Noisy neighbours and myna problems: Bird communities along gradients of invasion
and urbanization
Andrew Rogers* (University of Queensland), Salit Kark, Berndt van Renburg

9:50 AM – Room P6

Bridges facilitate insectivorous bat movement across roads more effectively

than culverts.

Manisha Bhardwaj* (University of Melbourne), Kylie Soanes, Tanja Straka, José Lahoz-Monfort, Lindy Lumsden, and Rodney van der Ree

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10:30 AM – Room P6
Bringing back the birds – revegetating riparian habitat in an urban
environment
Leonie Seabrook* (University of Queensland), Jeremy Simmonds, Nancy Auerbach

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11:30 AM – Room P8

Dispersal of juvenile red-crowned parakeets (Cyanoramphus
novaezelandiae) from a fenced mainland sanctuary
Ellen Irwin* (Victorian University of Wellington), Heidy Kikillus, Richard Gray, Raewyn Empson, Nicola Nelson

2:30 PM – Room P7

Biodiversity sensitive urban design for biodiverse cities
Georgia Garrard* (RMIT), Karen Ikin

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2:40 PM – Room P7

Managing greenery for urban biodiversity
Kwek Yan Chong,* (National University of Singapore) Hugh T.W. Tan

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2:50 PM – Room P7

Beyond economic values: understanding why biodiversity is important to the

urban public

Dave Kendal* (University of Melbourne), Rebecca Ford, Alison Farrar

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3:00 PM – Room P7
Bridging the gap between science and practice to achieve conservation outcomes on urban golf courses
Threlfall, C.G., Amy Hahs* (University of Melbourne), Geary, J., Ossola, A., Williams, N.S.G., Livesley, S.J.

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3:10 PM – Room P7
The connection between city residents and nature
Danielle Shanahan, Robert Bush, Kevin Gaston, Brenda Lin, Julie Dean, Elizabeth Barber, Richard Fuller* (University of Queensland)

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3:20 PM – Room P7
Nature on the Doorstep: Creating pathways to engage urban communities in
nature
Kathryn Eyles* (Australian National University)

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3:30 PM – Room P7
Re-wilding the city: which species and why?
Luis Mata* (RMIT), Kirsten Parris, Leonie Valentine, Georgia Garrard and Sarah Bekessy

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3:40 PM – Room P7
Novel resources for threatened fauna in urban environments
Leonie Valentine* (University of Western Australia), Patricia Kennedy, Luis Mata, Cristina Ramalho, Richard Hobbs

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Posters
Little Forest in the Heart of the City: could 3.5 hectares in the CBD be the heart of
wider restoration and cultural reconnection to biodiversity?
Bart Cox* (Victoria University of Wellington)

The impacts of increased ship-rat density on fantail nesting success measured across
urban forest fragments in New Zealand
Nyree Fea* (Victoria University of Wellington), Stephen Hartley

 9:30 AM – Room P9

Assessing the impacts of land-based discharges on ecosystem structure and
function of urban waterways.
Katherine Dafforn*(University of New South Wales), Peter Steinberg, Stuart L. Simpson, Jaimie Potts, Peter Scanes, Simone C. Birrer, Michael Sutherland, Vivian X.Y. Sim, Tim Lachnit, Sanjay Swarup, Staffan Kjelleberg, Martina Doblin, Gavin Birch, Paul Gribben, Peter Freewater, Emma L. J

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2:30 PM – Room P8
Existing ecological theory is sufficient for effective conservation action in
urban environments
Kirsten Parris*(The University Of Melbourne), Geoff Heard

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2:35 PM – Room P8
Bioaccumulation and detoxification of heavy metals in a coastal high trophic
feeder with a restricted home range, the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor)
Annett Finger* (Victoria University), Jennifer L. Lavers, Peter Dann, Carol Scarpaci, Dayanthi Nugegoda and John D. Orbell

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2:55 PM – Room P7
Wildlife mortality from regional train strikes in Victoria – where, when and
future predictions
Casey Visintin* (University of Melbourne), Rodney van der Ree, Michael McCarthy

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3:10 PM – Room P8
How did the squirrel glider’s genes cross the road? Experimental crossing
structures successfully mitigate inhibited gene flow across a freeway
Kylie Soanes* (University of Melbourne), Andrea Taylor, Paul Sunnucks, Silvana Cesarini, Peter Vesk, Rodney van der Ree>