Breaking the Barriers: Engineering Solutions to Ecological Problems 2009 Symposium Proceedings
Held in Brisbane in 2009, symposium proceedings are available from the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand.
ANET 2014 Conference Proceedings
Held in Coffs Harbour in 2014, for more details see ANET Conference 2014 >
The slides from each presentation are available as links below. Please note, not all presentation slides have been made publicly available.
Monday, 21 July 2014
- Conference Opening and Introduction to the Pacific Highway Project (Bob Higgins, RMS)
- Plenary 1: Roads in the landscape – an Australian perspective (Andrew Bennett)
Extended talks 1 (Moderator: Dan Lunney)
- Can we mitigate the impacts of roads and transportation?(Darryl Jones)
- Impacts and opportunities with linear infrastructure other than roads (David M. Latham)
- Spatial planning to mitigate the impact of roads on wildlife (Jonathan R. Rhodes)
- The cost of caring for wildlife road trauma (Vanessa Gorecki)
Mitigation I (Moderator: Lilia Bernade)
- The Eco-Link@BKE: The first purpose built wildlife overpass in tropical Asia (Benjamin P. Y-H. Lee and Yi Fei Chung)
- Preliminary study on wildlife crossing structures of highways in Changbai Mountain Area, China (Yun Wang et. al.)
- Effective application of fauna passages in reconnecting fauna communities of South East Queensland (Mel McGregor and Darryl Jones)
- Avian use of wildlife overpasses (A.S. Pell and Darryl Jones)
- Assisting woodland birds to cross the Hume Highway, NSW: comparing the effectiveness of two bird crossing designs in an open rural landscape (Stephen J. Ambrose)
- Wildlife Use of Freeway Crossing Structures in Central Victoria (Lee Harrison and Rodney van der Ree)
- Usage rates of an under-road tunnel by three Australian frog species (Andrew J. Hamer et.al.)
Planning I (Moderator: Natascha Arens)
- Koala road risk in Coffs Harbour NSW (Daniel Lunney et. al.)
- Managing a green infrastructure in planning, building and maintenance of roads and railroads (Anders Sjölund)
- Monitoring Fauna-sensitive Road Design Measures in a Woodland Environment (Amy Evans)
- Do road ecology studies successfully inform road planners on how to mitigate impacts to wildlife? (Manisha Bhardwaj and Rodney van der Ree)
- Bats and infrastructure: better management through early roost identification (Alicia Scanlon and Peter Knock)
- Managing the other linear corridor; railways. The CRN Perspective (aka Saving the world, one corridor at a time) (Amber Gibbins)
- Challenges of retrofitting infrastructure to encourage safe wildlife movement through an urban environment (Sara Pereira)
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Extended talks 2 (Moderator: Darryl Jones)
- Incorporating experiments into road mitigation and monitoring projects (Rodney van der Ree)
- The promise and realities of ecological offsets (Yung En Chee)
- Designing and building in road corridors with biodiversity in mind – a Victorian experience (Scott Watson)
- Challenges Facing Transport Agencies with respect to Fauna and Linear Infrastructure – Queensland (Ramses Zirteck)
Planning II (Moderator: Amber Gibbins)
- An approach to defragmentation in low-contrast landscapes (Jan Olof Helldin)
- Transferring a great idea into an effective fauna crossing – Design and Construction Perspective on the planning phase (Cameron Weller)
- Identifying and regulating a green infrastructure network for the Moreton Bay region (Bernadette May and Erin Porter)
- The Australian legislative framework – Is it effectively addressing the impacts of linear infrastructure on wildlife? (David Francis)
- A method for establishing the landscape as regional platform for cooperation between national and regional authorities (Integrated landscape character assessment ILCA) (Lars Nilsson and Anna Lindell)
- Improved understanding of wildlife mitigation processes for linear transportation networks in Australia (Cathryn Dexter)
Roadkill (Moderator: Kylie Soanes)
- Roadkill reduction and preservation of connectivity across the bushland in peri urban areas (Jacqui Marlow et. al.)
- Reducing roadkill on the Northern Beaches: working together for a common goal (C.J Thompson and E.J Lanham)
- Roadkill monitoring and mitigation in a highly sensitive environment (Troy Crystal and Andrew Fowler)
- Predicting Kangaroo-Vehicle Collisions in Victoria (Casey Visintin)
- Wildlife Warning Signs: Public Assessment of Components, Placement and Designs to Optimise Driver Response (Amy Blacker and Darryl Jones)
- Factors contributing to ongoing koala mortalities in areas traversed by recent Pacific Highway upgrades on the far north coast of New South Wales, Australia (Stephen S Phillips and Mark Fitzgerald)
Mitigation II (Moderator: Rhidian Harrington)
- Field testing of road-crossing structures (Ross Goldingay and Brendan Taylor)
- Use of underpass culverts by the endangered Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis (Daniel Gilmore and Sally Koehler)
- Encouraging underpass use by bandicoots and bobtails: keep them short and well vegetated (Brian Chambers and Roberta Bencini)
- Getting the full story: evaluating the impact of crossing structures on the movement, gene flow and survival of the squirrel glider (Kylie Soanes et. al.)
- Escaping or commuting? Preliminary data from camera monitoring of wildlife escape ramps (‘koala drop-downs’) along the Oxley Hwy, New South Wales (Brendan Taylor and Ross Goldingay)
Vegetation, translocation and survey techniques (Moderator: Josie Stokes)
- Watching the grass grow: a beneficial experience (Carol Bannock et. al.)
- Do leaf traits alter the amount of particulate that accumulates on roadside plants? (Ryan J. Leonard et. al.)
- Translocation of the Fishing Bat (Myotis macropus) between two bridges in southern NSW (Frank Lemckert et. al.)
- A Case study on Threatened Species Management on Roads and Maritime Services Bridges: subtitled “Ospreys on your Assets” (Greg Collins)
- Wildlife Tracking Systems and Technologies (Craig Morrison)
