Short-range endemics and beyond symposium
Recently, Kevin Sagastume-Espinoza had the opportunity to represent Bennelongia in the Short-range endemics and beyond: Terrestrial Invertebrates in EIA symposium hosted by Murdoch University and…
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Bennelongia has moved
Bennelongia has moved to 9B Bishop Street, Jolimont, just down the road.
Read moreFirst blind daddy long-legs spiders from Australia and Réunion (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Huon Clark was involved in research on troglofaunal diversity and a new paper has been published that describes the first troglomorphic pholcids from Australia…
Read moreStygofauna of ‘coastal plain’ areas of Australia and challenges to their persistence
A new paper has been published that Stuart Halse was involved in which researches stygofaunal diversity and ecological sustainability of coastal groundwater ecosystems in…
Read moreTowards evidence-based conservation of subterranean ecosystems
Another international collaboration in which Stuart Halse is involved in has just published a paper examining how much evidence there is that the conservation…
Read moreThe first true millipede!
Bennelongia has discovered the first “true” millipede! Eumillipes persephone was collected in the Goldfields of Western Australia and has an amazing 1306 legs –…
Read moreRecent multi-authored paper in Global Change Biology
A recent multi-authored paper in Global Change Biology reports the results of a wetland monitoring program that Bennelongia director Stuart Halse set up in…
Read moreA Hotspot of Arid Zone Subterranean Biodiversity
Last month both of Bennelongia’s principal scientists Huon Clark and Bruno Buzatto, along with our managing director Stuart Halse published “A Hotspot of Arid…
Read moreTrapped indoors? Long-distance dispersal in mygalomorph spiders.
Earlier this year one of Bennelongia’s Principal Scientists Bruno Buzatto published a paper investigating long-distance dispersal in mygalomorph spiders. Tarantulas, trapdoor and curtain-web spiders…
Read moreCave Ecology
The book ‘Cave Ecology’ has recently been published – https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/2357751. The MD Stuart Halse is one of the editors of the book and penned…
Read moreBennelongia Expertise
Bennelongia staff have many years of policy and research experience in subterranean fauna, wetland ecology and invertebrate conservation gained while employed in the Department of Parks and Wildlife prior to setting up Bennelongia in 2007. Since then, they have undertaken more than 250 environmental impact assessments of subterranean fauna, short range endemic invertebrates (SREs), waterbirds, shorebirds and wetlands and aim to continue undertaking high quality studies and assessments of fauna and wetlands.
Staff continue to publish widely in the scientific literature, describing new species, providing new methods of sampling fauna, and documenting the ecology of fauna to improve the context for impact assessments.