Arboreal Fauna Surveys
Ironbark Environmental Arboriculture can provide skilled and experienced arborists who are able to undertake arboreal fauna surveying to meet the needs of your project.
Services include:
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Inspection of hollows and nest boxes to determine occupancy.
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Installation of camera traps and video surveillance in trees.
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Use of an endoscope to photograph fauna within hollows.
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Collection of data, such as dimensions of hollows, scats, hair and feather samples.
Publications:
Harris, G.J., Mifsud, B.M. & Gillespie, G.R. (2014) Observations of Spencer’s Skink Pseudemoia spenceri from within the high canopy of an overmature Mountain Ash Eucalyptus regnans. The Victorian Naturalist, vol, 131, pp.24-27.
Yusah, K.M., Fayle, T. M., Harris, G.J. & Foster, W.A. (2012) Optimizing diversity assessment protocols for high canopy ants in tropical rain forest. Biotropica, vol. 44, pp.73 - 81.