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First 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 and…
Stygofauna 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 a…
Towards 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 measures…
The 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 – literally…
Recent 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 1997…
A 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 Zone…
Trapped 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 are…
Cave 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 two…
What does sampling tell us about the ecology of troglofauna? (ISBC 2018)
The conference abstract is available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.1.e29829 and a video will be forthcoming. Sampling for troglofauna has many inherent constraints and these include survey…