Kevin Bonham

• PhD
• Honorary Curator at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

An invertebrate fauna survey of the Stony Head Military Training Area in northern Tasmania was conducted over the period November 2020 to March 2021 as part of Australia’s Bush Blitz program. The survey focused on insects, spiders and molluscs, with other taxa sampled opportunistically, and identified numerous species that are noteworthy for thei...

A flora and fauna survey was conducted at the east coast Tasmanian property Wind Song in 2017 as part of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s ongoing research, collection-building and nature-discovery program. The survey recorded 885 taxa, primarily from the targeted groups of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, butterflies, moths, beetles, sna...

The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used t...

Figure S1: Database schema. Diversity data in yellow, GIS data in green and Catalogue of Life data in blue. The diversity tables datasource, study, site, measuredtaxon and diversitymeasurement follow the structure described in ‘Methods’ in the main text and in Hudson et al. (2014): a datasource is associated with one or more study records, each of...

The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used t...

The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used t...

A dataset of 3,250,404 measurements, collated from 26,114 sampling locations in 94 countries and representing 47,044 species. The data were collated from 480 existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. The database was assemb...

The carnivorous snail Tasmaphena lamproides, believed to be endemic to northwest Tasmania and far southern Victoria, has been considered rare. A survey in the Togari forest block in northwest Tasmania suggests that the species occurs in a wide range of forest habitats but requires deep leaf litter to survive, and is more frequent in the north of th...

The Miena jewel beetle Castiarina insculpta (Carter, 1934) is classified as endangered on the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 and has been infrequently recorded since its re-discovery in 2004. Multiple searches during February 2013 resulted in observations of large numbers of live individuals of the species at several sites on Tasm...

In March 2010, the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club (TFNC) undertook a fauna and flora survey of the Peter Murrell reserves with the overall objective of: (1) providing the land manager, the Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS), with information that would assist with the management and understanding of the reserves; and (2) to provide club members wit...

1. The general importance of metacommunity and metapopulation theories is poorly understood because few studies have examined responses of the suite of species that occupy the same fragmented landscape. In this study, we examined the importance of spatial ecological theories using a large‐scale, naturally fragmented landscape. 2. We measured the oc...

The Warra Silvicultural Systems Trial (SST) in Tasmania, Australia provides a framework for investigating the responses of beetles (Order: Coleoptera) to three alternative systems in lowland wet eucalypt forest: aggregated retention; dispersed retention; and understorey islands retained in clearfelled areas. Beetles from three families known to be...

Proceedings of the Old Forests, New Management Sir Mark Oliphant Conference, Hobart, Tasmania,17-21 February, 2008 Ground-active beetles have been sampled continuously at Warra for a decade as part of Forestry Tasmania’s ecological assessment of the silvicultural systems trial exploring alternatives to clearfelling. Arrays of standard pitfall trap...

This paper discusses the taxonomic history, identification, known distribution, ecology and conservation of Roblinella roblini (Petterd, 1879), the type species of the genus Roblinella Iredale, 1937. The protoconch is figured, demonstrating the species' distinctness from the common R. gadensis (Petterd, 1879). R. roblini has been rediscovered at tw...

This paper discusses the history of knowl- edge, identification, known distribution, ecology and conservation of Discocharopa vigens (Legrand, 1871), currently classified as Vulnerable at state level. The very few reliable records of the species come exclu- sively from wet and dry sclerophyll forests in the greater Hobart area in south-eastern Tasm...

Photos of the front cover are (clockwise from top): Myrtle forest in Roses Tier, NE Tasmania (Leigh Edwards), Simsons stag beetle (Douglas Rae), Northeast forest snail (Genevieve Gates) and Wedge-tailed eagle (Bill Brown).

Tasmaphena lamproides is a rare snail found in northwest Tasmania. The species is eliminated by logging but re-establishes a population in ∼20-year-old native forest regeneration and builds up to pre-logging levels by ∼60 years. Major plantation development is planned within the range of the species. It is unlikely that T. lamproides will reinvade...

In recent years the distributions of a number of geographically restricted Tasmanian invertebrates have been carefully mapped by single-species sampling (SSS). We review 29 such projects targeted at 16 species. The average return of new locality records was only one per 1.3 person-days in the field. In almost all cases the SSS was aimed at improvin...

Abstract Observations of the large earth bumblebee, Bombus terrestris (L.), in native vegetation were collated to determine the extent to which this exotic species has invaded Tasmanian native vegetation during the first 9 years after its introduction. The range of B. terrestris now encompasses all of Tasmania's major vegetation types, altitudes fr...

Land snails, millipedes, carabid beetles and velvet worms (Onychophora) were methodically hand-sampled at 46 localities on paired plots in conifer or eucalypt plantations and in nearby native forest in northwest Tasmania. Native land snails and millipedes were less diverse in plantations than in native forests, and introduced land snails were sever...

A stage-structured, stochastic metapopulation model was developed for a rare carnivorous snail, Tasmaphena lamproides, occurring in production forest in northwest Tasmania, Australia. The model was used to investigate the impact of a range of plantation options and harvesting strategies. These included: (i) a proposed 'District plan' with a combina...

This paper gives the fi rst defi nite Australian record for the blind awlsnail Cecilioides acicula (Muller, 1774), the fi rst ferrussaciid recorded from Tasmania. IDENTIFICATION Cecilioides acicula has a small, very thin needle-shaped shell of 5.5-6 whorls, 4-5 mm high and 1-1.3 mm wide. The shell is glossy, pale yellow to off-white, with a sculptu...

The history of knowledge of the Tasmanian charopid snail Discocharopa mimosa (Petterd 1879) is discussed. Shell features are quantified and the species' unique colour pattern is illustrated for the first time. As mimosa is known not to belong in the genus Discocharopa, comparisons with other south-eastern Australian charopids are made, although gen...