Peter Kendrick

In the past, when scientists encountered and studied 'new' environmental phenomena, they rarely considered the existing knowledge of First Peoples (also known as Indigenous or Aboriginal people). The scientific debate over the regularly spaced bare patches (so-called fairy circles) in arid grasslands of Australian deserts is a case in point. Previo...

This study explores the application of soil micromorphological and automated scanning electron microscopy mineralogical analysis to characterise lithological boundaries and site formation history from an archaeological cave site on Barrow Island, northwestern Australia. The high-resolution characterisation is used to document the changing depositio...

Archaeological deposits from Boodie Cave on Barrow Island, northwest Australia, reveal some of the oldest evidence for Aboriginal occupation of Australia, as well as illustrating the early use of marine resources by modern peoples outside of Africa. Barrow Island is a large (202 km2) limestone continental island located on the North-West Shelf of A...

Barrow Island, north-west coast of Australia, is one of the world’s significant conservation areas, harboring marsupials that have become extinct or threatened on mainland Australia as well as a rich diversity of plants and animals, some endemic. Access to construct a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant, Australia’s largest infrastructure development...

This study explores the application of soil micromorphological and automated scanning electron microscopy mineralogical analysis to characterise lithological boundaries and site formation history from an archaeological cave site on Barrow Island, northwestern Australia. The high-resolution characterisation is used to document the changing depositio...

For southern African grasslands, many hypotheses have been posed and contested to explain bare circular areas (“fairy circles”) (1). Getzin et al. (2) “discovered” similar bare areas in arid grasslands of Australia and investigated their causes. Their data and modeling supported the hypothesis that soil crusting, water flow, and plant biomass feedb...

Phylogenetic diversity of Rhagada land snails is high on the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia, with four distinct clades, representing three of the four major clades of the Pilbara region. Detailed sampling indicated little geographic overlap of the four clades, conforming to the general rarity of congeneric sympatry in Australian camaenids. The...

Phylogenetic diversity of Rhagada land snails is high on the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia, with four distinct clades, representing three of the four major clades of the Pilbara region. Detailed sampling indicated little geographic overlap of the four clades, conforming to the general rarity of congeneric sympatry in Australian camaenids. The...

The mammal fauna of the south-western Little Sandy Desert was systematically surveyed during three visits to each of five sites at three locations representing the array of surfaces in the biogeomorphic landscape of the study area. A fourth, less systematic, expedition revisited one location and sampled two new ones. Nineteen extant, native species...

In the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia's Pilbara Region, several locally endemic, morphologically distinctive species of Rhagada land snails occur, contrasting with the morphologically conservative species with wider distributions on the adjacent mainland. To test alternative origins of this unusual local diversity in a continental archipe...

The Pilbara region has one of the most diverse reptile assemblages in the world and includes many typical arid zone species as well as many saxicoline endemics. We present the results of a four-year survey of the region during which pitfall trap lines were used to sample 297 quadrats for a total of two weeks in spring and in autumn. The quadrats we...

The Mandora System is an internationally important wetland situated on the boundary of two bioregions belonging to different biological provinces. Its biota was poorly known before a survey of selected taxa in 1999. The recorded mammal fauna is not particularly diverse (16 native species comprising eight marsupials, four bats and four rodents). It...

The Desert Mouse, Pseudomys desertor and the Western Chestnut Mouse, P. nanus have a very similar external appearance. Both can be distinguished, when adult, by the position of the nipples in the female, by the shape of the head, and by overall body size. The two species are sympatric in part of their range.

As a result of extensive trapping since 1997 in Western Australia, the current range of Pseudomys desertor is more completely known including records from areas where previously only subfossil remains were known. The known range of P. desertor has now been extended by 1000 kilometres westward and south by 200kms. These animals were trapped in areas...

Mainland species of the camaenid genus Rhagada, endemic to northern Western Australia, have relatively large, non-overlapping geographic ranges. In contrast, over much smaller distances in the Dampier Archipelago, several locally endemic, morphologically distinctive species occur with intermingled ranges. To test alternative origins of the unusual...

The indigenous terrestrial vertebrate fauna of the Montebello Islands consists of five mammal, 70 bird and 21 reptile species. Three species of exotic mammals occur: Feral Cats and Black Rats were introduced in the 19(th) Century and the House Mouse was first recorded in 1983. Black Rats have probably been eradicated. Extinctions of the Spectacled...

A new speeies of Neobatrachus is deseribed from the wheat belt of Western Australia. This species has a diploid karyotype and can be distinguished from congeneric species by morphology and calL Introduction The delineation and identification of species of Neobatrachus has often proved difficult using morphological features alone. The analysis of ch...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Western Australia, 1991. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-248).

Two new species of the Australian skink genus Lerista are described. Both are geographically restricted to discrete biogeographic units of the coastal and central north western regions of Western Australia. They are Lerista allochira from North West Cape, a member of the Lerista muelleri group (Storr, Smith, and Johnstone, 1981), and Lerista kenned...