Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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Harbouring Discontent: World Heritage, the Great Barrier Reef and the Gladstone Port Development
Published 2012-01-01The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is facing unprecedented pressures from a range of inputs– one of the most prominent being industrial coastal development. Of these developments, none has more current significance than the ...Open AccessThesis -
Magazine approach during a signal for food depends on Pavlovian, not instrumental, conditioning
Published 2013-04-01In the conditioned magazine approach paradigm, rats are exposed to a contingent relationship between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and the delivery of food (the unconditioned stimulus, US). As the rats learn the CS-US ...Open AccessArticle -
Cheaters sometimes prosper: targeted worker reproduction in honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies during swarming
Published 2013-01-01Kin selection theory predicts that honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers should largely refrain from producing their own offspring, as the workers collectively have higher inclusive fitness if they rear the sons of their mother, ...Open AccessDataset -
Response landscape graphs conceptualising the effects of arousal and affective state on training outcomes of operant conditioning in animal training.
Published 2013-01-01The files show a series of interactive three-dimensional conceptual graphs as exemplars to describing putative influences of both affective state and arousal on the likelihood of dogs and horses performing commonly desired ...Open AccessImage -
Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise Of 8 Beaches In Shoalhaven: A New Multi-Dimensional Assessment Methodology
Published 2012-01-01Coastal councils around the world are likely to be affected by future climatic impacts such as sea level rise and extreme flooding. Shoalhaven City Council is responsible for the sustainable management of 165 kilometres ...Open AccessConference paper