Malacological results of the western Australian marine biological workshop series
2002
Wells, F.E. (Western Australian Museum, Perth WA 6000 (Australia))
مجهول. The State of Western Australia is larger than the United States east of the Mississippi and has a coastline of 12,000 km. The south coast of WA has a temperate biota; the north coast is tropical; and the west coast is an overlap region between the two. About 10% of the shallow water molluscs are endemic to the state; these are concentrated on the west coast. European settlement started only in 1827 and many areas are still unaccessible. Aside from the aquaculture industry there are fewer than six malacologists, and all except one occupy positions created since 1960s. To help overcome this isolation, a series of six marine biological workshops has been conducted in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, including workshops in the tropical, temperate and overlap zones. The workshops are field intensive, lasting for 17 days. It takes three years to write up and publish the workshop preceedings. Participants have included many leading marine malacologists of the present generation. Eight volumes of results have been published to date, and about half of the papers have dealt with molluscs. Malacological results include basic research such as substantial documentation of species present in WA, biogeography, systematics (including new species, and a new family), ecology (diets, reproduction, ecological separation, episodic mortalities, growth rates), and physiology (evaporative heat stress, tolerances). Practical results include the first report of imposex in Western Australia and information used in marine management programs. The Dampier workshop proceedings will be published in mid 2003 and there will be a workshop in Esperance or the south coast in Feb 2003
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