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Greg Gowing
Senior Technical Officer
B.Sc.,(Hons).

Research Interests
Invertebrates

Address:
Australian Museum
Terrestrial Ecology
Division of Earth & Environmental Sciences
6 College Street
Sydney NSW 2010
Australia

Phone:
(+612) 9320 6395

Fax:
(+612) 9320 6059

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Research Publications in refereed journals

1. Recher, H.F.; Gowing, G.; Kavanagh, R.; Shields, J. and Rohan-Jones, W. (1983) Birds, resources and time in a tableland forest. Proc. Ecol. Soc. Aust. 12: 101-23
2. Gowing, G. and Recher, H.F. (1984) Length-weight relationships for invertebrates from forests in south- eastern New South Wales. Aust. J. Ecol. 9: 5-8
3. Recher, H.F.; Allen, D. and Gowing, G. (1985) The impact of wildfire on birds in an intensively logged forest in Birds of Eucalypt Forests and Woodlands: Ecology, Conservation, Management ed. by A. Keast, H.F. Recher, H. Ford and D. Saunders. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and Surrey Beatty & Sons. pp283-290
4. Recher, H.F.; Gowing, G. and Armstrong, T. (1985) Causes and frequency of deaths among birds mist-netted for banding studies at two localities. Aust. Wildl. Res. 12: 321-6
5. Recher, H.F.; Majer, J.D.; Gowing, G. and Sarti, N.L. (1993) Canopy invertebrate communities in woodlands - a comparison of morning and afternoon samples by chemical knockdown. Mulga Res. Cen. J. 11: 27-30
6. Major, R.E. and Gowing, G. (1994) An inexpensive photographic technique for identifying nest predators at active nests of birds. Wildl. Res. 21: 657-66
7. Major, R.E.; Pyke, G.H.; Christy, M.T.; Gowing, G. and Hill, R.S. (1994) Can nest predation explain the timing of the breeding season and the pattern of nest dispersion of New Holland Honeyeaters? Oikos 69: 364-72
8. Gowing, G. and Major, R.E. (1995) The Nest Test experiment: are community involvement and good science mutually exclusive? Museum Management and Curatorship 14: 169-180
9. Major, R.E.; Gowing, G. and Kendal, C.E. (1996) Nest predation in Australian urban environments and the role of the pied currawong, Strepera graculina. Aust. J. Ecol. 21: 399-409

Unrefereed Articles, Reports, Etc.

1. Recher, H.F.; Allen, D. and Gowing, G. (1985) The impact of wildfire on birds in an intensively logged forest. in Keast, A.;Recher, H.F.;Ford, H. and Saunders, D. (Eds). Birds of eucalypt forest and woodlands: ecology, conservation, management. Surrey Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW. p 283-90.
2. Gowing, G. (1994) Review of "Complexity" by Roger Lewin. A.N.H. 24(8): 62
3. Gowing, G. (1995) Review of "Australian Rainforest Plants IV" by Nan and Hugh Nicholson. Nature Australia 25(2): 73

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