Links
Couran Cove Island Resort Environment Facts Sheets
Queensland Museum - Fauna Fact Sheets
Couran Cove Island Resort Environment Facts Sheets
Acid
Sulphate Soils
Bats
Birds
Bush
Tucker
Butterflies
& Moths
Cicadas
Energy
Management
Fish
& Crustacea
Frogs
History
of South Stradbroke Island
Marine
Creatures
Nursery
& Propagation
Pest
Management
Rainforest
Plants
Reptiles
Vegetation
Waste
Management
Water
Purification & Protection
Queensland Museum - Fauna Fact Sheets:
Cicadas
- our Summer Singers (pdf 86kB)
Rhinoceros
Beetles (pdf 161kB)
Redback
Spider and Brown Widow Spider (pdf 160kB)
Dragons
in Brisbane (pdf 264kB)
Tree Snakes
(pdf 89kB)
Burton's
Snake-Lizard (pdf 139kB)
Kangaroos
and their kin (pdf 417kB)
Birdwing
Butterflies (pdf 129kB)
Giant Wood
Moth (pdf 446kB)
Assassin
Bugs (pdf 189kB)
Paperwasps
(pdf 324kB)
Pythons
in Brisbane (pdf 119kB)
Whip Snakes
and Marsh Snakes (pdf 83kB)
Blue and
Pink-tongued Skinks (pdf 100kB)
Humpback
Whales (pdf 100kB)
Crested
Hawk (Pacific Baza) (pdf 325kB)
The Australian Museum Facts Sheets:
A large collection of articles on Australian
animals, plants and environments:
http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/
Stradbroke Island Virtual Field Trip: http://www.internal.schools.net.au/edu/atom/awardtwo/index.html
World Wide Biome Project - student research
of ecosystems around the world:
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/inchsquare/index.html
North Stradbroke Island Field Trip:
http://people.hws.edu/mitchell/oz/Stradbroke96.html
Meet the locals - a food web exercise:
http://landlearn.netc.net.au/curriculum/classroom_activities/food_web.htm
Australian Museum Wild Kids Australian
environments
http://www.amonline.net.au/wild_kids/ ,
including:
Coasts: http://www.amonline.net.au/wild_kids/coasts.cfm
Woodlands: http://www.amonline.net.au/wild_kids/woodlands.cfm
Natures Nautical Nursery Upper Primary
resources from Qld Dept of Primary Industries and Fisheries
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/extra/nnn/default.html
Life on Australian Seashores (includes
an excellent section on feeding
relationships)
http://www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/
University of Queensland Marine Studies
- Moreton Bay Biota:
http://www.marine.uq.edu.au/marbot/marineplants/general.htm
Coastal creatures in crisis
Dept of Environment & Heritage:
http://www.deh.gov.au/education/publications/coastcare.html
Wetland Care Australia - Teacher Resources:
http://www.wetlandcare.com.au/education_teacher_archive.asp
Including:
Field Guide to the Mangroves of Queensland:
http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/reflib/fg-mangroves/pages/fgm-qld-03.html
Mangroves - Northern Territory Govt:
http://www.lpe.nt.gov.au/advis/LAND/mangrove/
Proteoid Roots:
http://www.tau.ac.il/~ecology/virtau/3-philip_nemoy/cluster_roots.htm#Function
Aboriginal Use of Native Plants
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric/stage4_5/nativeplants/gallery/index.html
Brisbane Insects and Spiders:
http://www.geocities.com/pchew_brisbane/index.html
Cicadas:
http://www.ausemade.com.au/group/f/fauna/insect/cicada/c1.htm
Feathers & Flyways Shorebirds:
http://www.wetlands.org.au/shorebirds/index.htm
Bird beaks:
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/Lessons.cfm?DocID=81
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/virtualbird/student/les4.html
Birds, Beaks, and Natural Selection - A
Simulation:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/teachstuds/pdf/bird_beak_hdt.pdf
Find a Fish - Australian Museum Fish Site:
http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/index.cfm
List of Threatened Fauna - Department of
the Environment and Heritage:
http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicthreatenedlist.pl?wanted=fauna
Fauna Species Diversity of the Subtropical
Rainforest of Lamington National Park versus that of the Schlerophyll Forest
of North Stradbroke Island:
http://people.hws.edu/mitchell/oz/Papers/LammeTer.html
Scorpion Flies http://www.forestry.sa.gov.au/privateforestry/insect_fact_sheets/Fact_Sheet_html/FHS%2015%20Scorpion%20Flies.htm