Zoological Project Localities

Maggs Mountain 1974-90

This Queen Victoria Museum project was planned and carried out by the former Curator of Zoology, R.H. (Bob) Green. The aim was to document fauna changes associated with clearfall logging in the upper Mersey River catchment. Results for vertebrates were reported in Green (1977, 1982). A large number of invertebrates were pitfall-trapped and beaten from foliage during repeated visits to Maggs Mountain over a 17-year period. The partly sorted invertebrate collection is held at the Queen Victoria Museum.
 
On this page the primary spatial data (in bold) are UTM grid references based on maps and advice from Bob Green. All sites are within the indicated 100 m grid squares except D, whose position has been approximated. Derived spatial data are full UTM grid references and lat/long for the centres of the indicated 100 m squares. Precision is likely to be ±300 m for site D and ±100 m for all other sites around centres of 100 m grid squares.
 
Note that the locations given here are based on the AGD66 datum. To convert these grid references to the system based on the GDA94 datum, add 112 m to eastings and 183 m to northings. To convert latitude/longitude to GDA94 (approximately equivalent to WGS84), subtract 5.4" from latitude and add 4.8" to longitude.
 
References:
 
Green, R.H. 1977. The vertebrate fauna of Maggs Mountain, Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 55: 1-40.
 
Green, R.H. 1982. The activity and movement of fauna in Compartment 2, Maggs Mountain, Tasmania in the first five years of forest regeneration. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 75: 1-31.

Site

Grid reference

Lat. S, Long. E

Elev.

Notes

Field station

DP339840
433950 5384050

41°41'32"
146°12'22"

450

Arm River camp

Site A

DP340841
434050 5384150

41°41'29"
146°12'26"

440

dry forest just E of field station tip; apparently the same as '180 m W [sic] of camp' (R. Green, 17 Jan 2003)

Site B

DP334840
433450 5384050

41°41'32"
146°12'00"

470

mixed forest near Arm R, between Maggs Rd and Arm R track; apparently the same as '500 m W of field station'

Site C

DP336839
433650 5383950

41°41'35"
146°12'09"

490

dry forest ca. 250 m W of field station on Maggs Rd, top side of road

Site D

DP317820
431750 5382050

41°42'36"
146°10'46"

110

mixed forest, location approximate

Site E

DP322801
432250 5380150

41°43'38"
146°11'07"

880

mixed forest at start of Spur Rd 1

Site F

DP323800
432350 5380050

41°43'42"
146°11'11"

880

mixed forest at start of Spur Rd 1

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