Past projects and research

Selected consultancy projects—from a list of 350+ reports

Papua New Guinea project involvements (reports unpublished and confidential)

PNG LNG Pn'yang

Mananda

Purari hydropower scheme

Frieda River

Wafi-Golpu

Baiyer River Wildlife Sanctuary

Hela River

Wildlife Conservation Society's Hindenburg Range survey

Armstrong, KN and Aplin, KP (2011). Bats of the Muller Range, Papua New Guinea. Chapter 19, pp. 222–234 In: Rapid Biological Assessments of the Nakanai Mountains and the upper Strickland Basin: surveying the biodiversity of Papua New Guinea’s sublime karst environments. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 60. Conservation International, Arlington USA. DOI

Wallacea, Indonesia, Timor-Leste (reports unpublished and confidential)

Ira Lalaro hydropower scheme, Timor-Leste

A south coast development, Timor-Leste

A mine on Halmahera

Queensland and Northern Territory

Armstrong, KN, and Konishi, Y (2013). Targeted survey for the bare-rumped sheath-tailed bat in the South of Embley project area, near Weipa, Queensland. Unpublished report by Specialised Zoological for RTA Weipa Pty Ltd, 21 November 2013.

Armstrong, KN and Konishi, Y (2012). Bat survey for the Western Desert Resources Towns River project area, Northern Territory. Field survey and analysis. Unpublished report by Specialised Zoological to EcOz Environmental Services Pty Ltd, 16 April 2012.

Western Australia

Armstrong, KN, and Konishi, Y (2014). Goldsworthy bat monitoring: July 2012 – May 2013. Acoustic analysis. Unpublished report by Specialised Zoological to BHP Billiton Iron Ore, 19 February 2014.

Donnellan, SC, Armstrong, KN and Thomson, VA (2012). Species level identification using novel mitochondrial DNA markers of Dasycercus biopsy samples from Abydos, Western Australia. Unpublished report by the South Australian Museum for Biologic Environmental Survey Pty Ltd, 18 August 2012. Project code 2012-10.

Armstrong, KN and Konishi, Y (2012). Monitoring the activity of the Pilbara leaf-nosed bat in the API West Pilbara Iron Ore Project area. Acoustic and thermal video analysis. Unpublished report by Specialised Zoological to Biologic Environmental Survey Pty Ltd, 13 July 2012.

Armstrong, KN and Konishi, Y (2012). Monitoring the activity of the Pilbara leaf-nosed bat on Atlas Iron's Wodgina Project area, WA. Automated acoustic analysis. Unpublished report by Specialised Zoological to Outback Ecology Services Pty Ltd, 9 July 2012.

Armstrong, KN and Konishi, Y (2010). Turee Syncline bat monitoring, November 2009. Field survey and acoustic analysis. Unpublished report by Specialised Zoological to Rio Tinto Iron Ore, 29 March 2010.

Selected peer-reviewed scientific publications

...a fair bit to come in 2015...

29. Llamas B, Brotherton P, Mitchell KJ, Templeton J, Tomson VA, Metcalf JL, Armstrong KN, Richards SM, Camens AB, Lee MSY and Cooper A (2014 in press). Late Pleistocene Australian marsupial DNA clarifies the affinities of extinct megafaunal kangaroos and wallabies. Molecular Biology and Evolution XX: XX–XX. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu338

28. Hill, DA. Armstrong, KN and Barden, PA (2014 in press). Preliminary assessment suggests that acoustic lures can increase capture rates of Australian echolocating bats. Australian Mammalogy 37:XX–XX. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AM14019

27. Foley NM, Thong VD, Soisook P, Goodman SM, Armstrong KN, Jacobs D, Peuchmaille SJ and Teeling EC. (2014 in press). How and why overcome the impediments to resolution: lessons from rhinolophid and hipposiderid bats. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32: 313–333. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu329

26. Mitchell KJ, Pratt RC, Watson LN, Gibb GC, Kasper M, Edson J, Armstrong KN, Meyer M, Hofreiter M, Austin J, Donnellan SC, Lee MSY, Phillips MJ and Cooper A (2014). Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and habitat preference evolution of marsupials. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31: 2322–2330. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu176

25. Armstrong, KN (2011). The current status of bats in Western Australia. Pp. 257–269. In: The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats, (eds B Law, P Eby, D Lunney and L Lumsden). Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman, NSW, Australia.

24. Armstrong, KN and Kerry, L (2011). Modelling the prey detection performance of Rhinonicteris aurantia (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) in different atmospheric conditions discounts the notional role of relative humidity in adaptive evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology 278: 44–54.

23. Webala, PW, Craig, MD, Law, BS, Armstrong, KN, Wayne, AF and Bradley, JS (2011). Bat habitat use in logged jarrah eucalypt forests of south-western Australia. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 398–406.

22. Armstrong, KN and Aplin, KP (2011). Bats of the Muller Range, Papua New Guinea. Chapter 19, pp. 222–234 In: Rapid Biological Assessments of the Nakanai Mountains and the upper Strickland Basin: surveying the biodiversity of Papua New Guinea’s sublime karst environments. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 60. Conservation International, Arlington USA. DOI

21. Armstrong, KN (2010). Assessing the short-term effect of minerals exploration drilling on colonies of bats of conservation significance: a case study near Marble Bar, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 93: 165–174.

20. Rawlence, NJ, Wood, JR, Armstrong, KN and Cooper, A (2009). DNA from ancient feathers as an evolutionary resource and their potential for phenotypic reconstructions of extinct avian taxa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 276: 3395–3402. DOI

17. Yoshino, H, Armstrong, KN, Izawa, M, Yokoyama, J and Kawata, M (2008). Genetic and acoustic population structuring in the Okinawa Least Horseshoe Bat: are inter-colony acoustic differences maintained by vertical maternal transmission? Molecular Ecology 17: 4978–4991.

15. Armstrong, KN and Coles, RB (2007). Echolocation call frequency differences between geographic isolates of Rhinonicteris aurantia (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae): implications of nasal chamber size. Journal of Mammalogy 88: 94–104.

13. Armstrong, KN (2006). Phylogeographic structure in Rhinonicteris aurantia (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae): implications for conservation. Acta Chiropterologica 8: 63–81.

12. Armstrong, KN (2006). Resolving the correct nomenclature of the orange leaf-nosed bat Rhinonicteris aurantia (Gray, 1845) (Hipposideridae). Australian Mammalogy 28: 125–130.

11. Armstrong, KN, Brown, R and Armstrong, P (2005). The status of bat roosts in caves in the south west of Western Australia, with a focus on Quininup Lake Cave. Western Australian Naturalists 25: 41–56.

9. Armstrong, KN (2005). A description and discussion of the penile morphology of Rhinonicteris aurantius (Gray, 1845) (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae). Australian Mammalogy 27: 161–167.

8. Armstrong, KN (2002). Morphometric divergence among populations of Rhinonicteris aurantius (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) in northern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 50:649–669.

7. Armstrong, KN (2001). The roost habitat and distribution of the orange leaf-nosed bat, Rhinonicteris aurantius, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Wildlife Research 28:95–104.

6. Anstee, SD and Armstrong, KN (2001). The effect of familiarity and mound condition in translocations of the Western Pebble-mound Mouse Pseudomys chapmani in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Wildlife Research 28: 135–140.

5. Armstrong, KN and Anstee, SD (2001). An unusual pelage colour of the Common sheathtail bat Taphozous georgianus Thomas, 1915 from the Pilbara of Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalists 23: 51–54.

4. Armstrong, KN and Anstee, SD (2000). The ghost bat in the Pilbara: 100 years on. Australian Mammalogy 22: 93–101.

3. Armstrong, KN and Nichols, OG (2000). Long-term trends in avifaunal recolonisation of rehabilitated bauxite minesites in the northern jarrah forest of south-western Australia. Forest Ecology and Management 126: 213–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00087-0

2. Armstrong, KN (2000). Roost microclimates of the bat Rhinonicteris aurantius in a limestone cave in Geikie Gorge, Western Australia. Australian Mammalogy 22: 69–70.

Selected other published contributions

Armstrong, KN and Aplin KP (2014). Chapter 7. A survey of bats (Chiroptera) in the Baiyer River Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. pp. 111–133 In: Richards, S.J. (ed) A rapid biodiversity assessment of the Baiyer River region, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. A report to the Mul Baiyer Lumusa District Administration.

Van Dyck, S, Gynther, I and Baker, A (eds.) (2013). Field companion to the Mammals of Australia. New Holland, London. [Richards, GC, Hand, S, Armstrong, KN and Hall, LS, p. 125, Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas; Armstrong, KN, pp. 130, Pilbara Leaf-nosed Bat Rhinonicteris aurantia (unnamed Pilbara form); Jolly, S, Armstrong, KN, and Reardon, TB, p. 133, Common Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous georgianus; Milne, D, Armstrong, KN and McKenzie, NL, p. 137, Mangrove Free-tailed Bat Mormopterus cobourgianus; Armstrong, KN and Kitchener, D, p. 159, Yellow-lipped Cave Bat Vespadelus douglasorum; Reardon, TB, Milne, DJ, Kutt, AS and Armstrong, KN, p. 159, Finlayson’s cave bat Vespadelus finlaysoni]

Armstrong, K (2012) Orange Leaf-nosed Bat. In: Queensland’s Threatened Animals. (eds LK Curtis, AJ Dennis, KR McDonald, PK Kyne and SJS Debus) pp. 394–395. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

Donnellan SC, Armstrong KN and Potter S (2011). The diet of the centipede Scolopendra on Christmas Island. Unpublished report to the Department of the Environment, Water and Heritage, Canberra, Australia.

Helgen KM, Armstrong KN, Guzinski J, How RA and Donnellan SC (2011). Taxonomic status of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus murrayi Andrews, 1900, as assessed by morphometric and molecular phylogenetic investigations of Indo- Australian Pipistrellus. Unpublished report to the Department of the Environment, Water and Heritage, Canberra, Australia.

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (2010). Survey standards for Australia’s threatened bats. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Australian Museum Business Services, June 2003. [authored by TB Reardon 2003, peer-reviewed and extensively updated April 2009 by KN Armstrong]

Sano, A and Armstrong, KN (2009). Rhinolophus cornutus Temminck, 1835. pp. 60–61; Rhinolophus pumilus Andersen, 1905. pp. 62–63; Rhinolophus perditus Andersen, 1918. pp. 64–65, In: The wild mammals of Japan. (eds. S.D. Ohdachi, Y. Ishibashi, M.A. Iwasa and T. Saito). Shoukadoh Book Sellers and the Mammalogical Society of Japan, Sapporo Japan.

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (2008) Orange leaf-nosed bat Rhinonicteris aurantia (Pilbara form); Semon’s leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros semoni;Greater large-eared horseshoe bat Rhinolophus philippinensis. In: Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT), Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra. URL: http://www.environment.gov.au/sprat

Van Dyck, S and Strahan, R (eds.) (2008). Mammals of Australia 3rd edition, Australian Museum, Sydney. [Armstrong, KN, Pilbara Leaf-nosed Bat Rhinonicteris aurantia. pp. 470–471; Armstrong, KN and Kitchener, D, Yellow-lipped Cave Bat Vespadelus douglasorum. pp. 564–565; Richards, GC, Hand, S, Armstrong, KN and Hall, LS, Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas. pp. 449–450; Jolly, S, Armstrong, KN, and Reardon, TB, Common Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous georgianus. pp. 478–479; Milne, D, Armstrong, KN and McKenzie, NL, Western Little Free-tailed Bat Mormopterus sp. pp. 488–489; Reardon, TB, Milne, DJ, Kutt, AS and Armstrong, KN, Finlayson’s cave bat Vespadelus finlaysoni. pp. 565–567].

McKenzie, N, Armstrong, K and Kendrick, P (1999). Pilbara leaf-nosed bat. In: The Action Plan for Australian Bats (eds. A Duncan, GB Baker and N Montgomery). Environment Australia (Australian Commonwealth Government), Canberra. 36–38.