EnviroKey

The Principal Ecologist of EnviroKey, Steve Sass, and in collaboration with other researchers, has published, submitted or currently preparing numerous peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, which provide a significant contribution to current ecological knowledge. These manuscripts focus on a poorly studied fauna group, frogs and reptiles, and aim to provide natural resource managements and the scientific community with updated inventories, details on species distribution and habitats and species and community ecology which can be used to develop strategies for their future management.

Sass, S & Swan, G. (in press) The herpetofauna of the bimble box-pine woodland remnants of the Cobar Peneplain, Western New South Wales. Herpetofauna.

Sass, S (2009) The effectiveness of funnel traps to conduct reptile surveys in the chenopod shrublands of western New South Wales. Consulting Ecology 22, 18-20. PDF

Sass, S (2009) A case of predation by an adult Red-bellied Black Snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) on an adult Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis). Herpetofauna 39 (1): 78-80.

Sass, S (2009)  An overview of bird communities within arid shrubland and woodland habitats of western New South Wales. Consulting Ecology, 23: 58-65. PDF

Sass, S, Watson, DM & Wilson, AM (2008) The reptile fauna of the Upper Billabong Creek catchment area, Murray Region, southern New South Wales: their distribution and future management. Herpetofauna 38 (2): 41-49. PDF

Sass, S, Watson, DM & Herring, M (2007) A range extension for the Blotched Blue tongue lizard (Tiliqua nigrolutea) and implications for their future survival. Herpetofauna 37 (2): 21-25. PDF

Sass, S & Wilson, AM (2006) Effects of fire on lizard communities in the mallee shrublands of western New South Wales. Herpetofauna 36 (2): 106-111. PDF

Sass, S (2006) The reptile fauna of Nombinnie Nature Reserve and State Conservation Area, western New South Wales. Australian Zoologist 33 (4): 511-518. PDF

Wassens,S, Sass, S & Swan, G (2005) Reptile communities in the vegetation remnants of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, New South Wales. Herpetofauna 35 (2): 66-72. PDF

Sass, S, Swan, G, Wassens, S & Thompson, L (2005) A range extension for the Spinifex snake-lizard Delma butleri (PYGOPODIDAE): A new record from the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. Herpetofauna 35 (1): 48-50. PDF

Sass, S (2003) Observations of diurnal exposure in geckos. Herpetofauna 33 (2): 58-59. PDF

Sass, S (2003) A survey of the reptiles of Wagga Wagga. Herpetofauna 33 (1): 18-23. PDF