can you please name any of the authors?
Wells and Wellington
Australian Journal of Herpetology
Wells and Wellington, the latter a teacher at Blaxland High School, said that they did "years of research" before publishing their first paper. 
when was the australian journal of herpetology published? 1981 what is it about? A scientific journal specialising in herpetology what does this word mean? Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians and reptiles do you know who was the publisher for the journal? The Australian Herpetologists League
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Australian Journal of Herpetology [SEP] Wells and Wellington's justifications
Wells and Wellington, the latter a teacher at Blaxland High School, said that they did "years of research" before publishing their first paper. Wellington claimed in 1984 that their work was self-published due to a dispute with the Australian Museum, to which the pair had donated several specimens. Nonetheless, he said that the museum had prevented him and Wells from using its reptile collections for their research, further saying that, Relative to other continents, Australia's herpetofauna had been subject to less in-depth research, primarily due to the continent's low population density, uneven population distribution, and high biodiversity. G. B. Monteith described the duo's justification for their papers as "a radical conservation ethic" and wrote that their intent appeared to be based on the belief that describing individual populations as distinct species would hasten their conservation.