A5078202339- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
Monash University
2020-2023
University of Wollongong
2010-2019
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2015-2016
Plants provide fundamental support systems for life on Earth and are the basis all terrestrial ecosystems; a decline in plant diversity will be detrimental to other groups of organisms including humans. Decline has been hard quantify, due huge numbers known yet discovered species lack an adequate baseline assessment extinction risk against which track changes. The biodiversity many remote parts world remains poorly known, rate new assessments individual approximates at described. Thus...
Knowledge products comprise assessments of authoritative information supported by standards, governance, quality control, data, tools, and capacity building mechanisms. Considerable resources are dedicated to developing maintaining knowledge for biodiversity conservation, they widely used inform policy advise decision makers practitioners. However, the financial cost delivering this is largely undocumented. We evaluated costs funding sources four global conservation products: The IUCN Red...
The IUCN Sampled Red List Index (SRLI) is a policy response by biodiversity scientists to the need estimate trends in extinction risk of world's diminishing biological diversity. Assessments plant species for SRLI project rely predominantly on herbarium specimen data from natural history collections, overwhelming absence accurate population or detailed distribution maps vast majority species. This creates difficulties re-assessing these so as measure genuine changes conservation status,...
Through using different sources, population reintroductions can create genetically diverse populations at low risk of harmful inbreeding and well equipped for adaptation to future environments. Genetic variation from one source mask locally nonoptimal alleles another, thereby enhancing adaptive potential persistence. We assessed the outcomes in survival, growth reproduction two differentiated sources (genetically Yarra moderately Dartmouth) translocations stocking reintroduce endangered...
Abstract Threatened ecosystem conservation requires an understanding of the effectiveness management and challenges hindering successful protection recovery. Bringing together researchers, land managers policymakers to identify key threats, needs, knowledge gaps provides a unified account evidence tools needed improve threatened management. We undertook research prioritization process for Australian alpine subalpine peatlands with experts across policy, research, Through individual...
We conducted the first comprehensive assessment of extinction risk Australia's freshwater fishes. Using International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN) criteria, 37% (88 species) 241 assessed species were threatened (Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable), with one as being Extinct. Lepidogalaxiidae and Neoceratodontidae had highest level threat (100%, both single families), followed by Galaxiidae (78% 40 species), Percichthyidae (62% 22 Melanotaeniidae (53% 19 species)....
Abstract Restoring levels of genetic diversity in small and declining populations is increasingly being considered biodiversity conservation. Evidence-based management requires assessment risks benefits crossing populations. Because are challenging to assess experimentally, e.g. through multi-generational crosses, decision-support approaches utilize proxy risk factors such as time since separation lineages. However, the paucity empirical datasets on fitness consequences longer times tends...
Human-mediated dispersal of animals often acts to bring populations that have been separated for substantial periods evolutionary time (e.g. millions years) in their native range into contact introduced range. Whether these taxa successfully interbreed the provides information on strength reproductive isolation amongst them. The invasive delicate skink (Lampropholis delicata) has accidentally Lord Howe Island from four genetically divergent (>2 million regions species’ eastern Australia....