A5079722503- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest ecology and management
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Plant and animal studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Climate variability and models
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Landslides and related hazards
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
The University of Melbourne
2016-2025
Ecosystem Sciences
2023-2025
The University of Queensland
2023
Ecological Society of America
2020
University of British Columbia
2005-2015
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2005
With large wildfires becoming more frequent1,2, we must rapidly learn how megafires impact biodiversity to prioritize mitigation and improve policy. A key challenge is discover interactions among fire-regime components, drought land tenure shape wildfire impacts. The globally unprecedented3,4 2019–2020 Australian burnt than 10 million hectares5, prompting major investment in monitoring. Collated data include responses of 2,000 taxa, providing an unparalleled opportunity quantify affect...
Abstract Question Frequent severe wildfires have the potential to alter structure and composition of forests in temperate biomes. While dominated by resprouting trees are thought be largely invulnerable more frequent wildfires, empirical data support this assumption lacking. Does fire erode tree persistence increasing mortality reducing regeneration, what broader impacts on forest understorey composition? Location Sub‐alpine open Eucalyptus pauciflora forests, Australian Alps, Victoria,...
The island of New Guinea harbors some the world's most biologically diverse and highly endemic tropical ecosystems. Nevertheless, progressing land-use change in region threatens their integrity, which will adversely affect biodiversity as well carbon stocks fluxes. Our objectives were to (1) compare deforestation drivers between Indonesian Papua Guinea, (2) identify areas with a high risk future under different development scenarios, (3) evaluate effects potential scenarios on pools. We...
Our world is increasingly urbanizing which highlighting that sustainable cities are essential for maintaining human well-being. This research one of the first attempts to globally synthesize effects urbanization on ecosystem services and how these relate governance, social development climate. Three urban vegetation (carbon storage, recreation potential habitat potential) were quantified a selection hundred cities. Estimates obtained from analysis satellite imagery use well-known carbon...
The surge in global efforts to understand the causes and consequences of drought on forest ecosystems has tended focus specific impacts such as mortality. We propose an ecoclimatic framework that takes a broader view ecological relevance water deficits, linking elements exposure resilience cumulative range ecosystem processes. This is underpinned by two hypotheses: (i) deficit can be represented probabilistically used estimate thresholds across different vegetation types or ecosystems; (ii)...
Abstract Aim Forest carbon storage is the result of a multitude interactions among biotic and abiotic factors. Our aim was to use an integrative approach elucidate mechanistic relationships with factors in natural forests temperate Australia, region that has been overlooked global analyses carbon‐biodiversity relations. Location South‐eastern Australia. Time period 2010–2015. Major taxa studied trees 732 plots. Methods We used most comprehensive forest inventory database available for...
Abstract The sensitivity of early plant regeneration to environmental change makes a critical stage for understanding species response climate change. We investigated the spatial and temporal eucalypt trees in C entral H ighland region south eastern A ustralia high low scenarios. developed novel mechanistic model incorporating germination processes, TACA ‐ GEM , evaluate establishment probabilities five key species, E ucalyptus pauciflora, delegatensis, regnans, nitens obliqua . Changes...
Abstract Flowering phenology is very sensitive to climate and with increasing global warming the flowering time of plants shifting earlier or later dates. Changes in times may affect species reproductive success, associated phenological events, synchrony, community composition. Long‐term data on events can provide key insights into impacts phenology. For A ustralia, however, limited availability restricts our ability assess change plant To address this limitation other sources must be...
Rural mountain communities in developing countries are considered particularly vulnerable to environmental change, including climate change. Forests and agriculture provide numerous ecosystem goods services (EGS) local can help people adapt the impacts of There is however poor documentation on role EGS people’s livelihood adaptation practices. This study rural Panchase Mountain Ecological Region Nepal identifies practices being used a changing environment through key informant interviews...
Abstract. Management of temperate forests has the potential to increase carbon sinks and mitigate climate change. However, those opportunities may be confounded by negative change impacts. We therefore need a better understanding alterations forest dynamics before developing mitigation strategies. The purpose this project was investigate interactions species composition, fire, management, in Copper–Pine Creek valley, coniferous with wide range growing conditions. To do so, we used LANDIS-II...
Vulnerability to climate change is a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Econometric indicator-based approaches have been used assess vulnerability at regional, national global scales. However, these often fail capture how varies within regions communities. Within there little capacity distinguish between exposure sensitivity, while potentially considerable variability in This study presents new approach for assessing household village-levels by combining econometric...
Abstract Increasing impacts of climatic change and anthropogenic disturbances on natural ecosystems are leading to population declines or extinctions many species worldwide. In Australia, recent has caused in some native fauna. The projected increase mean annual temperature by up 4°C the end 21st century is expected exacerbate these trends. greater glider ( Petauroides volans ), Australia’s largest gliding marsupial, widely distributed along eastern coast, but recently experienced drastic...
Extreme weather can have significant impacts on plant species demography; however, most studies focused responses to a single or small number of extreme events. Long‐term patterns in climate extremes, and how they shaped contemporary distributions, rarely been considered tested. BIOCLIM variables that are commonly used correlative distribution modelling cannot be quantify as generated using long‐term averages therefore do not describe year‐to‐year, temporal variability. We evaluated the...
Active management is often mentioned but rarely defined in current policies and strategies for native forests of temperate Australia. Lack clarity about active could mean that to support forest health human involvement with are not fit purpose. In this paper, we summarise the policy context Victoria (as a case study Australia) review representations broader temperate-forest literature, including its place relation associated concepts like adaptive management. Based on review, provide...