Alan York

Using eDNA metabarcoding to understand the effect of fire on the diet of small mammals in a woodland ecosystem

Saumya Wanniarachchi, Matthew Swan, Paul Nevil, Alan York

Journal article  |  2022  |  ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Food acquisition is a fundamental process that drives animal distribution and abundance, influencing how species respond to changi..

Diet of the Yellow-footed Antechinus Antechinus flavipes

A York, A Ashton, J Di Stefano

Journal article  |  2022  |  Victorian Naturalist

Independent effects of drought and shade on growth, biomass allocation and leaf morphology of a flammable perennial grass Tetrarrhena juncea R.Br

Geofe O Cadiz, Jane G Cawson, Thomas J Duff, Trent D Penman, Alan York, Claire Farrell

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLANT ECOLOGY

Knowing the abundance of different plant species provides insights into the properties of vegetation communities, such as flammabi..

Ground-dwelling mammal diversity responds positively to productivity and habitat heterogeneity in a fire-prone region

Matthew Swan, Fiona Christie, Erin Steel, Holly Sitters, Alan York, Julian Di Stefano

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECOSPHERE

Environmental heterogeneity has a consistent, positive effect on species diversity globally, principally due to increased niche sp..

Environmental factors associated with the abundance of forest wiregrass (Tetrarrhena juncea), a flammable understorey grass in productive forests

Geofe O Cadiz, Jane G Cawson, Trent D Penman, Alan York, Thomas J Duff

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

When flammable plant species become dominant they can influence the flammability of the entire vegetation community. Therefore, it..

Habitat use at fire edges: Does animal activity follow temporal patterns of habitat change?

Kate Parkins, Amy Scott, Julian Di Stefano, Matthew Swan, Holly Sitters, Alan York

Journal article  |  2019  |  Forest Ecology and Management

Edges are ecologically important environmental features that have been well researched in agricultural and urban landscapes. Howev..

The response of cerambycid beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) to long-term fire frequency regimes in subtropical eucalypt forest

Martyn Eliott, Simon Lawson, Andrew Hayes, Valerie Debuse, Alan York, Tom Lewis

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Fire has a varied influence on plant and animal species through direct (e.g. fire‐induced mortality) and indirect (e.g. modificati..

Combining optimization and simulation modelling to measure the cumulative impacts of prescribed fire and wildfire on vegetation species diversity

Matthew P Chick, Alan York, Holly Sitters, Julian Di Stefano, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Growth‐stage optimization (GSO) offers a new approach to biodiversity conservation in fire‐prone regions by estimating the optimal..

Factors influencing above-ground and soil seed bank vegetation diversity at different scales in a quasi-Mediterranean ecosystem

Matthew P Chick, Craig R Nitschke, Janet S Cohn, Trent D Penman, Alan York

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

QUESTIONS: Are factors influencing plant diversity in a fire‐prone Mediterranean ecosystem of southeast Australia scale‐dependent?..

Edge effects in fire-prone landscapes: Ecological importance and implications for fauna

Kate Parkins, Alan York, Julian Di Stefano

Journal article  |  2018  |  ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Edges are ecologically important environmental features and have been well researched in agricultural and urban landscapes. Howeve..