Luke Kelly

Post-fire habitat relationships for birds differ among ecosystems

Frederick W Rainsford, Luke T Kelly, Steve WJ Leonard, Andrew F Bennett

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Knowledge of how factors such as climate, plant regeneration traits and fire characteristics influence the rate and pattern of pos..

Fire and Its Interactions With Other Drivers Shape a Distinctive, Semi-Arid 'Mallee' Ecosystem

Michael F Clarke, Luke T Kelly, Sarah C Avitabile, Joe Benshemesh, Kate E Callister, Don A Driscoll, Peter Ewin, Katherine Giljohann, Angie Haslem, Sally A Kenny, Steve Leonard, Euan G Ritchie, Dale G Nimmo, Natasha Schedvin, Kathryn Schneider, Simon J Watson, Martin Westbrooke, Matt White, Michael A Wouters, Andrew F Bennett

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fire shapes ecosystems globally, including semi-arid ecosystems. In Australia, semi-arid ‘mallee’ ecosystems occur primarily acros..

How does prescribed fire shape bird and plant communities in a temperate dry forest ecosystem?

Frederick W Rainsford, Luke T Kelly, Steve WJ Leonard, Andrew F Bennett

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

To mitigate the impact of severe wildfire on human society and the environment, prescribed fire is widely used in forest ecosystem..

Fire and functional traits: Using functional groups of birds and plants to guide management in a fire-prone, heathy woodland ecosystem

Frederick W Rainsford, Luke T Kelly, Steve WJ Leonard, Andrew F Bennett

Journal article  |  2021  |  DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Aim: Many dry forests and woodlands worldwide are fire-prone and support bird and plant communities shaped by fire. Changes in fir..

Predicting mammal responses to pyrodiversity: From microbats to macropods

Katharine L Senior, Katherine M Giljohann, Michael A McCarthy, Frederick W Rainsford, Luke T Kelly

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fire has shaped Australia's diverse mammal fauna for millennia. However, ongoing changes to fire regimes threaten native mammal po..

How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation

Don A Driscoll, Dolors Armenteras, Andrew F Bennett, Lluis Brotons, Michael F Clarke, Tim S Doherty, Angie Haslem, Luke T Kelly, Chloe F Sato, Holly Sitters, Nuria Aquilue, Kristian Bell, Maria Chadid, Andrea Duane, Maria C Meza-Elizalde, Katherine M Giljohann, Tania Marisol Gonzalez, Ravi Jambhekar, Juliana Lazzari, Alejandra Moran-Ordonez, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be predicted by considering their effects ..

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Luke T Kelly, Katherine M Giljohann, Andrea Duane, Nuria Aquilue, Sally Archibald, Enric Batllori, Andrew F Bennett, Stephen T Buckland, Quim Canelles, Michael F Clarke, Marie-Josee Fortin, Virgilio Hermoso, Sergi Herrando, Robert E Keane, Frank K Lake, Michael A McCarthy, Alejandra Moran-Ordonez, Catherine L Parr, Juli G Pausas, Trent D Penman, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENCE

BACKGROUND Fire has shaped the diversity of life on Earth for millions of years. Variation in fire regimes continues to be a sourc..

Using decision science to evaluate global biodiversity indices

Kate E Watermeyer, Payal Bal, Michael J Burgass, Lucie M Bland, Ben Collen, Chris Hallam, Luke T Kelly, Michael A McCarthy, Tracey J Regan, Simone Stevenson, Brendan A Wintle, Emily Nicholson, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Global biodiversity indices are used to measure environmental change and progress toward conservation goals, yet few indices have ..

Post-fire development of faunal habitat depends on plant regeneration traits

Frederick W Rainsford, Luke T Kelly, Steve WJ Leonard, Andrew F Bennett

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The concept that vegetation structure (and faunal habitat) develops predictably with time since fire has been central to understan..

The influence of weather and moon phase on small mammal activity

Katharine L Senior, Julia Ramsauer, Michael A McCarthy, Luke T Kelly

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN MAMMALOGY

Small mammals are commonly surveyed using live trapping but the influence of weather conditions on trap success is largely unknown..