Darren Southwell

Designing a large-scale track-based monitoring program to detect changes in species distributions in arid Australia.

Darren Southwell, Anja Skroblin, Katherine Moseby, Richard Southgate, Naomi Indigo, Brett Backhouse, Keith Bellchambers, Robert Brandle, Peter Brenton, Peter Copley, Martin A Dziminski, Carolina Galindez-Silva, Catherine Lynch, Peggy Newman, Reece Pedler, Daniel Rogers, David A Roshier, Ellen Ryan-Colton, Katherine Tuft, Matt Ward, et al.

Journal article  |  2023  |  Ecol Appl

Monitoring trends in animal populations in arid regions is challenging due to remoteness and low population densities. However, de..

Modelling the spatial extent of post-fire sedimentation threat to estimate the impacts of fire on waterways and aquatic species

Michelle Ward, Darren Southwell, Rachael V Gallagher, Tarmo A Raadik, Nick S Whiterod, Mark Lintermans, Gary Sheridan, Petter Nyman, Andres F Suarez-Castro, Jessica Marsh, John Woinarski, Sarah Legge

Journal article  |  2022  |  DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Aim: Fires can severely impact aquatic fauna, especially when attributes of soil, topography, fire severity and post-fire rainfall..

The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time-bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019-2020 Australian megafires

Sarah Legge, Libby Rumpff, John CZ Woinarski, Nick S Whiterod, Michelle Ward, Darren G Southwell, Ben C Scheele, Dale G Nimmo, Mark Lintermans, Hayley M Geyle, Stephen T Garnett, Brittany Hayward-Brown, Miki Ensbey, Glenn Ehmke, Shane T Ahyong, Caroline J Blackmore, Deborah S Bower, Diego Brizuela-Torres, Allan H Burbidge, Phoebe A Burns, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aim: After environmental disasters, species with large population losses may need urgent protection to prevent extinction and supp..

Restoring habitat for fire-impacted species’ across degraded Australian landscapes

M Ward, A Tulloch, R Stewart, HP Possingham, S Legge, RV Gallagher, EM Graham, D Southwell, D Keith, K Dixon, C Yong, J Carwardine, T Cronin, AE Reside, JEM Watson

Journal article  |  2022  |  Environmental Research Letters

In the summer of 2019-2020, southern Australia experienced the largest fires on record, detrimentally impacting the habitat of nat..

Combining financial costs and statistical power to optimize monitoring to detect recoveries of species after megafire

Adam Smart, Darren Southwell, Brendan Wintle, Anne Buchan, William Geary

Journal article  |  2022  |  GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aim: Megafire plays a crucial role in driving the distribution of biodiversity around the world. Long-term monitoring is vital for..

A gap analysis of reconnaissance surveys assessing the impact of the 2019-20 wildfires on vertebrates in Australia

Darren Southwell, David Wilkinson, Tianxiao Hao, Roozbeh Valavi, Adam Smart, Brendan Wintle

Journal article  |  2022  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Large-scale disturbance events are forecast to increase in severity and frequency due to climate change. On-ground surveys are cru..

Monitoring populations and threats to range-restricted freshwater fishes: A case study of the Stocky Galaxias (Galaxias tantangara)

TH Lavery, DB Lindenmayer, H Allan, D Southwell, JCZ Woinarski, M Lintermans

Journal article  |  2022  |  Ecological Management and Restoration

Monitoring is critical for conservation, to track the status of threatened species, assess the relative impacts of threats, inform..

Integrating species metrics into biodiversity offsetting calculations to improve long-term persistence

Erica Marshall, Casey Visintin, Roozbeh Valavi, David P Wilkinson, Darren Southwell, Brendan A Wintle, Heini Kujala

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Several methods of measuring biodiversity in development-offset trades exist. However, there is little consensus on which biodiver..

Remotely sensed vegetation productivity predicts breeding activity and drought refuges for a threatened bird in semi-arid Australia

AR Young, KE Selwood, J Benshemesh, J Wright, D Southwell

Journal article  |  2022  |  ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Refuges play a critical role protecting species against the effects of climate change. Managing high priority refuges could improv..

Threats to Australia's rock-wallabies (Petrogale spp.) with key directions for effective monitoring

Tyrone H Lavery, Mark Eldridge, Sarah Legge, David Pearson, Darren Southwell, John CZ Woinarski, Leigh-Ann Woolley, David Lindenmayer

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Rock-wallabies (Petrogale spp.) are one of Australia’s most speciose genera of mammals, irregularly distributed across much of the..