Craig Nitschke

The potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of key tree species and Cordyceps in Bhutan: Implications for ecological functions and rural livelihoods

Kunzang Choden, Craig R Nitschke, Stephen B Stewart, Rodney J Keenan

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Rural communities in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan are dependant on natural capital for their livelihoods. Climate change impact..

Recruitment and growth dynamics of a temperate forest understorey species following wildfire in southeast Australia

Helen Vickers, Sabine Kasel, Thomas Duff, Craig Nitschke

Journal article  |  2021  |  DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

In southeast Australia, fire regimes are changing. Conserving species into the future under these changing fire regimes will requi..

Fire, drought and productivity as drivers of dead wood biomass in eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia

Jamie E Burton, Lauren T Bennett, Sabine Kasel, Craig R Nitschke, Mihai A Tanase, Thomas A Fairman, Linda Parker, Melissa Fedrigo, Cristina Aponte

Journal article  |  2021  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dead wood, including dead standing trees (DST) and coarse woody debris (CWD), is a critical component of forest ecosystems that pr..

Climate extreme variables generated using monthly time-series data improve predicted distributions of plant species

SB Stewart, J Elith, M Fedrigo, S Kasel, SH Roxburgh, LT Bennett, M Chick, T Fairman, S Leonard, M Kohout, JK Cripps, L Durkin, CR Nitschke

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOGRAPHY

Extreme weather can have significant impacts on plant species demography; however, most studies have focused on responses to a sin..

Climate Change Drives Habitat Contraction of a Nocturnal Arboreal Marsupial at Its Physiological Limits

Benjamin Wagner, Patrick J Baker, Stephen B Stewart, Linda F Lumsden, Jenny L Nelson, Jemma K Cripps, Louise K Durkin, Michael P Scroggie, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Climate change drives habitat contraction of a nocturnal arboreal marsupial at its physiological limits

Benjamin Wagner, Patrick J Baker, Stephen B Stewart, Linda F Lumsden, Jenny L Nelson, Jemma K Cripps, Louise K Durkin, Michael P Scroggie, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECOSPHERE

Increasing impacts of climatic change and anthropogenic disturbances on natural ecosystems are leading to population declines or e..

Genetic data and climate niche suitability models highlight the vulnerability of a functionally important plant species from south-eastern Australia

Adam D Miller, Craig Nitschke, Andrew R Weeks, William L Weatherly, Simon D Heyes, Steve J Sinclair, Owen J Holland, Aggie Stevenson, Linda Broadhurst, Susan E Hoebee, Craig DH Sherman, John W Morgan

Journal article  |  2020  |  EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS

Habitat fragmentation imperils the persistence of many functionally important species, with climate change a new threat to local p..

An approach for assessing adaptive capacity to climate change in resource dependent communities in the Nikachu watershed, Bhutan

Kunzang Choden, Rodney J Keenan, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Vulnerability to climate change is a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Econometric and indicator-based appr..

Refining benchmarks for soil organic carbon in Australia's temperate forests

Lauren T Bennett, Nina Hinko-Najera, Cristina Aponte, Craig R Nitschke, Thomas A Fairman, Melissa Fedrigo, Sabine Kasel

Journal article  |  2020  |  GEODERMA

Soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in Australia's temperate forests have been overlooked in national soil databases and in global SO..

Structural diversity underpins carbon storage in Australian temperate forests

Cristina Aponte, Sabine Kasel, Craig R Nitschke, Mihai A Tanase, Helen Vickers, Linda Parker, Melissa Fedrigo, Michele Kohout, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Miguel A Zavala, Lauren T Bennett

Journal article  |  2020  |  GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aim: Forest carbon storage is the result of a multitude of interactions among biotic and abiotic factors. Our aim was to use an in..