William Morris

Transferability of trait-based species distribution models

Peter A Vesk, William K Morris, Will C Neal, Karel Mokany, Laura J Pollock

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECOGRAPHY

The need for reliable prediction of species distributions dependent upon traits has been hindered by a lack of model transferabili..

Combining functional traits, the environment and multiple surveys to understand semi-arid tree distributions

Laura J Pollock, Luke T Kelly, Freya M Thomas, Paing Soe, William K Morris, Matt White, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Questions: Relationships between species, their functional traits and environmental gradients can now be more fully understood wit..

The value of information for woodland management: updating a state-transition model

William K Morris, Michael C Runge, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2017  |  ECOSPHERE

Value of information (VOI) analyses reveal the expected benefit of reducing uncertainty to a decision maker. Most ecological VOI a..

Identifying species at coextinction risk when detection is imperfect: Model evaluation and case study

Michaela Plein, William K Morris, Melinda L Moir, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2017  |  PLOS ONE

Losing a species from a community can cause further extinctions, a process also known as coextinction. The risk of being extirpate..

Towards strategic offsetting of biodiversity loss using spatial prioritization concepts and tools: A case study on mining impacts in Australia

H Kujala, AL Whitehead, WK Morris, BA Wintle

Journal article  |  2015  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Governments and industries increasingly use offsets to compensate for the unavoidable impacts of development on biodiversity. Howe..

Dental fluorosis and skeletal fluoride content as biomarkers of excess fluoride exposure in marsupials

Clare Death, Graeme Coulson, Uwe Kierdorf, Horst Kierdorf, William K Morris, Jasmin Hufschmid

Journal article  |  2015  |  SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Particulate and gaseous fluoride emissions contaminate vegetation near fluoride-emitting industries, potentially impacting herbivo..

Evaluating protected area effectiveness using bird lists in the Australian Wet Tropics

Megan Barnes, Judit K Szabo, William K Morris, Hugh Possingham

Journal article  |  2015  |  DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Aim: Protected areas underpin many global conservation efforts. However, it is often unclear whether they are effective in maintai..

Empirically validating a dense woody regrowth 'problem' and thinning 'solution' for understory vegetation

Christopher S Jones, David H Duncan, Libby Rumpff, Freya M Thomas, William K Morris, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2015  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

In landscapes with a short history of intensive land use, woody plant regrowth on cleared land is often favorably received as a sh..

The neglected tool in the Bayesian ecologist's shed: a case study testing informative priors' effect on model accuracy

William K Morris, Peter A Vesk, Michael A McCarthy, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Patrick J Baker

Journal article  |  2015  |  ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Despite benefits for precision, ecologists rarely use informative priors. One reason that ecologists may prefer vague priors is th..

Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion

Jane A Catford, William K Morris, Peter A Vesk, Christopher J Gippel, Barbara J Downes

Journal article  |  2014  |  Diversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography

Aim: Many factors facilitate biological invasions, making it difficult to determine their relative importance, especially when rel..