Jane Melville

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..

Introducing the Australian Journal of Taxonomy, a new, fully-online, fully open-access journal for the rapid publication of new Australian species and other taxa

Kevin R Thiele, Mark S Harvey, Pat Hutchings, Tom W May, Jane Melville, Kenny J Travouillon

Journal article  |  2022  |  Australian Journal of Taxonomy

With this paper we introduce the Australian Journal of Taxonomy and outline its scope, rationale, workflow and governance. The jou..

Lineage diversity within a widespread endemic Australian skink to better inform conservation in response to regional-scale disturbance

Duminda SB Dissanayake, Clare E Holleley, Joanna Sumner, Jane Melville, Arthur Georges

Journal article  |  2022  |  ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Much attention is paid in conservation planning to the concept of a species, to ensure comparability across studies and regions wh..

Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of haemosporidian and hemogregarine parasites in Australian lizards

Katja E Boysen, Susan L Perkins, Sumitha Hunjan, Paul Oliver, Michael G Gardner, Shandiya Balasubramaniam, Jane Melville

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Apicomplexa is a large monophyletic phylum of unicellular, parasitic organisms. Reptiles are hosts to both haemosporidian (Haemosp..

Herpetofaunal diversity changes with climate: evidence from the Quaternary of McEachern's Deathtrap Cave, southeastern Australia

Till Ramm, Kailah M Thorn, Christy A Hipsley, Johannes Mueller, Scott Hocknull, Jane Melville

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The Quaternary Period is characterized by dramatic global climatic changes. Quaternary fossil deposits, which can offer excellent ..

Predictors of phylogeographic structure among codistributed taxa across the complex Australian monsoonal tropics

Jessica Fenker, Leonardo G Tedeschi, Jane Melville, Craig Moritz

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Differences in the geographic scale and depth of phylogeographic structure across codistributed taxa can reveal how microevolution..

A return-on-investment approach for prioritization of rigorous taxonomic research needed to inform responses to the biodiversity crisis

Jane Melville, David G Chapple, J Scott Keogh, Joanna Sumner, Andrew Amey, Phil Bowles, Ian G Brennan, Patrick Couper, Stephen C Donnellan, Paul Doughty, Danielle L Edwards, Ryan J Ellis, Damien Esquerre, Jessica Fenker, Michael G Gardner, Arthur Georges, Margaret L Haines, Conrad J Hoskin, Mark Hutchinson, Craig Moritz, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS BIOLOGY

Global biodiversity loss is a profound consequence of human activity. Disturbingly, biodiversity loss is greater than realized bec..

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

David G Chapple, Uri Roll, Monika Boehm, Rocio Aguilar, Andrew P Amey, Chris C Austin, Marleen Baling, Anthony J Barley, Michael F Bates, Aaron M Bauer, Daniel G Blackburn, Phil Bowles, Rafe M Brown, SR Chandramouli, Laurent Chirio, Hal Cogger, Guarino R Colli, Werner Conradie, Patrick J Couper, Mark A Cowan, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Our knowledge of the conservation status of reptiles, the most diverse class of terrestrial vertebrates, has improved dramatically..

Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction

Hayley M Geyle, Reid Tingley, Andrew P Amey, Hal Cogger, Patrick J Couper, Mark Cowan, Michael D Craig, Paul Doughty, Don A Driscoll, Ryan J Ellis, Jon-Paul Emery, Aaron Fenner, Michael G Gardner, Stephen T Garnett, Graeme R Gillespie, Matthew J Greenlees, Conrad J Hoskin, J Scott Keogh, Ray Lloyd, Jane Melville, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  PACIFIC CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Australia hosts approximately 10% of the world's reptile species, the largest number of any country. Despite this and evidence of ..

An Integrative Approach Using Phylogenomics and High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography for Species Delimitation in Cryptic Taxa

Kirilee Chaplin, Joanna M Sumner, Christy Hipsley, Jane Melville

Journal article  |  2020  |  SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Morphologically cryptic taxa have proved to be a long-standing challenge for taxonomists. Lineages that show strong genomic struct..