Brendan Wintle

Cost-effectiveness of thermal imaging for monitoring a cryptic arboreal mammal

Christopher A Pocknee, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort, Roger W Martin, Brendan A Wintle

Journal article  |  2021  |  WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Context: The development of reliable and cost-efficient survey techniques is key to the monitoring of all wildlife. One group of s..

Impact Indicators for Biodiversity Conservation Research: Measuring Influence within and beyond Academia

Tyrone H Lavery, Rachel Morgain, James A Fitzsimons, Jennie Fluin, Nicholas A Macgregor, Natasha M Robinson, Ben C Scheele, Katherine E Selwood, Rebecca Spindler, Holly Vuong, Simon West, Brendan A Wintle, David B Lindenmayer

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOSCIENCE

ABSTRACT Measuring, reporting, and forecasting research impact beyond academia has become increasingly important to..

Assessing biophysical and socio-economic impacts of climate change on regional avian biodiversity

Simon Kapitza, Pham Van Ha, Tom Kompas, Nick Golding, Natasha CR Cadenhead, Payal Bal, Brendan A Wintle

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Climate change threatens biodiversity directly by influencing biophysical variables that drive species' geographic distributions a..

A threatened species index for Australian birds

Elisa Bayraktarov, Glenn Ehmke, Ayesha IT Tulloch, Alienor L Chauvenet, Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Louise McRae, Brendan A Wintle, James O'Connor, Joris Driessen, James Watmuff, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Stephen T Garnett, John Woinarski, Megan Barnes, Rachel Morgain, Siddeswara Guru, Hugh P Possingham

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE

A predictive model of fractional land use

Simon Kapitza, Nick Golding, Brendan Wintle

Journal article  |  2020

Land use change leads to shifts in species ranges and declines in biodiversity across the world. By mapping likely future land use..

Measuring impacts on species with models and metrics of varying ecological and computational complexity

Christopher D Hallam, Brendan A Wintle, Heini Kujala, Amy L Whitehead, Emily Nicholson

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Approaches to assess the impacts of landscape disturbance scenarios on species range from metrics based on patterns of occurrence ..

Factors influencing the residency of bettongs using one-way gates to exit a fenced reserve

Jessie Moyses, Bronwyn Hradsky, Katherine Tuft, Katherine Moseby, Nicholas Golding, Brendan Wintle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere

Understanding the conditions under which small native Australian mammals can persist in the presence of introduced predators remai..

Quantifying the impact of vegetation-based metrics on species persistence when choosing offsets for habitat destruction

Erica Marshall, Roozbeh Valavi, Louise O' Connor, Natasha Cadenhead, Darren Southwell, Brendan A Wintle, Heini Kujala

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Developers are often required by law to offset environmental impacts through targeted conservation actions. Most offset policies s..

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 ..

After the Megafires: What Next for Australian Wildlife?

Brendan A Wintle, Sarah Legge, John CZ Woinarski

Journal article  |  2020  |  TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The 2019–2020 megafires in Australia brought a tragic loss of human life and the most dramatic loss of habitat for threatened spec..