Brendan Wintle

Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production

AC Castonguay, S Polasky, M H. Holden, M Herrero, D Mason-D’Croz, C Godde, J Chang, J Gerber, GB Witt, ET Game, B A. Bryan, B Wintle, K Lee, P Bal, E McDonald-Madden

Journal article  |  2023  |  Nature Sustainability

Beef production represents a complex global sustainability challenge including reducing poverty and hunger and the need for climat..

Threat-abatement framework confirms habitat retention and invasive species management are critical to conserve Australia's threatened species

SG Kearney, JEM Watson, AE Reside, DO Fisher, M Maron, TS Doherty, SM Legge, JCZ Woinarski, ST Garnett, BA Wintle, EG Ritchie, DA Driscoll, D Lindenmayer, VM Adams, MS Ward, J Carwardine

Journal article  |  2023  |  Biological Conservation

Earth's extinction crisis is escalating, and threat classification schemes are increasingly important for assessing the prominent ..

Eight things you should never do in a monitoring program: an Australian perspective

David B Lindenmayer, John Woinarski, Sarah Legge, Martine Maron, Stephen T Garnett, Tyrone Lavery, Jaana Dielenberg, Brendan A Wintle

Journal article  |  2022  |  ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Monitoring is critical to gauge the effect of environmental management interventions as well as to measure the effects of human di..

The predictive performance of process-explicit range change models remains largely untested

David E Uribe-Rivera, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Saras M Windecker, Patricio Pliscoff, Brendan A Wintle

Journal article  |  2022  |  ECOGRAPHY

Ecological models used to forecast range change (range change models; RCM) have recently diversified to account for a greater numb..

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..

Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk

Natalie J Briscoe, Hugh McGregor, David Roshier, Andrew Carter, Brendan A Wintle, Michael R Kearney

Journal article  |  2022  |  CONSERVATION LETTERS

Many threatened species depend on climatic microrefugia, but places with harsh climates for predators may also play a refugial rol..

Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss

Heini Kujala, Martine Maron, Christina M Kennedy, Megan C Evans, Joseph W Bull, Brendan A Wintle, Sayed M Iftekhar, Katherine E Selwood, Kahli Beissner, Dave Osborn, Ascelin Gordon

Journal article  |  2022  |  ONE EARTH

In the face of the ongoing biodiversity crisis, questions are arising regarding the success, or lack thereof, of biodiversity offs..

The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity.

James R Allan, Hugh P Possingham, Scott C Atkinson, Anthony Waldron, Moreno Di Marco, Stuart HM Butchart, Vanessa M Adams, W Daniel Kissling, Thomas Worsdell, Chris Sandbrook, Gwili Gibbon, Kundan Kumar, Piyush Mehta, Martine Maron, Brooke A Williams, Kendall R Jones, Brendan A Wintle, April E Reside, James EM Watson

Journal article  |  2022  |  Science

Ambitious conservation efforts are needed to stop the global biodiversity crisis. In this study, we estimate the minimum land area..

Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous-led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations

Teagan Goolmeer, Anja Skroblin, Chrissy Grant, Stephen van Leeuwen, Ricky Archer, Cissy Gore-Birch, Brendan A Wintle

Journal article  |  2022  |  CONSERVATION LETTERS

Increasingly the importance of Indigenous participation is acknowledged as central to effective biodiversity conservation. Traditi..

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..