Melissa Fedrigo

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..

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..

Spatial and temporal dynamics of habitat availability and stability for a critically endangered arboreal marsupial: implications for conservation planning in a fire-prone landscape

Craig R Nitschke, Raphael Trouve, Linda F Lumsden, Lauren T Bennett, Melissa Fedrigo, Andrew P Robinson, Patrick J Baker

Journal article  |  2020  |  LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Context: Effective conservation planning for species depends on vegetation models that can capture the dynamics of habitat element..

RADIOCARBON DATING INFORMS TREE FERN POPULATION DYNAMICS AND DISTURBANCE HISTORY OF TEMPERATE FORESTS IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA

Melissa Fedrigo, Stephen B Stewart, Sabine Kasel, Vladimir Levchenko, Raphael Trouve, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2019  |  RADIOCARBON

Tree ferns are slow-growing and long-lived components of temperate forests; however, these characteristics make determining size-a..

Predictive Ecosystem Mapping of South-Eastern Australian Temperate Forests Using Lidar-Derived Structural Profiles and Species Distribution Models

Melissa Fedrigo, Stephen B Stewart, Stephen H Roxburgh, Sabine Kasel, Lauren T Bennett, Helen Vickers, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2019  |  REMOTE SENSING

Modern approaches to predictive ecosystem mapping (PEM) have not thoroughly explored the use of 'characteristic' gradients, which ..

Predicting temperate forest stand types using only structural profiles from discrete return airborne lidar

Melissa Fedrigo, Glenn J Newnham, Nicholas C Coops, Darius S Culvenor, Douglas K Bolton, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2018  |  ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Light detection and ranging (lidar) data have been increasingly used for forest classification due to its ability to penetrate the..

Environmental heterogeneity promotes floristic turnover in temperate forests of south-eastern Australia more than dispersal limitation and disturbance

Sabine Kasel, Lauren T Bennett, Cristina Aponte, Melissa Fedrigo, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2017  |  LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Context: Australia’s temperate forest landscapes encompass broad topographic and edaphic ranges, and are regularly disturbed by fi..

The role of topography and the north Indian monsoon on mean monthly climate interpolation within the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan

Stephen B Stewart, Kunzang Choden, Melissa Fedrigo, Stephen H Roxburgh, Rodney J Keenan, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article  |  2017  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Spatial climate datasets currently available for Bhutan are limited by weather station data availability, spatial resolution or in..