Arc Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions

The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries

Gerard Edward Ryan, Emily Nicholson, Christopher M Baker, Michael A McCarthy

2024-09-01

Information about species’ locations can influence what happens to them—from supporting habitat protection to exposing poaching ta..

Hurdles to developing quantitative decision support for Endangered Species Act resource allocation

GD Iacona, S Avery-Gomm, RF Maloney, J Brazill-Boast, DT Crouse, CA Drew, RS Epanchin-Niell, SB Hall, LA Maguire, T Male, J Newman, HP Possingham, L Rumpff, MC Runge, KCB Weiss, RS Wilson, MA Zablan, LR Gerber

2022-10-04

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service oversees the recovery of many species protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Recen..

Flexible conservation decisions for climate adaptation

JR Rhodes, PR Armsworth, G Iacona, P Shah, A Gordon, KA Wilson, RK Runting, BA Bryan

2022-06-17

Climate change is transforming the decision-making landscape for many conservation organizations. Conservation planning and implem..

Identifying technology solutions to bring conservation into the innovation era

G Iacona, A Ramachandra, J McGowan, A Davies, L Joppa, LP Koh, E Fegraus, E Game, G Guillera-Arroita, R Harcourt, K Indraswari, JJ Lahoz-Monfort, JL Oliver, HP Possingham, A Ward, DW Watson, JEM Watson, BA Wintle, I Chadès

2019-12-01

Innovation has the potential to enable conservation science and practice to keep pace with the escalating threats to global biodiv..

Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

NJ Briscoe, J Elith, R Salguero-Gómez, JJ Lahoz-Monfort, JS Camac, KM Giljohann, MH Holden, BA Hradsky, MR Kearney, SM McMahon, BL Phillips, TJ Regan, JR Rhodes, PA Vesk, BA Wintle, JDL Yen, G Guillera-Arroita

2019-11-01

Knowing where species occur is fundamental to many ecological and environmental applications. Species distribution models (SDMs) a..

Simultaneous-count models to estimate abundance from counts of unmarked individuals with imperfect detection

GE Ryan, E Nicholson, JC Eames, TNE Gray, R Loveridge, SP Mahood, P Sum, MA McCarthy

2019-06-01

We developed a method to estimate population abundance from simultaneous counts of unmarked individuals over multiple sites. We co..

The seven lamps of planning for biodiversity in the city

KM Parris, M Amati, SA Bekessy, D Dagenais, O Fryd, AK Hahs, D Hes, SJ Imberger, SJ Livesley, AJ Marshall, JR Rhodes, CG Threlfall, R Tingley, R van der Ree, CJ Walsh, ML Wilkerson, NSG Williams

2018-12-31

Cities tend to be built in areas of high biodiversity, and the accelerating pace of urbanization threatens the persistence of many..

Policy-oriented environmental research: What is it worth?

DJ Pannell, JM Alston, S Jeffrey, YM Buckley, P Vesk, JR Rhodes, E McDonald-Madden, S Nally, G Goucher, T Thamo

2018-08-01

Environmental and conservation scientists are increasingly being asked to justify their work in terms of benefits to society. This..

Species occupancy estimation and imperfect detection: shall surveys continue after the first detection?

Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort

2017-10-01

Species occupancy, the proportion of sites occupied by a species, is a state variable of interest in ecology. One challenge in its..

A rapid assessment of wildlife tourism risk posed to cetaceans in Asia

PLK Mustika, R Welters, GE Ryan, C D'Lima, P Sorongon-Yap, S Jutapruet, C Peter

2017-08-03

Dolphin-watching tourism is growing globally. In developing countries, the typically low environmental awareness of operators and ..

Uncertain links in host-parasite networks: lessons for parasite transmission in a multi-host system

Josephine G Walker, Michaela Plein, Eric R Morgan, Peter A Vesk

2017-05-05

For many parasites, the full set of hosts that are susceptible to infection is not known, and this could lead to a bias in estimat..

The role of plant functional traits in shrub distribution around alpine frost hollows

Felix KS Lim, Laura J Pollock, Peter A Vesk

2017-05-01

Introduction/Aims Functional traits aid understanding of species distribution and community composition along environmental gradie..

Cost and feasibility of a barrier to halt the spread of invasive cane toads in arid Australia: incorporating expert knowledge into model-based decision-making

Darren Southwell, Reid Tingley, Michael Bode, Emily Nicholson, Ben L Phillips

2017-02-01

Summary 1. Active engagement with practitioners is a crucial component of model‐based decision‐making in conservation management; ..

A general method for assessing the risks and benefits of secrecy in conserving ‘Lazarus species’

GE Ryan, CM Baker

2016-11-01

Consequences of inconsistently classifying woodland birds

H Fraser, GE Garrard, L Rumpff, CE Hauser, MA McCarthy

2015-07-21

There is a longstanding debate regarding the need for ecology to develop consistent terminology. On one hand, consistent terminolo..

Distinguishing geographical range shifts from artefacts of detectability and sampling effort

AE Bates, TJ Bird, RD Stuart-Smith, T Wernberg, JM Sunday, NS Barrett, GJ Edgar, S Frusher, AJ Hobday, GT Pecl, DA Smale, M Mccarthy

2015-01-01

Aim: The redistribution of species with climate change is well documented. Even so, the relative contribution of species detectabi..

Estimating population size in the presence of temporary migration using a joint analysis of telemetry and capture-recapture data

T Bird, J Lyon, S Nicol, M Mccarthy, R Barker

2014-01-01

Temporary migration - where individuals can leave and re-enter a sampled population - is a feature of many capture-mark-recapture ..

Minimizing the cost of keeping options open for conservation in a changing climate

M Mills, S Nicol, JA Wells, JJ Lahoz-Monfort, B Wintle, M Bode, M Wardrop, T Walshe, WJM Probert, MC Runge, HP Possingham, EM Madden

2014-01-01

Policy documents advocate that managers should keep their options open while planning to protect coastal ecosystems from climate-c..

Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM)

LJ Pollock, R Tingley, WK Morris, N Golding, RB O'Hara, KM Parris, PA Vesk, MA Mccarthy

2014-01-01

Summary: A primary goal of ecology is to understand the fundamental processes underlying the geographic distributions of species. ..