Revealing beliefs: using ensemble ecosystem modelling to extrapolate expert beliefs to novel ecological scenarios

Michael Bode; Christopher M Baker; Joe Benshemesh; Tim Burnard; Libby Rumpff; Cindy E Hauser; Jose J Lahoz-Monfort; Brendan A Wintle

Journal article

Revealing beliefs: using ensemble ecosystem modelling to extrapolate expert beliefs to novel ecological scenarios

Michael Bode, Christopher M Baker, Joe Benshemesh, Tim Burnard, Libby Rumpff, Cindy E Hauser, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort, Brendan A Wintle

Methods in Ecology and Evolution | WILEY | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12703

University of Melbourne Researchers

Jose Lahoz-Monfort Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Cindy Hauser Author Biosciences

Libby Rumpff Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Brendan Wintle Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Chris Baker Author Mathematics and Statistics

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Funding Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the participants of the two expert workshops and their organisations. We also thank the partners on the ARC Linkage Project (LP120100490) that funded this work: the Victorian Malleefowl Recovery Group, Parks Victoria and Iluka Mining. M.B. and C.M.B. were supported by an ARC DECRA (DE130100572); B.W. was supported by an ARC Future Fellowship (FT100100819). T.B., J.J.L.-M. and C.E.H. were supported by an ARC Linkage grant (LP120100490), the National Environmental Research Program and the National Environmental Science Program - Threatened Species Recovery Hub.