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New paper! Fire and rain are one: extreme rainfall events predict wildfire extent in an arid grassland

Posted on May 15, 2020 by

Published in: International Journal of Wildland Fire New paper led by Elise Verhoeven who did this research as part of an undergraduate internship at the University of Technology Sydney. Well done Elise on your first paper! Abstract: Assessing wildfire regimes … Continue reading →

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New Paper: Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

Authors: Dale G. Nimmo, Sarah Avitabile, Sam C. Banks, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Kate Callister, Michael F. Clarke, Chris R. Dickman, Tim S. Doherty, Don A. Driscoll, Aaron C. Greenville, Angie Haslem, Luke T. Kelly, Sally A. Kenny, Jos´e J. Lahoz-Monfor, … Continue reading →

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New paper: Biodiversity responds to increasing climatic extremes in a biome-specific manner

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

Authors: Aaron C. Greenville, Emma Burns, Christopher R. Dickman, David A. Keith, David B. Lindenmayer, John W. Morgan, Dean Heinze, Ian Mansergh, Graeme R. Gillespie, Luke Einoder, Alaric Fisher, Jeremy Russell-Smith , Daniel J. Metcalfe, Peter T. Green, Ary A. … Continue reading →

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New paper: Interactions between wildfire and drought drive population responses of mammals in coastal woodlands

Posted on February 5, 2018 by

Authors: Mathew S. Crowther, Ayesha I. Tulloch, Mike Letnic, Aaron C. Greenville, & Chris R. Dickman Published in: Journal of Mammalogy (Feature article) Abstract: Fire is an ecologically important process in many habitats. Increases in the frequency and intensity of … Continue reading →

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New paper: Desert mammal populations are limited by introduced predators rather than future climate change

Posted on November 1, 2017 by

Authors: Aaron C. Greenville, Glenda M. Wardle & Chris R. Dickman Published in: Royal Society Open Science Abstract: Climate change is predicted to place up to one in six species at risk of extinction in coming decades, but extinction probability … Continue reading →

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New paper: Spatial and temporal synchrony in reptile population dynamics in variable environments

Posted on June 27, 2016 by

Authors: Aaron C. Greenville, Glenda M. Wardle, Vuong Nguyen and Chris R. Dickman. Published in: Oecologia Abstract: Resources are seldom distributed equally across space, but many species exhibit spatially synchronous population dynamics. Such synchrony suggests the operation of large-scale external … Continue reading →

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New paper: On the validity of visual cover estimates for time series analyses

Posted on May 18, 2015 by

Authors: Vuong Nguyen, Aaron Greenville, Chris Dickman and Glenda Wardle. Journal: Plant Ecology Abstract: Changes in vegetation cover are strongly linked to important ecological and environmental drivers such as fire, herbivory, temperature, water availability and altered land use. Reliable means … Continue reading →

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ESA2014 conference talk: the web of arid life

Posted on September 29, 2014 by

The web of arid life: biotic and abiotic interactions in a changing world. Below is my abstract and slides for the Ecological Society of Australia annual conference. My talk is a summary of the last three years on my PhD … Continue reading →

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Not another blog?!

Posted on October 24, 2013 by

I have finally succumbed to the temptation of writing a blog. Not another blog?! –  I hear you say. Well yes. I am writing this as helicopters fly over head and sirens scream up the highway, off fighting a bush … Continue reading →

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