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Relative standard errors (RSE) in space, time, quantity, and quality of carrion were all below 34%. This is similar to other allochthonous-dependent ecosystems, such as those affected by migratory salmon, and indicates high predictability of seal carrion as a resource. Our study illustrates how to quantify predictability in carrion, which is of general relevance to ecosystems that are dependent on this resource. We also highlight the importance of carrion to marine coastal ecosystems, where it sustains avian scavengers thus affecting ecosystem structure and function. © 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Philip Barton" is provided in this record**]]> Tue 10 May 2022 09:43:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16027 Tue 10 May 2022 09:38:31 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16024 Tue 10 May 2022 09:18:53 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:17660 Tue 09 May 2023 13:54:10 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:19161 Tue 09 Apr 2024 14:47:13 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15144 Tue 06 Sep 2022 09:58:36 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15125 Tue 06 Jul 2021 15:43:13 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15418 Tue 06 Dec 2022 14:35:14 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16023 Tue 03 May 2022 17:05:20 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16332 Tue 02 Aug 2022 14:19:15 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:18382 Thu 28 Sep 2023 12:09:09 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16113 172 000 km2; 224 sites) agricultural regions in southeastern Australia. We contrasted assemblages from sites surrounded by intact and modified landscapes and tested four key hypotheses that agricultural transformation leads to (H1) declines in species richness, (H2) altered assemblages, (H3) declines in overall co-occurrence, and (H4) complex restructuring of pairwise associations. We found that modified landscapes differed in composition but not richness compared with intact sites. Modified landscapes were also characterized by differences in co-occurrence network structure; with species sharing fewer sites with each other (reduced co-occurrence connectance), fewer highly-connected species (truncation of the frequency distribution of co-occurrence degree) and increased modularity of co-occurrence networks. Critically, overall loss of co-occurrence was underpinned by complex changes to the number and distribution of pair-wise co-occurrence links, with 41–44% of species also gaining associations with other species. Change in co-occurrence was not correlated with changes in occupancy, nor by functional trait membership, allowing a novel classification of species susceptibility to agricultural transformation. Our study reveals the value of using co-occurrence analysis to uncover impacts of agricultural transformation that may be masked in conventional studies of species richness and community composition. © 2017 The Authors]]> Thu 26 May 2022 11:39:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15199 Thu 26 Aug 2021 14:18:30 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15054 Thu 26 Aug 2021 12:28:49 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16188 Thu 23 Jun 2022 14:20:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16186 Thu 23 Jun 2022 12:14:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16177 Thu 23 Jun 2022 11:36:23 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15725 Thu 17 Nov 2022 16:45:30 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:17404 Thu 16 Mar 2023 12:23:07 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15042 Thu 15 Jun 2023 11:03:16 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16248 Thu 14 Jul 2022 11:32:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15897 1000 km) spanning multiple biogeographic regions but developed using spatially limited (e.g. landscape-scale; <100 km) ecological data interpolated across broad areas for one, or a few, well-studied taxonomic groups. Information about how less-studied taxa respond to regional differences in management and environmental effects has potential to further inform land-stewardship conservation programmes, but suitable data sets are rarely available. In this study, we sought to enhance planning of large-scale conservation programmes by quantifying relationships between reptile assemblages and key environmental attributes at regional scales within a large-scale (>172 000 km2) Australian land-stewardship programme. Using 234 remnant woodland monitoring sites spanning four distinct biogeographic regions, we asked: Do reptile assemblages show different environmental associations across biogeographically distinct regions? We found that environmental features important to reptile diversity differed over each region. Abundance and rare species richness of reptiles responded at regional-scales to elevation, native groundcover and aspect. We identified four implications from our study: (1) large-scale conservation schemes can achieve better outcomes for reptiles using regional-scale knowledge of environmental associations; (2) regional-scale knowledge is particularly valuable for conservation of rare reptile taxa; (3) consideration of abiotic environmental features which cannot be directly managed (e.g. aspect, elevation) is important; (4) programmes can be tailored to better support reptile groups at higher conservation risk. Our study shows that reptile-environment associations differ among biogeographic regions, and this presents opportunity for tailoring stronger policy and management strategies for conserving large-scale agricultural landscapes globally. © 2016 The Zoological Society of London. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Philip Barton” is provided in this record**]]> Thu 14 Dec 2023 15:57:43 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15763 Thu 10 Mar 2022 12:02:34 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16156 Thu 09 Jun 2022 14:35:01 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16158 Thu 09 Jun 2022 14:34:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16155 Thu 09 Jun 2022 14:27:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16562 Thu 08 Sep 2022 10:27:42 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:17927 Thu 08 Jun 2023 17:12:25 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16196 Thu 07 Jul 2022 10:45:03 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:18653 Thu 07 Dec 2023 11:56:23 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16005 Thu 05 May 2022 15:52:01 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16003 Thu 05 May 2022 15:02:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:14747 Thu 02 Dec 2021 16:19:13 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:17896 Thu 01 Jun 2023 13:49:21 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15501 Mon 13 Dec 2021 14:01:11 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15951 Mon 11 Apr 2022 14:12:08 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15943 Mon 11 Apr 2022 12:51:12 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15936 Mon 11 Apr 2022 12:34:09 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15931 Mon 11 Apr 2022 12:06:31 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15930 Mon 11 Apr 2022 12:06:10 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15929 Mon 11 Apr 2022 12:06:10 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15053 Mon 10 Jan 2022 15:12:41 AEDT ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16022 Mon 09 May 2022 16:20:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16017 Mon 09 May 2022 15:24:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16016 Mon 09 May 2022 15:11:07 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:18291 Mon 04 Sep 2023 16:08:59 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:18258 Mon 04 Sep 2023 14:23:57 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15923 Mon 04 Apr 2022 14:54:10 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15910 1000 km) in Australia. We then identified twelve bird species with long-term time-series data to test the relationship between change in overstory cover and populations trends. We found percentage cover performed consistently as a surrogate for species richness in three of the four sites. However, there was no clear pattern in the performance of change in percentage cover as a surrogate for population trends. Four bird species exhibited a significant relationship with change in percentage overstory cover in one study, but this was not found across multiple studies. These results demonstrate a lack of consistency in the relationship between change in overstory cover and population trends among bird species, both within and between geographic regions. Our study demonstrates that biodiversity surrogates representing community-level metrics may be consistent across regions, but provide only limited information about individual species population trends. Understanding the limitations of the information provided by a biodiversity surrogate can inform the appropriate context for its application. Crown Copyright © 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.]]> Mon 04 Apr 2022 14:19:11 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15904 Mon 04 Apr 2022 13:59:21 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15902 3000 ha) wildfire in 2003. To disentangle collinear effects of temporal changes in vegetation and direct demographic effects on population recovery that are subsumed by time since fire, we incorporated both longitudinal and cross-sectional vegetation effects in addition to time since fire within logistic structural equation models. We identified temporal changes in vegetation structure and richness of plant and bird species that characterized burned and unburned sites in all vegetation classes. For nine bird species, a significant component of the year trend was driven by temporal trends in one of three vegetation variables (number of understory or midstory plant species, or midstory cover). By contrast, we could not separate temporal effects between time since fire and vegetation attributes for bird species richness, reporting rate, and the occurrence of 11 other bird species. Our findings help identify species for which indirect effects of vegetation dominate recovery and thus may benefit from vegetation management where conservation actions are required and, conversely, those species for which direct effects of time since fire drive recovery, where simply leaving a system to recover following the last disturbance will be sufficient. © 2016 by the Ecological Society of America.]]> Mon 04 Apr 2022 13:58:11 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15903 Mon 04 Apr 2022 13:58:11 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15901 Mon 04 Apr 2022 13:02:10 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15895 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:55:17 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15892 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:48:17 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15891 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:48:10 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15887 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:48:07 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15888 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:41:10 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15955 Fri 08 Apr 2022 13:03:22 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15938 Fri 08 Apr 2022 12:57:16 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15939 Fri 08 Apr 2022 12:56:28 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16181 Fri 03 Jun 2022 12:52:40 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16157 Fri 03 Jun 2022 12:52:31 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16161 Fri 03 Jun 2022 12:52:18 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16182 Fri 03 Jun 2022 12:52:10 AEST ]]> http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:18284 Fri 01 Sep 2023 11:44:04 AEST ]]>