http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Population genetic analysis reveals a long-term decline of a threatened endemic Australian marsupial http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:10714 Wed 07 Apr 2021 13:56:04 AEST ]]> Optimal taxonomic groups for biodiversity assessment: a meta-analytic approach http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15962 Tue 26 Apr 2022 14:30:59 AEST ]]> Avian functional responses to landscape recovery http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16167 Tue 14 Jun 2022 10:19:00 AEST ]]> Novel bird responses to successive, large-scale, landscape transformations http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16239 Tue 12 Jul 2022 10:47:00 AEST ]]> Remnant vegetation, plantings and fences are beneficial for reptiles in agricultural landscapes http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15953 Tue 12 Apr 2022 14:49:08 AEST ]]> Reptiles and frogs use most land cover types as habitat in a fine-grained agricultural landscape http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16027 Tue 10 May 2022 09:38:31 AEST ]]> Dynamic effects of ground-layer plant communities on beetles in a fragmented farming landscape http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16024 Tue 10 May 2022 09:18:53 AEST ]]> Beetle’s responses to edges in fragmented landscapes are driven by adjacent farmland use, season and cross-habitat movement http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16023 Tue 03 May 2022 17:05:20 AEST ]]> Species co-occurrence networks show reptile community reorganization under agricultural transformation 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 ]]> Contrasting effects of mosaic structure on alpha and beta diversity of bird assemblages in a human-modified landscape http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16177 Thu 23 Jun 2022 11:36:23 AEST ]]> Effects of fire regime on plant species richness and composition differ among forest, woodland and heath vegetation http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16005 Thu 05 May 2022 15:52:01 AEST ]]> Quantifying shifts in topic popularity over 44 years of austral ecology http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:14747 Thu 02 Dec 2021 16:19:13 AEDT ]]> Contrasting beetle assemblage responses to cultivated farmlands and native woodlands in a dynamic agricultural landscape http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15951 Mon 11 Apr 2022 14:12:08 AEST ]]> Effects of a large wildfire on vegetation structure in a variable fire mosaic http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15936 Mon 11 Apr 2022 12:34:09 AEST ]]> Disentangling the effects of farmland use, habitat edges, and vegetation structure on ground beetle morphological traits http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16022 Mon 09 May 2022 16:20:59 AEST ]]> Conservation conundrums and the challenges of managing unexplained declines of multiple species http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16017 Mon 09 May 2022 15:24:59 AEST ]]> Tests of predictions associated with temporal changes in Australian bird populations http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16016 Mon 09 May 2022 15:11:07 AEST ]]> Conserving focal insect groups in woodland remnants : the role of landscape context and habitat structure on cross-taxonomic congruence http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:18291 Mon 04 Sep 2023 16:08:59 AEST ]]> Birds as surrogates for mammals and reptiles: Are patterns of cross-taxonomic associations stable over time in a human-modified landscape? http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15923 Mon 04 Apr 2022 14:54:10 AEST ]]> Evaluating the effectiveness of overstory cover as a surrogate for bird community diversity and population trends 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 ]]> Wildlife conservation in farm landscapes http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15904 Mon 04 Apr 2022 13:59:21 AEST ]]> Do temporal changes in vegetation structure additional to time since fire predict changes in bird occurrence? 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 ]]> Long-term bird colonization and turnover in restored woodlands http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15903 Mon 04 Apr 2022 13:58:11 AEST ]]> Temporal trends in mammal responses to fire reveals the complex effects of fire regime attributes http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15901 Mon 04 Apr 2022 13:02:10 AEST ]]> Integrating theory into disturbance interaction experiments to better inform ecosystem management http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15892 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:48:17 AEST ]]> Herbivory and fire interact to affect forest understory habitat, but not its use by small vertebrates http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15891 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:48:10 AEST ]]> Effects of environmental variation and livestock grazing on ant community structure in temperate eucalypt woodlands http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15888 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:41:10 AEST ]]> Interactive effects of land use, grazing and environment on frogs in an agricultural landscape http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16181 Fri 03 Jun 2022 12:52:40 AEST ]]>