http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:16039 Tue 10 May 2022 10:39:59 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:16023 Tue 03 May 2022 17:05:20 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:16156 Thu 09 Jun 2022 14:35:01 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: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:15930 Mon 11 Apr 2022 12:06:10 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: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: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: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:15891 Mon 04 Apr 2022 12:48:10 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:16161 Fri 03 Jun 2022 12:52:18 AEST ]]>