A vegetation and soil survey method for surveillance monitoring of rangeland environments

BD Sparrow, JN Foulkes, GM Wardle… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Ecosystem surveillance monitoring is critical to managing natural resources and especially
so under changing environments. Despite this importance, the design and implementation of …

Ecosystem risk assessment of G eorgina gidgee woodlands in central Australia

GM Wardle, AC Greenville, ASK Frank… - Austral …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems across the world, and the biodiversity they support, are experiencing increasing
anthropogenic pressure, and many will not persist without intervention. Given their …

Estimating food resource availability in arid environments with Sentinel 2 satellite imagery

C Funghi, RHJ Heim, W Schuett, SC Griffith, J Oldeland - PeerJ, 2020‏ - peerj.com
Background In arid environments, plant primary productivity is generally low and highly
variable both spatially and temporally. Resources are not evenly distributed in space and …

Floristic and structural assessment of Australian rangeland vegetation with standardized plot-based surveys

Z Baruch, S Caddy-Retalic, GR Guerin, B Sparrow… - Plos one, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
We describe and correlate environmental, floristic and structural vegetation traits of a large
portion of Australian rangelands. We analysed 351 one hectare vegetation plots surveyed …

[PDF][PDF] Differentiation of ecosystems in the outback of Australia using airborne LiDAR

I Wagelmans - 2023‏ - matheo.uliege.be
Monitoring ecosystems plays a key role in facing climate change impacts. A better
understanding of ecosystem functioning is needed to take appropriate actions toward their …

Limbless geckoes hanging on? Lessons in exploiting arid-zone unpredictability from an elusive habitat-specialist pygopod

R Pedler, R Brandle, A Fenner, S Lennon - Wildlife Research, 2014‏ - CSIRO Publishing
Context The study of threatened species is often challenged by their rarity and secretive life-
history traits. Species adapted to extreme environments prone to stochastic conditions …

[DOC][DOC] The need for a nationally consistent ecosystem monitoring framework for Australian rangelands

B Sparrow, GR Guerin, AJ Lowe - EcoEvoRxiv. doi, 2019‏ - ecoevorxiv.org
The need for a national ecosystem monitoring system for the Australian rangelands has
been regularly identified. Against a background of natural variability, rangeland ecosystems …