Wetlands: conservation's poor cousins

RT Kingsford, A Basset… - … Conservation: Marine and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract About 5–10% of the world's land surface is currently wetland but possibly> 70% is
already destroyed or impaired. Conservation of these unique ecosystems lags progress in …

The role of protected areas for freshwater biodiversity conservation: challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing world

V Hermoso, R Abell, S Linke… - … Conservation: Marine and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Declaring protected areas (PAs) stands out as one of the main conservation strategies
worldwide and there are clear commitments to expand their extent under the auspices of the …

Extreme drought pushes stream invertebrate communities over functional thresholds

TWH Aspin, K Khamis, TJ Matthews… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits are increasingly being used to predict extinction risks and range shifts
under long‐term climate change scenarios, but have rarely been used to study vulnerability …

Counting mixed breeding aggregations of animal species using drones: Lessons from waterbirds on semi-automation

RJ Francis, MB Lyons, RT Kingsford, KJ Brandis - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Using drones to count wildlife saves time and resources and allows access to difficult or
dangerous areas. We collected drone imagery of breeding waterbirds at colonies in the …

Using abiotic drivers of fish spawning to inform environmental flow management

AJ King, DC Gwinn, Z Tonkin, J Mahoney… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental flows are a key restoration technique for conserving ecological function in
flow‐degraded rivers. Species‐specific, flow–biota relationships are increasingly being used …

Policy considerations for managing wetlands under a changing climate

CM Finlayson, SJ Capon, D Rissik… - Marine and …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
Drawing on the experience and lessons of wetland researchers and managers in Australia
and New Zealand, we examined the implications of climate change for wetland policy and …

Resilience to hydrological droughts in the northern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

R Quentin Grafton, L Chu… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We respond to the problem of declining streamflows in the northern Murray–Darling Basin,
Australia, a region that suffers from hydrological droughts and a drying trend. We partitioned …

Decline in colonial waterbird breeding highlights loss of Ramsar wetland function

KJ Brandis, G Bino, JA Spencer, D Ramp… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Water resource development on rivers significantly affects life cycles of species reliant on
wetlands. However, assessing ecological impacts is often difficult because they are realised …

Develo** state and transition models of floodplain vegetation dynamics as a tool for conservation decision‐making: a case study of the Macquarie Marshes Ramsar …

G Bino, SA Sisson, RT Kingsford… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Floodplain vegetation states (communities) exhibit spatiotemporal dynamics in vegetation
structure and composition, which reflect unique hydrological and connectivity patterns. Shifts …

Learning consciousness in managing water for the environment, exemplified using Macquarie River and Marshes, Australia

CA McLoughlin, RT Kingsford… - Marine and Freshwater …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Ongoing learning is essential for freshwater ecosystem management, but there is
limited documentation of successful integration into management. Aims We aimed to …