Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

DM Bergstrom, BC Wienecke… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, collapse of ecosystems—potentially irreversible change to ecosystem structure,
composition and function—imperils biodiversity, human health and well‐being. We examine …

Lessons from other disciplines for setting management thresholds for biodiversity conservation

M Hilton, JC Walsh, E Liddell, CN Cook - Conservation Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Successful, state‐dependent management, in which the goal of management is to maintain
a system in a desired state, involves defining the boundaries between different states. Once …

Occurrence of Temnocephalidae flatworms in Australia

L Sibraa, D Barton, S Shamsi - Journal of Natural History, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Temnocephalids are a diverse family of rhabdocoel flatworms associated as ectosymbionts
of freshwater invertebrates, including crustaceans. Eastern Australia has been identified as …

[HTML][HTML] Of irrigation canals and multifunctional agroforestry: Traditional agriculture facilitates Woolly-necked Stork breeding in a north Indian agricultural landscape

S Kittur, KSG Sundar - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
Conservation of biodiversity alongside agriculture is now a global priority. Tree-nesting
waterbirds have a tenuous relationship with farmlands because their survival requires …

Flow to nowhere: the disconnect between environmental watering and the conservation of threatened species in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

A Ryan, MJ Colloff, J Pittock - Marine and Freshwater Research, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
The Murray–Darling Basin Plan was established with the objective of restoring water from
irrigation to the environment, thereby conserving wetlands and biodiversity. We examined …

A dynamic connectivity metric for complex river wetlands

C Nguyen, E Daly, VRN Pauwels - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface water connectivity between rivers and floodplain lakes is essential to maintain
biodiversity and ecological functioning in floodplain wetlands. This study proposes a method …

The influence of hydrological variables, climatic variables and food availability on Anatidae in interconnected river-lake systems, the middle and lower reaches of the …

J Liang, Q Meng, X Li, Y Yuan, Y Peng, X Li, S Li… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrology-climate changes and food availability are expected to be the primary drivers that
result in a loss of waterbirds diversity. Non-biological factors are vital to food availability in …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of anthropogenic factors on the waterbirds in Trans-Himalayan wetlands

N Mahar, B Habib, SA Hussain, T Shawl… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding waterbird abundance and distribution in relation to environmental and
anthropogenic factors can contribute to effective waterbird management in high altitude …

[HTML][HTML] Using drones and citizen science counts to track colonial waterbird breeding, an indicator for ecosystem health on the Chobe River, Botswana

RJ Francis, RT Kingsford, KJ Brandis - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Many of the world's freshwater ecosystems are degrading with increasing water resource
developments, necessitating identification of useful indicators that track large scale …

Drones provide a better method to find nests and estimate nest survival for colonial waterbirds: a demonstration with Western Grebes

D Lachman, C Conway, K Vierling… - Wetlands Ecology and …, 2020 - Springer
Drone use in wildlife biology has greatly increased as they become cheaper and easier to
deploy in the field. In this paper we describe a less invasive method of using drones and …