A practical guide to structured expert elicitation using the IDEA protocol

V Hemming, MA Burgman, AM Hanea… - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Expert judgement informs a variety of important applications in conservation and natural
resource management, including threatened species management, environmental impact …

Helping koalas battle disease – Recent advances in Chlamydia and koala retrovirus (KoRV) disease understanding and treatment in koalas

BL Quigley, P Timms - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The iconic Australian marsupial, the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), has suffered dramatic
population declines as a result of habitat loss and fragmentation, disease, vehicle collision …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptation and conservation insights from the koala genome

RN Johnson, D O'Meally, Z Chen, GJ Etherington… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The koala, the only extant species of the marsupial family Phascolarctidae, is classified as
'vulnerable'due to habitat loss and widespread disease. We sequenced the koala genome …

[HTML][HTML] Eliciting improved quantitative judgements using the IDEA protocol: A case study in natural resource management

V Hemming, TV Walshe, AM Hanea, F Fidler… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Natural resource management uses expert judgement to estimate facts that
inform important decisions. Unfortunately, expert judgement is often derived by informal and …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation

A Chrysafi, V Virkki, M Jalava, V Sandström… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due
to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the safe …

[HTML][HTML] Mosquito-borne viruses and non-human vertebrates in Australia: A review

OTW Ong, EB Skinner, BJ Johnson, JM Old - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mosquito-borne viruses are well recognized as a global public health burden amongst
humans, but the effects on non-human vertebrates is rarely reported. Australia, houses a …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat in flames: How climate change will affect fire risk across koala forests

F Shabani, M Shafapourtehrany, M Ahmadi… - … Technology & Innovation, 2023 - Elsevier
Aim: Generate fire susceptibility maps for the present and 2070, to identify the threat wildfires
pose to koalas now and under future climate change. Location: Australia. Time period …

Conservation biogeography of modern species of Australasian marsupials

JCZ Woinarski, DO Fisher - American and Australasian Marsupials: an …, 2023 - Springer
The diverse and distinctive Australasian marsupial fauna has experienced considerable loss
over the last 200 years. Extinctions of Australasian marsupials have been confined to …

[HTML][HTML] How microbiomes can help inform conservation: landscape characterisation of gut microbiota helps shed light on additional population structure in a specialist …

BL Littleford-Colquhoun, LS Weyrich, K Hohwieler… - Animal microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), an iconic yet endangered
specialised folivore experiencing widespread decline across Australia, is the focus of many …

Assessing the validity of crowdsourced wildlife observations for conservation using public participatory mapping methods

G Brown, C McAlpine, J Rhodes, D Lunney… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Public participatory mapping is a method of crowdsourcing where the lay public can
contribute spatial information for a range of applications including conservation planning …