Papers
M Lagisz, MJ Westgate, D Kellie & S Nakagawa (Aug 30, 2024) Going global by going local: Impacts and opportunities of geographically focused data integration Ecology and Evolution.
M Littlefair, BC Scheele, MJ Westgate & DB Lindenmayer (May 13, 2024) The ecological and biodiversity conservation values of farm dams: A systematic review PLOS ONE.
KL Hingee, MJ Westgate & DB Lindenmayer (Mar 31, 2022) Long-term monitoring in endangered woodlands shows effects of multi-scale drivers on bird occupancy Journal of Biogeography.
MJ Westgate, C Crane, D Smith, C O’Malley, A Siegrist, D Florance, E Lang, M Crane, K Hingee, BC Scheele & DB Lindenmayer (Mar 16, 2022) Improved management of farm dams increases vegetation cover, water quality, and macroinvertebrate biodiversity Ecology and Evolution.
MJ Evans, PS Barton, MJ Westgate, M Soga, G Fujita & T Miyashita (Aug 24, 2021) Ecological processes associated with different animal taxa in urban environments Ecosphere.
MJ Westgate, M Crane, D Florance & DB Lindenmayer (Jan 18, 2021) Synergistic impacts of aggressive species on small birds in a fragmented landscape Journal of Applied Ecology.
NR Haddaway & MJ Westgate (Nov 19, 2020) Creating and curating a community of practice: introducing the evidence synthesis Hackathon and a special series in evidence synthesis technology Environmental Evidence.
DB Lindenmayer, W Blanchard, D Blair, L McBurney, C Taylor, BC Scheele, MJ Westgate, N Robinson & CN Foster (Sep 3, 2020) The response of arboreal marsupials to long-term changes in forest disturbance Animal Conservation.
MJ Westgate, PS Barton, DB Lindenmayer & NR Andrew (Aug 20, 2020) Quantifying shifts in topic popularity over 44 years of Austral Ecology Austral Ecology.
MJ Evans, BC Scheele, MJ Westgate, M Yebra, JS Newport & AD Manning (Jul 21, 2020) Beyond the pond: terrestrial habitat use by frogs in a changing climate Biological Conservation.
DB Lindenmayer, CN Foster, MJ Westgate, BC Scheele & W Blanchard (Jun 7, 2020) Managing interacting disturbances: lessons from a case study in Australian forests Journal of Applied Ecology.
DB Lindenmayer, P Lane, MJ Westgate, BC Scheele, M Crane, D Florance, C Crane & D Smith (May 25, 2020) Long-term mammal and nocturnal bird trends are influenced by vegetation type, weather and climate in temperate woodlands Austral Ecology.
DB Lindenmayer & MJ Westgate (May 9, 2020) Are Flagship, Umbrella and Keystone Species Useful Surrogates to Understand the Consequences of Landscape Change? Current Landscape Ecology Reports.
S Nakagawa et al. (Mar 23, 2020) A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis Nature Ecology & Evolution.
A Jeliazkov et al. (Jan 8, 2020) A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space Scientific Data.
DB Lindenmayer, BC Scheele, MJ Westgate, W Blanchard, CN Foster, J Stein, M Crane & D Florance (Dec 19, 2019) Habitat amount versus connectivity: an empirical study of bird responses Biological Conservation.
DB Lindenmayer, MJ Westgate, BC Scheele, CN Foster & DP Blair (Oct 22, 2019) Key perspectives on early successional forests subject to stand-replacing disturbances Forest Ecology & Management.
PS Barton, MJ Westgate, K Cuddington, CN Foster, A Hastings, A Knapp, L O’Loughlin, CF Sato, M Smith, MR Willig & DB Lindenmayer (Sep 13, 2019) Using ecological niche theory to avoid uninformative biodiversity surrogates Ecological Indicators.
DB Lindenmayer, W Blanchard, D Blair, MJ Westgate & BC Scheele (Sep 13, 2019) Spatio-temporal effects of logging and fire on tall, wet temperate eucalypt forest birds Ecological Applications.
R Beggs, JC Pierson, AIT Tulloch, W Blanchard, MJ Westgate & DB Lindenmayer (Sep 12, 2019) An empirical test of the mechanistic underpinnings of interference competition Oikos.
MJ Westgate (Jul 29, 2019) revtools: An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis Research Synthesis Methods.
NR Haddaway, A Feierman, MJ Grainger, CT Gray, E Tanriver-Ayder, S Dhaubanjar & MJ Westgate (Jun 4, 2019) EviAtlas: a tool for visualising evidence synthesis databases Environmental Evidence.
DJ Belder, JC Pierson, K Ikin, W Blanchard, MJ Westgate, M Crane & DB Lindenmayer (May 29, 2019) Is bigger always better? Influence of patch attributes on breeding activity of birds in box-gum grassy woodland restoration plantings Biological Conservation.
DB Lindenmayer, W Blanchard, MJ Westgate, CN Foster, SC Banks, PS Barton, K Ikin & BC Scheele (Mar 1, 2019) Novel bird responses to successive large-scale landscape transformations Ecological Monographs.
CF Sato, MJ Westgate, et al. (Feb 16, 2019) The use and utility of surrogates in biodiversity monitoring programs Journal of Applied Ecology.
R Beggs, JC Pierson, AIT Tulloch, MJ Westgate, W Blanchard & DB Lindenmayer (Jan 22, 2019) An experimental test of a compensatory nest predation model following lethal control of an overabundant native species Biological Conservation.
S Nakagawa, G Samarasinghe, NR Haddaway, MJ Westgate, RE O’Dea, DWA Noble & M Lagisz (Dec 20, 2018) Research Weaving: Visualizing the future of research synthesis Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
DB Lindenmayer, P Lane, CN Foster, MJ Westgate, BC Scheele, CF Sato, K Ikin, M Crane, D Michael & D Florance (Dec 11, 2018) Do migratory and resident birds differ in their responses to interacting effects of climate, weather and vegetation? Diversity & Distributions.
DB Lindenmayer et al. (Nov 15, 2018) Weather effects on birds of different size are mediated by long-term climate and vegetation type in endangered temperate woodlands Global Change Biology.
NR Haddaway & MJ Westgate (Oct 4, 2018) Predicting the time needed for environmental systematic reviews and systematic maps Conservation Biology.
CN Foster et al. (Sep 29, 2018) How practitioners integrate decision triggers with existing metrics in conservation monitoring Journal of Environmental Management.
LS O’Loughlin, DB Lindenmayer, MD Smith, MR Willig, AK Knapp, K Cuddington, A Hastings, CN Foster, CF Sato, MJ Westgate & PS Barton (Jul 18, 2018) Surrogates underpin ecological understanding and practice BioScience.
BS Scheele, S Legge, D Armstrong, P Copley, N Robinson, D Southwell, MJ Westgate & DB Lindenmayer (Jul 2, 2018) How to improve threatened species management: An Australian perspective Journal of Environmental Management.
DB Lindenmayer, P Lane, MJ Westgate, BC Scheele, C Foster, C Sato, M Crane, D Michael, D Florance, K Ikin, PS Barton, LS O’Loughlin, N Robinson (Apr 19, 2018) Tests of predictions associated with temporal changes in Australian bird populations Biological Conservation.
MJ Westgate, NR Haddaway, SH Cheng, EJ McIntosh, C Marshall & DB Lindenmayer (Mar 23, 2018) Software support for environmental evidence synthesis Nature Ecology & Evolution.
MJ Westgate, C MacGregor, BC Scheele, DA Driscoll & DB Lindenmayer (Oct 4, 2017) Effects of time since fire on frog occurrence are altered by isolation, vegetation, and fire frequency gradients Diversity & Distributions.
MJ Westgate & DB Lindenmayer (Jan 2, 2017) The difficulties of systematic reviews Conservation Biology.
DB Lindenmayer, C MacGregor, J Wood, MJ Westgate, K Ikin, C Foster, F Ford & R Zentelis (Nov 6, 2016) Bombs, fire and biodiversity: Vertebrate fauna occurrence in areas subject to military training. Biological Conservation.
DB Lindenmayer, SG Candy, SC Banks, MJ Westgate, K Ikin, JC Pierson, AIT Tulloch & PS Barton (May 3, 2016) Do temporal changes in vegetation structure predict changes in bird occupancy additional to time since fire? Ecological Applications.
MJ Westgate, AIT Tulloch, PS Barton, JC Pierson & DB Lindenmayer (Mar 10, 2016) Optimal taxonomic groups for biodiversity assessment: A meta-analytic approach Ecography.
AIT Tulloch, I Chadés, Y Dujardin, MJ Westgate, PW Lane & DB Lindenmayer (Jan 14, 2016) Dynamic species co-occurrence networks require dynamic biodiversity surrogates Ecography.
M Hunter Jr. et al. (Dec 23, 2015) Two roles for ecological surrogacy: Indicator surrogates and management surrogates Ecological Indicators.
MJ Westgate, BC Scheele, K Ikin, AM Hoefer, RM Beaty, M Evans, W Osborne, L Rayner & DA Driscoll (Nov 18, 2015) Citizen science program shows urban areas have lower occurrence of frog species, but not accelerated declines PLOS ONE.
D Lindenmayer et al. (Aug 19, 2015) A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates Science of the Total Environment.
MJ Westgate, PS Barton, JC Pierson & DB Lindenmayer (Aug 14, 2015) Text analysis tools for identification of emerging topics and research gaps in conservation science Conservation Biology.
D Stojanovic, A Terauds, MJ Westgate, MH Webb & R Heinsohn (May 14, 2015) Exploiting the richest patch has a fitness pay-off for the migratory swift parrot Journal of Animal Ecology.
PS Barton, JC Pierson, MJ Westgate, PW Lane & DB Lindenmayer (Feb 23, 2015) Learning from clinical medicine to improve the use of surrogates in ecology Oikos.
A Mortelliti, MJ Westgate, J Stein, J Wood & DB Lindenmayer (Feb 3, 2015) Ecological and spatial drivers of population synchrony in bird assemblages Basic and Applied Ecology.
PW Lane, DB Lindenmayer, PS Barton, W Blanchard & MJ Westgate (Jul 29, 2014) Visualisation of species pairwise associations: a case study of surrogacy in bird assemblages Ecology and Evolution.
DB Lindenmayer, PW Lane, MJ Westgate, M Crane, D Michael, S Okada & PS Barton (Jul 21, 2014) An empirical assessment of the focal species hypothesis Conservation Biology.
A Mortelliti, MJ Westgate & DB Lindenmayer (Jul 3, 2014) Experimental evaluation shows limited influence of pine plantations on the connectivity of highly fragmented bird populations Journal of Applied Ecology.
PS Barton, MJ Westgate, PW Lane, C MacGregor & DB Lindenmayer (May 22, 2014) Robustness of habitat-based surrogates of animal diversity: a multi-taxa comparison over time Journal of Applied Ecology.
MJ Westgate, PS Barton, PW Lane & DB Lindenmayer (May 21, 2014) Global meta-analysis reveals low consistency of biodiversity congruence relationships Nature Communications.
D Driscoll et al. (Apr 17, 2014) The trajectory of dispersal research in conservation biology PLOS ONE.
DB Lindenmayer, PS Barton, PW Lane, MJ Westgate, L McBurney, D Blair, P Gibbons & GE Likens (Feb 24, 2014) An empirical assessment and comparison of species-based and habitat-based surrogates: a case study of forest vertebrates and large old trees PLOS ONE.
MJ Westgate, GE Likens, & DB Lindenmayer (Nov 27, 2013) Adaptive management of biological systems: A review Biological Conservation.
MJ Westgate, DA Driscoll & DB Lindenmayer (Jun 29, 2012) Limited influence of stream networks on the terrestrial movements of three wetland-dependent frog species Biological Conservation.
MJ Westgate, DA Driscoll & DB Lindenmayer (Jan 23, 2012) Can the intermediate disturbance hypothesis and information on species traits predict anuran responses to fire? Oikos.
A Felton et al. (Jun 12, 2009) Climate change, conservation and management: an assessment of the peer-reviewed scientific journal literature Biodiversity and Conservation.