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Atmospheric
Quantifying the nitrogen cycle: from farm gate to catchments, groundwater and atmosphere
Conservation practice
Water Information System for the Environment (WISE)
Red list of ecosystems
Shrub encroachment as a legacy of native mammal decline
Foraging and habitat ecology of the yellow-tailed black-cockatoo
Tackling prey naïveté in Australia’s threatened mammals
Biodiversity sampling in Strzelecki Regional Reserve
The reintroduction of locally extinct mammals: The landscape ecosystem approach
The persistence of common wombats in road impacted environments
Temperate highland peat swamps on sandstone
Cumberland plain woodland restoration
Strategic adaptive management
Limit to climate change adaption in floodplain wetlands - Macquarie Marshes
Managing for ecosystem change in the greater blue mountains world heritage area
Adaptive management of Ramsar Wetlands
Managing for biodiversity in boom and bust cycle environments
Submission on Biodiversity Act Review
Marine ecosystems
Offshore artificial reefs
Remote sensing and GIS
Mangrove response to climatic variability
Using radar satellite imagery to detect and monitor flooding in arid Australian wetlands
Supporting continental retrieval of vegetation biophysical attributes
The Injune Landscape Collaborative Project
Tree species shifts in response to environmental change
Regrowth mapping
Regional biodiversity responses to climate change
Will climate change affect the ecology of temporary lakes in Australia?
Rivers and wetlands
Changes to the Darling River and Menindee Lakes – past, present and future
Lowbidgee wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin - The Nimmie-Caira
A stitch in time – synergistic impacts to platypus metapopulation extinction risk
Tube fishway project
National waterbird survey
Eastern Australian waterbird survey
Feather map of Australia
Life history and dynamics of a platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) population: four decades of mark-recapture surveys
Adequacy of environmental assessment of the proposed Macquarie River pipeline to the city of Orange
Increasing production from inland aquaculture in Papua New Guinea for food and income security
Aquaculture and environmental planning group
Understanding soil-related constraints on aquaculture production in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
Improving technologies for inland aquaculture in Papua New Guinea (ACIAR Project FIS2014062)
Drying of ancient Thirlmere Lakes caused by human activities
Application of GIS and remote sensing to assess sustainable mariculture and protect conservation zones
Improving the sustainability of rice-shrimp farming systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
A SWOT analysis of Papua New Guinea’s inland fisheries and aquaculture sectors
Carbon and floodplain biota in the Macquarie marshes
Micro-invertebrate community dynamics and flooding in the Macquarie marshes
Just add water? The effectiveness of environmental flows during wetland vegetation restoration
Application of motion sensing cameras as a tool for monitoring riparian fauna
Captive or wild?
Brolga and Sarus crane diet comparison
Lake Brewster pelican banding
Aquatic invertebrate strategies for coping with drought
Submission on Draft Lake Eyre Basin Strategic Plan
The Menindee Lakes Water Savings Project – an example of poor decision-making
Terrestrial ecosystems
Post-fire recovery of threatened ecological communities
Environment Recovery Project: Australian bushfires
Community stability of upland swamp vegetation
An innovative approach to maximising catchment water yield in a changing climate
Post-fire seed production in Hakea Gibbosa
Managing fire regimes with thresholds to save threatened flora and fauna
Stopping the toad
Trophic cascades in NSW North Coast forests
Individual hunting behavior in feral cats
Mallee Ecosystem Dynamics
Investigating artificial waterhole utilisation and management in north-eastern Botswana
Investigating the spatial ecology, habitat use, behaviour, and ecosystem engineering of hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), a keystone species in the Okavango Delta and Chobe River, northern Botswana
Does overgrazing reduce ecosystem functions
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Platypus breeding
Maximising establishment success in reintroduced populations
PhD scholarship saving our species - patch value, viability and resilience
PhD scholarship – mechanics of species irruptions
Conservation ecology of Greater bilby: survival, reproductive success and movement ecology in a breeding sanctuary in NSW
Scientia PhD scholarship - Identifying healthy burning practices for Australia’s threatened plant species
Scientia PhD scholarship - Ecosystem restoration through rewilding
Platypus population health and dynamics
Tackling prey naiveté in Australia’s endangered mammals
Testate amoebae: a new biomarker of climate change and human impact in peatlands
Surface water dynamics as a function of climate and river flow data
Multisensor integration for environmental flows
Response of northern Australian mangroves to climatic variability
Comparative effects of extreme heat on threatened desert mammals
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Atmospheric
Quantifying the nitrogen cycle: from farm gate to catchments, groundwater and atmosphere
Conservation practice
Water Information System for the Environment (WISE)
Red list of ecosystems
Shrub encroachment as a legacy of native mammal decline
Foraging and habitat ecology of the yellow-tailed black-cockatoo
Tackling prey naïveté in Australia’s threatened mammals
Biodiversity sampling in Strzelecki Regional Reserve
The reintroduction of locally extinct mammals: The landscape ecosystem approach
The persistence of common wombats in road impacted environments
Temperate highland peat swamps on sandstone
Cumberland plain woodland restoration
Strategic adaptive management
Limit to climate change adaption in floodplain wetlands - Macquarie Marshes
Managing for ecosystem change in the greater blue mountains world heritage area
Adaptive management of Ramsar Wetlands
Managing for biodiversity in boom and bust cycle environments
Submission on Biodiversity Act Review
Marine ecosystems
Offshore artificial reefs
Remote sensing and GIS
Mangrove response to climatic variability
Using radar satellite imagery to detect and monitor flooding in arid Australian wetlands
Supporting continental retrieval of vegetation biophysical attributes
The Injune Landscape Collaborative Project
Tree species shifts in response to environmental change
Regrowth mapping
Regional biodiversity responses to climate change
Will climate change affect the ecology of temporary lakes in Australia?
Rivers and wetlands
Changes to the Darling River and Menindee Lakes – past, present and future
Lowbidgee wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin - The Nimmie-Caira
A stitch in time – synergistic impacts to platypus metapopulation extinction risk
Tube fishway project
National waterbird survey
Eastern Australian waterbird survey
Feather map of Australia
Life history and dynamics of a platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) population: four decades of mark-recapture surveys
Adequacy of environmental assessment of the proposed Macquarie River pipeline to the city of Orange
Increasing production from inland aquaculture in Papua New Guinea for food and income security
Aquaculture and environmental planning group
Understanding soil-related constraints on aquaculture production in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
Improving technologies for inland aquaculture in Papua New Guinea (ACIAR Project FIS2014062)
Drying of ancient Thirlmere Lakes caused by human activities
Application of GIS and remote sensing to assess sustainable mariculture and protect conservation zones
Improving the sustainability of rice-shrimp farming systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
A SWOT analysis of Papua New Guinea’s inland fisheries and aquaculture sectors
Carbon and floodplain biota in the Macquarie marshes
Micro-invertebrate community dynamics and flooding in the Macquarie marshes
Just add water? The effectiveness of environmental flows during wetland vegetation restoration
Application of motion sensing cameras as a tool for monitoring riparian fauna
Captive or wild?
Brolga and Sarus crane diet comparison
Lake Brewster pelican banding
Aquatic invertebrate strategies for coping with drought
Submission on Draft Lake Eyre Basin Strategic Plan
The Menindee Lakes Water Savings Project – an example of poor decision-making
Terrestrial ecosystems
Post-fire recovery of threatened ecological communities
Environment Recovery Project: Australian bushfires
Community stability of upland swamp vegetation
An innovative approach to maximising catchment water yield in a changing climate
Post-fire seed production in Hakea Gibbosa
Managing fire regimes with thresholds to save threatened flora and fauna
Stopping the toad
Trophic cascades in NSW North Coast forests
Individual hunting behavior in feral cats
Mallee Ecosystem Dynamics
Investigating artificial waterhole utilisation and management in north-eastern Botswana
Investigating the spatial ecology, habitat use, behaviour, and ecosystem engineering of hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), a keystone species in the Okavango Delta and Chobe River, northern Botswana
Does overgrazing reduce ecosystem functions
Study with us
Courses
Postgraduate research projects
Platypus breeding
Maximising establishment success in reintroduced populations
PhD scholarship saving our species - patch value, viability and resilience
PhD scholarship – mechanics of species irruptions
Conservation ecology of Greater bilby: survival, reproductive success and movement ecology in a breeding sanctuary in NSW
Scientia PhD scholarship - Identifying healthy burning practices for Australia’s threatened plant species
Scientia PhD scholarship - Ecosystem restoration through rewilding
Platypus population health and dynamics
Tackling prey naiveté in Australia’s endangered mammals
Testate amoebae: a new biomarker of climate change and human impact in peatlands
Surface water dynamics as a function of climate and river flow data
Multisensor integration for environmental flows
Response of northern Australian mangroves to climatic variability
Comparative effects of extreme heat on threatened desert mammals
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Wild Deserts
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Atmospheric
Greenhouse gases sources and sinks: collecting the data to quantify changing atmospheric chemistry impacts on our ecosystems.
Conservation practice
Evidence-based policy and management are important to help in the complex challenge of influencing decisions about the environment, which is often changing. Increasingly, there is broad understanding that people are integrally part of the environment, directly or indirectly influencing it in many different ways.
Marine ecosystems
Marine scientists need to be generalists to meet modern challenges of a rapidly changing marine ecosystem. We address a wide range of issues, such as the urbanising coasts of the world, to the changing distributions of species in response to climate change.
Remote sensing & GIS
Increasingly, we are investigating changes over large parts of the world in different ecosystems. Understanding how and why large scale changes are occurring across the landscape is critical for management of environments and informing relevant policy.
Rivers & wetlands
The Centre for Ecosystem Science has a strong background and focus on investigating the ecology of wetlands and rivers. We are particularly interested in the “boom” and “bust” ecology of inland river systems, focusing a considerable amount of our work in the Murray-Darling Basin and its more important wetlands.
Terrestrial ecosystems
We're interested in a wide range of processes and organisms in terrestrial ecosystems. In particular, we investigate how ecosystems work and the interactions between the drivers of ecosystem productivity (soils, for example) and different organisms from the microscopic to top predators.
Wild Deserts
Wild Deserts is an exciting project with a vision to understand, restore and promote desert ecosystems through ecosystem manipulations, reintroductions and collaborative partnerships.