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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
    • 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

    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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The Centre for Ecosystem Science partners with a range of institutions at both the academic and strategic level.
 

  • Nura Gili Indigenous Program Unit
  • The Australian Museum
  • The Taronga Conservation Society
  • The Centre for Excellence in Environmental Decisions
  • The School of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Environmental Science, The University of Adelaide
  • Joint Remote Sensing Research Program, The University of Queensland
  • Department of Science, Information and Technology, QLD
  • Geoscience Australia
  • Global Environment Faculty
  • Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
  • International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
  • United Nations University
  • Arid Recovery
  • Australian Wildlife Conservancy
  • Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
  • The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
  • The Murray-Darling Basin Authority
  • Komodo Survival Progam
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