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Ecological Processes
Brown GW, Dorrough JW, Ramsey DSL (2011) Landscape and local influences on patterns of reptile occurrence
in grazed temperate woodlands of southern Australia. Landscape and Urban Planning 103, 277-288.
Compton TJ, Kraan C, Rijkenberg MJA, Troost TA, Rogers DI, Leyrer J, Pearson G, Piersma T (2011) Sampling
bivalves on tidal flats: Possibility of missing rare species, versus smoothing of environmental variation. Marine
Ecology Progress Series 440, 285-288.
Forsyth DM (2011) Grazers. In: D Simberlott and M Rejmanek (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions, pp.
290-294. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
Forsyth DM, Davis NE (2011) Diets of non-native deer in Australia estimated by macroscopic versus
microhistological rumen analysis. Journal of Wildlife Management 75, 1488-1497.
Garel M, Forsyth DM, Loison A, Dubray D, Jullien JM, Tustin KG, Maillard D, Gaillard JM (2011) Age-related
male reproductive effort in two mountain ungulates of contrasting sexual size dimorphism. Canadian Journal of
Zoology 89, 929-937.
Hansen B, Menkhorst P, Loyn RH (2011) Western Port welcomes waterbirds: improving our understanding of
waterbird usage of Western Port: June 2011. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report
Series No. 222. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental
Research, Heidelberg, Vic.
Huang J, Chen B, Liu C, Lai J, Zhang J, Ma K (2011 early view) Identifying hotspots of endemic woody seed
plant diversity in China. Diversity and Distributions 1-16.
McCutcheon C, Dann P, Salton M, Renwick L, Hoskins AJ, Gormley AM, Arnould JPY (2011) The foraging range
of Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) during winter. Emu 111, 321-329.
Morris K, Raulings EJ, Papas P (2011) Processes that link aquatic habitats across the landscape. National
Wetlands Update, Issue 19, 40-41.
Morris K., Raulings EJ, Melbourne WH, Mac Nally R, Thompson RM (2011). A novel trap for quantifying the
dispersal of seeds by wind. Journal of Vegetation Science 22: 807-817.
Morrongiello JR, Bond NR, Crook DA, Wong BBM (2011) Eucalyptus leachate inhibits reproduction in a
freshwater fish. Freshwater Biology 56, 1736-1745.
McNabb ED, Greenwood J (2011) A powerful Owl disperses into town and uses an artificial nest-box. Australian
Field Ornithology 28, 65-75.
McNabb ED, McNabb JIM (2011) Predispersal range, behaviour and use of exotic roost-trees by a subadult
powerful Owl Ninox strenua. Australian Field Ornithology 28, 57-64.
Menkhorst PW, Loyn RH (2011) The mammalian fauna of greater Melbourne: Diversity, loss, adaptation and
change. Victorian Naturalist 128, 233-248.
Orscheg CK, Enright NJ, Coates F, Thomas I (2011) Recruitment limitation in dry sclerophyll forests:
Regeneration requirements and potential density-dependent effects in Eucalyptus tricarpa (L.A.S. Johnson)
L.A.S. Johnson & K.D. Hill (Myrtaceae). Austral Ecology 36, 936-943.
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Raulings, E.J., Morris, K., Thompson, R., and Mac Nally, R (2011). Do birds of a feather disperse plants
together? Freshwater Biology 56: 1390-1402.
Reich P, Hale R, Downes BJ, Lancaster J (2011) Environmental cues or conspecific attraction as causes for egg
mass aggregation in hydrobiosid caddisflies. Hydrobiologia 661, 351-362.
Rogers DI, Corrie D, Hulzebosch M, Menkhorst P, Avery L, Walker-Smith G, Loyn RH (2011) Surveys of benthic
invertebrates in habitats potentially used by shorebirds in the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine
Peninsula Ramsar Site. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 227.
Department of Sustainability and Environment, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Heidelberg,
Vic.
Schmidt DJ, Crook DA, O'Connor JP, Hughes JM (2011) Genetic analysis of threatened Australian grayling
Prototroctes maraena suggests recruitment to coastal rivers from an unstructured marine larval source
population. Journal of Fish Biology 78, 98-111.
Smith TM, Hindell JS, Jenkins GP, Connolly RM, Keough MJ (2011) Edge effects in patchy seagrass
landscapes: The role of predation in determining fish distribution. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and
Ecology 399, 8-16.
Smith TM, Hindell JS, Jenkins GP, Connolly RM, Keough MJ (2011) Fine-scale spatial and temporal variations in
diets of the pipefish Stigmatopora nigra within seagrass patches. Journal of Fish Biology 78, 1824-1832.
Toelch U, Bruce MJ, Meeus MT, Reader SM (2011 pre print) Social performance cues induce behavioral
flexibility in humans. Frontiers in Psychology 2, 160.
Tonkin ZD, King AJ, Robertson AI, Ramsey DSL (2011) Early fish growth varies in response to components of
the flow regime in a temperate floodplain river. Freshwater Biology 56, 1769-1782.
Wong DTY, Jones SR, Osborne WS, Brown G, Robertson P, Michael DR, Kay GM (2011) The life history and
ecology of the Pink-tailed Worm-lizard Aprasia parapulchella Kluge a review. Australian Zoologist 35, 927-940.
Disturbance Ecology
Bond N, Thomson J, Reich P, Stein J (2011) Using species distribution models to infer potential climate changeinduced range shifts of freshwater fish in south-eastern Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 10431061.
Catford JA, Vesk PA, White MD, Wintle BA (2011) Hotspots of plant invasion predicted by propagule pressure
and ecosystem characteristics. Diversity and Distributions 17, 1099–1110.
Catford J, Vesk PA, White MD, Wintle B (2011) Predicting hotspots of plant invasion. RIRDC Project No. AWRC
08-30 No. 11/016. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Rural Industries Research and Development
Corporation, Barton, ACT.
Dorrough J, McIntyre S, Scroggie MP (2011) Individual plant species responses to phosphorus and livestock
grazing. Australian Journal of Botany 59, 669-680.
Gormley AM, Forsyth DM, Griffioen P, Lindeman M, Ramsey DS, Scroggie MP, Woodford L (2011) Using
presence-only and presence-absence data to estimate the current and potential distributions of established
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invasive species. Journal of Applied Ecology 48, 25-34.
Gormley AJ, Turnbull JD (2011) Estimates of harvest for deer, duck and quail in Victoria: results from surveys of
Victorian game licence holders in 2011. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report
Series No. 224. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental
Research, Heidelberg, Vic.
Hunt TL, Douglas JW, Allen MS, Gwinn DC, Tonkin Z, Lyon J, Pickworth A (2011) Evaluation of population
decline and fishing sustainability of the endangered Australian freshwater fish Macquaria australasica. Fisheries
Management and Ecology 18, 513-520.
Koehn JD (2011) Australian fish in hot water. Ecos, Current Articles. Issue 165
Koehn JD (2011) Climate change and Australian marine and freshwater environments, fishes and fisheries:
Introduction. Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 981-983.
Koehn JD, Hobday AJ, Pratchett MS, Gillanders BM (2011) Climate change and Australian marine and
freshwater environments, fishes and fisheries: synthesis and options for adaptation. Marine and Freshwater
Research 62, 1148-1164.
Loyn RH, Menkhorst PW (2011) The bird fauna of Melbourne: Changes over a century of urban growth and
climate change, using a benchmark from Keartland (1900). Victorian Naturalist 128, 210-231.
Lunt ID, Zimmer HC, Cheal DC (2011) The tortoise and the hare? Post-fire regeneration in mixed EucalyptusCallitris forest. Australian Journal of Botany 59, 575-581.
Morrongiello JR, Beatty SJ, Bennett JC, Crook DA, Ikedife DNEN, Kennard MJ, Kerezsy A, Lintermans M,
McNeil DG, Pusey BJ, Rayner T (2011) Climate change and its implications for Australia's freshwater fish. Marine
and Freshwater Research 62, 1082-1098.
Morrongiello JR, Crook DA, King AJ, Ramsey DSL, Brown P (2011) Impacts of drought and predicted effects
of climate change on fish growth in temperate Australian lakes. Global Change Biology 17, 745-755.
Moxham C, Turner V (2011) The effect of fragmentation on the threatened plant community Coastal Moonah
Woodland in Victoria, Australia. Urban Ecosystems 14, 1-16.
Pratchett MS, Bay LK, Gehrke PC, Koehn JD, Osborne K, Pressey RL, Sweatman HPA, Wachenfeld D (2011)
Contribution of climate change to degradation and loss of critical fish habitats in Australian marine and freshwater
environments. Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 1062-1081.
Ramsey DSL, Parkes JP, Will D, Hanson CC, Campbell KJ (2011) Quantifying the success of feral cat
eradication, San Nicolas Island, California. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 35, 163-173.
Robley A (2011) Assessing the safe and effective use of aerial baiting for the control of wild dogs in Victoria.
Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 217. Department of Sustainability
and Environment, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Heidelberg, Vic.
Robley A (2011) Review of fox control measures in Box–Ironbark Conservation Management Networks:
Wedderburn. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 221. Department of
Sustainability and Environment, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Heidelberg, Vic.
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Robley A, Gormley A, Albert R, Bowd M, Hatfield C, McDonald R, Thorp A, Scroggie M, Smith A, Warton F
(2011) Monitoring and evaluation of Glenelg Ark, 2005–2010. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Technical Report Series No. 226. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Arthur Rylah Institute for
Environmental Research, Heidelberg, Vic.
Robley A, Woodford L, Lindeman M, Ivone G, Beach M, Campbell I, Blair J, Lineham G, Peters W (2011)
Assessing the effectiveness of buried baiting for the control of wild dogs in Victoria. Arthur Rylah Institute for
Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 213. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Arthur
Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Heidelberg, Vic.
Ruscoe WA, Ramsey DSL, Pech RP, Sweetapple PJ, Yockney I, Barron MC, Perry M, Nugent G, Carran R,
Warne R, Brausch C, Duncan RP (2011) Unexpected consequences of control: Competitive vs. predator release
in a four-species assemblage of invasive mammals. Ecology Letters 14, 1035-1042.
Woodford L, Robley A (2011) Assessing the effectiveness and reliability of a trap alert system for use in wild dog
control. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 218. Department of
Sustainability and Environment, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Heidelberg, Vic.
Protection and Recovery
Brown G (2011) The status of the frog fauna of the Werribee River catchment, southern Victoria, with notes on
the utility of large databases in such an assessment. Research Report. Victorian naturalist 128, 36-47.
Compton TJ, Kraan C, Rijkenberg MJA, Troost TA, Rogers DI, Leyrer J, Pearson G, Piersma T (2011) Sampling
bivalves on tidal flats: Possibility of missing rare species, versus smoothing of environmental variation. Marine
Ecology Progress Series 440, 285-288.
Fitzsimons JA, Peake P, Frood D, Mitchell M, Withers M, White M, Webster R (2011) Flooding requirements for
biodiversity values along the Victorian floodplain of the Murray Valley. Victorian naturalist 128, 48-85.
Gawne B, Price A, Koehn JD, King AJ, Nielsen DL, Meredith S, Beesley L, Vilizzi L (2012) A Bayesian Belief
Network Decision Support Tool for Watering Wetlands to Maximise Native Fish Outcomes. Wetlands 32: 277-287.
Gillespie GR, Scroggie MP, Roberts JD, Cogger HG, Mahony MJ, McDonald KR (2011) The influence of
uncertainty on conservation assessments: Australian frogs as a case study. Biological Conservation 144, 15161525.
Gordon A, Langford WT, Todd JA, White MD, Mullerworth DW, Bekessy, SA (2011) Assessing the impacts of
biodiversity offset policies. Environmental Modelling & Software. 26, 1481-1488.
Gordon A, Langford WT, White MD, Todd JA, Bastin L (2011) Modelling trade offs between public and private
conservation policies. Biological Conservation 144, 558-566.
Hatanaka N, Wright W, Loyn RH, MacNally R (2011) ‘Ecologically complex carbon’ – linking biodiversity values,
carbon storage and habitat structure in some austral temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20,
260-271.
Howard KM, Antrobus J, Clemann N (2011) A tale of two mountains: fire, fungus and Alpine tree frogs. Victorian
Naturalist 128, 260-265.
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Hunt TL, Douglas JW, Allen MS, Gwinn DC, Tonkin Z, Lyon J, Pickworth A (2011) Evaluation of population
decline and fishing sustainability of the endangered Australian freshwater fish Macquaria australasica. Fisheries
Management and Ecology 18, 513-520.
Hunter DA, Smith MJ, Scroggie MP, Gilligan D (2011) Experimental examination of the potential for three
introduced fish species to prey on the tadpole of the endangered Booroolong Frog, Litoria booroolongensis.
Journal of Herpetology 45, 181-185.
Langford WT, Gordon A, Bastin L, Bekessy SA, White MD, Newell G (2011) Raising the bar for systematic
conservation planning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26, 634-640.
Liu C, White M, Newell G (2011) Measuring and comparing the accuracy of species distribution models with
presence-absence data. Ecography 34, 232-243.
Liu, C. White, M., Newell, G. and Griffioen, P. (2011). Species distribution modelling for conservation planning
in Victoria of Australia. In Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International
Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand,
December 2011, pp. 2247 - 2253 ISBN: 978-0-9872143-1-7
Mallen-Cooper M, Zampatti B, Hillman T, King A, Koehn J, Saddlier S, Sharpe S, Stuart I (2011) Managing the
Chowilla Creek Environmental Regulator for Fish Species at Risk: Report prepared for the South Australian
Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resources Management Board. Department of Sustainability and Environment,
Fishway Consulting Services, South Australian Research and Development Institute, and Arthur Rylah Institute
for Environmental Research, Heidelberg, Vic.
Newell GR, White MD, Griffioen P, Sinclair SJ (2011) Potential impacts of a changing climate on selected
terrestrial ecosystems in northern Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 122, xcvi-cxi
Peake P, Fitzsimons JA, Frood D, Mitchell M, Withers M, White M, Webster R (2011) A new approach to
determining environmental flow requirements: Sustaining the natural values of floodplains of the southern MurrayDarling Basin. Ecological Management & Restoration 12, 128-137.
Read CF, Duncan DH, Vesk PA, Elith J (2011 pre-print) Surprisingly fast recovery of biological soil crusts
following livestock removal in southern Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 22,1-12.
Reich P, Lake PS, Williams L, Hale R (2011) On improving the science and practice of riparian restoration.
Ecological Management and Restoration 12, 4-5.
Rogers DI, Hassell CJ, Boyle AN, Gosbell K, Minton C, Rogers KG, Clarke RH (2011) Shorebirds of the
Kimberley Coast- Populations, key sites, trends and threats. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 94,
377-391.
Rumpff L, Duncan DH, Vesk PA, Keith DA, Wintle BA (2011) State-and-transition modelling for Adaptive
Management of native woodlands. Biological Conservation 144, 1224-1236.
Sharafi SM, White MD, Burgman M (2011 (in press) Implementing comprehensiveness, adequacy and
representativeness criteria (CAR) to indicate gaps in an existing reserve system: A case study from Victoria,
Australia. Ecological Indicators 18, 342-352.
Williams L, Hale R, Cavagnaro T, Reich P, Lake PS (2011) Developing a vision for improved monitoring and
reporting of riparian restoration projects: MDBA Riparian Restoration Experiment Workshop, Melbourne, 16
November 2010. Ecological Management and Restoration 12, e11-e16.
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Woodcock SH, Gillanders BM, Munro AR, McGovern F, Crook DA, Sanger AC (2011) Using enriched stable
isotopes of barium and magnesium to batch mark otoliths of larval golden perch (Macquaria ambigua,
Richardson). Ecology of Freshwater Fish 20, 157-165.
Yu J, Wong W, Dietterich T, Wong F, Jones J, Betts M, Miller J, White M (2011) Multi-label Classification for
Species Distribution Modeling ICML 2011 Workshop on Machine Learning for Global Challenges, Bellevue, WA,
USA, 2011.
Todd CR, Koehn JD (2011) Murray cod management model: User manual. Report to the Murray Darling Basin
Commission. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Heidelberg, Vic.
Todd CR, Koehn JD (2011) Murray cod modelling to address key management actions: final report for project
MD745. Report to the Murray Darling Basin Commission. Department of Sustainability and Environment,
Heidelberg, Vic.
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