Ben Wagner
@gliderhabitat.bsky.social
Research Fellow @unimelb. Studying arboreal mammal habitat in mixed species eucalypt forests and forest resilience and adaptation in the Australian alps.
Excellent work on a dire situation facing Alpine Ash in Australia. Also great to have some explaining of what Resist Accept Direct could look like. theconversation.com/can-we-keep-...
Can we keep Australia’s endangered alpine ash on the map? New modelling shows where to focus our efforts
A hotter, drier and more fire-prone future is putting these unique trees at risk.
theconversation.com
A hotter, drier and more fire-prone future is putting these unique trees at risk.
Can we keep Australia’s endangered alpine ash on the map? New modelling shows where to focus our efforts
theconversation.com
Happy to share our new research, out in @springernature.com Landscape Ecology today: link.springer.com/article/10.1... .Reproductive maturity drives persistence of an endangered obligate seeder under future fire regimes irrespective of climate change, while targeted reseeding may enhance recovery.
Our new paper is out this week, assessing the potential behavioural impacts of drone surveys on nocturnal arboreal mammals. An invited contribution to @csiropublishing.bsky.social Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria: connectsci.au/rs/article/d... With: @enviroadventure.bsky.social
Drone-based wildlife surveys elicit minimal vigilance in nocturnal arboreal mammals: evidence from comparisons with ground-based detection methods
Drones are transforming how scientists monitor wildlife, offering new ways to observe animals safely and efficiently. We compared drone-based and tradition
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Twenty-three years of potoroo poo shows that these mycophagists are eating different ectomycorrhizal #truffles under #ClimateChange. #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08410 🧪 #mycology #ecology #WildOz
Camille Truong@camilletruong.bsky.social · 6mo agoOver 20 years of scat analyses reveal how truffle-like fungi respond to climate change. First paper of PHD student Emily McIntyre from @unimelb.edu.au 🦘🍄🟫🌱 @ausmycsoc.bsky.social @esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social
Excited to have our research on impacts of post-fire on nutritional quality in eucalypt forests for species such as the endangered southern #greaterglider and koala out this week in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social's Forest ecology and Management. Find the open access paper here: go.unimelb.edu.au/qjr2
Chemical composition of post-fire epicormic foliage affects nutritional quality for folivores
Forest fires can cause major changes in stand structure and habitat suitability for forest wildlife. For species that browse on foliage, the tree’s fi…
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After decades of research, our new book on the eucalypts of WA's goldfields has finally arrived! Designed, compiled and printed in Australia. Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks of this one. For more information, sample pages and to order: www.dn.com.au/Eucalypts_of...
I recently gave a talk about Wilkerr (dingoes) at #ESA2025 (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...). Many call them 'wild dogs' in S.A. Below the dingo fence they are to be _eradicated_, by law. But the only true wild dog I knew of was the legendary dachshund, Valerie. #DadJokes @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
Very happy to have my #drone photo of East Gippsland’s beautiful lowland mixed species eucalypt forests printed alongside other amazing photographers and ecologists in the new @csiropublishing.bsky.social ,Ecology Matters’. Launched at this year’s @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2025 conference!
Big thanks to @deannicolle1.bsky.social for generously showing us around his Currency Creek Arboretum this morning. What a wonderful and unique place to explore all the wonderful Eucalypts that are out there! Great way to wrap up @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2025 in #adelaide.
Grateful that I got to present some of my fire research on beautiful #KaurnaCountry at #ESA2025 Big thanks to the Gulbali Collaboration Kickstarter award for getting me here. #EcologicalSocietyOfAustralia #EcologyAustralia #BiodiversityOnTheBrink #Adelaide
Join us tomorrow (Wednesday 26.11) in the Gilbert Suite for three jam-packed sessions exploring and celebrating Australian Landscape Ecology at #ESA2025, starting at 10:30am!
Happy to be able to share that our work investigating the efficacy of thermal #drones for nocturnal #wildlife surveys is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological applications: doi.org/10.1002/eap..... Find a summary in @theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/drones-with-...
Drones with thermal cameras are revealing the secrets of elusive Australian forest wildlife
The new technology will help scientists monitor and protect some of Australia’s most iconic and threatened forest species.
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@mandaloca2.bsky.social showing us that #dingoes have social networks too. Great talk on social interactions and drivers of population density of vulnerable Victorian dingoes at #iccb2025
Out now: Our paper on deforestation risks across #newguinea led by Christoph Parsch with @biogeokreft.bsky.social and Bill Laurence. Another output of our fruitful collab between #unimelb and #unigoettingen doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
Forecasting deforestation and carbon loss across New Guinea using machine learning and cellular automata
The island of New Guinea harbors some of the world's most biologically diverse and highly endemic tropical ecosystems. Nevertheless, progressing land-…
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I submitted some photos to this year’s #VicBioCon25 photo competition. If you like them, consider giving them a vote :) forms.gle/vzxiEycxEtwS...
VicBioCon@vicbiocon.bsky.social · 2y agoBetween each #VicBioCon25 session you'll see a slideshow of all our photocomp entries! Vote for your favourites with the QR code, or follow this link: forms.gle/vzxiEycxEtwS... 📷 Background by Adam Purcell | Melbourne Ceili Camera
Was great to talk about our research in windthrow yesterday at the Ecological Society of Australia conference and have some great chats with people about their own observations across Australia.
Dr Christina N. Zdenek@cnzdenek.bsky.social · 2y agoDr Tom @itsnotfairman.bsky.social boldly convinces us that severe wind is an under-appreciated disturbance in SE Qld. He urges us to consider extreme wind events as opportunities to do conservation mngmt like thin woody thickening, restore habitats, and reintroduce cultural burns. #ESA2024
Dr Tom @itsnotfairman.bsky.social boldly convinces us that severe wind is an under-appreciated disturbance in SE Qld. He urges us to consider extreme wind events as opportunities to do conservation mngmt like thin woody thickening, restore habitats, and reintroduce cultural burns. #ESA2024
Hey #ESAus2024, if you're looking for more Aussie ecologists to follow here, there's some great people on the #WildOz starter pack below! 🦘🐨🌿🪲 Please suggest anyone else who's missing! 🙏 go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
New #greaterglider research out, led by ARI’s talented Justin Cally. We looked into the effects of the large scale storm calamity in the wombat state forest in Victoria’s west on greater glider habitat: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
Guess who’s finally on Bluesky! Welcome Tom
Tom Fairman@itsnotfairman.bsky.social · 2y agoI'll kick off my first bluesky post with a link to our paper that just came out in the last few months - looking at how fuels change with severe windthrow in south-east Australia. One of those studies which led to more questions than answers! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hello Bluesky!🦋 We'll be posting all our updates for #VicBioCon25 here, as well as continuing to post on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter- here's a behind the scenes shot of one of our social media team members hard at work!
The Ecological Society of Australia is here. Such a relief to have a platform for scientists to communicate with each other and the world more generally. @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
Our paper on global endemism in island plants is highlighted by @mongabay.bsky.social - many thanks for featuring this story! news.mongabay.com/short-articl... link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ecology #PlantScience #nature #plants #biology #science #research #conservation #island
More than 20% of Earth’s plants grow only on islands, global study finds
More than a fifth of the Earth’s plant species are found only on islands, making them one of the largest biodiversity hotspots, a breakthrough global study has found. This conclusion has pushed the sc...
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A bit late to the game, but I participated in this collaboration of over 100 Australian ecologists, led by the amazing @dadriscoll.bsky.social on Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires that was recently published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature
Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...
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Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature
Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...
nature.com
‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire theconversation.com/catastrophic... Based on @dadriscoll.bsky.social et al.'s paper out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire
Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.
theconversation.com
The condition of sites affected how severe impacts of the 2019-20 fires were. Most important was the number of preceding fires, with implications for prescribed burning🌏 The conversation theconversation.com/catastrophic... The paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... The video youtu.be/kCPjowmxH3Q
‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire
Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.
theconversation.com
