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| | Welcome
We are excited that an ARI project, Fire Analysis Module for Ecological values (FAME), is one of three finalists for the international INFORMS Decision Analysis Practice Award. This global award represents the pinnacle of applied decision science. FAME represents a significant step forward for ecological risk assessment in fire management. It enables fire planners to easily evaluate the impacts of alternative fire regimes on a species and is being used to support fire management planning across Victoria. This work is also an example of close collaboration between ARI, DELWP regions and the University of Melbourne. Well done to all involved!
Our projects featured in this issue include how ARI is supporting the Victorian Regional Forest Agreements, the development of threatened species population models for the Melbourne Strategic Assessment program and a call-out to citizen scientists to help find frogs in northern Victoria as part of assessing the impact of water for the environment. We hope you find these interesting.
Regards
Dr Kim Lowe
Research Director
Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
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| | Supporting the Victorian Regional Forest Agreements
ARI is supporting DELWP’s RFA renewal process by conducting broad-scale surveys for aquatic and terrestrial threatened species, revising our knowledge of the extent of rainforests and modelling the age of tree stems. This information will influence the way our forests are managed into the future.
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| | Threatened species population viability analysis
ARI has produced population models for nine threatened plants and animals for the Victorian Government’s Melbourne Strategic Assessment program. Consultation with species experts and land managers helped develop management options, which can be evaluated by the models in regard to promoting long-term persistence of species.
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| | The frogs are calling you!
We are asking citizen scientists in northern Victoria to help us find frogs and record their calls using the FrogID app, as part of our WetMAP monitoring program. Combining these observations with those from ARI scientists will help discover how delivery of water for the environment is affecting frogs.
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| | Subscribe to ARI
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Subscriptions are available for our ARI eNews, ARI seminar series and our quarterly updates: Terrestrial, Aquatic and Aquatic – influence.
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| | Recent fact sheets (link to PDF) and media releases
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| | Recent journal articles (link to abstract) include:
Atkins, Z. S., Clemann, N., Chapple, D.G., Edwards, A.M., Sinsch, U., Hantzschmann, A.M., Schroder, M., Scroggie, M.P. and Robert, K.A. (2019) Demographic and life history variation in two sky‐island populations of an endangered alpine lizard. Journal of Zoology (online early)
Harrisson, K.A., Magrath, M.J.L., Yen, J.D.L., Pavlova, A., Murray, N., Quin, B., Menkhorst, P., Miller, K.A, Cartwright, K., Sunnucks, P. (2019) Lifetime fitness costs of inbreeding and being inbred in a critically endangered bird. Current Biology 29:1-7.e1-e4
Raymond, S., Koehn, J., Tonkin, Z., Todd, C., Stoessel, D., Hackett, G., O'Mahony, J., Berry, K., Lyon, J., Sharley, J. and Moloney, P. (2019) Differential responses by two closely related native fishes to restoration actions. Restoration Ecology (online early)
Shelley, J.J., Unmack, P.J., Dempster, T., Le Feuvre, M.C. and Swearer, S.E. (2019) The Kimberley, north-western Australia, as a cradle of evolution and endemic biodiversity: an example using grunters (Terapontidae). Journal of Biogeography (online early)
Tolsma, A., Hale, R., Sutter, G. and Kohout, M. (2019) Post-fire dynamics of Cool Temperate Rainforest in the O'Shannassy Catchment. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 298. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Heidelberg, Victoria
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| | ARI Seminar Series
Recent presentations in our 2019 Seminar Series have covered genetics in the Button Wrinklewort (left); the impacts of roads and railways on wildlife; human behavior and conservation; and cultural burning. Coming up (7th October) is our own Dan Stoessel on Murray Hardyhead and salinity, and Michael Scroggie on drivers of occurrence of grassland herpetofauna. If you can’t make it to Heidelberg, register for the webinar to listen and view slides online.
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