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| | Welcome
The ongoing wet weather and flooding have caused immense hardship for many people across the state, and our thoughts are with those people who have been affected. It has also meant we have had to make adjustments to some of our fieldwork but, where safe to do so, our researchers have been out and about, continuing our work to support government, our environment, and the community. We have also been able to assist in the rescue of fish and crayfish affected by blackwater events brought on by the large-scale flooding.
This issue of our eNews highlights some of the work that we do to support ecosystem recovery after extreme events. Find out about our work surveying for Glossy Black-Cockatoos after bushfires, monitoring forest recovery after windstorms, and our role in establishing a native fish hatchery to support imperilled aquatic animals.
Keep well, and best wishes for a safe, nature-filled break,
Fern Hames
Director
Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
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| | Glossy Black-Cockatoo bushfire recovery
During the Black Summer bushfires, large areas of Black Sheaok were burned, which is a critical food resource for the Glossy Black-Cockatoo. ARI researchers have been working to understand changes in their populations after the fires – by searching for signs of their particular feeding habits.
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| | Captive breeding facility for threatened aquatic species
Some of Victoria’s most threatened native aquatic species will be part of a captive breeding program at a conservation hatchery, currently under construction. The new facilities will be used to breed fish and other aquatic animals for a variety of purposes, such as reintroductions after events like fires or droughts.
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| | Understanding forest revovery after windstorms
In 2021, a severe windstorm toppled thousands of trees in the Dandenong Ranges. ARI researchers and partner agencies have been working to understand the impact that the storm had on the forest trees and plants and collaborating with the local community to help them connect with the recovery of the natural environment..
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| | WetMAP and VEFMAP - update
ARI is currently leading the delivery of two large-scale projects assessing the impact of water for the environment: the Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program (WetMAP) and the Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program (VEFMAP).
Find more information about the current stages of VEFMAP and WetMAP on our website.
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| | ARI quarterly research updates
It features information on revegetation trials to support Macquarie Perch, updates on the 2022 Native Fish Report Cards, and other news from the Applied Aquatic Ecology section.
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| | Recent journal articles (link to abstract) and reports (link to PDF) include:
Fogarty, F.A., Yen, J.D.L., Fleishman, E., Sollman, R. and Ke, A. (2022). Multiple-region, N-mixture community model to assess associations of riparian area, fragmentation, and species richness. Ecological Applications 32 (8), e2698
Huaman, J.L., Pacioni, C., Forsyth, D.M., Pople, A., Carvalho, T.G. and Helbig, K.J. (2022). Detection and characterisation of an endogenous Betaretrovirus in Australian wild deer. Viruses 14 (2), 252
Jackson, S., Baker, A., Eldridge, M., Fisher, D. O., Frankham, G.J., Lavery, T.H., MacDonald, A.J., Menkhorst, P.W., Phillips, M.J., Potter, S., Rowe, K.C., Travouillon, K.J., and Umbrello, L.S. (2022). The importance of appropriate taxonomy in Australian mammalogy. Australian Mammology, online early
Jones, C.S., Thomas, F. M., Michael, D.R., Fraser, H., Gould, E., Begley, J., Wilson, J., Vesk, P.A, and Rumpff, L. (2022). What state of the world are we in? Targeted monitoring to detect transitions in vegetation restoration projects. Ecological Applications, e2728
Lumsden, L.F., Bush, B., Griffioen, P., Francis, L. & Moloney, P. (2022). The response of insectivorous bats to environmental watering. Short-term response during inundation phase. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 347. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Heidelberg, Victoria.
McNaughton, C., Cook, P.L.M., Wong, W.W., Koster, W.M., Reich, P., Jenkins, G.P., Cartwright, I., Beardall, J. and Woodland. R.J. (2022). Environmental flows stimulate estuarine plankton communities by altered salinity structure and enhanced nutrient recycling. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 279 (5), e108157
Sievers, M., Brown, C.J., Buelow, C.A., Hale, R., Ostrowski, A., Saunders, M., Silliman, B.R., Swearer, S., Turschell, M.P., Valdez, S.R., and Connolly, R.M. (2022). Greater consideration of animals will enhance coastal restoration outcomes. BioScience 72 (11), 1088-1098
Ward, M., Southwell, D., Gallagher, R., Raadik, T.A., Whiterod, N., Lintermans, M., Sheridan, G., Nyman, P., Suarez, F., March, J., Woinarski, J. and Legge, S. (2022). Modelling the spatial extent of post-fire sedimentation threat to estimate the impacts of fire on waterways and aquatic species. Diversity and Distributions 28 (11), 2429-2442
White, M.D., Hollings, T., Sinclair, S.J., Williams, K.J., Dickson, F., Brenton, P., Raisbeck-Brown, N., Warnick, A., Lyon, P., Mokany, K., Liu, C. and Pirzl, R. (2022). Towards a continent-wide ecological site condition database using calibrated subjective evaluations. Ecological Applications, e2729
Yen, J., Todd, C.R., Sharley, J., Harris, A., Geary, W.L., Kelly, E., Pavlova, A., Hunt, T.L., Ingram, B., Lyon, J. and Tonkin, Z. (2022). Establishing new populations in water-secure locations may benefit species persistence more than interventions in water-stressed locations. Biological Conservation 276, e109812
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