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1045-1245 SYMPOSIUM:Reintroductio ns projects in Australia: conservation value, lessons learnt, future directions (1) SYMPOSIUM: Harnessing the Technology Revolution in Ecology Fire Ecology Global Change (1) Landscape Ecology (1) Open forum (1) ROOM Sirius Room Pleiades Room Orion Room Rottnest Room Garden Room Carnac Room CHAIR John Kanowski Jose Lahoz-Monfort / Don Driscoll Carl Gosper Nigel Andrew Tanya Llorens Manu Saunders 1045-1100 Dr John Kanowski, Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Qld Reintroductions projects in Australia: conservation value, lessons learnt, future directions Dr Euan Ritchie, Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Vic Future casting ecological research: the rise and potential of technology-based ecology Channing Hughes, PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney, NSW The short-term impact of bushfire on Tasmanian devil populations (withdrawn) Mark Hall, PhD Candidate, La Trobe University, Vic Landscape and life history traits determine native bee richness in vegetated linear strips and farmland Stephanie Yip, PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney, NSW Diet choice of rodents under different risks of predation 1100-1115 Colleen Sims, Department of Parks and Wildlife, WA Fauna reconstruction in the Western Australian rangelands Dr Jose Lahoz-Monfort, The University of Melbourne, Vic A manifesto for collaborative development of open-source technology for ecology and conservation Dr Krista Jones Network perturbations: woylie (Bettongia penicillata) response to habitat expansion and fire Jennifer Middleton, PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia, WA Urban streams in a flat sandy landscape: managing multiple stressors will improve stream integrity Huiying Wu, PhD Student University of Queensland, Qld Spatial and temporal impacts of leaf chemistry and rainfall on western koala habitat use Dr John Morgan, La Trobe University, Vic Field transplant experiments across range boundaries: ‘home-site’ advantage occurs in some, but not all, years 1115-1130 Neil Thomas, Department of Parks and Wildlife, WA The reconstruction of the mammal fauna of Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia Jarrod Hodgson, The University of Adelaide, SA Accurate wildlife monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles Dr Belinda Robson, Murdoch University, WA Effects of a mega-fire on stream invertebrate biodiversity Dr Luke Collins, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment / WSU Will elevated carbon dioxide cause woody thickening in temperate eucalypt woodlands? Judith Harvey, Department of Parks and Wildlife, WA Long term, post fire dynamics of plant communities in the Western Australian Wheatbelt Helen White, PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia / CSIRO, WA Plasticity elicits resilience to future climatic changes in early establishment traits of a riparian tree 1130-1145 Dr James Friend, Department of Parks and Wildlife, WA Numbat translocation outcomes at unfenced sites in Western Australia Dr Debbie Saunders Wildlife Drones – small aerial robots for radio-tracking wildlife (pre-recorded presentation) Dr Christopher Gordon, The University of Wollongong, NSW Fire severity, floristic diversity and fuel hazard: implications for fire regime and conservation management Dr Kale Sniderman, The University of Melbourne, Vic A stable palaeoenvironment? New evidence of the Late Pleistocene vegetation of southwestern Western Australia Cara Sambell, PhD Candidate, La Trobe University, Vic Rural landscapes of change: The effect of land-use on birds of the Strzelecki hills, Victoria Peter Yeeles, PhD Candidate, The University of, WA A direct test of multi-functional redundancy in diverse faunal assemblages through the exclusion of dominant species 1145-1200 Dr Michael Smith, Australian Wildlife Conservancy Mammal reintroductions by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy in southwest WA: Successes, failures, and lessons Professor Don Driscoll, Deakin University A machine-learning smart camera for hot and cold-blooded wildlife Christopher Pocknee, Student, The University of Melbourne, Vic Novel technologies for the detection of a Cryptic Arboreal mammal Rene Heim, Student, Macquarie University, NSW I spy with my drone eye: high capacity detection and monitoring of Myrtle Rust Kate Parkins, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne, Vic Attraction, avoidance or indifference: How fauna respond to edges in fire prone landscapes A/Prof Nigel Andrew, University of New England, NSW Assessing invertebrate responses to global warming: From individual through to biogeographic responses Dr Isaac Peterson,Fellow, RMIT, Vic A spatial modelling framework for a systematic impact evaluation of biodiversity offset policies Russell Miller, PhD Candidate, Murdoch University, WA Weakly serotinous nonsprouters are not highly sensitive to long fire intervals 1
1200-1215 Dr Natasha Robinson, The Australian National University Bandicoots return to Booderee: initial survival, movement and habitat choice of reintroduced Isoodon obesulus obesulus Dr Russ Babcock, Research Scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Starbug-X: a Compact Autonomous Underwater Vehicle applied to surveys of deepwater reefs at Ningaloo Dr Tim Doherty, Deakin University, Vic Ecosystem responses to fire: incorporating data on birds, plants, mammals and reptiles to inform management DISCUSSION Dr Natalie Briscoe,Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Vic Long-term climate averages and extremes can provide divergent forecasts of climate change refugia Dini Fardila, Student, The University of Melbourne, Vic Meta-analysis of biodiversity responses to habitat fragmentation Dr Anna Simonsen CSIRO, ACT The consequence of symbiosis on legume dispersal at a global scale 1215-1230 Dr Carolyn Hogg, The University of Sydney, NSW Value of molecular genetics to reintroduction programs – particularly ones employing a metapopulation management approach Dustin Welbourne, Assoc. Lecturer/ PhD Candidate, The University of New South Wales, NSW Opening a new window on reptiles: The costeffectiveness of camera traps for monitoring terrestrial reptiles? Karissa Lear, PhD Candidate, Using novel sensors to estimate metabolic rate in free-ranging animals Ryan Tangney, PhD Candidate, BGPA & Curtin university, WA Spatially and temporally extensive measurement of soil temperatures during prescription burns using Distributed Temperature Sensing Harrison Palmer, Student Fire severity impacts recruitment processes and seed bank dynamics in obligate seeding populations Dr Jayna DeVore, The University of Sydney, NSW Evolving plasticity: Effects of disparate predator communities on antipredator tactics in Australian and Hawaiian tadpoles Dr Andrew Hamer, Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Vic Accessible habitat predicts landscape-scale effects of habitat loss in an amphibian community Jack Tatler, PhD Student, The University of Adelaide, SA How do arid zone dingoes behave when nobody is looking? 1230-1245 Dr Katherine Moseby, The University of New South Wales Individual variation in prey susceptibility to cat predation; Can pre-release screening improve survival after reintroduction? Stephanie O’Donnell, WILDLABS.NET Networking on Conservation Technologies to Enhance Ecological Outcomes DISCUSSION DISCUSSION Dr Craig Nitschke, The University of Melbourne, Vic Conserving forest dependant arboreal marsupials into the future: a simulation approach to land use planning Dr John Martin, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney (OEH), NSW Flying-foxes in the city: population variability over six years 1245-1400 Lunch (<strong>Monday</strong>) 1250-1345 Austral Ecology Editorial Board Meeting – Australia II Boardroom 1400-1500 PLENARY SESSION TWO Chair: Dylan Korczynskyj, Southern Cross Ballroom 1400-1445 Keynote Address: Next Generation Ecologist presentation, Dr Dale Nimmo, Charles Sturt University 1445-1530 Keynote Address: Ecological physiology of Coral Reef fishes in a changing world, Dr Jodie Rummer, Senior Research Fellow (Asst. Prof.), ARC Discovery Fellow (DECRA), James Cook University, Qld 1530-1600 Afternoon Tea (<strong>Monday</strong>) 2
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