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2021 and in press


Dorph, A., Swan, M., Di Stefano, J. & Penman, T. (in press). Relating mammal species richness to landscape patterns across multiple spatial scales. Landscape Ecology.

Sitters, H., Van Etten, E.J.B., Calviño Cancela, M. & Di Stefano, J. (in press). Southwest Australia Forests and Scrub. In: DellaSala D. & Goldstein, M. I. (Eds) Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation. Elsevier, Oxford.

Driscoll, D.A., Armenteras, D., Bennett, A.F., Brotons, L., Clarke, M.F., Doherty, T.S., Haslem, A., Kelly, L.T., Sato, C.F., Sitters, H., Aquilué, N., Bell, K., Chadid, M., Duane, A., Elizalde, M.C.M., Giljohann, K.M., González, T.M., Jambhekar, R., Lazzari, J., Morán-Ordóñez, A. & Wevill, T. (in press). How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation. Biological Reviews. DOI

Swan, M., Le Pla, M., Di Stefano, J., Pasco, T., Penman, T.D. (2021). Species distribution models for conservation planning in fire-prone landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation. 30: 1119-1136. DOI

Delaney, L., Di Stefano, J. & Sitters, H. (2021). Mammal responses to spatial pattern in fire history depend on landscape context. Landscape Ecology. 36(3): 897-914. DOI

2020


Swan, M., Christie, F., Steel, E., Sitters, H., York, A. & Di Stefano, J. (2020). Ground-dwelling mammal diversity responds positively to productivity and habitat heterogeneity in a fire-prone region. Ecosphere. 11(9): e03248. DOI

Kuchinke, D., Di Stefano, J., Sitters, H., Loyn, R., Gell, P. & Palmer, G. (2020).  Prescribed burn severity has minimal effect on common bird species in a fire-prone forest ecosystem.  Forest Ecology and Management. 475: 118437. DOI

Penman, T. D., Cirulis, B., & Marcot, B.G. (2020).  Bayesian decision network modeling for environmental risk management: a wildfire case study.  Journal of Environmental Management. 270:110735.


Cadiz, G., Cawson, J., Penman, T., York, A. & Duff, T. (2020) Environmental factors driving the abundance of forest wiregrass, Tetrarrhena juncea, a flammable understorey grass in productive forests.  Australian Journal of Botany. 68(1): 37-48. DOI

York, A. (2020). Prescribed burning: an ecological perspective.  Pp. 289-294 in A. Leavesley, M. Wouters & R. Thornton (Eds.) Prescribed Burning in Australasia: The Science, Practice and Politics of Burning the Bush.  Australasian Fire Authorities Council.


Whisson, D.A., Zylinski, S., Ferrari, A., Yokochi, K., & Ashman, K.R. (2020). Patchy resources and multiple threats: How do koalas navigate an urban landscape? Landscape and Urban Planning. 201:103854. DOI

Sitters, H. & Di Stefano, J. (2020). Integrating functional connectivity and fire management for better conservation outcomes. Conservation Biology. 34(3): 550-560. DOI

Dorph, A., Swan, M., Rochelmeyer, E. & Di Stefano, J. (2020). Complex habitat drives mammal communities in a flammable landscape. Forest Ecology and Management. 462: 117979. DOI

2019


Parkins, K., Scott, A., Di Stefano, J., Swan, M., Sitters, H. & York, A. (2019). Habitat use at fire edges: does animal activity follow temporal patterns of habitat change?  Forest Ecology and Management. 451: 117343. DOI

Fischer, M., Di Stefano, J., Gras, P., Kramer-Schadt, S., Sutherland, D.R., Coulson, G. & Stillfried, M. (2019). Circadian rhythms enable efficient resource selection in a human-modified landscape.  Ecology and Evolution 9: 7509-7527. DOI

Eliott, M., Lawson, S., Hayes, A., Debuse, V., York, A. & Lewis, T. (2019). The response of Cerambycid beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) to long-term fire frequency regimes in sub-tropical eucalypt forest.  Austral Ecology. 44: 609-620.  DOI

Rochelmeyer, E., Di Stefano, J., Dorph, A. & Swan, M. (2019).  Linking fuel, habitat and ground-dwelling mammals in flammable landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management. 441: 215-228.


Chick, M., York, A., Sitters, H., Di Stefano, J. & Nitschke, C. (2019). Combining optimization and simulation modelling to measure the cumulative impacts of prescribed fire and wildfire on vegetation species diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56: 722-732. DOI

Penman, S.H., Price, O.F., Penman, T.D. & Bradstock, R.A. (2019). The role of defensible space on the likelihood of house impact from wildfires in forested landscapes of south eastern Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 28(1): 4-14. DOI


Sukma, H., Di Stefano, J., Swan, M. & Sitters, H. (2019). Mammal functional diversity increases with vegetation structural complexity in two forest types. Forest Ecology and Management. 433: 85-92. DOI​

2018


York, A. & Lewis, T. (2018). Understanding the effects of fire on invertebrates in Australian temperate and sub-tropical forests: the value of long-term experiments. Australian Zoologist. 39(4): 633-645. DOI

Chick, M.P., Nitschke, C.R., Cohn, J.S., Penman, T.D. & York, A. (2018) Factors influencing above-ground and soil-seedbank vegetation diversity at different scales in a quasi-Mediterranean ecosystem.  Journal of Vegetation Science 29, 684-694. DOI

Fischer, M., Parkins, K., Maizels, K., Sutherland, D.R., Allan, B.M., Coulson, G. & Di Stefano, J. (2018). Biotelemetry marches on: A cost-effective GPS device for monitoring terrestrial wildlife. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0199617. PDF

Parkins, K., York, A. & Di Stefano, J. (2018). Edge effects in fire-prone landscapes: Ecological importance and implications for fauna. Ecology and Evolution. 8:5937-5948. PDF

Cawson, J. G., Duff, T. J., Swan, M. H. & Penman, T. D. (2018). Wildfire in wet sclerophyll forests: the interplay between disturbances and fuel dynamics. Ecosphere 9(5): e02211 PDF

McLean, C. M, Kavanagh, R. P., Penman, T. & Bradstock, R. (2018). The threatened status of the hollow dependent arboreal marsupial, the Greater Glider (Petauroides volans), can be explained by impacts from wildfire and selective logging. Forest Ecology and Management 415-416: 19-25 DOI

Swan, M., Sitters, H., Cawson, J., Duff, T., Wibisono, Y. & York, A. (2018). Fire planning for multispecies conservation: integrating growth stage and fire severity. Forest Ecology and Management. 415-416: 85-97 DOI
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Maikano, G.N., Cohn, J. & Di Stefano, J. (2018). Are germination cues for soil-stored seedbanks different in structurally different fire-prone communities? Austral Ecology 43(1): 89-101 DOI

Sitters, H., Di Stefano, J., Wills, T., Swan, M. & York, A. (2018). Survey design for precise fire management conservation targets. Ecological Applications 28(1): 35-45 DOI

2017


McColl-Gausden, S.C. & Penman T.D. (2017). Visual assessment of surface fuel loads does not align with destructively sampled surface fuels. Forests 8:408 DOI

Dorph, A. & McDonald, P.G. (2017). The acoustic repertoire and behavioural context of the vocalisations of a nocturnal dasyurid, the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus). PLoS ONE 12(7): e0179337. DOI PDF


Hradsky, B.A., Robley, A., Alexander, R., Richie, E.G., York, A. & Di Stefano, J. (2017).  Human modified habitats facilitate forest-dwelling populations of an invasive predator, Vulpes vulpes.  Scientific Reports 7:12291 DOI

Hradsky, B.A., Penman, T.D., Ababei, D., Hanea, A., Richie, E.G., York, A. & Di Stefano, J. (2017).  Bayesian networks elucidate interactions between fire and other drivers of terrestrial fauna distributions. Ecosphere 8(8): e01926. DOI

Mansfield, C., Arnold, A., Bell, T.L. & York, A. (2017). Habitat characteristics and resource use of a threatened arboreal marsupial in a degraded landscape: the brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa tapoatafa) in central Victoria, Australia. 
Wildlife Research 44(2): 153-164 DOI

Bentley, P.D. & Penman, T.D. (2017). Is there inherent conflict in managing fire for people and conservation? International Journal of Wildland Fire. 26(6): 455-468. DOI

Loschiavo, J., Cirulis, B., Zuo, Y., Hradsky, B.A. & Di Stefano, J. (2017). Mapping prescribed fire severity in south-east Australian eucalypt forests using modelling and satellite imagery: a case study. International Journal of Wildland Fire 26(6): 491-497. DOI

Brown, J. & York, A. (2017). Fly and wasp diversity responds to elements of both the visible and invisible fire mosaic. International Journal of Wildland Fire 26(5): 434-443. DOI


Kelly, L.T., Haslem, A., Holland, G.J., Leonard, S., MacHunter, J., Bassett, M., Bennett, A.F., Bruce, M.J., Clarke, M., Chia, E., Christie, F., Di Stefano, J., Loyn, R., McCarthy, M., Pung, A., Robinson, N., Sitters, H., Swan, M. & York, A. (2017). Fire regimes and environmental gradients shape vertebrate and plant distributions in temperate eucalypt forests. Ecosphere. 8(4): e01781. DOI

Brown, J. & York, A. (2017). Fire, food, and sexual-deception in the neighbourhood of Australian orchids.  Austral Ecology. 42(4): 468-478. DOI
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Brown, J., York A., Christie, F. & McCarthy, M. (2017). Effects of fire on pollinators and pollination.  Journal of Applied Ecology. 54: 313-322. DOI

​Hradsky, B.A., Mildwaters, C., Ritchie, E.G., Christie, F. & Di Stefano, J. (2017).  Invasive predator and native prey responses to a prescribed forest fire.  Journal of Mammalogy. 98(3): 835-847.

2016


Haslem, A., Leonard, S.W.J., Bruce, M., Christie, F., Holland, G.J., Kelly, L.T., Mac Hunter, J., Bennett, A.F., Clarke, M.F. & York, A. (2016). Do multiple fires interact to affect vegetation structure in temperate eucalypt forests?  Ecological Applications 26(8): 2414-2423. DOI
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Eriksen, C., Penman, T., Horsey, B. & Bradstock, R. (2016). Wildfire survival plans in theory and practice. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(4): 363-377. DOI

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Jenkins, M., Collins, L., Price, O., Penman, T., Zylstra, P., Horsey, B. & Bradstock, R. (2016). Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings. Ecosphere 7(11): e01528. DOI PDF

Towerton, A.L., Kavanagh, R.P., Penman, T.D & Dickman, C.R. (2016). Ranging behaviour and movements of the red fox in remnant forest habitats. Wildlife Research. 43(6): 492-506. DOI

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York, A. & Friend, G. (2016). Towards an ecologically sustainable fire management strategy.  Victorian Naturalist 133(5), 165-171.

Sitters, H., York, A., Swan, M., Christie, F. & Di Stefano, J. (2016). Opposing responses of bird functional diversity to vegetation structural diversity in wet and dry forest. PLOS ONE. 11(10): e0164917.  DOI PDF

Leonard, S., Bruce, M., Christie, F., Di Stefano, J., Haslem, A., Holland, G., Kelly, L., Loyn, R., MacHunter, J., Rumpff, L., Stamation, K., Bennett, A., Clarke, M., York, A. (2016) Foothills Fire and Biota, Fire and Adaptive Management Report no. 96. Department of Environment, Land Water and Planning, Melbourne. PDF

Tun, K.S.W., Di Stefano, J. & Volkova, L. (2016).  Forest management influences aboveground carbon and tree species diversity in Myanmar’s mixed deciduous forests.  Forests 7, article 217.
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Gibson, R.K., Bradstock, R.A., Penman, T., Keith, D.A. & Driscoll, D.A. (2016). Determinants of growth of the flammable grass, Triodia scariosa: Consequences for fuel dynamics under climate change in the Mediterranean region of South Eastern Australia. Austral Ecology. 41(6): 594-603. DOI


Swan, M., Galindez Silva, C., Christie, F., York, A. & Di Stefano, J. (2016). Contrasting responses of small mammals to fire and topographic refugia. Austral Ecology. 41: 443-451.
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Davis, N.E., Di Stefano, J., Coulson, G., Whelan, J. & Wright, J. (2016). Vegetation management influences habitat use by mammalian herbivores in shrub-encroached grassy woodland. Wildlife Research. 43(5): 438-447. DOI

Garnick, S., Di Stefano, J., Elgar, M.A. & Coulson, G. (2016). Do body size, diet type or residence time explain habitat use in a vertebrate herbivore community? Australian Journal of Zoology. 64(2): 91-99. DOI

​Brown, J., York, A. & Christie, F. (2016). Fire effects on pollination in a sexually-deceptive orchid. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 888-895. DOI


Chick, M., Cohn, J., Nitschke, C. & York, A. (2016). Lack of soil seedbank change with time since fire: Relevance to seed supply after prescribed burns. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 849-860. DOI

Towerton, A.L., Dickman, C.R., Kavanagh, R.P. & Penman, T.D. (2016). Control of the red fox in remnant forest habitats. Wildlife Research 43(2): 169-177.

de Milliano, J., Di Stefano, J., Courtney, P., Temple-Smith, P. & Coulson, G. (2016).  Soft-release versus hard-release for re-introduction of an endangered species: an experimental comparison using eastern barred bandicoots (Perameles gunnii).  Wildlife Research. 43(1): 1-12. DOI

Garnick, S., Di Stefano, J., Elgar, M.A. & Coulson, G. (2016). Ecological specialisation in habitat selection within a macropodid herbivore guild. Oecologia 180(3): 823-832. DOI

Penman, T. D., Eriksen, C.E., Horsey, B. & Bradstock, R.A. (2016). How much does it cost residents to prepare their property for wildfire? International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 16: 88-98. DOI

Fordyce, A., Hradsky, B.A., Ritchie, E. & Di Stefano, J. (2016). Fire affects microhabitat selection, movement patterns and body condition of an Australian rodent (Rattus fuscipes). Journal of Mammalogy 97(1): 102-111. DOI

​Sitters, H., Di Stefano, J., Christie, F., Swan, M. & York, A. (2016). Bird functional diversity decreases with time since disturbance: does patchy prescribed fire enhance ecosystem function? Ecological Applications 26(1): 115-127. 
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2015


Wilkinson, C., Eriksen, C. & Penman, T. (2015). Into the firing line: civilian ingress during the 2013 "Red October" bushfires, Australia.  Natural Hazards.

Gibson, R.K., Bradstock, R.A., Penman, T., Keith, D.A. & Driscoll, D.A. (2015). Climatic, vegetation and edaphic influences on the probability of fire across mediterranean woodlands of south-eastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography 42(9): 1750-1760. 
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Swan, M., Christie, F., Sitters, H., York, A. & Di Stefano, J. (2015). Predicting faunal fire responses in heterogeneous landscapes: the role of habitat structure. Ecological Applications 25(8): 2293-2305. DOI

Struebig, M.J., Fischer, M., Gaveau, D.L.A., Meijaard, E., Wich, S.A., Gonner, C., Sykes, R., Wilting, A. & Kramer-Schadt, S. (2015). Anticipated climate and land-cover changes reveal refuge areas for Borneo's orang-utans. Global Change Biology 21(8): 2891-2904. DOI

Sitters, H., Di Stefano, J., Christie, F.J., Sunnucks, P. & York, A. (2015). Bird diversity increases after patchy prescribed fire: implications from a before-after control-impact study.  International Journal of Wildland Fire 24(5): 690-701. DOI


Price, O., Rittick, B., Bradstock, R. & Penman, T. (2015). An empirical wildfire risk analysis: the probability of a fire spreading to the urban interface in Sydney, Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire 24(5): 597-606.

Hradsky, B.A, Loschiavo, J., Hradsky, M. & Di Stefano, J. (2015). Shrub expansion alters forest structure but has little impact on native mammal occurrence. Austral Ecology 40: 611-624. DOI

DellaSala, D.A., Hanson, C.T., Baker, W.L., Hutto, R.L., Halsey, R.W., Odion, D.C., Berry, L.E., Abrams, R., Heneberg, P. & Sitters, H. (2015). Flight of the Pheonix: Coexisting with Mixed-Severity Fires. In "The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Pheonix". (Eds. DellaSala, D. and Hanson, C.) Pp. 372-396. Elsevier. 

Berry, L.E. & Sitters, H. (2015). Case study: the ecology of mixed-severity fire in Mountain Ash forests. In "The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Pheonix". (Eds. DellaSala, D. and Hanson, C.) Pp. 210-222. Elsevier.


Florentine, S., Milberg, P., Di Stefano, J., Westbrooke, M., & Graz, P. (2015). Decade-long response of arid-land mallee vegetation to fire, flooding and grazing in south-eastern Australia.  Journal of Arid Environments 121: 7-14.

Struebig, M.J., Wilting, A., Gaveau, D.L.A., Meijaard, E., Smith, R.J., The Borneo Mammal Distribution Consortium, Fischer, M., Metcalfe, K. & Kramer-Schadt, S. (2015). Targeted Conservation to Safeguard a Biodiversity Hotspot from Climate and Land-Cover Change. Current Biology 25:1-7. DOI

Cohn, J.S., Di Stefano, J., Christie, F., Cheers, G. & York, A. (2015). How do heterogeneity in vegetation types and post-fire age-classes contribute to plant diversity at the landscape scale? Forest Ecology and Management 346: 22-30. DOI

2014


Collins, L., Penman, T., Ximenes, F.D., Binns, D., York, A. & Bradstock, R. (2014) Impacts of frequent burning on live tree carbon biomass and demography in post-harvest regrowth forest. Forests 5(4): 802-821.

Di Stefano, J., Ashton, A. & York, A. (2014).  Diet of the silky mouse (Pseudomys apodemoides) and the heath rat (P. shortridgei) in a post-fire environment. International Journal of Wildland Fire 23: 746-753.

Duff, T.J., Bell, T.L. & York, A. (2014). Recognising fuzzy vegetation pattern: the spatial prediction of floristically defined fuzzy communities using species distribution modelling methods.  Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 323-337.

Garnick, S., Di Stefano, J., Elgar, M.A. & Coulson, G. (2014).  Inter- and intraspecific effects of body size on habitat use among sexually dimorphic macropodids.  Oikos 123: 984-992.

Hradsky, B.A. (2014). More than just presence-absence: camera traps reveal fine scale resource partitioning by the ubiquitous swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor). In "Camera Trapping: Wildlife Management and Research". (Eds. P.D. Meek, P.J.S. Fleming, A.G. Ballard, S.C. Banks, A.W. Claridge, J.G. Sanderson and D.E. Swann). CSIRO, Melbourne.

Sitters, H., Christie, F., Di Stefano, J., Swan, M., Collins, P. & York, A.  (2014).  Associations between occupancy and habitat structure can predict avian responses to disturbance: implications for conservation management.  Forest Ecology and Management 331: 227-236.

Sitters, H., Christie, F., Di Stefano, J., Swan, M., Penman, T., Collins, P. & York, A.  (2014).  Avian responses to the diversity and configuration of fire age classes and vegetation types across a rainfall gradient.  Forest Ecology and Management 318: 13-20.

Swan, M., Di Stefano, J. & Christie, F. (2014). Comparing the effectiveness of two types of motion-camera for surveying ground-dwelling mammals. In "Camera Trapping:  Wildlife Management and Research". (Eds. P.D. Meek, P.J.S. Fleming, A.G. Ballard, S.C. Banks, A.W. Claridge, J.G. Sanderson and D.E. Swann.) CSIRO, Melbourne.

Swan, M., Di Stefano, J., Christie, F., Steel, E. & York, A. (2014). Detecting mammals in heterogeneous landscapes: Implications for biodiversity monitoring and management.  Biodiversity and Conservation 23: 343-355.

York, A. (2014) Changing fire regimes: The response of litter-dwelling invertebrates to altered seasonality and frequency of fire. In "Advances in Forest Fire Research" (Ed. D.X. Viegas.) Pp. 519-526. University of Coimbra, Portugal.  

2013


Di Stefano, J., York, A., McCarthy, M., Duff, T., Christie, F.J. & Slingo, J. (2013). Defining vegetation age class distributions for multispecies conservation in fire prone landscapes. Biological Conservation 166: 111-117.

Duff, T. J., Bell, T.L. & York, A. (2013).  Managing multiple species or communities?  Considering variation in plant species abundances in response to fire interval, frequency and time since fire in a heathy Eucalyptus woodland.  Forest Ecology and Management 289: 393-403.

Duff, T. J., Bell, T.L. & York, A. (2013).  Predicting continuous variation in forest fuel load using biophysical models: a case study in south eastern Australia.  International Journal of Wildland Fire 22: 318-332.

Winnard, A.L., Di Stefano, J. & Coulson, G. (2013). Habitat selection of a critically endangered species in a predator-free but degraded reserve. Wildlife Biology 19: 429-438.

2012


Di Stefano, J. & York, A. (2012). Relationships between disturbance regimes and biodiversity: background, issues and approaches for monitoring. Fire and Adaptive Management Report No. 91.  Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne. PDF

Watkins, E. & Di Stefano, J. (2012). Quantifying annual patterns in the frequency of mammalian births: do goodness-of-fit tests provide adequate inferences? Australian Journal of Zoology 60: 381-387.

Williamson, K., Doherty, H. & Di Stefano, J. (2012). Changes in the relative density of swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor) and eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) in response to timber harvesting and wildfire.  In: "New Advances and Contributions to Forestry Research" (Ed. Oteng-Amoako, A.A.) Pp. 101-120. In Tech, Rijeka. Available at: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/35545.pdf

York, A. (2012). Invertebrates and fire – Challenges and opportunities for conserving biodiversity.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 124(1): 47-55.

York, A., Bell, T.L. & Weston, C. (2012). Fire regimes and soil-based ecological processes: implications for biodiversity.  In “Flammable Australia: Fire Regime, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World”.  (Eds. R.A. Bradstock, R.J. Williams & A.M. Gill.) Pp. 127-148. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria.

2011


Di Stefano, J., Coulson, G, Swan, M. & Greenfield, A. (2011).  Heterogeneity of food and shelter resources influences home range size in the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor). Ecography 34: 469-479.

Di Stefano, J., Owen, L., Morris, R., Duff, T. & York, A.  (2011). Fire, landscape change and models of small mammal habitat suitability at multiple spatial scales.  Austral Ecology 36: 638-649.

Duff, T.J., Bell, T.L. & York, A.  (2011) Patterns of plant abundances in natural systems: is there value in modeling both species abundance and distribution?  Australian Journal of Botany 59: 719-733.

McMullan-Fisher, S.J.M., May, T.W., Robinson, R.M., Bell, T.L., Lebel, T., Catcheside, P. & York, A. (2011). Fungi and fire in Australian ecosystems: a review of current knowledge, management implications and future directions.  Australian Journal of Botany 59: 70-90.


Penman, T.D., Christie, F.J., Andersen, A.N., Bradstock, R.A., Cary, C.J., Henderson, M.K., Price, O., Tran, C., Wardle, G.M., Williams, R.J. & York, A. (2011). Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value? International Journal of Wildland Fire 20: 721-733. 

Van Eeden, L., Di Stefano, J. & Coulson, G. (2011).  Diet selection by the brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) in East Gippsland, Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 33: 162-168.

2005-10


Brown, J., Kaplan, G. & Rogers, L.J. (2010). Perception of biological motion in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): by females only. Animal Cognition 13: 555-564.

Di Stefano, J., Swan, M., Greenfield, A., & Coulson, G. (2010).  Effect of habitat type, sex and time of day on space use by the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor). In: Macropods: the Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-kangaroos. (Eds. G. Coulson and M.D.B. Eldridge.) Pp. 187-196. CSIRO, Melbourne. 

Driscoll D.A., Lindenmayer D.B., Bennett A.F., Bode M., Bradstock R.A., Cary G.J., Clarke M.F., Dexter N., Fensham R., Friend G., Gill M., James S., Kay G., Keith D.A., MacGregor C., Possingham H.P., Russel-Smith J., Salt D., Watson J.E.M., Williams D. & York A. (2010). Resolving conflicts in fire management using decision theory: asset-protection versus biodiversity conservation. Conservation Letters 3: 215-23.

Driscoll D.A., Lindenmayer D.B., Bennett A.F., Bode M., Bradstock R.A., Cary G.J., Clarke M.F., Dexter N., Fensham R., Friend G., Gill M., James S., Kay G., Keith D.A., MacGregor C., Russell-Smith J., Salt D., Watson J.E.M., Williams R.J. & York A. (2010). Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them. Biological Conservation 143: 1928-39.

Miehs, A., York, A., Tolhurst, K., Di Stefano, J. & Bell, T. (2010).  Sampling downed coarse woody debris in fire-prone eucalypt woodlands.  Forest Ecology and Management 259: 440-445.

New, T.R., Yen, A.L., Sands, D.P.A., Greenslade, P., Neville, P.J., York, A. & Collett, N.J. (2010).  Planned fires and invertebrate conservation in south east Australia.  Journal of Insect Conservation 14: 567-574.

Penman, T.D. & York, A. (2010). Climate and recent fire history affect fuel loads in Eucalyptus forests: Implications for fire management in a changing climate. Forest Ecology and Management 260(10): 1791-1797.

Schmidt, B., Coulson, G. & Di Stefano, J. (2010).  Habitat partitioning among sympatric grey kangaroos and swamp wallabies in box-ironbark remnants.  In: Macropods: the Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-kangaroos. (Eds. G. Coulson and M.D.B. Eldridge.) Pp. 219 -230. CSIRO, Melbourne. 

Zohar Y., Di Stefano, J. & Bartle, J. (2010).  Strategy for screening eucalypts for saline lands.  Agroforestry Systems 78: 127-137.

Brennan, K.E.C., Christie, F.J. & York, A. (2009).  Global climate change and litter decomposition: more frequent fire slows decomposition and increases the functional importance of invertebrate decomposers.  Global Change Biology 15, 2958–2971.

Christie, F.J & York, A. (2009). No effect of frequent burning on foliar C and N content or insect herbivory in an Australian eucalypt forest.  Applied Vegetation Science 12: 376-384.

Di Stefano, J., Swan, M., Greenfield, A., York, A. & Coulson, G. (2009).  Habitat selection by the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) in relation to diel period, food and shelter.  Austral Ecology 34(2): 143-155.

Di Stefano, J., Butler, K. Sebire, I. & Fagg, P. (2009). Mammalian browsing impact on regenerating Eucalyptus seedlings in a large commercially managed native forest estate.  New Forests 37(2): 197-210.

Di Stefano, J. & Newell, G. (2008).  Diet selection by the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor): feeding strategies under conditions of changed food availability.  Journal of Mammalogy 89(6): 1540-1549.

Swan, M., Di Stefano, J., Greenfield, A. & Coulson, G. (2008).  Fine-scale habitat selection by adult female swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor).  Australian Journal of Zoology 56: 305-309.

Di Stefano, J., Anson, J.A., York, A., Greenfield, A., Coulson, G., Berman, A. & Bladen, M. (2007).  Interactions between timber harvesting and swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor): Space use, density and browsing impact.  Forest Ecology and Management 253: 128-137.

Martin, J.K., Coulson, G., Di Stefano, J., Ritchie, E.G., Greenfield, A., Catanchin, H. & Evans, L.N. (2007).  The Viggers & Hearn conundrum: a kangaroo home range study with no implications for management.  Journal of Applied Ecology 44:1080-1085.

Di Stefano, J. (2005). Mammalian browsing in the Mt. Cole State forest, southeastern Australia: analysis of browsing patterns, spatial relationships and browse selection.  New Forests 29(1): 43-61.

Di Stefano, J., Fidler, F. & Cumming, G. (2005). Effect size estimates and confidence intervals: an alternative focus for the presentation and interpretation of ecological data.  In: “New Trends in Ecology Research” (Ed. A.R. Burk.)  Nova Science, New York.

Di Stefano, J., Moyle, R. & Coulson, G. (2005). A soft-walled double-layered trap for capture of swamp wallabies, Wallabia bicolor.  Australian Mammalogy 27: 235-238.

Pre-2005


Di Stefano, J. (2004). A confidence interval approach to data analysis.  Forest Ecology and Management 187: 173-183.

Di Stefano, J. (2004). The importance of ecological research for land management: the case of browsing by swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor) in commercially harvested native forests.  Ecological Management and Restoration 5(1): 61-67.

York, A. & Tarnawski, J. (2004). Impacts of grazing and burning on terrestrial invertebrate assemblages in dry eucalypt forests of north-eastern New South Wales: Implications for biodiversity conservation. In “Conservation of Australia’s Forest Fauna”. 2nd edn. (Ed. D Lunney). Pp. 845-859. Royal Zoological Soc. of New South Wales, Mosman, NSW.

Di Stefano, J. (2003). How much power is enough? Against the development of an arbitrary convention for statistical power calculations. Functional Ecology 17: 707-709.

Di Stefano, J. (2003).  Mammalian browsing in the Mt Cole State Forest: defining a critical browsing level and assessing the effect of multiple browsing events. Australian Forestry 66: 287-293.

Harris. R., York. A, & Beattie, A.J. (2003). Impacts of grazing and burning on spider assemblages in dry eucalypt forests of north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Austral Ecology 28(5): 526-538.

Di Stefano, J. (2002).  River red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis): a review of ecosystem processes, seedling regeneration and silvicultural practice.  Australian Forestry 65: 14-22.

Meades, L., Rodgerson, L., York, A. & French, K. (2002). Assessment of the diversity and abundance of terrestrial mangrove arthropods in southern New South Wales, Australia. Austral Ecology 27(4): 451-458.

Di Stefano, J. (2001).  Power analysis and sustainable forest management.  Forest Ecology and Management 154: 141-153.

Di Stefano, J. (2001).  The impact of dieback disease (Phytophthora cinnamomi) on vegetation near Mt. Stapylton in the northern Grampian National Park.  The Victorian Naturalist 118: 46-55.

Andrew, N., Rodgerson, L. & York, A (2000). Frequent fuel-reduction burning: the role of logs and associated leaf litter in the conservation of ant biodiversity. Austral Ecology 25(1): 99-107.


Di Stefano, J. (2000).  Energy efficiency and the environment: the potential for energy efficient lighting to save energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions at Melbourne University, Australia.  Energy 25: 823-839.

Oliver, I., MacNally, R. & York, A. (2000). Identifying performance indicators of the effects of forest management on ground-active arthropod biodiversity using hierarchical partitioning and partial canonical correspondence analysis. Forest Ecology and Management 139(1-3): 21-40.

York, A. (2000). Long-term effects of frequent low-intensity burning on ant communities in coastal blackbutt forests of southeastern Australia. Austral Ecology 25(1): 83-98.

Oliver, I., Dangerfield, J.M. & York, A. (1999). When and how to conduct a biodiversity assessment of terrestrial invertebrates. In “Other 99%: The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates”. (Eds. W Ponder and D Lunney.) Pp. 8-18. Royal Zoological Soc. New South Wales, Mosman, NSW.

York, A. (1999). Long-term effects of frequent low-intensity burning on the abundance of litter-dwelling invertebrates in coastal blackbutt forests of southeastern Australia. Journal of Insect Conservation 3(3): 191-199.

York, A. (1999). Ecologically sustainable management: the utility of habitat surrogates for assessing terrestrial invertebrate diversity in temperate forests. In “Other 99%: The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates”. (Eds W. Ponder and D. Lunney.) Pp. 34-39. Royal Zoological Soc. New South Wales, Mosman, NSW.

Oliver, I., Beattie, A.J. & York, A. (1998). Spatial fidelity of plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate assemblages in multiple-use forest in eastern Australia. Conservation Biology 12(4): 822-835. 


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