Michelle Ward

Publications

• Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change
• The costs of abating threats to Australias biodiversity
• Logging elevated the probability of high-severity fire in the 2019–20 Australian forest fires
• Creating past habitat maps to quantify local extirpation of Australian threatened birds
• How to prioritize species recovery after a megafire
• Lots of loss with little scrutiny: The attrition of habitat critical for threatened species in Australia
• The impacts of contemporary logging after 250 years of deforestation and degradation on forest-dependent threatened species
• A report card methodology to showcase progress towards threatened species recovery
• The costs of managing key threats to Australia's biodiversity
• Restoring habitat for fire-impacted species’ across degraded Australian landscapes
• Modelling the spatial extent of post‐fire sedimentation threat to estimate the impacts of fire on waterways and aquatic species
• Planning for Australian threatened species’ recovery
• Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land
• Global opportunities and challenges for transboundary conservation
• Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat
• The potential for applying “Nonviolent Communication” in conservation science
• A national‐scale dataset for threats impacting Australia’s imperiled flora and fauna
• A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery
• A robust goal is needed for species in the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
• Use of surrogate species to cost‐effectively prioritize conservation actions
• Only ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is connected via intact land
• Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems
• Talk is cheap: Nations must act now to achieve long-term ambitions for biodiversity
• Extinction risk for Australia’s iconic glider
• Offsetting impacts of development on biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems
• Threat-abatement framework confirms habitat retention and invasive species management are critical to conserve Australia's threatened species
• The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time-bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires
• Importance of species translocations under rapid climate change
• Communicating the true challenges of saving species: response to Wiedenfeld et al.
• Potential drivers of common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) decline on a Murray River floodplain
• Vulnerable species and ecosystems are falling through the cracks of environmental impact assessments
• Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management
• Food, money and lobsters: Valuing ecosystem services to align environmental management with Sustainable Development Goals
• Converting rangelands to reserves: Small mammal and reptile responses 24 years after domestic livestock grazing removal
• Australia’s undeveloped land is not “empty”
• Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems
• Evaluating the impact of biodiversity offsetting on native vegetation
• Consequences of the Australian 2019/20 wildfires for sites important for biodiversity and other world heritage values
• Australia faces environmental crisis
• Assessing the impact of referred actions on protected matters under Australia's national environmental legislation
• A Method to Effectively Communicate Threatened Species Recovery
• Species and ecological communities as management surrogates for threatened biodiversity