Soanes, Kylie, and Pia E. Lentini. “When cities are the last chance for saving species.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17.4 (2019): 225-231.
Figure 1 (left). The location of urban-restricted threatened species across Australia. The number of species per location is indicated in parentheses. Select examples have been illustrated.
Figure 2 (right). Urban-restricted threatened species rely on a variety of land-use types, such as airports (Bankstown guinea, flower top left), golf courses (spiked rice flower, top right), railway verges (Sunshine diuris, bottom left), and roadsides (Seaforth mintbush, bottom right).
Threlfall, C. G., Marzinelli, E. M., Ossola, A., Bugnot, A. B., Bishop, M. J., Lowe, E. C., ... & Dafforn, K. A. (2021). Toward cross‐realm management of coastal urban ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19(4), 225-233.
Figure 1. An example of the interconnection between terrestrial (T), marine (M), and freshwater (FW) realms in coastal cities. Land management and built infrastructure in one realm can have within- and cross-realm effects due to inter-realm connectivity.
Taylor, Lucy & Soanes, Kylie & Ramalho, Cristina & Maller, Cecily & Parris, Kirsten & Threlfall, Caragh. (2020). Urban biodiversity conservation: Lessons from environmental managers in Australian cities.
Some of the lessons shared by urban environmental managers in an example of a new conservation project: restoring a degraded urban patch into a biodiversity-friendly urban wetland. Although represented as a linear process, projects should seek opportunities for feedback, consultation and revision throughout as necessary.
Entomological illustrations done as part of my job as a research scientist at cesar Pty. Ltd. www.cesaraustralia.com/
A very new experience for me - illustrating 3D insects! I painted textures for a VR game developed by two researchers in the USA who are creating a virtual world, Butterfly World 1.0, where folks can learn about butterfly ecology.
John, A., Skelton, R. P., Xu, K., Xu, A., & Cantillo, J. (2019, October). New, open-source miniature external sap flow gauges for capturing plant water use. In XI International Workshop on Sap Flow 1300 (pp. 47-54).
Diagram of miniature external sap flow gauge
What ancient giant sharks can teach us about recovering Australian arid zone mammals
Arid Recovery, April 2017
Arid Recovery, April 2017
Berger‐Tal, O., & Lahoz‐Monfort, J. J. 2018. Conservation technology: The next generation. Conservation Letters, e12458.
Figure 1. Moving from the current role as technology consumers (classic model) to technology drivers and innovators (alternative model).
Alton, L. A., & Franklin, C. E. (2017). Drivers of amphibian declines: effects of ultraviolet radiation and interactions with other environmental factors. Climate Change Responses, 4(1), 6.
Figure 2. A summary of the factors that affect transmission of UVR in terrestrial and aquatic environments (see the section “Ultraviolet radiation” for details). In aquatic environments where amphibians reproduce and develop, UVR has the potential to interact with a range of environmental factors including temperature, aquatic pH, aquatic hypoxia, pathogens (such as the chytrid fungus), conspecific density and predation (see the section “Interactive effects of UVR with other environmental factors” for details).