Dr Darren Southwell

Project Leader
The University of Melbourne

Darren Southwell is a postdoctoral researcher at the Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group in the School of BioSciences at University of Melbourne.

His current research aims to optimise monitoring strategies for Malleefowl across southern Australia and threatened species in the Northern Territory.

Projects
Improving threatened species monitoring
Improving threatened species monitoring Project 3.2
A tool for evaluating biodiversity monitoring programs in national parks
A tool for evaluating biodiversity monitoring programs in national parks Project 3.2.2.3
Arid Zone Monitoring: Surveys for vertebrates across arid and semi-arid zones
Arid Zone Monitoring: Surveys for vertebrates across arid and semi-arid zones Project 3.2.5
Practical adaptive management to improve threatened species conservation programs
Practical adaptive management to improve threatened species conservation programs Project 3.3
Recovering malleefowl with adaptive management of feral predators
Recovering malleefowl with adaptive management of feral predators Project 3.3.5
National monitoring priorities, process and prospectus for threatened species
National monitoring priorities, process and prospectus for threatened species Project 7.5
Designing rapid on-ground reconnaissance surveys for post natural disaster (fire) to assess the status of species, ecological communities, habitats and threats
Designing rapid on-ground reconnaissance surveys for post natural disaster (fire) to assess the status of species, ecological communities, habitats and threats Project 8.1.1
Design for post-fire impact monitoring, including synthesis of current monitoring projects
Design for post-fire impact monitoring, including synthesis of current monitoring projects Project 8.1.2
Population responses to fires of varying severity for priority vertebrate and spiny crayfish species, and the extent to which management actions support recovery
Population responses to fires of varying severity for priority vertebrate and spiny crayfish species, and the extent to which management actions support recovery Project 8.3.2
Publications
Arid Zone Monitoring Project Report
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Arid Zone Monitoring Project Summary
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Evaluating the effect of predator control as a conservation strategy for malleefowl
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Design considerations for post natural disaster (fire) on-ground assessment of status of species, ecological communities, habitats and threats - Report
Arid Zone Monitoring: species profiles
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Threats to Australia’s rock-wallabies (Petrogale spp.) with key directions for effective monitoring
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Monitoring wiliji using cameras - Community factsheet
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Using power analysis and spatial prioritisation to optimise the design of monitoring approaches: detecting population declines in forest birds on Christmas Island - Findings Factsheet
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Using power analysis and spatial prioritisation to optimise the design of monitoring approaches: detecting population declines in forest birds on Christmas Island
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A prioritisation of threatened species monitoring in Australia
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The Bogong moth, Agrotis infusa: cultural context, knowledge gaps, conservation and monitoring options
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Power to detect species recoveries after the 2019-20 megafires under a range of budget scenarios
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Appendices to the Project 8.1.2 final report: Species list and sampling methods; and survey costs
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The power of monitoring to detect recovery of species after the 2019–20 megafires in Australia
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Using power analysis and spatial prioritisation to optimise design of monitoring to detect population declines of forest birds on Christmas Island
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Malleefowl adaptive management experiment
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Estimates of the impacts of the 2019–20 fires on populations of native animal species
Designing rapid on-ground reconnaissance surveys for post natural disaster (fire) to assess the status of species, ecological communities, habitats and threats
TSR Hub
What are we measuring? A review of metrics used to describe biodiversity in offsets exchanges
Biological Conservation
Quantifying the impact of vegetation‐based metrics on species persistence when choosing offsets for habitat destruction
Conservation Biology
Citizen scientists reveal nationwide trends and drivers in the breeding activity of a threatened bird, the malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)
Biological Conservation
A checklist of attributes for effective monitoring of threatened species and threatened ecosystems
Journal of Environmental Management
Design considerations for post natural disaster (fire) on-ground assessment of status of species, ecological communities, habitats and threats
TSR Hub
Monitoring wildlife in the Top End
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Adaptive management to conserve the malleefowl
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Spatially explicit power analysis for detecting occupancy trends for multiple species
Ecological Applications
How to ensure threatened species monitoring leads to threatened species conservation
Ecological Management & Restoration
Adaptive management informs conservation and monitoring of Australia’s threatened malleefowl
Biological Conservation
National monitoring priorities, process and prospectus for threatened species
TSR Hub
Monitoring threatened species and ecological communities - Factsheet
TSR Hub
A tool for evaluating biodiversity monitoring programs in national parks
TSR Hub
Arid Zone Monitoring: Surveys for vertebrates across arid and semi-arid zones
TSR Hub
Arid zone monitoring project What’s it about?
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Recovering malleefowl with adaptive management of feral predators
TSR Hub
Early results from a large-scale adaptive management experiment for malleefowl
How to improve threatened species management: An Australian perspective
Journal of Environmental Management
Monitoring for threatened species and ecological communities
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