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MS ROSEMARY JANE ELITH



Contact Details

Organization: Botany
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW - QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY
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Homepage: http://www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/envisci/jane/jane.html
Work: 8344 4572
Fax: 9347 5460
Room: G09
Level: Ground
Building: Natural Philosophy
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Spatially explicit models of species distributions Habitat model, species distribution, boosted regression trees, generalised additive models, presence only Australia, New Zealand, United States of America

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Stanford University Research
Finland University of Helsinki Exchange, Research
New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd. Exchange, Research
United States AT&T Bell Laboratories Research
United States State University of New York Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Hons) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1977
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2002

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Unspecified Ecological Society of Australia 01-Jan-1996

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
THE ROLE OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUST IN VEGETATION DYNAMICS OF SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 18/10/2006

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
GENERALISED DISSIMILARITY MODELLING OF VEGETATION COMMUNITIES IN THE NSW CENTRAL COAST Chief Investigator HUNTER COUNCILS INC, 27/02/2006

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
PROVISION OF THREATENED SPECIES MAP UPDATES PROGRAM Chief Investigator UMEE LTD

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Tools for conserving managing individual plant species in dynamic landscapes
    Year: 2007
    Book: Managing and designing landscapes for conservation: moving from perspective to principles
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • Predicting species distributions from museum and herbarium records using multiresponse models fitted with mulitivariate adaptive regression splines
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diversity and Distributions
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 165-175
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  • Sensitivity of predictive species distribution models to change in grain size
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diversity and Distributions
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 332-340
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  • Using generalized dissimilarity modelling to analyse and predict patterns of beta diversity in regional biodiversity assessment
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diversity and Distributions
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 252-264
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  • What matters for predicting spatial distributions of trees: techniques, data or species' characteristics?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Ecological Monographs
    Volume: 77
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 615-630
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Comparative performance of generalized additive models and multivariate adaptive regression splines for statistical modelling of species distribution
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 199
    Page numbers: 188-196
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  • Comparing species' abundance models
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 199
    Page numbers: 153-163
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  • Error and uncertainty in habitat models
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 413-423
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  • Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecography
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 129-151
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  • Planning for robust reserve networks using uncertainty analysis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 199
    Page numbers: 115-124
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  • Uncertainty analysis for regional-scale reserve selection
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1688-1697
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  • Variation in demersal fish species richness in the oceans surrounding New Zealand: an analysis using boosted regression trees
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Marine Ecology - Progress Series
    Volume: `321
    Page numbers: 267-281
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Fauna habitat modelling and mapping: A review and case study in the Lower Hunter Central Coast region of NSW
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 719-738
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Managing landscapes for conservation under uncertainty
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Ecology
    Volume: 86
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 2007-2017
    Publisher: Ecological Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Sensitivity of conseration planning to different approaches to using predicted species distribution data
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 99-112
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • The evaluation strip: a new and robust method for plotting predicted responses from species distribution models
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 186
    Page numbers: 280-289
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Using multivariate adaptive regression splines to predict the distributions of New Zealand's freshwater diadromous fish
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Freshwater Biology
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 2034-2052
    Publisher: Blackwell Science
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Habitat models for population viability analysis
    Year: 2003
    Book: Population viability in plants: conservation, management, and modelling of rare plants
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • Eliciting and integrating expert knowledge for wildlife habitat modelling
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 165
    Page numbers: 251-264
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Predictions and their validation: rare plants in the Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2002
    Book: Predicting Species Occurrences: issues of scale and accuracy
    Publisher: Island Press(Covello, CA)
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Journal Articles

  • Species mapping for conservation
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Gap Analysis Bulletin
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 50-57
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