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A/PROF BRENDAN WINTLE



Contact Details

Organization: Botany
Position: DEPUTY DIRECTOR - CERF
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Homepage: http://www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/botany/aboutus/staff/wintle.html
Work: 8344 3306
Mobile: 0425 828 470
Fax: 9347 5460
Level: 01
Building: Botany
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Ecological Modelling, Conservation Planning, Forest Management, Statistical Modelling Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain, France

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Finland University of Helsinki Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States University of Nebraska-Lincoln Research
Israel Technion Israel Institute of Technology Research
Spain Estacion Biologica de Donana Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Forest Science (Hons) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1994
PhD- Ecological Modelling University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2004

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Ecological Society of Australia Full Professional Member 01-Jan-1999
Member The Wildlife Society (USA) Full Professional Member 01-Jan-2005
Member The Ecological Society of America Full Professional Member 01-Jan-2003
Member Australian Forestry Standard Reference committee member 01-Jan-2003

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) AFFA Australian Young Scientist Award 01-Jan-2002
Scholarship Holdsworth Fund 01-Jan-2000

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
COMMONWEALTH ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH FACILITY (CERF) - APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION ANALYSIS Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND,
DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Programme (DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE) 01/07/2006
Optimal environmental monitoring under severe uncertainty. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
Creating fauna-friendly cities and towns - The ecology and conservation of insectivorous bats in Melbourne Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2009
Robust prediction and decision strategies for managing extinction risks under climate change Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 30/04/2009
Predicting ecosystem invasibility: towards spatial prioritisation of weed management Chief Investigator DEPT OF AGRICULTURE FISHERIES & FORESTRY Australian Weed Research Centre Funding 01/06/2009
From prediction to adaptation: responding to rapid ecosystem shifts under climate change Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Future Fellowships 14/07/2010
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF NATIVE VEGETATION CONDITION Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2011
From prediction to action: Responding to rapid ecosystem shifts under climate change Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2011
ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Centres of Excellence (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/05/2011
Adaptive management of arid and semi-arid ecosystems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2012
OPTIMAL HABITAT PROTECTION AND RESTORATION FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants Program (NCCARF) 08/03/2012

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
POWERFUL AND COST-EFFECTIVE MONITORING STRATEGIES UNDER THE AFS Chief Investigator AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY STANDARD LIMITED 19/12/2005
HUB AGREEMENT FOR THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH PROGRAM (NERP)- ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS HUB Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND 01/01/2011
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF VEGETATION AND KANGAROO POPULATION CONTROL AT WYPERFELD NATIONAL PARK Chief Investigator PARKS VICTORIA 07/06/2011

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 2011

Book Chapters

  • Growing biodiversity banking
    Year: 2011
    Book: Payments for ecosystem services and food security
    Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organisation(Rome)
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Journal Articles

  • Diets of sympatric native and introduced carnivores in the Barrington Tops, eastern Australia
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 290-296
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  • Ecological-economic optimization of biodiversity conservation under climate change
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 355-359
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  • Habitat area, quality and connectivity: striking the balance for efficient conservation
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 148-152
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  • Hotspots of plant invasion predicted by propagule pressure and ecosystem characteristics
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Diversity and Distributions
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 1099-1110
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  • Linking cost efficiency evaluation with population viability analysis to prioritize wetland bird conservation actions
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 144
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 2354-2361
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  • Quantifying variance components in ecological models based on expert opinion
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 736-745
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  • State-and-transition modelling for Adaptive Management of native woodlands
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 144
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1224-1236
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  • Uncertain sightings and the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 180-184
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Reports

  • Methodologies and Tools for Strategic Assessments Under the EPBC Act 1999
    Year: 2011
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Publications in 2010

Journal Articles

  • Active adaptive conservation of threatened species in the face of uncertainty
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Ecological Applications
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1476-1489
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  • Alien invaders and reptile traders: what drives the live animal trade in South Africa?
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Animal Conservation
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 24-32
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  • Allocating monitoring effort in the face of unknown unknowns
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1325-1337
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  • Conservation planning with dynamic threats: The role of spatial design and priority setting for species’ persistence
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 143
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 756-767
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  • Correlative and mechanistic models of species distribution provide congruent forecasts under climate change
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Conservation Letters
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 203-213
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  • How to Build an Efficient Conservation Fence
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 182 - 188
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  • Linking modelling, monitoring and management: an integrated approach to controlling overabundant wildlife
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
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  • Reconciling Uncertain Costs and Benefits in Bayes Nets for Invasive Species Management
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Risk Analysis
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 277 - 284
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  • The biodiversity bank cannot be a lending bank
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Conservation Letters
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 151-158
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Publications in 2009

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • ”True” Conservation Progress
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Science
    Volume: 323
    Issue: 5910
    Page numbers: 43 - 44
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  • Climate change, connectivity and conservation decision making: back to basics
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 964-969
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  • Comment on ‘‘Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review’’
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Ecography
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 374-378
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  • Efficiently locating conservation boundaries: Searching for the Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease front
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 142
    Page numbers: 1333-1339
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  • Modelling human impacts on the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax fleayi)
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 142
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2438-2448
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Towards adaptive management of native vegetation in regional landscapes
    Year: 2008
    Book: Landscape analysis and visualization
    Publisher: Springer(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • Adaptive Risk Management for Certifiably sustainable forest management
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
    Volume: 256
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1311-1319
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  • Some practical suggestions for improving engagement between researchers and policy-makers in natural resource management
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ecological Management & Restoration
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 182-186
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  • The ecological importance of space in species distribution models: a comment on Dormann et al.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ecography
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 1-5
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  • The sensitivity of population viability analysis to uncertainty about habitat requirements: Implications for the management of the endangered Southern Brown Bandicoot
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1045-1054
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  • Using carbon investment to grow the biodiversity bank
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 510-513
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  • When have we looked hard enough? A novel method for setting minimum survey effort protocols for flora surveys
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 986-998
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  • When to stop managing or surveying cryptic threatened species
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 105
    Issue: 37
    Page numbers: 13936-13940
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • An info-gap approach to power and sample size calculations

    Year: 2007
    Journal: Environmetrics
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 189-203
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  • Future forests and indicator
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Forestry Chronicle
    Volume: 83
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 36-40
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  • Incorporating landscape stochasticity into population viability analysis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Ecological Applications
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 317-322
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  • The boundary-quality penalty: a quantitative method for approximating species responses to fragmentation in reserve selection
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 355-364
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  • The use of confidence intervals to demonstrate performance against forest management standards
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
    Volume: 247
    Page numbers: 237-245
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Modeling species-habitat relationships with spatially autocorrelated observation data
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecological Applications
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1945-1958
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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 favours selection of spatially aggregated reserve networks
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 427-434
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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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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Estimating and dealing with detectability in occupancy surveys for forest owls and arboreal marsupials
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Wildlife Management
    Volume: 69
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 905-917
    Publisher: Wildlife Society(Bethesda)
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  • 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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  • Prioritizing multiple-use landscapes for conservation: methods for large multi-species planning problems
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 272
    Page numbers: 1885-1891
    Publisher: The Royal Society of London(London)
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  • Utility of dynamic-landscape metapopulation models for sustainable forest management
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1930-1943
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Zero tolerance ecology: improving ecological inference by modelling the source of zero observations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 1235-1246
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Precision and bias of methods for estimating point survey detection probabilities
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Ecological Applications
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 703-712
    Publisher: Ecological Society of America(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • The use of Bayesian model averaging to better represent uncertainty in ecological models
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1579-1590
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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