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DR BRENDAN WINTLE



Contact Details

Organization: Botany
Position: DEPUTY DIRECTOR - CERF
Email:
Homepage: www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/envisci/brendan/brendan.htm
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
Israel Technion Israel Institute of Technology Research
Finland University of Helsinki Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE,
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

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
COMMONWEALTH ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH FACILITY (CERF) - APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION ANALYSIS Chief Investigator DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE

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 2009

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

  • An info-gap approach to power and sample size calculations
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Environmetrics
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 189-203
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  • 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: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series 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
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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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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