W. M. Lonsdale’s research while affiliated with The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and other places

... Not only are biopeconomic models now frequently used to assess marine enviornments, but their application in terrestrial systems is now common place. They mostly focus on particular parts of the system elements -e.g. on a fishery, an agricultural system (Janseen and Ittersum, 2007), invasives (Cook et al., 2013(Cook et al., , 2015 or water resources (Petheram et al., 2016). As noted by Schuelter et al., (2010, p 230), "the single-species-oriented management philosophy has been increasingly replaced by an ecosystem approach and several recently developed models have sought to address the complexity observed in marine and terrestrial ecosystems". ...

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Final report Integrated models, frameworks and decision support tools to guide management and planning in Northern Australia

... Invasive plant species can severely disrupt native ecosystems and diminish biodiversity, especially in vulnerable island and coastal environments [1,2]. S. alterniflora, a perennial grass, was introduced into China from North America in the late 1970s [3,4] to stabilize shorelines, reclaim tidal flats [5], and improve soil fertility [6]. ...

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Potential Distribution Prediction of Spartina alterniflora Invasion in Bohai Bay Based on Sentinel Time-Series Data and MaxEnt Modeling

... Forest biodiversity is crucial to providing ecosystem services [3,4]. Australia, a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot, hosts 85% of its species endemically, reflecting a distinctive evolutionary history shaped by the continent's isolation and aridification over millions of years [5,6]. Since European colonization, Australia's ecosystems, particularly woodlands, have been widely cleared for cropping and intensive grazing, and uncleared woodlands have been degraded through livestock grazing and other uses [7][8][9]. ...

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Site-Level Modelling Comparison of Carbon Capture by Mixed-Species Forest and Woodland Reforestation in Australia

... In the current era of increasing globalization, the likelihood of new biological invasion and, consequently, the emergence of diseases is escalating (Jones et al. 2008). Biological invasions and the spread of infectious diseases are phenomena that share core characteristics related to introduction and dispersion within ecosystems (Mack et al. 2000). These occurrences, however, are inherently unpredictable, and the associated risks are exacerbated by the paucity of taxonomic knowledge pertaining to the parasites involved, their potential hosts, distributions, and origins (Roy et al. 2017), as already noted by Esposito et al. (2023) in a review. ...

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On the invasion of fish parasites in freshwater environments: an overview

... Las especies exóticas invasoras alteran el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas y constituyen una de las principales causas de pérdida de biodiversidad (Cohen, 2002), por lo que se consideran uno de los mayores problemas ecológicos del Antropoceno (Pysek et al., 2020). Como consecuencia de la expansión del transporte y el comercio, la actividad humana ha modificado el rango de distribución natural de muchas especies, tanto de manera accidental como voluntaria (Mack et al., 2000). Por este motivo, el número de especies exóticas invasoras ha aumentado a un ritmo continuamente acelerado en las últimas décadas, alcanzando actualmente la mayor tasa anual de nuevos registros (aproximadamente unas 200 nuevas especies exóticas invasoras se reconocen cada año; Seebens et al., 2023). ...

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Efectividad de la dispersión de semillas de Olea europaea por aves frugívoras nativas: una comparación entre poblaciones cultivadas y naturalizadas

... Fire treatment had a major effect on diversity in riparian communities but not in upland savanna. Riparian species richness in B riparian zones was ½ that of UB riparian zones, but in the surrounding savanna both short-(Lonsdale and Braithwaite 1991) and long-term (Bowman et al. 1988, Russell-Smith et al. 2003) studies yielded little evidence that fire treatment affects plant diversity . Late burning reduced fruiting and seed output in a number of upland Eucalyptus species (Setterfield and Wil liams 1996, Setterfield 1997), and the reductions in flowering and fruiting in the savanna riparian zones were even more dramatic. ...

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Fire in Australia’s riparian landscapes

... Simplifying the diversity of meaning, use, and relationship with values ignores or reinforces the socioeconomic inequalities produced by practices based on commodity flows and capital accumulation (Ioris 2012). When non-use and contextual values are recognized, as in the early work of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Díaz et al. 2015;Pascual et al. 2017), value is reduced to a logic in which universalistic values-as-commodities are opposed to "traditional" or "local" cultural values. Such a dualistic logic separating culture from nature may seem innocuous, but uneven power relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations have resulted in a hierarchization of values that privileges a particular form of humanity above others (Bakker and Bridge 2006;Descola 2005;Moore 2015). ...

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Riskscapes: A framework for risk assessment in colonial contexts

... In Australia, almost 3000 alien plant species have become naturalised to date (Randall 2007;Dodd et al. 2015), of which several hundred have been formally listed as 'invasive' plants (syn. 'noxious', 'restricted', 'declared plants' or 'weeds') under relevant State legislations and threat on biodiversity (Williams & West 2000;Batianoff & Butler 2002;Mason et al. 2005;Downey et al. 2010b). For example, in the eastern State of Queensland, the Biosecurity Act 2014 (https:// www.daf.qld.gov.au/business-priorities/biosecurity/ab ...

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A risk-based inventory of invasive plant species of Queensland, Australia: regional, ecological and floristic insights

... M. pigra grows well under wet-dry tropical climate conditions [1,2,4]. The species is shrubby, highly branched up to 6 m in height and forms dense monospecific stands with an average density of one plant per m 2 on riverbanks, floodplains, swamp forests, coastland, canals, agricultural fields and roadsides [4,5]. It has alternate and bipinnate leaves (ca. 25 cm long) with 10-16 pairs of opposite pinnae (ca. 5 cm long). ...

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Invasive Mechanisms of One of the World’s Worst Alien Plant Species Mimosa pigra and Its Management

... Aesthetic properties have been integral to crop selection and evolution throughout history (Hawkes 1983;McCouch 2004). Aesthetics remain the most significant historical driver of exotic plant trade in the modern era (Mack and Lonsdale 2001). Returning to amaranth, Aztec royalty demanded beauty from the crop to such an extent that the transfixed Spanish transported amaranth to Spain, initially as an ornamental, apparently unaware that the crop was one of four grain crops acquired as tribute from Aztec territory (Early 1992). ...

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Case for Folk Valuation Of Plant Genetic Resources: Redeeming Nikolay Vavilov’s Multiculturalist Plant