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4873
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7361
National Ranking
572

Overview

April E. Reside is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and is active in research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work broadly addresses issues related to ecology, conservation, and the impacts of environmental change on biodiversity.

The main fields of study for this researcher include Environmental Science, with subfields focusing on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and aspects of Economics and Econometrics. Their research interests extend into topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fire effects on ecosystems, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as Environmental Conservation and Management.

April E. Reside has contributed to multiple research publications across a number of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Biological Conservation, Conservation Science and Practice, Conservation Biology, Environmental Research Letters, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Significant recent papers authored by or involving this researcher are:

  • Impact of 2019-2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity, 2022, Science
  • A national-scale dataset for threats impacting Australia's imperiled flora and fauna, 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Saving species beyond the protected area fence: Threats must be managed across multiple land tenure types to secure Australia's endangered species, 2022, Conservation Science and Practice

The researcher collaborates frequently with other scientists. Notable frequent co-authors include James Watson, Michelle Ward, Martine Maron, Josie Carwardine, and Jeremy S. Simmonds.

Best Publications

  • Focus on poleward shifts in species' distribution underestimates the fingerprint of climate change

    Jeremy VanDerWal;Helen T. Murphy;Alex S. Kutt;Genevieve C. Perkins

  • Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat

    Michelle Ward;Ayesha I. T. Tulloch;Ayesha I. T. Tulloch;James Q. Radford;Brooke A. Williams

  • The capacity of refugia for conservation planning under climate change

    Gunnar Keppel;Karel Mokany;Grant W Wardell-Johnson;Ben L Phillips;Ben L Phillips

  • Projecting Global Biodiversity Indicators under Future Development Scenarios

    Piero Visconti;Piero Visconti;Michel Bakkenes;Daniele Baisero;Thomas Brooks;Thomas Brooks;Thomas Brooks

  • The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity

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  • Weather, not climate, defines distributions of vagile bird species.

    April E. Reside;Jeremy J. VanDerWal;Alex S. Kutt;Genevieve C. Perkins

  • Adapting systematic conservation planning for climate change

    April E. Reside;April E. Reside;Nathalie Butt;Vanessa M. Adams

  • Appropriateness of full-, partial- and no-dispersal scenarios in climate change impact modelling

    Brooke L. Bateman;Helen T. Murphy;April E. Reside;Karel Mokany

  • Characteristics of climate change refugia for Australian biodiversity

    April E. Reside;Justin A. Welbergen;Ben L. Phillips;Ben L. Phillips;Grant W. Wardell-Johnson

  • Ecological consequences of land clearing and policy reform in Queensland

    April E. Reside;Jutta Beher;Anita J. Cosgrove;Megan C. Evans;Megan C. Evans

  • Quantifying extinction risk and forecasting the number of impending Australian bird and mammal extinctions

    Hayley M. Geyle;John C.Z. Woinarski;G. Barry Baker;Chris R. Dickman

  • The threats to Australia’s imperilled species and implications for a national conservation response

    Stephen G. Kearney;Josie Cawardine;April E. Reside;Diana O. Fisher

  • The influence of riparian vegetation on the distribution and abundance of bats in an African savanna

    Ara Monadjem;April Reside

  • Lots of loss with little scrutiny: The attrition of habitat critical for threatened species in Australia

    Michelle S. Ward;Jeremy S. Simmonds;April E. Reside;James E. M. Watson

  • Multiscale topoedaphic heterogeneity increases resilience and resistance of a dominant grassland species to extreme drought and climate change

    Robert Godfree;Brendan Lepschi;April Reside;Terry Bolger

  • Climate Change Refugia for Terrestrial Biodiversity: defining areas that promote species persistence and ecosystem resilience in the face of global climate change

    April E. Reside;Jeremy Vanderwal;Ben L. Phillips;Luke P. Shoo

  • Trade-offs in carbon storage and biodiversity conservation under climate change reveal risk to endemic species

    April Elizabeth Reside;Jeremy VanDerWal;Catherine Moran;Catherine Moran

  • Projected changes in distributions of Australian tropical savanna birds under climate change using three dispersal scenarios

    April E. Reside;April E. Reside;Jeremy VanDerWal;Alex S. Kutt

  • Fire regime shifts affect bird species distributions

    April E. Reside;April E. Reside;Jeremy VanDerWal;Alex Kutt;Ian Watson

  • Persistence through tough times: fixed and shifting refuges in threatened species conservation

    April E. Reside;Natalie J. Briscoe;Chris R. Dickman;Aaron C. Greenville

  • Dynamic habitat suitability modelling reveals rapid poleward distribution shift in a mobile apex predator.

    Nicholas J. Hill;Andrew J. Tobin;April E. Reside;Julian G. Pepperell

  • no-dispersal scenarios in climate change impact modelling

    Brooke L. Bateman;Helen T. Murphy;April E. Reside;Karel Mokany

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Jeremy VanDerWal
Jeremy VanDerWal James Cook University
Martine Maron
Martine Maron University of Queensland
Stephen T. Garnett
Stephen T. Garnett Charles Darwin University
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Ara Monadjem
Ara Monadjem University of Pretoria
Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University
John C. Z. Woinarski
John C. Z. Woinarski Charles Darwin University
Brendan A. Wintle
Brendan A. Wintle University of Melbourne
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK

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