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Overview

Ashley D. Sparrow is affiliated with the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research in Australia. Their primary area of research lies within Environmental Science, with emphasis on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and General Health Professions.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics including plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, Indigenous studies and ecology, climate change adaptation and migration, Indigenous health, education, and rights, as well as rangeland and wildlife management.

  • Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making (2020, Global Environmental Change)
  • First Peoples' knowledge leads scientists to reveal 'fairy circles' and termite linyji are linked in Australia (2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Vegetation classification in south-western Australia's Mediterranean jarrah forest: new data, old units, and a conservation conundrum (2021, Australian Journal of Botany)
  • Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism (2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • A generalised ecohydrological landscape classification for assessing ecosystem risk in Australia due to an altering water regime (2024, Hydrology and earth system sciences)

The venues in which Sparrow has published include:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Australian Journal of Botany
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sparrow are:

  • Fiona Walsh
  • Gladys Karimarra Bidu
  • Ngamaru Karimarra Bidu
  • Theodore A. Evans
  • Thelma Milangka Judson

The scientific work of Ashley D. Sparrow spans several interdisciplinary topics, with a consistent focus on ecological dynamics and Indigenous ecological knowledge systems. Their research integrates environmental science with social and cultural dimensions relevant to adaptation pathways and ecosystem risk assessments within Australian landscapes.

Best Publications

  • Resprouting as a life history strategy in woody plant communities

    Peter J. Bellingham;Ashley D. Sparrow

  • A linked vulnerability and resilience framework for adaptation pathways in remote disadvantaged communities

    Yiheyis Taddele Maru;Mark Stafford Smith;Ashley Sparrow;Patricia F. Pinho

  • Competitive exclusion after invasion

    Thomas Bøhn;Per-Arne Amundsen;Ashley Sparrow

  • Degradation and recovery processes in arid grazing lands of central Australia. Part 1: soil and land resources

    D.J Tongway;A.D Sparrow;M.H Friedel

  • Carbon, nitrogen and temperature controls on microbial activity in soils from an Antarctic dry valley

    D.W. Hopkins;A.D. Sparrow;B. Elberling;E.G. Gregorich

  • Effects of Pollinator Loss on Endemic New Zealand Mistletoes (Loranthaceae)

    Alastair W. Robertson;Dave Kelly;Jenny J. Ladley;Ashley D. Sparrow

  • Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making

    Rosemary Hill;Fiona J. Walsh;Jocelyn Davies;Ashley Sparrow

  • Assembly rules operating along a primary riverbed–grassland successional sequence

    Robert J. Holdaway;Ashley D. Sparrow;Ashley D. Sparrow

  • Emission of CO2, CH4 and N2O from lakeshore soils in an Antarctic dry valley

    E.G. Gregorich;D.W. Hopkins;B. Elberling;A.D. Sparrow;A.D. Sparrow

  • Distribution and dynamics of soil organic matter in an Antarctic dry valley

    B. Elberling;E.G. Gregorich;D.W. Hopkins;A.D. Sparrow

  • Multi-stemmed trees in montane rain forests: their frequency and demography in relation to elevation, soil nutrients and disturbance

    Peter J. Bellingham;Ashley D. Sparrow

  • Variation in venom proteins from isolated populations of tiger snakes (Notechis ater niger, N. scutatus) in South Australia.

    V. Williams;J. White;T.D. Schwaner;A. Sparrow

  • Enzymatic activities and microbial communities in an Antarctic dry valley soil: Responses to C and N supplementation

    D.W. Hopkins;D.W. Hopkins;A.D. Sparrow;L.L. Shillam;L.C. English

  • Degradation and recovery processes in arid grazing lands of central Australia. Part 2: vegetation

    M.H. Friedel;A.D. Sparrow;J.E. Kinloch;D.J. Tongway

  • Separating grazing and rainfall effects at regional scale using remote sensing imagery: A dynamic reference-cover method

    G. Bastin;P. Scarth;V. Chewings;A. Sparrow

  • Early successional woody plants facilitate and ferns inhibit forest development on Puerto Rican landslides

    Lawrence R. Walker;Lawrence R. Walker;Frederick H. Landau;Eduardo Velázquez;Eduardo Velázquez;Aaron B. Shiels

  • What Induces Central Australian Arid Zone Trees and Shrubs to Flower and Fruit

    MH Friedel;DJ Nelson;AD Sparrow;JE Kinloch

  • The importance of dispersal, disturbance, and competition for exotic plant invasions in Arthur's Pass National Park, New Zealand

    Linley Jesson;Dave Kelly;Ashley Sparrow

  • Controls on the distribution of productivity and organic resources in Antarctic Dry Valley soils.

    D.W Hopkins;A.D Sparrow;P.M Novis;E.G Gregorich

  • Annual carbon fixation in terrestrial populations of Nostoc commune (Cyanobacteria) from an Antarctic dry valley is driven by temperature regime

    Phil M. Novis;David Whitehead;Ed G. Gregorich;John E. Hunt

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Hopkins
David W. Hopkins Scotland's Rural College
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen
Edward G. Gregorich
Edward G. Gregorich Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences
Peter J. Bellingham
Peter J. Bellingham Landcare Research
Juliet A. Gerrard
Juliet A. Gerrard University of Auckland
Dave Kelly
Dave Kelly University of Canterbury
Matthew H. Turnbull
Matthew H. Turnbull University of Canterbury
Don A. Cowan
Don A. Cowan University of Pretoria
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti European Union

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