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Grant Wardell-Johnson

Grant Wardell-Johnson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
39
Citations
6634
World Ranking
8319
National Ranking
309

Overview

Grant Wardell-Johnson is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and primarily works within the field of Environmental Science, contributing to research in related subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Wardell-Johnson's frequent publication venues include:

  • Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Functional Ecology
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Land
  • Molecular Ecology Resources

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wardell-Johnson and collaborators cover diverse ecological and molecular ecology topics. Notable publications are:

  • "Testing multiple substrates for terrestrial biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA metabarcoding" (2020, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • "Changes in soil microbial communities in post mine ecological restoration: Implications for monitoring using high throughput DNA sequencing" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south-western Australian forested ecosystem" (2023, Functional Ecology)
  • "Scat DNA provides important data for effective monitoring of mammal and bird biodiversity" (2021, Biodiversity and Conservation)
  • "Evaluating restoration trajectories using DNA metabarcoding of ground-dwelling and airborne invertebrates and associated plant communities" (2022, Molecular Ecology)

Wardell-Johnson has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Todd P. Robinson
  • Paul Nevill
  • Mieke van der Heyde
  • Michael Bunce
  • Nicole E. White

Best Publications

  • Refugia: identifying and understanding safe havens for biodiversity under climate change

    Gunnar Keppel;K. Van Niel;Grant Wardell-Johnson;C. Yates

  • Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when.

    Kerrie A Wilson;Emma C Underwood;Scott A Morrison;Kirk R Klausmeyer

  • The capacity of refugia for conservation planning under climate change

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

  • Consequences of broadscale timber plantations for biodiversity in cleared rainforest landscapes of tropical and subtropical Australia

    John Joseph Kanowski;Carla Catterall;G.W. Wardell-Johnson

  • Development of forest structure on cleared rainforest land in eastern Australia under different styles of reforestation

    John Joseph Kanowski;Carla Catterall;G.W. Wardell-Johnson;Heather Coreen Proctor

  • Refugia: keys to climate change management

    Gunnar Keppel;Grant W. Wardell-Johnson

  • Applying Network Analysis to the Conservation of Habitat Trees in Urban Environments: a Case Study from Brisbane, Australia

    Monika Rhodes;Grant W. Wardell-Johnson;Martin P. Rhodes;Ben Raymond

  • Characteristics of climate change refugia for Australian biodiversity

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

  • Landscape age and soil fertility, climatic stability, and fire regime predictability: beyond the OCBIL framework

    Ladislav Mucina;Grant W. Wardell-Johnson

  • Facilitating adaptation of biodiversity to climate change: a conceptual framework applied to the world’s largest Mediterranean-climate woodland

    Suzanne Mary Prober;Kevin R Thiele;Philip W Rundel;Colin J Yates

  • Testing multiple substrates for terrestrial biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA metabarcoding.

    Mieke van der Heyde;Michael Bunce;Grant Wardell-Johnson;Kristen Fernandes

  • Isolated with persistence or dynamically connected? Genetic patterns in a common granite outcrop endemic

    S.L. Tapper;M. Byrne;C.J. Yates;G. Keppel;G. Keppel

  • Quantifying the biodiversity values of reforestation: perspectives, design issues and outcomes in Australian rainforest landscapes

    Carla Catterall;John Joseph Kanowski;Grant Wesley Wardell-Johnson;Heather Coreen Proctor

  • Fire and Plant Interactions in Forested Ecosystems of South-West Western Australia

    N. Burrows;G. W. Wardell-Johnson

  • Fire frequency and time‐since‐fire effects on the open‐forest and woodland flora of Girraween National Park, south‐east Queensland, Australia

    Penny Watson;Grant Wardell-Johnson

  • Conserving biodiversity and the recognition of heterogeneity in ancient landscapes: a case study from south-western Australia

    G. Wardell-Johnson;P. Horwitz

  • Why the integration of demographic and site-based studies of disturbance is essential for the conservation of jarrah forest fauna

    Grant W. Wardell-Johnson;Matthew Calver;Denis Saunders;Simon Conroy

  • Testing the discrimination and detection limits of WorldView-2 imagery on a challenging invasive plant target.

    T. P. Robinson;Grant Wardell-Johnson;Gabriella Pracilio;Chris Brown

  • Rapid Characterisation of Vegetation Structure to Predict Refugia and Climate Change Impacts across a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

    Antonius G. T. Schut;Grant W. Wardell-Johnson;Colin J. Yates;Gunnar Keppel

  • Changes in soil microbial communities in post mine ecological restoration: Implications for monitoring using high throughput DNA sequencing.

    M. van der Heyde;M. Bunce;K. Dixon;G. Wardell-Johnson

  • Responses of forest eucalypts to moderate and high intensity fire in the Tingle Mosaic, south‐western Australia: comparisons between locally endemic and regionally distributed species

    G. W. Wardell-Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Carla Catterall
Carla Catterall Griffith University
Gunnar Keppel
Gunnar Keppel University of South Australia
Ladislav Mucina
Ladislav Mucina Murdoch University
Margaret Byrne
Margaret Byrne University of Western Australia
Colin J. Yates
Colin J. Yates Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Michael Bunce
Michael Bunce Curtin University
Kingsley W. Dixon
Kingsley W. Dixon Curtin University
Stephen D. Hopper
Stephen D. Hopper University of Western Australia
Philip W. Bateman
Philip W. Bateman Curtin University
David Lamb
David Lamb University of New England

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