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Jean-Marc Hero is affiliated with the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Social Psychology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics, such as Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Animal and Plant Science Education, Ecology and Conservation Studies, and Plant and animal studies.

Jean-Marc Hero has contributed to recent publications including:

  • Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization, 2024, Ecology Letters
  • Red hot frogs: identifying the Australian frogs most at risk of extinction, 2021, Pacific Conservation Biology
  • The Program for Biodiversity Research in Brazil: The role of regional networks for biodiversity knowledge, dissemination, and conservation, 2021, Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
  • Aspects of the reproductive ecology of Trachycephalus cunauaru (Anura: Hylidae) in the southern Amazon, 2021, Acta Amazonica
  • Battling habitat loss: suitability of anthropogenic waterbodies for amphibians associated with naturally acidic, oligotrophic environments, 2021, Pacific Conservation Biology

Their publications frequently appear in venues such as:

  • Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
  • Acta Amazonica
  • Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues

Jean-Marc Hero has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Geraldo Wilson Fernandes
  • Renato Marques
  • Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues
  • J. Guy Castley
  • Judith M. Sarneel

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • Evaluating Ecological Restoration Success: A Review of the Literature

    Liana Wortley;Jean-Marc Hero;Michael James Howes

  • Geographic variation in life history characteristics of amphibians : a review

    Clare Morrison;Jean‐Marc Hero

  • The Novel and Endemic Pathogen Hypotheses: Competing Explanations for the Origin of Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife

    Lara J. Rachowicz;Jean-Marc Hero;Jean-Marc Hero;Ross A. Alford;John W. Taylor

  • Large‐scale seasonal variation in the prevalence and severity of chytridiomycosis

    Kerry Matthew Kriger;Jean-Marc Hero

  • The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

    William F. Laurance;Bernard Dell;Stephen M. Turton;Michael J. Lawes

  • The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is non‐randomly distributed across amphibian breeding habitats

    Kerry Matthew Kriger;Jean-Marc Hero

  • Predation and the evolution of complex oviposition behaviour in Amazon rainforest frogs

    William E. Magnusson;Jean-Marc Hero

  • The Decline of the Sharp-Snouted Day Frog ( Taudactylus acutirostris ): The First Documented Case of Extinction by Infection in a Free-Ranging Wildlife Species?

    Lisa M. Schloegel;Jean-Marc Hero;Lee Berger;Rick Speare

  • Techniques for Detecting Chytridiomycosis in Wild Frogs: Comparing Histology with Real-Time Taqman PCR

    Kerry Matthew Kriger;Harry. B. Hines;Alex. D. Hyatt;Donna. G. Boyle

  • Latitudinal variation in the prevalence and intensity of chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) infection in eastern Australia.

    Kerry Matthew Kriger;Felicia Pereoglou;Jean-Marc Hero

  • Detecting climate change induced range shifts: where and how should we be looking?

    Luke P. Shoo;Luke P. Shoo;Stephen E. Williams;Stephen E. Williams;Jean-Marc Hero

  • Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change

    Luke P. Shoo;Deanna H. Olson;Sarah K. McMenamin;Kris A. Murray

  • An illustrated key to tadpoles occurring in the Central Amazon rainforest, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil

    Jean-Marc Hero

  • Rainforest frogs of the Australian Wet Tropics: guild classification and the ecological similarity of declining species.

    Stephen E Williams;Jean-Marc Hero

  • Cost efficiency in the detection of chytridiomycosis using PCR assay.

    Kerry M. Kriger;Jean Marc Hero;Kevin J. Ashton

  • A comparison of constructed and natural habitat for frog conservation in an Australian agricultural landscape

    Donna Hazell;Jean-Marc Hero;David Lindenmayer;Ross Cunningham

  • Informal urban green space: A trilingual systematic review of its role for biodiversity and trends in the literature

    Christoph D.D. Rupprecht;Jason A. Byrne;Jenni G. Garden;Jean-Marc Hero

  • Climate warming and the rainforest birds of the Australian Wet Tropics : Using abundance data as a sensitive predictor of change in total population size

    Luke P. Shoo;Luke P. Shoo;Stephen E. Williams;Stephen E. Williams;Jean Marc Hero

  • Ecological traits of declining amphibians in upland areas of eastern Australia

    Jean-Marc Hero;Jean-Marc Hero;Stephen E. Williams;Stephen E. Williams;William E. Magnusson

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Jitik Narayan
Edward Jitik Narayan Southern Cross University
Stephen E. Williams
Stephen E. Williams James Cook University
William E. Magnusson
William E. Magnusson National Institute of Amazonian Research
Luke P. Shoo
Luke P. Shoo University of Queensland
Hamish McCallum
Hamish McCallum Griffith University
Jane M. Hughes
Jane M. Hughes Griffith University
Albertina P. Lima
Albertina P. Lima National Institute of Amazonian Research
Lindsay B. Hutley
Lindsay B. Hutley Charles Darwin University
Ross A. Alford
Ross A. Alford James Cook University
Lee F. Skerratt
Lee F. Skerratt University of Melbourne

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