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Present Collaborations

	Victorian Alps Vegetation Changes #1 An Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation in the Victorian Alps #2 The responses of alpine and subalpine plants to increased temperature
	Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology (ARCUE): we have an ongoing close working relationship with Mark McDonnell and Michael McCarthy, developing habitat and population models.
	Parks Victoria (PV): the Environmental Science Group is one of the consortium of University participants in the PV research partners program. We contribute to the risk assessment branch of PVs research effort. Rachel Martin is developing logic trees to assist disease diagnosis and Yung En Chee is writing a model for the management of water in the Wimmera River. Jan Carey is continuing earlier collaborations with Parks Victoria to further develop a protocol for ecological risk assessment. The protocol has due regard for the perception of risks by individuals, ensures the values and preferences of stakeholders are considered, and acknowledges and incorporates uncertainties that arise during the assessment process. Victoria's system of Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries is the focus of the current project, which is funded by an ARC Linkage grant. Following a series of stakeholder workshops to identify hazards to the marine parks, the full strength of technical risk analysis will be applied to develop mathematical models for some of the major hazards. All these projects contribute to PVs research on risk based natural resource management.
	NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NSW NPWS): we have worked for many years with David Keith and his colleagues. We collaborate in building models for threatened plants, and in evaluating systems for setting conservation priorities.
	State Forests of NSW and the Department of Primary Industries, Queensland: Brendan Wintle is developing and testing habitat models for arboreal mammals. His work will inform the development of better survey techniques, and more efficient design of measures to protect vertebrate fauna in south-east Australian forests.
	University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: our existing collaboration with Professor Andrew Tyre from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, has included involvement in the NCEAS and MASCOS working groups. This collaboration has been extended recently to include Dr Scott Taylor of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Brendan Wintle and Michelle Ensbey (PhD candidate) are working with Scott Taylor and Andrew Tyre on the analysis of a long term monitoring data set of the American bird, the Northern Bobwhite.

Past Collaborations

	Forestry Tasmania: Julian Fox was responsible for developing PVA models for 13 species from north west Tasmania, and evaluating the consequences of forest management alternatives for them. The work involves building habitat models, fire disturbance models, and forest growth and decay models and using them as a landscape template, on which the metapopulations models run. The work was completed by the end of 2003.
	Environment Australia: we worked with Environment Australia for several years on a very broad range of projects including the development of plant population models (Helen Regan), the evaluation of methods for assessing conservation status (Terry Walshe), the improvement of habitat modelling methods (Jane Elith) and the evaluation of the conservation status of Birds of Paradise in Papua New Guinea (Terry Walshe).
	National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis(NCEAS): we contributed substantially to the NCEAS working group on extinction risk assessment. It involved Tracey Regan, Mick McCarthy, David Keith, Helen Regan, Mark Burgman, as well as our colleagues Georgina Mace (IUCN), Larry Master (NatureServe), Mary Ruckelshaus (Northwest Fisheries Science Center), Sandy Andelman (NCEAS), Hugh Possingham (UQ), Rodrigo Medellin (Instituto de Ecologia, UNAM) and Paul Wade (National Marine Mammal Laboratory). It evaluated the reliability of different approaches to assessing conservation status.
	Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology (CRCFE): we were involved with the CRCFE, through Barry Hart and Mike Grace at Monash University, developing and providing coursework on model-based risk analysis, and contributing to their modelling projects on an on-going basis (Nick Linacre).
	World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC): Dr Adrian Newton who led the Forests and Drylands programme of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, co-supervised two of Mark Burgman's students (Sarah Bekessy and Kerrie Wilson). Both projects were funded as part of an international collaboration titled SUCRE (sustainable use, conservation and reforestation of native forests in southern Mexico and south-central Chile) which involves several universities in Europe, Mexico, Chile and Argentina.

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