Publications

Featured publications

Air quality and health

Visit QUT’s International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health and Allergy Research Group pages for a list of publications regarding air quality and health research.

Biodiversity

2020

• Kutt, A. S., Kern, P. L., Schoenefuss, P., Moffatt, K., Janetzki, H., Hurwood, D. and Baker, A. M. (2020) Diet of the eastern barn owl (Tyto delicatula) in the Simpson Desert reveals significant new records and a different mammal fauna to survey data. Australian Mammalogy.
• Riordan, C., Pearce, C., McDonald, B. J. F., Gynther, I., & Baker, A. (2020) Vegetation structure and ground cover attributes describe the occurrence of a newly discovered carnivorous marsupial on the Tweed Shield Volcano caldera, the endangered black-tailed dusky antechinus (Antechinus arktos). Ecology and Evolution, 10(4), pp. 2104-2121.
• Thomas, M. L., Baker, L., Beattie, J. R., & Baker, A. M. (2020) Determining the efficacy of camera traps, live capture traps, and detection dogs for locating cryptic small mammal species. Ecology and Evolution, 10(2), pp. 1054-1068.

2019

• Doohan, B., Kemp, J., & Fuller, S. (2019) Diversity favours the old: Metrics of avian diversity increase in aging regrowth Acacia woodlands of semi-arid eastern Australia. Global Ecology and Conservation, 20, Article number: e00798 1-11.
• Zhang, P., Kowalchuk, G. A., Soons, M. B., et al. (2019) SRUD: A simple non‐destructive method for accurate quantification of plant diversity dynamics. J Ecol. 2019; 107: 2155– 2166.

Ecological monitoring

2021

• Addison-Smith B, Milic A, Dwarakanath D, Simunovic M, Van Haeften S, Timbrell V and Davies JM (2021) Medium-Term Increases in Ambient Grass Pollen Between 1994-1999 and 2016-2020 in a Subtropical Climate Zone. Front. Allergy 2:705313.
• Winsen, M.; Denman, S.; Corcoran, E.; Hamilton, G. Automated Detection of Koalas with
  Deep Learning Ensembles. Remote Sensing. 2022, 14, 2432

2020

• Corcoran, E., Denman, S., & Hamilton, G. (2020) New technologies in the mix: Assessing N-mixture models for abundance estimation using automated detection data from drone surveys. Ecology and Evolution.
• Hamilton, G., Corcoran, E., Denman, S., Hennekam, M., & Koh, L. (2020) When you can’t see the koalas for the trees: Using drones and machine learning in complex environments. Biological Conservation, 247, Article number: 108598 1-7.
• Holloway-Brown, J., Helmstedt, K. J., & Mengersen, K. L. (2020) Stochastic spatial random forest (SS-RF) for interpolating probabilities of missing land cover data. Journal of Big Data, 7(1), 1-23.

2019

• Corcoran, E., Denman, S., Hanger, J., Wilson, B. & Hamilton, G. (2019) Automated detection of koalas using low-level aerial surveillance and machine learning. Sci Rep 9, 3208.
• Devitt, S., Baxter, P., & Hamilton, G. (2019) The ethics of biosurveillance. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 32(5-6), 709–740.
• Doohan, B., Fuller, S., Parsons, S. & Peterson, E. (2019) The sound of management: Acoustic monitoring for agricultural industries. Ecological Indicators 96: 739-746.
• Froese, J., Pearse, A. & Hamilton, G. (2019) Rapid spatial risk modelling for management of early weed invasions: bridging the gap between ecological complexity and operational needs. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2019;00:1-13.
• Holloway, J., Helmstedt, K. J., Mengersen, K., & Schmidt, M. (2019) A decision tree approach for spatially interpolating missing land cover data and classifying satellite images. Remote Sensing, 11(15), 1796.

Environmental monitoring and remediation

2020

• Arnold, S., Bulovic, N., McIntyre, N., Finch, W., Larsen, J., Reading, L. & Baumgartl, T. (2020) Event-based deep drainage and percolation dynamics in Vertosols and Chromosols. Hydrological Processes. 34, 2, p. 370-386 17 p.
• Feng, Y., Wang, J., Bai, Z., Reading, L. & Jing, Z. (2020) Three-dimensional quantification of macropore networks of different compacted soils from opencast coal mine area using X-ray computed tomography. Soil and Tillage Research. 198, p. 1-9 9 p., 104567.
• Suara, K., Khanarmuei, M., Ghosh, A., Yu, Y., Zhang, H., Soomere, T., and Brown, R.J., Material and debris transport patterns in Moreton Bay, Australia: The influence of Lagrangian coherent structures. Science of the Total Environment, 2020. 721.
• Mardani, N., Suara, K., Fairweather, H., Brown, R., McCallum, A., and Sidle, R.C. Improving the accuracy of hydrodynamic model predictions using Lagrangian calibration. Water (Switzerland), 2020. 12(2).
• Suara, K.A., Wang, H., Chanson, H., Gibbes, B., and Brown, R.J., Response of GPS-Tracked drifters to wind and water currents in a tidal estuary. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2019. 44(4): p. 1077-1089.

2019

• Feng, Y., Wang, J., Bai, Z. & Reading, L. (2019) Effects of surface coal mining and land reclamation on soil properties: A review. Earth-Science Reviews. 191, p. 12-25 14 p.
• Feng, Y., Wang, J., Liu, T., Bai, Z. & Reading, L. (2019) Using computed tomography images to characterize the effects of soil compaction resulting from large machinery on three-dimensional pore characteristics in an opencast coal mine dump. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 19, 3, p. 1467-1478 12 p.
• Reading, L., Bajracharya, K. & Wang, J. (2019) Simulating deep drainage and nitrate leaching on a regional scale: implications for groundwater management in an intensively irrigated area. Irrigation Science. 37, 5, p. 561-581 21 p.

Environmental decision making

2020

• Adams, M. P., Koh, E. J. Y., Vilas, M. P., Collier, C. J., Lambert, V. M., Sisson, S. A., Quiroz, M., McDonald-Madden, E., McKenzie, L. J., O’Brien, K. R. (2020) Predicting seagrass decline due to cumulative stressors. Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol. 130, Paper 104717.
• Adams, M. P., Sisson, S. A., Helmstedt, K. J., Baker, C. M., Plein, M., Holden, M. H., Holloway, J., Mengersen, K. L., McDonald-Madden, E. (2020) Informing management decisions for ecological networks, using dynamic models calibrated to noisy time-series data. Ecology Letters, Vol. 23, pp. 607-619.
• Xiao, M., Hamilton, D. P., O’Brien, K. R., Adams, M. P., Willis, A., Burford, M. A. (2020) Are laboratory growth rate experiments relevant to explaining bloom-forming cyanobacteria distributions at global scale? Harmful Algae, Vol. 92, Paper 101732.

2019

• Baird, M. E., Wild-Allen, K. A., Parslow, J., Mongin, M., Robson, B., Skerratt, J., Rizwi, F., Soja-Wozniak, M., Jones, E., Herzfield, M., Margvelashvili, N., Andrewartha, J., Langlais, C., Adams, M. P., Cherukuru, N., Hadley, S., Ralph, P. J., Schroeder, T., Steven, A. D. L., Rosebrock, U., Laiolo, L., Gustafsson, M., Harrison, D. (2019) CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite: Scientific description of the optical and biogeochemical models (vB3p0). Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 2019, Paper 115.
• Lambert, V., Adams, M. P., Collier, C., Carter, A., Saunders, M., Brodie, J., Bainbridge, Z., Rasheed, M., Turner, R., O’Brien, K. R. (2019) Towards Ecologically Relevant Targets: Impact of flow and sediment discharge on seagrass communities in the Great Barrier Reef. Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, pp. 624-630.
• Samson, J. E., Ghisalberti, M., Adams, M. P., Reidenbach, M. A., Long, M. H., Shavit, U., Pasour, V. B. (2019) Editorial: Canopies in aquatic ecosystems: integrating form, function, and biophysical processes. Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol. 6, Paper 697.
• Vilas, M. P., Adams, M. P., Ball, M. C., Meynecke, J. O., Santini, N. S., Swales, A., Lovelock, C. E. (2019) Night and day: shrinking and swelling of stems of diverse mangrove species growing along environmental gradients. PLoS One, Vol. 14, Paper e0221950.

Human dimensions and governance

2020

• Dean, A., Gulliver, R., Wilson, K. (2020) “Taking action for the Reef?” – Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate‐related actions. Conservation Letters, Society for Conservation Biology.
• Friedman, R. S., Guerrero, A. M., McAllister, R. R., Rhodes, J. R., Santika, T., Budiharta, S., Indrawan, T., Hutabarat, J. A., Kusworo, A., Yogaswara, H., Meijaard, E., St. John, F. A., Struebig, M. J. and Wilson, K. A. (2020) Beyond the community in participatory forest management: A governance network perspective. Land Use Policy, 97, p.104738.
• Loh, S., Foth, M., Caldwell, G. A., Garcia-Hansen, V., & Thomson, M. (2020) A More-than-Human Perspective on Understanding the Performance of the Built Environment. Architectural Science Review.
• McKinnon, H., Foth, M., & Sade, G. (2020, Jul 6-10) 1300 Pieces of Rubbish: A Collaborative Approach to Making Sense of Everyday Resource Sufficiency in the Home. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference, Eindhoven, NL. New York, NY: ACM.
• Santika, T., Budiharta, S., Law, E.A., Dennis, R.A., Dohong, A., Struebig, M.J., Gunawan, H., Meijaard, E. and Wilson, K.A. (2020) Interannual climate variation, land type and village livelihood effects on fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Global Environmental Change.
• Simmons, B. A., Archibald, C.L., Wilson, K. A., and Dean, A. J. (2020) Program Awareness, Social Capital, and Perceptions of Trees Influence Participation in Private Land Conservation Programs in Queensland, Australia. Environmental Management.
• Simmons, B. A., Wilson, K. A., and Dean, A. J. (2020) Landholder typologies illuminate pathways for social change in a deforestation hotspot. Journal of Environmental Management, 254, 109777.
• van Velden, J. L., Wilson, K., Lindsey, P. A., McCallum, H., Moyo, B. H. Z. and Biggs, D. (2020) Bushmeat hunting and consumption is a pervasive issue in African savannahs: insights from four protected areas in Malawi. Biodiversity and Conservation. 29:1443-1464.
• Yigitcanlar, T., Butler, L., Windle, E., Desouza, K., Mehmood, R., & Corchado, J. (2020) Can building ‘artificially intelligent cities’ protect humanity from natural disasters, pandemics and other catastrophes? An urban scholar’s perspective. Sensors, 20(10), 2988.
• Yigitcanlar, T., Desouza, K., Butler, L., & Roozkhosh, F. (2020) Contributions and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in building smarter cities: insights from a systematic review of the literature. Energies, 13(6), 1473.
• Yigitcanlar, T., Kamruzzaman, M., Teimouri, R., Degirmenci, K., & Aghnayi, F. (2020) Association between park visits and mental health in a developing county context: the case of Tabriz, Iran. Landscape and Urban Planning, 199(1), 103805.

2019

• Armstrong, K., & Leimbach, T. (2019) Art-eco-science. Field collaborations. Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (Summer 2019), 48: 108-127.
• Clarke, R., Heitlinger, S., Light, A., Forlano, L., Foth, M., & DiSalvo, C. (2019) More-Than-Human Participation: Design for Sustainable Smart City Futures. ACM interactions, 26(3), 60-63.
• Fels, D. I., Blackler, A., Cook, D., & Foth, M. (2019) Ergonomics in apiculture: A case study based on inspecting movable frame hives for healthy bee activities. Heliyon, 5(7).
• Hamman, E. (2019) Bilateral agreements for the protection of migratory birdlife: the implementation of the China-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA). Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, 22(1), pp. 137-159.
• Hamman, E. (2019) Clearing of native vegetation in Queensland: An analysis of finalised prosecutions over a 10-year period (2007-2018). Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 36(6), pp. 658-673.
• Hamman, E. (2019) The role of NGOs in monitoring compliance under the World Heritage Convention: options for an improved tripartite regime. In Voight, C (Ed.) International judicial practice on the environment: Questions of legitimacy (Studies on International Courts and Tribunals). Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 417-442.
• Hamman, E. (2019) The use of satellites in environmental regulation: Applications and implications for biodiversity conservation. Australian Environment Review, 34(5), pp. 88-92.
• Hamman, E., Van Geelen, T., & Akhtar-Khavari, A. (2019) Governance tools for the conservation of wetlands: the role of the Montreux Record under the Ramsar Convention. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70(11), pp. 1493-1502.
• Holleland, H., Hamman, E., & Phelps, J. (2019) Naming, shaming and fire alarms: The compilation, development and use of the list of world heritage in danger. Transnational Environmental Law, 8(1), pp. 35-57.
• Yigitcanlar, T., Foth, M., & Kamruzzaman, M. (2019) Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cities: Reconceptualising Smart Cities to Evade Urban Ecocide. Journal of Urban Technology, 26(2), 147-152.
• Yigitcanlar, T., Kamruzzaman, M., Foth, M., Sabatini, J., da Costa, E., & Ioppolo, G. (2019) Can cities become smart without being sustainable? A systematic review of the literature. Sustainable Cities and Society, 45, 348-365.

Marine research

2020

• Duce, S., Dechnik, B., Webster, J., Hua, Q., Sadler, J., Webb, G., Nothdurft, L., Salas-Saavedra, M., & Vila-Concejo, A. (2020) Mechanisms of spur and groove development and implications for reef platform evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews, 231, Article number: 106155 1-20.
• Sanborn, K., Webster, J., Webb, G., Braga, J., Humblet, M., Nothdurft, L., Patterson, M., Dechnik, B., Warner, S., Graham, T., Murphy, R., Yokoyama, Y., Obrochta, S., Zhao, J., & Salas-Saavedra, M. (2020) A new model of Holocene reef initiation and growth in response to sea-level rise on the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Sedimentary Geology, 397, Article number: 105556 1-18.
• Ceccarelli DM, McLeod IM, Boström-Einarsson L, Bryan SE, Chartrand KM, Emslie MJ, et al. (2020) Substrate stabilisation and small structures in coral restoration: State of knowledge, and considerations for management and implementation. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240846.

2019

• Dechnik, B., Bastos, A., Vieira, L., Webster, J., Fallon, S., Yokoyama, Y., Nothdurft, L., Sanborn, K., Batista, J., Moura, R., & Amado-Filho, G. (2019) Holocene reef growth in the tropical southwestern Atlantic: Evidence for sea level and climate instability. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, pp. 365-377.
• Erler, D., Shepherd, B., Linsley, B., Nothdurft, L., Hua, Q., & Lough, J. (2019) Has Nitrogen Supply to Coral Reefs in the South Pacific Ocean Changed Over the Past 50 Thousand Years? Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(4), pp. 567-579.
• Passos, T. U., Webster, J. M., Braga, J. C., Voelker, D., Renema, W., Beaman, R. J., Nothdurft, L. D., Hinestrosa, G., Clarke, Samantha, Yokoyama, Y., Barcellos, R. L., Kinsela, M. A., Nothdurft, Linda N., & Hubble, T. (2019) Paleoshorelines and lowstand sedimentation on subtropical shelves: a case study from the Fraser Shelf, Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 66(4), pp. 547-565.