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• 2024

  The Nature Conservancy Australia. (2024). Reef Builder Monitoring and Evaluation Report. A report prepared for the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water by Bayraktarov, E., Rullens, V., Valesini, F., Branigan, S., Martinez-Baena, F., and Reeves, S. (p. 73). Zenodo. 

  The Nature Conservancy Australia (2024) Reef Builder Final Summary Report. A report prepared for the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water by Branigan, S., Bohm, C., Bossie, A., Breschkin, S., Connell, M., Dahle, K., Dal Pozzo, B., Nedosyko, A., V., Valesini, F. The Nature Conservancy Australia, Melbourne, (p.40). Zenodo.

   

• 2023

  Bell-James, J., Fitzsimons, J. A., & Lovelock, C. E. (2023). Land tenure, ownership and use as barriers to coastal wetland restoration projects in Australia: Recommendations and solutions. Environmental Management, 1-11

  Champness B.S., Fitzsimons J.A., Kendal D, Palmer G.C., Perceptions of Birds by Urban Residents in an Australian Regional City and Implications for Conservation. Birds. 2023; 4(3):262-276.

  Christensen, J., Martin, D. J., Bossie, A., & Valesini, F. (2023). Middle Holocene Oyster Shells and the Shifting Role of History in Ecological Restoration: How a Dynamic Past Informs Shellfish Ecosystem Reconstruction at an Australian Urban Estuary. Global Environment, 16(3), 414-448.

  Cottingham, A., Bossie, A., Valesini, F., Tweedley, J.R. & Galimany, E. (2023). Quantifying the potential water filtration capacity of a constructed shellfish reef in a temperate hypereutrophic estuary. Diversity 15 :113.

  Cottingham, A., Bossie, A., Valesini, F., Maus,, C. and Tweedley, J.R. (2023). Habitat compression of an estuarine mytilid following half a century of streamflow decline, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 282: 108253.

  Eger, A.M., Aguirre, J.D., Altamirano, M., Arafeh-Dalmau, N., Arroyo, N.L., Bauer-Civiello, A.M., Beas‐Luna, R., Bekkby, T., Bennett, S., Bernal, B., Blain, C.O., Boada, J., Branigan, S., Bursic, J., Cevallos, B., Choi, C., Connell, S.D., Edward, C., Earp, H.S., Eddy, N., Matthius, A., Ennis, L., Falace, A., Ferreira, A.M., Filbee‐Dexter, K., Forbes, H., Francis, P., Franco, J.N., Geisler, K.G., Giraldo‐Ospina, A., Gonzalez, A.V., Hingorani, S., Hohman, R., Iveša, L., Kaleb, S., Keane, J.P., Koch, S.J., Krumhansl, K., Ladah, L.B., Lafont, D.J., Layton, C., Le, D.M., Lee, L.C., Ling, S.D., Lonhart, S.I., Malpica-Cruz, L., Mangialajo, L., McConnell, A., McHugh, T.A., Micheli, F., Miller, K.I., Monserrat, M., Montes-Herrera, J., Moreno, B., Neufeld, C.J., Orchard, S., Peabody, B., Peleg, O., Pessarrodona, A., Pocklington, J., Reeves, S.E., Ricart, A.M., Ross, F., Schanz, F.R., Schreider, M., Sedarat, M., Smith, S.M., Starko, S., Strain, E.M., Tamburello, L., Timmer, B., Toft, J.E., Uribe, R.A., van den Burg, S.W., Vásquez, J.A., Veenhof, R.J., Wernberg, T., Wood, G., Zepeda-Domínguez, J.A., & Vergés, A. (2023). The Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests. Journal of Applied Phycology.

  Elton, P. and Fitzsimons J.A., (2023) Framework features enabling faster establishment and better management of privately protected areas in New South Wales, Australia. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4:1277254.

  Fitzsimons, J. (2023). Book review: Australian Falcons: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation by Stephen Debus 2022, CSIRO Publishing. Corella: 47

  Fitzsimons, J. (2023). Closed-litter Rainbow Skink (Carlia longipes) foraging on flies attracted to fallen fig fruits. Reptiles & Amphibians, 30(1), e19533-e19533.

  Fitzsimons J, Picone A, Partridge T, Cornish M, (2023). Protecting Australia’s Nature: Pathways to protecting 30 per cent of land by 2030. The Nature Conservancy, WWF-Australia, the Australian Land Conservation Alliance and the Pew Charitable Trusts
  

  Georgiou, D., Reeves, S. E., da Silva, K. B., & Fobert, E. K. (2023). Artificial light at night impacts night-time activity but not day-time behaviour in a diurnal coral reef fish. Basic and Applied Ecology, 74, 74-82.

  Hinchley, D., Weisenberger, F., Parriman, D., Fitzsimons, J. and Heiner, M. (2023). Integrating social value in landscape planning: Experiences from working with Indigenous communities in Australia. In: W. Nikolakis, R. Moura da Veiga (eds.), Social Value, Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship: Insights from Theory and Practice, pp. 91-104. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

  Howie, A., Hanns, C., Theuerkauf, S., Reeves, SE., Gillies., CL and LongleyWood, K. (2023). Shellfish Reef Restoration Suitability Modelling: Technical Manual. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington VA, USA.

  Martinez-Baena, F., Raoult, V., Taylor, M.D., Gaston, T.F., McLeod, I. & Bishop, M.J. (2023) Trophic structure of temperate Australian oyster reefs within the estuarine seascape: a stable isotope analysis. Estuaries and Coasts 46: 844–859.

  Roberts, S. M., Reeves, S. E., Bossie, A., Cottingham, A., Jeffs, A., & Hillman, J. R. (2023). Determining mussel restoration success: An Australasian case study. Biological Conservation, 285, 110235.

  Sandbrook, C., Albury-Smith, S., Allan, J.R., Bhola, N., Bingham, H.C., Brockington, D., Byaruhanga, A.B., Fajardo, J., Fitzsimons, J., Franks, P., Fleischman, F., Frechette, A., Kakuyo, K., Kaptoyo, E., Kuemmerle, T., Nantongo Kalunda, P., Nuvunga, M., O’Donnell, B., Onyai, F., Pfeifer, M., Pritchard, R., Ramos, A., Rao, M., Ryan, C.M., Shyamsundar, P., Tauli, J., Tumusiime, D.M., Vilaça, M., Watmough, G.R., Worsdell, T. & Zaehringer, J.G. (2023). Social considerations are crucial to success in implementing the 30×30 global conservation target. Nature Ecology and Evolution.

  Shyamsundar, P., Marques, P., Smith, E., Erbaugh, J., Ero, M., Hinchley, D., James, R., Leisher, C., Nakandakari, A., Pezoa, L., Preece, L., & Prezotti, G. (2023). Nature and equity. Conservation Letters, 16, e12956.

  Toone, T.A., Ahler, S.J., Larson, J.E., Luong, J.C., Martínez-Baena, F., Ordóñez-Parra, C.A., Silva, M.C. & van der Ouderaa, I.B.C. (2023), Inclusive restoration: ten recommendations to support LGBTQ+ researchers in restoration science. Restoration Ecology 31: e13743.

• 2022

  Bell-James, J., Fitzsimons, J.A., Gillies, C.L., Shumway, N. & Lovelock, C.E. (2022) Rolling covenants to protect coastal ecosystems in the face of sea-level rise. Conservation Science and Practice 4: e593.

  Boström-Einarsson, L., Martínez-Baena, F., Diggles, B., Firby, L. & McLeod, I.M. (2022) An ecological assessment of Australia's first community oyster gardens. Ecological Management & Restoration 23: 244-251.

  Cook, P.A., Warnock, B., Gillies, C.L. & Hams, A.B. (2022). Historical abundance and distribution of the native flat oyster (Ostrea angasi) in estuaries of the Great Southern region of Western Australia help to prioritise potential sites for contemporary oyster reef restoration. Marine and Freshwater Research 73: 48–56.

  Coutts, A., O'Brien, A., Weeks, A.R., Swearer, S.E., van Rooyen, A., Branigan, S., Morris RL. (2022). An environmental DNA approach to informing restoration of the functionally extinct oyster, Ostrea angasi. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 32: 1732– 1744. 

  Cronin-O’Reilly, S., Wells, N.S., McCallum, R., Hallett, C.S., Tweedley, J.R., Valesini, F.J. & Eyre, B.D. (2022) Chronically stressed benthic macroinvertebrate communities exhibit limited effects on ecosystem function in a microtidal estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 701: 1-16. 

  Cronin-O’Reilly, S., Wells, N.S., McCallum, R., Hallett, C.S., Tweedley, J.R., Valesini, F.J. & Eyre, B.D. (2022) Defaunation by deoxygenation: efficacy and divergent responses of estuarine macroinvertebrates. Marine Ecology Progress Series 701: 17-24. 

  Eger, A.M., Earp, H.S., Friedman, K., Gatt, Y., Hagger, V., Hancock, B., Kaewsrikhaw, R., Mcleod, E., Moore, A.M., Niner, H.J., Razafinaivo, F., Sousa, A.I., Stankovic, M., Worthington, T.A., Bayraktarov, E., Saunders, M., Vergés, A. & Reeves, S. (2022) The need, opportunities, and challenges for creating a standardized framework for marine restoration monitoring and reporting. Biological Conservation 266: 109429.

  Esquivel-Muelbert, J. R., Lanham, B. S., Martínez-Baena, F., Dafforn, K. A., Gribben, P. E., & Bishop, M. J. (2022). Spatial variation in the biotic and abiotic filters of oyster recruitment: Implications for restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 953– 964.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2022). Diurnal foraging in short pasture by the Endangered Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) on Kangaroo Island, Australia. Journal of Heron Biology and Conservation 7, 3.

  Fitzsimons, J. (2022) Book Review: The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 Edited by Stephen T. Garnett and G. Barry Baker. Australian Field Ornithology 39: 45-46.

  Frantzeskaki, N., Oke, C., Barnett, G., Bekessy, S., Bush, J., Fitzsimons, J., Ignatieva, M., Kendal, D., Kingsley, J., Mumaw, L. & Ossola, A. (2022) A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities. Ambio 51: 1433-1445

  Jänes, H., Macreadie, P.I., Rizzari, J., Ierodioconou, D., Reeves, S.E., Dwyer, P.G. & Carnell, P.E. (20221) The value of estuarine producers to fisheries: A case study of Richmond River Estuary. Ambio 51: 875–887.

  McAfee, D., McLeod, I.M., Alleway, H.K., Bishop, M.J., Branigan, S., Connell, S.D., Copeland, C., Crawford, C.M., Diggles, B.K., Fitzsimons, J.A., Gilby, B. L., Hamer, P., Hancock, B., Pearce, R., Russell, K., & Gillies, C.L. (2022). Turning a lost reef ecosystem into a national restoration program. Conservation Biology 36: e13958. 

  Martínez-Baena, F., Lanham, B.S., McLeod, I., Taylor, M.D., McOrrie, S. & Bishop, M.J. (2022) De novo reefs: Fish habitat provision by oyster aquaculture varies with farming method. Aquaculture Environment Interactions 14: 71-84. 

  Martínez-Baena, F., Lanham, B.S., McLeod, I.M., Taylor, M.D., McOrrie, S., Luongo, A., Bishop, M.J. (2022). Remnant oyster reefs as fish habitat within the estuarine seascape. Marine Environmental Research 179: 105675.

  Preece, N. & Fitzsimons, J. (2022). Gaps in monitoring leave northern Australian mammal fauna with uncertain futures. Diversity 14: 158.

  Reeves, S.E., Kriegisch, N., Johnson, C.R. & Ling, S.D. (2022). Kelp habitat fragmentation reduces resistance to overgrazing, invasion and collapse to turf dominance. Journal of Applied Ecology

  Richardson, M.A., Zhang, Y., Connolly, R.M., Gillies, C.L. & McDougall, C. (2022). Some like it hot: The ecology, ecosystem benefits and restoration potential of oyster reefs in tropical waters. Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 1040.

  Selinske, M. J., Howard, N., Fitzsimons, J. A., Hardy, M. J., & Knight, A. T. (2022). “Splitting the bill” for conservation: Perceptions and uptake of financial incentives by landholders managing privately protected areas. Conservation Science and Practice 4: e12660. 

  Woods, R., Woods, I. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2021). Water and land justice for Indigenous communities in the Lowbidgee Floodplain of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. International Journal of Water Resources Development 38: 64-79.

• 2021

  Archibald, C.L., Dade, M.C., Sonter, L.J., Bell-James, J., Boldy, R., Cano, B., Friedman, R.S., Siqueira, F.F., Metzger, J.P., Fitzsimons J.A., &Rhodes, J.R. (2021). Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services? Environmental Science and Policy 115: 99-107.

  Armitage, A.R., Weaver, C.A., Whitt, A.A., & Pennings, S.C. (2021). Effects of mangrove encroachment on tidal wetland plant, nekton, and bird communities in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 248: 106767.

  Armitage, C., Auld, T., Bradby, K., Campbell, H., Clarkson, B., Cox, A., Dixon, P., Fitzsimons, J., Foran, B., Howling, G., McLeod, I., Norrish, S., O'Connor, P., O'Gorman, D., Slater, H. & Wrigley, D. (2021). The Darwin Agreement: A collaboration between Australian restoration organisations in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Ecological Management & Restoration 22: 220-222.

  Bingham, H.C., Fitzsimons, J.A., Mitchell, B.A., Redford, K.H. & Stolton, S. (2021) Privately Protected Areas: Missing pieces of the global conservation puzzle. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2: 748127.

  Duarte de Paula Costa, M., Lovelock, C.E., Waltham, N.J., Young, M., Adame, M.F., Bryant, C.V., Butler, D., Green, D., Rasheed, M.A., Salinas, C., Serrano, O., York, P.H., Whitt, A.A. and Macreadie, P.I. (2021) Current and future carbon stocks in coastal wetlands within the Great Barrier Reef catchments. Global Change Biology 27: 3257-3271.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2021). Birds depredating stingrays and skates (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea): new observations and a review of records. Marine Ornithology 49: 223–227.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2021) Little Lorikeet Glossopsitta pusilla nest hollow preparation and interspecific aggression in Melbourne, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 138: 107-109.

  Fitzsimons J. and Cooke B. (2021) Key questions for conservation tenders as a means for delivering biodiversity benefits on private land. Ecological Management & Restoration 22: 110–114.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Leighton, J. (2021). Frugivory in raptors: New observations from Australia and a global review. Birds 2: 338-350.

  Fitzsimons, J. and McDonald, T. (2021). Supporting and growing privately protected areas in Australia: Interview with The Nature Conservancy’s James Fitzsimons. Ecological Management & Restoration 22, 115-125.

  Hartigan, M., Fitzsimons, J., Grenfell, M. & Kent, T. (2021) Developing a metropolitan-wide urban forest strategy for a large, expanding and densifying capital city: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia. Land 10: 809.

  Howie, A.H. & Bishop, M.J. (2021) Contemporary oyster reef restoration: responding to a changing world. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 689915.

  Jonas, H.D.,  Ahmadia, G.N., Bingham, H.C., Briggs, J., Butchart, D.H.M., Cariño, J., Chassot, O., Chaudhary, S., Darling, E., DeGemmis, A., Dudley, N., Fa, J., Fitzsimons, J.,  Garnett, S.T., Geldmann, J., Kroner, R.G., Gurney, G.G., Harrington, A.R., Himes‐Cornell, A., Hockings, M., Jonas, H.C., Jupiter, S., Kingston, N., tebrakunna country and Lee E., Lieberman, S., Mangubhai, S., Marnewick, D., Matallana‐Tobón, C.L., Maxwell, S.L., Nelson, F., Parrish, J., Ranaivoson, R., Rao, M., Santamaría, M., Venter, O., Visconti, P., Waithaka, J., Walker Painemilla, K., Watson, J.E.M. and von Weizsäcker, C. (2021) Equitable and effective area‐based conservation: towards the conserved areas paradigm. Parks 27: 71-84.

  Kingsford, R.T., Bino, G., Finlayson, C.M., Falster, D., Fitzsimons, J.A., Gawlik, D.E., Murray, N.J., Grillas, P., Gardner, R.C., Regan, T.J., Roux, D.J. and Thomas, R.F. (2021) Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance–Improving conservation outcomes. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 643367.

  Lavery, T.H., Morgain, R., Fitzsimons, J., Fluin, J., Macgregor, N.A., Robinson, N., Scheele, B.C., Selwood, K., Spindler, R., Vuong, H., West, S., Wintle, B., Lindenmayer, D. (2021). Impact indicators for biodiversity conservation research: measuring influence within and beyond academia. BioScience 71, 383–395.

  Lipsett-Moore, G.J., Wolff, N.J. & Game, E.T. (2021). Response to: Problems and promises of savanna fire regime change. Nature Communications 12: 4892.

  Morgain, R.A., Bekessy, S., Bush, J., Butler, D., Cadenhead, N., Clarke, R., Croeser, T., Dickey, A., Evans, M.C., Fitzsimons, J., Fletcher, M.-S., Foley, R., Gacutan, J., van Leeuwen, S., Lovelock, C., Macreadie, P.I., McLeod, E., Morris, R.L., Neal, D.P., Oke, C., Viscarra Rossel, R., Russell-Smith, J., Spindler, R., Thompson, S., Wartman, M., Young, M. & Wintle, B.A. (2021) Nature as a Climate Solution. University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

  Morgain, R.A., O’Connor, R.A., Johnson, T.D., Vuong, H.B., Lavery, T.H., Robinson, N.M., Fenwick, C.A., Christensen, H.J., Moggridge, B., Goolmeer, T., Costello, O., Macgregor, N.A., Scheele, B.C., Fluin, J., Fitzsimons, J.A., Selwood, K.E., Spindler, R., Wintle, B.A., Lindenmayer, D.B. (2021) Valuing Research: tools and approaches for assessing and enhancing the benefits from environmental research. NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Project 7.1 Report, Brisbane.

  Oke, C., Bekessy, S.A., Frantzeskaki, N., Bush, J., Fitzsimons, J., Garrard, G.E., Grenfell, M., Harrison, L., Hartigan, M., Callow, D., Cotter, B. & Gawler, S. Cities should respond to the biodiversity extinction crisis. npj Urban Sustainability 1: 11.

  Preston, J., Sanderson, W., Pogoda, B., Baxter, J.M., Cameron, T.C., Davies, I.M., Fabra, M., Hammerson, J.K., Krone, R., Hausen, T., Hauton, C., Helmer, L., Holbrook, Z., Kelly, G., Lee, H., Lown, A., Mountain, C., Pouvreau, S., Reeves, S.E., Smyth, D., Ward, E. & zu Ermgassen, P.S.E. (2021). Restoration goal-based monitoring metrics. In: European Native Oyster Habitat Restoration Monitoring Handbook (eds. zu Ermgassen, P.S.E., Bos, O., Debney, A., Gamble, C., Glover, A., Pogoda, B., Pouvreau, S., Sanderson, W., Smyth, D. & Preston, J). The Zoological Society of London, UK., London, UK, pp. 33-53.

  Shumway, N., Bell-James, J., Fitzsimons, J.A., Foster, R., Gillies, C. & Lovelock, C.E., (2021). Policy solutions to facilitate restoration in coastal marine environments. Marine Policy 134: 104789.

  Simmonds, J.S., Dyer, A.B., Fitzsimons, J., Hinchley, D., Maron, M. (2021) Assessing biodiversity and cultural values for single-site and multi-property development proposals in northern Australia. NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Project 7.3 Report, Brisbane.

  Tear, T.H., Wolff, N.H., Lipsett-Moore, G.J., Ritchie, M.E., Ribeiro, N.S., Petracca, L.S., Lindsey, P.A., Hunter, L., Loveridge, A.J. & Steinbruch, F. (2021) Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps. One Earth 4

  Thomas, J.L., Cullen, M., O’Leary, D., Wilson, C. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2021). Characteristics and preferences of volunteers in a large national bird conservation program in Australia. Ecological Management & Restoration 22: 100-105

  Waithaka, J., Dudley, N., Álvarez, M., Arguedas Mora, S., Figgis, P., Fitzsimons, J., Gallon, S., Kim, M., Pasha, M.K.S., Perkin, S., Roig-Boixeda, P., Sierra, C., Valverde, A., & Wong, M. (2021). Impacts of COVID-19 on protected and conserved areas: a global overview and regional perspectives. Parks 27 (Special Issue): 41-56.

  Waryszak, P., Gavoille, A., Whitt, A.A., Kelvin, J. & Macreadie, P.I. (2021) Combining gray and green infrastructure to improve coastal resilience: lessons learnt from hybrid flood defenses. Coastal Engineering Journal 63: 335-350.

  Woods, R., Woods, I. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2021). Water and land justice for Indigenous communities in the Lowbidgee Floodplain of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. International Journal of Water Resources Development

• 2020

  Helmer, L., Hancock, B., Bonacic, K., Bromley, C., Fabra, M., Frankić, A., HaydenHughes, M., Holbrook, Z., Kean-Hammerson, J., McAfee, D., Mountain, C., Nedosyko, A., Preston, J., Rodriguez-Perez, A., Sanderson, W., Smyth, D., Uttley, M. & zu Ermgassen, P. (2020) Native oyster restoration in practice. In: Preston J., Gamble, C., Debney, A., Helmer, L., Hancock, B. and zu Ermgassen, P.S.E. (eds) European Native Oyster Habitat Restoration Handbook: UK and Ireland, pp. 29-44. The Zoological Society of London, London, UK.

  Archibald, C.L., Barnes, M.D., Tulloch, A.I.T., Fitzsimons, J.A., Morrison, T.H., Mills, M. & Rhodes, J.R. (2020). Differences among protected area governance types matter for conserving vegetation communities at-risk of loss and fragmentation. Biological Conservation 247: 108533.

  Bayraktarov, E., Brisbane, S., Hagger, V., Smith, C., Wilson, K., Lovelock, C., Gillies, C., Steven, A. & Saunders, M. (2020). Priorities and motivations of marine coastal restoration research. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 484.

  Boix, D., Calhoun, A.J.K., Mushet, D.M., Bell, K.P., Fitzsimons, J.A. & Isselin-Nondedeu, F. (2020). Conservation of temporary wetlands. In: Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes Vol. 4. (Eds M.I. Goldstein & D.A. DellaSala), pp. 279-294, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

  Branigan, S., Fitzsimons, J. & Gillies, C.L. (2020) Modern middens: Shell recycling for restoring an endangered marine ecosystem in Victoria, Australia. Ecological Management & Restoration 21: 198-204.

  Crawford, C., Edgar, G., Gillies C.L. & Heller-Wagner, G. (2020). Relationship of biological communities to habitat structure on the largest remnant flat oyster reef (Ostrea angasi) in Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 71: 972-983.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2020). Urgent need to use and reform critical habitat listing in Australian legislation in response to the extensive 2019-2020 bushfires. Environmental and Planning Law Journal 37: 143-152.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2020). Wood ducks, international bird lists and conservation: A comment on Choudhury (2020). BirdingAsia 34:

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Branigan, S., Gillies, C.L., Brumbaugh, R.L., Cheng, J., DeAnglis, B.M., Geselbracht, L., Hancock, B., Jeffs, A., McDonald, T., McLeod, I.M., Pogoda, B., Theuerkauf, S.J., Thomas, M., Westby, S. & zu Ermgassen, P.S.E. (2020) Restoring shellfish reefs: Global guidelines for practitioners and scientists. Conservation Science and Practice 2: e198.

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Stephenson, B. & Thomas, J.L. (2020) Seabird Islands No. 268. Oyster Rock, Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Corella 44: 74-76

  Gentry, R.R., Alleway, H.K., Bishop, M.J., Gillies, C.L., Waters, T. & Jones, R. (2020) Exploring the potential for marine aquaculture to contribute to ecosystem services. Reviews in Aquaculture 12: 499-512. 

  Gillies, C. (2020). Rectifying ‘shellfish’ wrongs: A national reef building project for Australia. Environment Coastal and Offshore July/August 2020: 22-25.

  Gillies, C.L., Castine, S.A., Alleway, H.K., Crawford, C., Fitzsimons, J.A., Hancock, B., Koch, P., McAfee, D., McLeod, I.M. and zu Ermgassen, P.S.E. (2020). Conservation status of the Oyster Reef Ecosystem of Southern and Eastern Australia. Global Ecology and Conservation 22: e00988.

  Hockings, M., Dudley, N., Elliot, W., Ferreira, N.M., MacKinnon, K., Pasha, M.K.S., Phillips, A., Stolton, S., Woodley, S., Appleton, M., Chassot, O., Fitzsimons, J., Galliers, C., Kroner, R.G., Goodrich, J., Hopkins, J., Jackson, W., Jonas, H., Long, B., Mumba, M., Parrish, J., Paxton, M., Phua, C., Plowright, R., Rao, M., Redford, K., Robinson, J., Rodríguez, C.M., Sandwith, T., Spenceley. A., Stevens, C., Tabor, C., Troëng, S., Willmore, S., Yang, A., (2020). COVID-19 and Protected and Conserved Areas. Parks 26.1: 7-24.

  Jackson, S., Woods, R. & Hooper, F. (2020). Empowering First Nations in the governance and management of the Murray–Darling Basin. In: Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management (Eds. B.T. Hart, N.R. Bond, N. Byron, C.A. Pollino, & M.J. Stewardson), pp. 313-338, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

  Jänes, H., Macreadie, P.I., Nicholson, E., Ierodiaconou, D., Reeves, S., Taylor, M.D. & Carnell, P.E. (2020). Stable isotopes infer the value of Australia’s coastal vegetated ecosystems from fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 21: 80-90.

  Jänes, H., Macreadie, P.I., zu Ermgassen, P.S.E., Gair, J.R., Treby, S., Reeves, S., Nicholson, E., Ierodiaconou, D. & Carnell, P. (2020). Quantifying fisheries enhancement from coastal vegetated ecosystems. Ecosystem Services 43: 101105.

  Kriegisch, N., Reeves, S.E., Johnson, C.R. & Ling, S.D. (2020). Sea urchin control of macroalgal communities across a productivity gradient. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 527: 151248.

  Ling, S.D., Reeves, S.E., Kriegisch, N. (2020). Octocoral barrier to grazing sea urchins allows macroalgal recovery on barrens ground. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 524: 151292.

  McLeod, I.M., Boström-Einarsson, L., Creighton, C., D’Anastasi, B., Diggles, B., Dwyer, P.G., Firby, L., Le Port, A., Luongo, A., Martínez-Baena, F., McOrrie, S., Heller-Wagner, G. & Gillies, C.L. (2020) Habitat value of Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) reefs on soft sediments. Marine and Freshwater Research 71: 771-781.

  McAfee, D., McLeod, I.M., Boström‐Einarsson, L. & Gillies, C.L. (2020). The value and opportunity of restoring Australia's lost rock oyster reefs. Restoration Ecology, 28: 304-314.

  McLeod, I.M., Heller-Wagner, G., Gillies, C., Bostrom-Einarsson, L., Dwyer, P.G. (2020). Hercules builds an oyster reef. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 101: 1-5.

  McLeod, I.M., Heller-Wagner, G., Gillies, C., Bostrom-Einarsson, L., Dwyer, P.G. (2020). Hitching a ride on Hercules: fatal epibiosis drives ecosystem change from mud banks to oyster reefs. Ecology 101: e03032.

  Mehlman, D.W., Fitzsimons, J.A., Irving, A., Irving, J. & Hancock, B. (2020) Selecting a suite of potential partner sites for the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary to aid shorebird conservation in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. Pacific Conservation Biology 26: 67-77.

  Menkhorst, P., Fitzsimons, J., Loyn, R. & Woinarski, J. (2020).  Assessing the strength of evidence for records of Night Parrots at Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary (South Australia) and Diamantina National Park (Queensland), 2016–2018. Emu 120: 173-177.

  Morris, R.L., Hale, R., Strain, E.M.A., Reeves, S.E., Vergés, A., Marzinelli, E.M., Layton, C., Shelamoff, V., Graham, T.D.J., Chevalier, M. & Swearer, S.E. (2020). Key Principles for Managing Recovery of Kelp Forests through Restoration. BioScience 70: 688-698.

  Patti, T.B., Fobert, E.K., Reeves, S.E., Burke da Silva, K. (2020). Spatial distribution of microplastics around an inhabited coral island in the Maldives, Indian Ocean. Science of the Total Environment 748: 141263.

  Reeves, S., Gillies, C., Fitzsimons, J., Carnell, P., Navarro, A., Jänes, H., Whitt, A., Young, M., Macreadie, P., Nicholson, E. & Ierodiaconou, D. (2020) The Value of Australia’s Coastline: New technology reveals the value of the coast like never before. Environment Coastal and Offshore March/April: 24-27.

  Reeves, S.E., Renzi, J.J., Fobert, E.K., Silliman, B.R., Hancock, B., Gillies, C.L. (2020) Facilitating better outcomes: How positive species interactions can improve oyster reef restoration. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 656

  Saunders, M.I., Doropoulos, C., Bayraktarov, E., Babcock, R.C., Gorman, D., Eger, A.M., Vozzo, M.L., Gillies, C.L., Vanderklift, M.A., Steven, A.D.L., Bustamante, R., and Silliman, B. (2020) Bright spots in coastal marine ecosystem restoration. Current Biology 30:R1500-R1510

  Stewart-Sinclair, P.J., Purandare, J., Bayraktarov, E., Waltham, N.J., Reeves, S.E., Statton, J., Sinclair, E.A., Brown, B.M., Shribman, Z.I. & Lovelock, C.E. (2020). Blue restoration—building confidence and overcoming barriers. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 748.

  Tan, Y.M., Dalby, O., Kendrick, G.A., Statton, J., Sinclair, E.A., Fraser, M.W., Macreadie, P., Gillies, C.L., Coleman, R.A., Waycott, M., van Dijk, K.J., Vergés, A., Ross, J.D., Campbell, M., Matheson, F.E., Jackson, E.L., Irving, A.D., Govers, L.L., Connolly, R.M., McLeod, I.M., Rasheed, M.A., Kirkman, H., Flindt, M.R., Lange, T., Miller, A.D. & Sherman, C.D.H. (2020). Seagrass restoration is possible: insights and lessons from Australia and New Zealand. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 617. 

  Thurstan, R.B., Diggles, B.K., Gillies, C.L., Strong, M.K., Kerkhove, R., Buckley, S.M., King, R.A., Smythe, V., Heller-Wagner, G., Weeks, R., Palin, F. & McLeod, I. (2020) Charting two centuries of transformation in a coastal social-ecological system: a mixed methods approach. Global Environmental Change 61: 102058.

  Waltham, N.J., Elliott, M., Lee, S.Y., Lovelock, C., Duarte, C.M., Buelow, C., Simenstad, C., Nagelkerken, I., Claassens, L., Wen, C.K.C., Barletta, M., Connolly, R.M., Gillies, C., Mitsch, W.J., Ogburn, M.B.,  Purandare, J., Possingham, H. & Sheaves, M.  (2020). UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030—what chance for success in restoring coastal ecosystems? Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 71.

  Whitt, A.A., Coleman, R., Lovelock, C.E., Gillies, C., Ierodiaconou, D., Liyanapathirana, M. & Macreadie, P.I. (2020) March of the mangroves: Drivers of encroachment into southern temperate saltmarsh. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 240: 106776

• 2019

  Carnell, P.E, Reeves, S.E., Nicholson, E., Macreadie, P., Ierodiaconou, D., Young, M., Kelvin, J., Janes, H., Navarro, A., Fitzsimons, J. & Gillies, C.L. (2019). Mapping Ocean Wealth Australia: The value of coastal wetlands to people and nature. The Nature Conservancy, Melbourne.
  

  Champness, B.S., Palmer G.C. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2019). Bringing the city to the country: relationships between streetscape vegetation type and bird assemblages in a major regional centre. Journal of Urban Ecology 5: juz018. 

  Gillies, C. (2019). Getting started: planning, feasibility and goal setting for shellfish reef restoration. In: Restoration Guidelines for Shellfish Reefs (eds. J. Fitzsimons, S. Branigan, R.D. Brumbaugh, T. McDonald and P.S.E. zu Ermgassen), pp. 18-29. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington VA, USA.

  Gosper, C.R., Fox, E., Burbidge, A.H., Craig, M.D., Douglas, T.K., Fitzsimons, J.A., McNee, S., Nicholls, A.O., O’Connor, J., Prober, S.M., Watson, D.M., Watson, S.J. & Yates, C.J. (2019) Multi-century periods since fire in an intact woodland landscape favour bird species declining in an adjacent agricultural region. Biological Conservation 230: 82-90.

  Gosper, C.R., Watson, S.J., Fox, E., Burbidge, A.H., Craig, M.D., Douglas, T.K., Fitzsimons, J.A., McNee, S., Nicholls, A.O., O’Connor, J., Prober, S.M., Watson, D.M. & Yates, C.J. (2019) Fire‐mediated habitat change regulates woodland bird species and functional group occurrence. Ecological Applications: 29: e01997

  Grenfell, M., Hartigan, M., Fitzsimons, J. & Kernaghan, S. (2019) Living Melbourne: A bold new green plan for Melbourne. Planning News 45 (6): 20-21.

  Hancock, B., Branigan, S. & Westby, S. (2019). Scaling up shellfish reef restoration. In: Restoration Guidelines for Shellfish Reefs (eds. J. Fitzsimons, S. Branigan, R.D. Brumbaugh, T. McDonald and P.S.E. zu Ermgassen), pp. 49-57. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington VA, USA.

  Hardy, M., Fitzsimons, J., Bekessy, S. & Gordon, A. (2019) Saving nature with revolving real estate. Australasian Science 40(3): 46.

  Fitzsimons, J., Branigan, S., Brumbaugh, R.D., McDonald, T. and zu Ermgassen, P.S.E. (eds) (2019) Restoration Guidelines for Shellfish Reefs. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington VA, USA.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2019) Observations of nectarivory in the Little Raven (Corvus mellori) and a review of nectarivory in other Corvus species. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 131: 383-386.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2019). Vertebrate prey handling in the Indian Grey Hornbill Ocyceros birostris (Aves: Bucerotiformes: Bucerotidae). Journal of Threatened Taxa 11: 14891–14894.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2019) Vertebrate predation by Jungle Myna Acridotheres fuscus mahrattensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 116: 108-109.

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Thomas, J.L. & Debus, S.J.S. (2019) Prey-caching in the Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides, and a review of caching in other Australian falcons. Australian Field Ornithology 36: 1-4.

  Fitzsimons, J., Thomas, J. & Tikoca, S. (2019). Lepododactylus lugubris (Mourning Gecko). Diet. Herpetological Review 50: 787.

  Heiner, M., Hinchley, D., Fitzsimons, J., Weisenberger, F., Bergmann, W., McMahon, T., Milgin, J., Nardea, L., Oakleaf, J., Parriman, D., Poelina, A., Watson, H., Watson, K. & Kiesecker, J. (2019) Moving from reactive to proactive development planning to conserve Indigenous community and biodiversity values. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 74: 1-13.

  Leo, K.L., Gillies, C.L., Fitzsimons, J.A., Hale, L.Z. & Beck, M.W. (2019) Coastal habitat squeeze: A review of adaptation solutions for saltmarsh, mangrove and beach habitats. Ocean and Coastal Management 175: 180-190.

  McLeod, I.M., zu Ermgassen, P.S.E., Gillies, C.L., Hancock, B. & Humphries, A. (2019). Can Bivalve Habitat Restoration Improve Degraded Estuaries? In: Coasts and Estuaries: The Future (eds. E. Wolanski, J.W. Day, M. Elliott, R. Ramachandran), pp. 427-442. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  Probets, C., Palmer, G. & Fitzsimons, J. (2019). Nectarivory in the Rockwarbler Origma solitaria. Australian Field Ornithology 36: 34-35.

  Schwartz, M.W., Belhabib, D., Biggs, D., Cook, C.N., Fitzsimons, J., Giordano, A.J., Glew, L., Gottlieb, S., Kattan, G., Knight, A.T., Lundquit, C.J., Lynam, A.J., Masuda, Y.J., Mwampamba, T.H., Nuno, A., Plumptre, A.J., Ray, J.C., Reddy, S.M., & Runge, M.C. (2019) A vision for documenting and sharing knowledge in conservation. Conservation Science and Practice 1: e1.

  Selinske, M.J., Howard, N., Fitzsimons, J.A., Hardy, M.J., Smillie, K., Forbes, J., Tymms, K. & Knight, A.T. (2019) Monitoring and evaluating the social and psychological dimensions that contribute to privately protected area program effectiveness. Biological Conservation 229: 170-178.

• 2018

  Ainsworth, G., Fitzsimons, J.A., Weston, M.A. & Garnett, S.T. (2018) The culture of bird conservation: Australian stakeholder values regarding iconic, flagship and rare birds. Biodiversity and Conservation 27: 345–363.

  Austin, J., Robinson, C.J., Fitzsimons, J.A., Sandford, M., Ens, E.J., Macdonald, J.M., Hockings, M., Hinchley, D.G., McDonald, F.B., Corrigan, C., Kennett, R., Hunter-Xenie, H. & Garnett, S.T. (2018) Integrated Measures of Indigenous Land and Sea Management Effectiveness: Challenges and Opportunities for Improved Conservation Partnerships in Australia. Conservation and Society 16: 372-384

  Clements, H.S., Selinske, M.J., Archibald, C.L., Cooke, B., Fitzsimons, J.A., Groce, J.E., Torabi, N. & Hardy, M.J. (2018) Fairness and transparency are required for the inclusion of privately protected areas in publicly accessible conservation databases. Land 7: 96.

  Ehmke, G. Fitzsimons J.A. & Garnett S.T. (2018) Standardising English names for Australian bird subspecies as a conservation tool. Bird Conservation International 28: 73-85.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Thomas, J.L. (2018) Diet and foraging strategies of the Jacky Lizard Amphibolurus muricatus. Australian Zoologist, 39: 440-442

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Wescott, G. (2018) Large-scale expansion of marine protected area networks: Lessons from Australia. Parks 24.2: 19-34.

  Gillies, G.L., McLeod, I. M., Alleway, H.K., Cook, P., Crawford, C., Creighton, C., Diggles, B., Ford, J., Hamer, P., Heller-Wagner, G., Lebrault, E., Le Port, A., Russell, K., Sheaves, M. & Warnock, B. (2018) Australian shellfish ecosystems: Past distribution, current status and future direction. PLOS ONE 13(2): e0190914.

  Hardy, M.J., Bekessy, S.A., Fitzsimons, J.A., Mata, L., Cook, C., Nankivell, A. & Gordon A. (2018) Protecting nature on private land using revolving funds: Assessing property suitability. Biological Conservation 220: 84-93.

  Hardy, M.J., Fitzsimons, J.A., Bekessy, S.A. & Gordon, A. (2018) Factors influencing property selection for conservation revolving funds. Conservation Biology 32: 276-286.

  Hardy, M., Bekessy, S., Fitzsimons, J., & Gordon, A. (2018) Revolving private land to conserve nature. Australasian Science 39(3): 46.

  Hardy, M.J., Fitzsimons, J.A., Bekessy, S.A. & Gordon A. (2018) Purchase, protect, resell, repeat: an effective process for conserving biodiversity on private land? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16: 336-344

  Iacona, G.W., Sutherland, W.J., Mappin, B., Adams, V., Armsworth, P.R., Coleshaw, T., Cook, C., Craigie, I., Dicks, L., Fitzsimons, J.A., McGowan, J., Plumptre, A., Polak, T., Pullin, A., Ringma, J., Rushworth, I., Santangeli, A., Stewart, A., Tulloch, A., Walsh, J. & Possingham, H.P. (2018) Standardized reporting of the costs of management interventions for biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology 32: 979-988

  Lipsett-Moore, G.J., Wolff, N.H. & Game, E.T. (2018) Emissions mitigation opportunities for savanna countries from early dry season fire management. Nature Communications, 9: 2247

  McLeod, I.M., Purandare, J., Gillies, C., Smith, A. & Burrows, D. (2018) Symposium report: Inaugural Australian Coastal Restoration Symposium. Ecological Management & Restoration 19: E1-E5.

  McLeod, I., Schmider, J., Creighton, C. &, Gillies, C. (2018). Seven pearls of wisdom: Advice from Traditional Owners to improve engagement of local Indigenous people in shellfish ecosystem restoration. Ecological Management & Restoration 19: 98-101.

  Mitchell, B.A., Stolton, S., Bezaury-Creel, J., Bingham, H.C., Cumming, T.L., Dudley, N., Fitzsimons, J.A., Malleret-King, D., Redford, K.H. & Solano, P. (2018). Guidelines for Privately Protected Areas. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 29. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

  Mitchell, B.A., Fitzsimons, J.A., Stevens, C.M.D., Wright, D.R. (2018). PPA or OECM? Differentiating between privately protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures on private land. Parks 24 (Special Issue): 49-60.

  Ortiz-Catedral, L., Nias, R., Fitzsimons, J., Vine, S. & Christian, M. (2018). Back from the brink – again: The decline and recovery of the Norfolk Island Green Parrot (Cyanoramphus cookii). In: Recovering Australian Threatened Species: A Book of Hope (Eds S. Garnett, P. Latch, D. Lindenmayer and J. Woinarski), pp. 105–114. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Ortiz*, J.C., Wolff*, N.H., Anthony, K.R.N., Devlin, M., Lewis, S. & Mumby, P.J. (2018). Impaired recovery of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative stress. Science Advances 4: eaar6127. (*co-lead authors)

  Prado, J.A., Puszka, H., Forman, A., Cooke, B. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2018). Trends and values of ‘Land for Wildlife’ programs for private land conservation. Ecological Management & Restoration 19: 136-146.

  Roelfsema, C., Kovacs, E., Ortiz, J.C., Wolff, N.H., Callaghan, D., Wettle, M., Ronan, M., Hamylton, S. M., Mumby, P.J. & Phinn, S. (2018) Coral reef habitat mapping: A combination of object-based image analysis and ecological modelling. Remote Sensing of Environment 208: 27–41.

  Sangha, K.K., Preece, L., Villarreal-Rosas, J., Kegamba, J.J., Paudyal, K., Warmenhoven, T., RamaKrishnan, P.S. (2018) An ecosystem services framework to evaluate indigenous and local peoples’ connections with nature. Ecosystem Services 31, Part A: 111–125.

  Wolff, N.H., Mumby, P.J., Devlin M. & Anthony, K.R.N. (2018) Vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change and local pressures. Global Change Biology 24: 1978-1991.

  Wolff, N.H., da Silva E.T., Devlin, M., Anthony, K.R.N., Lewis, S., Tonin, H., Brinkman, R. & Mumby, P.J. (2018) Contribution of individual rivers to Great Barrier Reef nitrogen exposure with implications for management prioritization. Marine Pollution Bulletin 133: 30–43.

• 2017

  Bingham, H., Fitzsimons, J.A., Redford, K.H., Mitchell, B.A., Bezaury-Creel, J., & Cumming, T.L. (2017) Privately Protected Areas: Advances and challenges in guidance, policy and documentation. Parks 23.1: 13-28.

  Calhoun, AJ.K., Mushet, D.M., Bell, K.P., Boix, D., Fitzsimons, J.A. & Isselin-Nondedeu, F. (2017) Temporary wetlands: challenges and solutions to conserving a ‘disappearing’ ecosystem. Biological Conservation 211: 3-11.

  Carr, B., Fitzsimons, J., Holland, N., Berkinshaw, T., Bradby, K., Cowell, S., Deegan, P., Koch, P., Looker, M.,Varcoe, T., Walsh, P. & Wiesenberger, F. (2017) CAPitalising on conservation knowledge: Using Conservation Action Planning, Healthy Country Planning and the Open Standards in Australia.  Ecological Management & Restoration 18: 176-189

  Chandler, M., See, L., Buesching, C.D., Cousins, J.A., Gillies, C., Kays, R.W., Newman, C., Pereira, H.M. & Tiago, P. (2017) Involving citizen scientists in biodiversity observation. In: The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks (Eds M. Walters & R.J. Scholes) pp. 211-237. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland.

  Duke, D.C., Kovacs, J.M., Griffiths, A.D., Preece, L., Hill, D.J.E., van Oosterzee, P., Mackenzie, J., Morning, H.S., & Burrows, D. (2017) Large-scale dieback of mangroves in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria: a severe ecosystem response, coincidental with an unusually extreme weather event. Marine and Freshwater Research 68: 1816-1829.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2017) Ecological notes on the Three-banded Parachute Gecko Ptychozoon trinotaterra in southern Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology 24: 327-328.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2017). Carrion consumption by the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor). Australian Mammalogy 39: 105-107.

  Fitzsimons, J. (2017) Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher Vauriella gularis tackles large prey. BirdingAsia 27: 47-48.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Michael, D.R. (2017) Rocky outcrops: A hard road in the conservation of critical habitats. Biological Conservation 211: 36-44.

  Gillies, C.L., Crawford, C., & Hancock, B. (2017). Restoring Angasi oyster reefs: What is the endpoint ecosystem we are aiming for and how do we get there? Ecological Management & Restoration 18: 214-222.

  Hardy, M. J., Fitzsimons, J. A., Bekessy, S. A. & Gordon, A. (2017), Exploring the permanence of conservation covenants. Conservation Letters, 10: 221–230.

  Hock K, Wolff N.H., Ortiz J.C., Condie, S.A., Anthony, K.R.N., Blackwell, P.G. & Mumby, P.J. (2017) Connectivity and systemic resilience of the Great Barrier Reef. PLOS Biology, 15:e2003355.

  Hunter. M.L., Acuña, V. Bauer, D.M., Bell, K.P., Calhoun, A.J.K., Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Fitzsimons, J.A., González, E., Kinnison, M., Lindenmayer, D., Lundquist, C.J., Medellin, R.A., Nelson, E.J., & Poschlod, P. (2017) Conserving small natural features with large ecological roles: a synthetic overview. Biological Conservation 211: 88-95.

  Morán-Ordóñez, A., Whitehead, A.L., Luck, G.W., Cook, G.D., Maggini, R., Fitzsimons, J.A. & Wintle, B.A. (2017) Analysis of trade-offs between biodiversity, carbon farming and agricultural development in Northern Australia reveals the benefits of strategic planning. Conservation Letters 10: 94-104.

  Skroblin, A., Carboon, T. and Martu (2017) Martu knowledge of mankarr (Greater Bilby): distribution, habitat, management.

  Wegscheidl, C.J., Sheaves, M., McLeod, I.M., Hedge, P.T., Gillies, C.L. & Creighton, C. (2017) Sustainable management of Australia’s coastal seascapes: a case for collecting and communicating quantitative evidence to inform decision-making. Wetlands Ecology and Management 25: 3-22.

• 2016

  Branigan, S. (2016). Case study: Restoring the lost shellfish reefs of Port Phillip Bay. Ecological Management & Restoration

  Carr, B., Nias, D., Fitzsimons, J. & Gilmore, R. (2016) The Murray-Darling Basin Balanced Water Fund and the Environmental Water Trust – using markets and innovative financing to restore wetlands and floodplains in the Murray-Darling Basin for financial, social and environmental outcomes. Proceedings of the 8th Australian Stream Management Conference, 31 July – 3 August 2016, Leura, New South Wales, pp. 269-272.

  Fitzsimons, J. & Thomas, J. (2016) Feeding behavior of an Asian Water Monitor Varanus salvator macromaculatus on a Bornean Bearded Pig Sus barbatus barbatus carcass.Biawak 10, 48-50

  Fitzsimons, J. & Wescott, G. (eds) (2016) Big, Bold and Blue: Lessons from Australia’s Marine Protected Areas. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J. & Wescott, G. (2016) Introduction: the expansion of Australia’s marine protected area networks. In: Big, Bold and Blue: Lessons from Australia’s Marine Protected Areas (eds J. Fitzsimons and G. Wescott), pp. 3-7. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J. & Wescott, G. (2016) Lessons from the expansion of Australia’s marine protected area networks: a synthesis. In: Big, Bold and Blue: Lessons from Australia’s Marine Protected Areas (eds J. Fitzsimons and G. Wescott), pp. 393-401. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Thomas, J.L. (2016) Bronchocela cristatella (Green Crested Lizard). Diet and foraging behavior. Herpetological Review 47: 462.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Thomas, J.L. (2016) Emoia cyanura (Brown-tailed Copper-striped Skink). Nocturnal foraging and foraging on buildings. Herpetological Review 47: 669.

  Hardy, M.J., Fitzsimons, J.A., Bekessy, S.A. & Gordon A. (2016) Exploring the permanence of conservation covenants. Conservation Letters. doi: 10.1111/conl.12243.

  Hardy, M., Fitzsimons, J., Bekessy, S. & Gordon, A. (2016) An agreement forever? Australasian Science 97(9), 48.

  Kusmanoff, A.M., Fidler, F., Hardy, M.J., Maffey, G., Raymond, C., Reed, M., Fitzsimons, J.A. & Bekessy, S. (2016) Framing the private land conservation conversation: Strategic framing of the benefits of conservation participation could increase landholder engagement. Environmental Science & Policy 61, 124–128.

  Rogers, K., Boon, P.I., Branigan, S., Duke, N.C., Field, C.D., Fitzsimons, J.A., Kirkman, H., Mackenzie, J.R. & Saintilan, N., (2016) The state of legislation and policy protecting Australia’s mangrove and salt marsh and their ecosystem services. Marine Policy 72, 139-155.

  Smith, F., Smillie, K., Fitzsimons, J., Lindsay, B., Wells, G., Marles, V., Hutchinson, J., O’Hara, B., Perrigo, T. & Atkinson, I. (2016) Reforms required to the Australian tax system to improve biodiversity conservation on private land. Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol 33, 443-450.

• 2015

  Álvarez-Romero, J.G., Adams, V.M., Pressey, R.L., Douglas, M., Dale, A.P., Augé, A.A., Ball, D., Childs, J., Digby, M., Dobbs, R., Gobius, N., Hinchley, D., Lancaster, I., Maughan, M., & Perdrisat, I. (2015) Integrated cross-realm planning: A decision-makers’ perspective. Biological Conservation 191, 799–808.

  Creighton, C., Gillies, C.L. & McLeod, I.M. (eds) (2015) Australia’s saltmarshes: a synopsis to underpin the repair and conservation of Australia’s environmental, social and economically important bays and estuaries. Centre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) Publication, James Cook University, Townsville, 63pp.

  Figgis, P., Mackey, B., Fitzsimons, J., Irving, J., Clarke, P. (eds) (2015) Valuing Nature: Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services. Australian Committee for IUCN, Sydney.

  Fitzsimons, J., Hale, L., Hancock, B. & Beck, M. (2015) Developing a marine conservation program in temperate Australia: determining priorities for action. Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs 7:85-93.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2015) Private protected areas in Australia: Current status and future directions. Nature Conservation 10, 1-23.

  Gillies, C., Fitzsimons, J.A., Branigan, S., Hale, L., Hancock, B. et al. (2015) Scaling-up marine restoration efforts in Australia. Ecological Management & Restoration: 16, 84-85.

  Gillies C.L., Creighton C. & McLeod I.M. (eds) (2015) Shellfish reef habitats: a synopsis to underpin the repair and conservation of Australia’s environmentally, socially and economically important bays and estuaries. Report to the National Environmental Science Programme, Marine Biodiversity Hub. Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) Publication, James Cook University, Townsville, 68 pp.

  Jupp, T., Fitzsimons, J.A., Carr, B. & See, P. (2015) New partnerships for managing large desert landscapes: experiences from the Martu Living Deserts Project. The Rangeland Journal, 37, 571–582.

  Jupp, T., See, P., & Martu rangers. (2015) Martu Living Deserts Project – partnering for conservation led by Indigenous people. Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Biennial Conference. (Australian Rangeland Society: Australia).

  Koss, R., Wescott, G., Fitzsimons, J., & Hale, L. (2015) ‘Bright spots’ for estuary management in temperate Southern Australia. Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs 7:94-107.

  Mackey, B., Figgis, P., Fitzsimons, J., Irving, J., Clarke, P. (2015) Introduction. In: Valuing Nature: Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services (eds Figgis, P., Mackey, B., Fitzsimons, J., Irving, J., Clarke, P.) pp. 4-5. Australian Committee for IUCN, Sydney.

  Mackey, B., Figgis, P., Fitzsimons, J., Irving, J., Clarke, P. (2015) Key directions for valuing ecosystem services and protected areas in Australia. In: Valuing Nature: Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services (eds Figgis, P., Mackey, B., Fitzsimons, J., Irving, J., Clarke, P.) pp 130-137. Australian Committee for IUCN, Sydney.

  Pecl, G., Gillies, C., Sbrocchi, C. & Roetman, P. (2015) Building Australia through citizen science. Occasional Paper Series, Office of the Chief Scientist of Australia, Issue 11, July 2015.

  Walton, N. & Fitzsimons, J. (2015) Payment for ecosystem services in practice – savanna burning and carbon abatement at Fish River, northern Australia. In: Valuing Nature: Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services (eds Figgis, P., Mackey, B., Fitzsimons, J., Irving, J., Clarke, P.), pp. 78-83. Australian Committee for IUCN, Sydney.

• 2014

  Bradby, K., Fitzsimons, J.A., Del Marco, A., Driscoll, D.A., Ritchie, E.G., Lau, J., Bradshaw, C.J.A. & Hobbs, R.J. (2014) Ecological connectivity or Barrier Fence? Critical choices on the agricultural margins of Western Australia. Ecological Management and Restoration 15:180-190.

  Fitzsimons, J. (2014) Australia. In: The Futures of Privately Protected Areas (eds Sue Stolton, Kent H Redford, Nigel Dudley). pp. 54-58. IUCN, Gland.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Carr, C.B. (2014) Conservation covenants on private land: Issues with measuring and achieving biodiversity outcomes in Australia. Environmental Management, 54, 606-616.

  Fitzsimons, J., Heiner, M., McKenney, B., Sochi, K. & Kiesecker, J. (2014) Development by Design in Western Australia: Overcoming offset obstacles. Land 3, 167-187.

  Tasirin, J.S. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2014) Javan (White-vented) Myna (Acridotheres javanicus) and Pale-bellied Myna (A. cinereus) in North Sulawesi. Kukila 18, 27-31.

  Taylor, M.F.J., Fitzsimons, J. & Sattler, P. (2014) Building Nature’s Safety Net 2014: A decade of protected area achievements in Australia. WWF-Australia, Sydney.

  Weston, M.A, Fitzsimons, J.A., Wescott, G., Miller, K.K., Ekanayake, K.B. & Schneider, T. (2014) Bark in the park: A review of domestic dogs in parks. Environmental Management 54, 373–382.

• 2013

  Crosthwaite, J., Fitzsimons, J.A., Stanley, J. & Greacen, J. (2013) ‘Networking the networks’: coordinating Conservation Management Networks in Victoria. In: Linking Australia’s Landscapes: Lessons and Opportunities from Large-scale Conservation Networks. (eds Fitzsimons, J.A., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G.) pp. 209-220. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G. (eds) (2013) Linking Australia’s Landscapes: Lessons and Opportunities for Large-scale Conservation Networks. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G. (2013) Linking Australia’s landscapes: an introduction. In: Linking Australia’s Landscapes: Lessons and Opportunities from Large-scale Conservation Networks. (eds Fitzsimons, J., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G.) pp. 3-6. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G. (2013) Challenges and opportunities for linking Australia’s landscapes: a synthesis. In: Linking Australia’s Landscapes: Lessons and Opportunities from Large-scale Conservation Networks. (edsFitzsimons, J., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G.) pp. 287-296. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G. (2013) Lessons from large-scale conservation networks in Australia. Parks 19.1, 115-125.

  Fitzsimons, J. & Wescott, G. (2013) The importance of interdisciplinary research in conservation networks: lessons from south-eastern Australia. In: Linking Australia’s Landscapes: Lessons and Opportunities from Large-scale Conservation Networks. (eds Fitzsimons, J., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G.). pp. 277-284. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Game, E. T., Fitzsimons, J.A., Lipsett-Moore, G. & McDonald-Madden, E. (2013) Subjective risk assessment for planning conservation projects. Environmental Research Letters 8:45027-45038.

  Mackenzie, D. & Fitzsimons, J. (2013) From Danggali to Riverland: experiences from the Bookmark Biosphere Reserve, South Australia. In: Linking Australia’s Landscapes: Lessons and Opportunities from Large-scale Conservation Networks. (eds Fitzsimons, J., Pulsford, I. & Wescott, G.). pp. 65-74. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

• 2012

  Elsner, W.K., Mitchell, A.T. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2012) Distribution of the long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) and spot-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) in the Goolengook Forest, East Gippsland, Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 34, 100-107.

  Figgis, P., Fitzsimons, J. & Irving, J. (eds) (2012) Innovation for 21st Century Conservation. Australian Committee for IUCN, Sydney.

  Fitzsimons, J. (2012) Cows, cockies and atlases: use and abuse of biodiversity monitoring in environmental decision making. In: Biodiversity Monitoring in Australia (eds D.B. Lindenmayer & P. Gibbons). pp. 91–99. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2012) Green Rosellas (Platycercus caledonicus) nesting in artificial structures. Australian Field Ornithology 29, 50-53.

  Fitzsimons, J. & Looker, M. (2012) Innovative approaches to land acquisition and conservation management: the case of Fish River Station, Northern Territory. In: Innovation for 21st Century Conservation (eds Figgis, P., Fitzsimons, J. & Irving, J.). pp. 78-85. Australian Committee for IUCN, Sydney.

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Meijaard, E., Hunow, I., Prawiradilaga, D., Thomas. J.L. & Tasirin, J.S. (2012) Diet of the Speckled Boobook (Ninox punctulata) in north Sulawesi, Indonesia. Forktail 28, 169-171.

  Fitzsimons, J., Russell-Smith, J., James, G., Vigilante, T., Lipsett-Moore, G., Morrison, J. & Looker, M. (2012) Insights into the biodiversity and social benchmarking components of the Northern Australian fire management and carbon abatement programmes. Ecological Management & Restoration 13, 51-57.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Thomas, J.L. (2012) Ground-foraging techniques of Welcome Swallows (Hirundo neoxena), including an instance of kleptoparasitism. Australian Field Ornithology 29, 160–165.

  Halliday, L. Castley, J.G., Fitzsimons, J.A., Tran, C. & Warnken, J. (2012) Fire management on private conservation lands: Knowledge, perceptions and actions of landholders in eastern Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire 21, 197-209.

  Lindenmayer, D.B, Gibbons, P., Bourke, M., Burgman, M., Dickman, C., Ferrier, S., Fitzsimons, J., Freudenberger, D., Garnett, S.T., Groves, C., Hobbs, R.J., Kingsford, R.T., Krebs, C., Legge, S., Lowe, A.J., McLean, R., Montambault, J., Possingham, H., Radford, J., Robinson, D., Smallbone, L., Thomas, D., Varcoe, T., Vardon, M., Wardle, G., Woinarski, J. & Zerger, A. (2012) Improving biodiversity monitoring. Austral Ecology 37, 285–294.

• 2011

  Aldous, A., Fitzsimons, J., Richter, B. & Bach, L. (2011) Droughts, floods and freshwater ecosystems: Evaluating climate change impacts and developing adaptation strategies. Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 223-231.

  Argeloo, M. & Fitzsimons, J. (2011) Predation of a small passerine by the Purple-winged Roller (Coracias temminckii), an endemic species of Sulawesi. Kukila 15, 115-117.

  Coffey, B., Fitzsimons, J.A. & Gormly, R. (2011) Strategic public land use assessment and planning in Victoria, Australia: Four decades of trailblazing but where to from here? Land Use Policy 28, 306-313.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2011) Mislabeling marine protected areas and why it matters – a case study of Australia. Conservation Letters 4, 340-345.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2011) Predation on a Blotched Bluetongue Lizard (Tiliqua nigroletea) by a Highlands Copperhead (Austrelaps ramsayi) in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Herpetology Notes 4, 259-260.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2011) Southward range expansion of the Mourning Gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris) on mainland Australia and nearshore islands. Australian Zoologist 35, 619-621.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Antos, M.J. (2011) Ecological notes on the East Gippsland Burrowing Crayfish (Engaeus orientalis), including burrow structure and associated fauna. Australian Zoologist 35, 853-857.

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Antos, M.J. & Palmer, G.C. (2011) When more is less: Urban remnants support high bird abundance but diversity varies. Pacific Conservation Biology 17, 97–109.

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Peake, P., Frood, D., Mitchell, M., Withers, N., White, M. and Webster, R. (2011) Flooding requirements for biodiversity values along the Victorian floodplain of the Murray Valley. Victorian Naturalist 128, 48-85.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Thomas, J.L. (2011) Fiji’s collared kingfishers (Todiramphus chloris vitensis) do hunt for fish in inland waters. Notornis 58, 163-164.

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Thomas, J.L. & Argeloo, M. (2011) Occurrence and distribution of established and new introduced bird species in north Sulawesi, Indonesia. Forktail 27, 23-28.

  Game E.T., Lipsett-Moore, G., Saxon, E., Peterson, N. & Sheppard, S. (2011) Incorporating climate change adaptation into national conservation assessments. Global Change Biology 17:3150–3160.

  Game, E.T., Lipsett-Moore, G., Hamilton, R., Peterson, N., Kereseka, J., Atu, W., Watts, M. & Possingham, H. P. (2011) Informed opportunism for conservation planning in the Solomon Islands. Conservation Letters 4:38-46.

  Pasquini, L., Fitzsimons, J.A., Cowell, S., Brandon, K. & Wescott, G. (2011) The establishment of large private nature reserves by conservation NGOs: key factors for successful implementation. Oryx 45, 373–380.

  Peake, P., Fitzsimons, J., Frood, D., Mitchell, M., Withers, N, White, M. & Webster, R. (2011) A new approach to determining environmental flow requirements: Sustaining the natural values of floodplains of the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Ecological Management & Restoration 12, 128-137.

  Taylor, M.F.J., Sattler, P.S., Fitzsimons, J., Curnow, C., Beaver, D., Gibson, L., Llewellyn, G. (2011) Building Nature’s Safety Net 2011. The state of protected areas for Australia’s ecosystems and wildlife. WWF-Australia, Sydney.

  Wescott, G. & Fitzsimons, J. (2011) Stakeholder involvement and interplay in coastal zone management and marine protected area planning. In: Marine Resources Management (eds Gullett, W., Schofield, C. & Vince, J.). pp. 225-238. LexisNexis Butterworths, Sydney.

  Woinarski, J.C.Z., Legge, S., Fitzsimons, J.A., Traill, B.J., Burbidge, A.A., Fisher, A., Firth, R.S.C., Gordon, I.J., Griffiths, A.D., Johnson, C., McKenzie, N.L., Palmer, C., Radford, I., Rankmore, B., Ritchie, E., Ward, S. & Ziembicki, M. (2011) The disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia: context, cause and response. Conservation Letters 4, 192-201.

• 2010

  Fitzsimons, J.A. (2010) Notes on the roost sites of the Sulawesi Masked Owl (Tyto rosenbergii). Forktail 26, 142-145.

  Fitzsimons, J., Legge, S., Traill, B. &Woinarski, J. (2010) Into Oblivion? The disappearing native mammals of northern Australia. The Nature Conservancy, Melbourne.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Rose, A.B. (2010) Diet of Powerful Owls (Ninox strenua) in inner city Melbourne parks, Victoria. Australian Field Ornithology 27, 76-80.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Thomas, J.L. (2010). Ctenotus regius (Regal Striped Skink) Predation. Herpetological Review 41, 76-77.

• 2009

  Antos, M.J., Fitzsimons, J.A. & Dutson, G. (2009) A high altitude observation of the Beautiful Firetail (Stagonopleura bella) from East Gippsland, Victoria. Corella 33, 18-21.

  White, J.G., Fitzsimons, J.A., Palmer, G.C. & Antos, M.J. (2009) Surviving urbanization: Maintaining bird species diversity in urban Melbourne. Victorian Naturalist 126, 73-78.

• 2008

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Marshall, D. & Rose A.B. (2008) Diet of the Eastern Barn Owl (Tyto javanica) on the Patho Plains, northern Victoria. Australian Field Ornithology 25, 145-148.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Rose, A.B. (2008) Notes on the diet of the northern Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli) in north Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52, 148.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Wescott, G. (2008) Ecosystem conservation in multi-tenure reserve networks: The contribution of land outside of publicly protected areas. Pacific Conservation Biology 14, 250–262.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Wescott, G. (2008) Getting the measure of marine protected areas: Surface area or volume as measures for reserve system auditing? Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 18, 518-526.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Wescott, G. (2008) Evolving governance arrangements in multi-tenure reserve networks. Environmental Conservation 35, 5-7.

  Fitzsimons, J.A. & Wescott, G. (2008) The role of multi-tenure reserve networks in improving reserve design and connectivity. Landscape and Urban Planning 85, 163-173.

  Fitzsimons, J.A., Williams, C., Walsh, V., Fitzsimons, P. & U’Ren, G. (2008) Ecological attributes of strategic land acquisitions for addition to Victoria’s public protected area estate (2006-2007). Victorian Naturalist 125, 140-149.

  Mansergh, I., Cheal, D. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2008) Future landscapes in south-eastern Australia: the role of protected areas and biolinks in adaptation to climate change. Biodiversity 9 (3-4), 59-70.

  Marshall, D. & Fitzsimons, J.A. (2008) Challenges for native grassland conservation on Victoria’s Northern Plains. Australasian Plant Conservation 16(4), 24-25.

  Palmer, G.C., Fitzsimons, J.A., Antos, M.J. & White, J.G. (2008) Determinants of native avian richness in suburban remnant vegetation: Implications for conservation planning. Biological Conservation 141, 2329-2341.