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Ben C. Scheele
Researcher at Australian National University
Publications - 78
Citations - 2737
Ben C. Scheele is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Threatened species & Chytridiomycosis. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 59 publications receiving 1762 citations. Previous affiliations of Ben C. Scheele include James Cook University & Office of Environment and Heritage.
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Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity
Ben C. Scheele,Ben C. Scheele,Frank Pasmans,Lee F. Skerratt,Lee Berger,An Martel,Wouter Beukema,Aldemar A. Acevedo,Aldemar A. Acevedo,Patricia A. Burrowes,Tamilie Carvalho,Alessandro Catenazzi,Ignacio De la Riva,Matthew C. Fisher,Sandra V. Flechas,Sandra V. Flechas,Claire N. Foster,Patricia Frías-Alvarez,Trenton W. J. Garner,Trenton W. J. Garner,Brian Gratwicke,Juan M. Guayasamin,Juan M. Guayasamin,Mareike Hirschfeld,Jonathan E. Kolby,Tiffany A. Kosch,Tiffany A. Kosch,Enrique La Marca,David B. Lindenmayer,Karen R. Lips,Ana V. Longo,Raúl Maneyro,Cait A. McDonald,Joseph R. Mendelson,Pablo Palacios-Rodríguez,Gabriela Parra-Olea,Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki,Mark-Oliver Rödel,Sean M. Rovito,Claudio Soto-Azat,Luís Felipe Toledo,Jamie Voyles,Ché Weldon,Steven M. Whitfield,Steven M. Whitfield,Mark Wilkinson,Kelly R. Zamudio,Stefano Canessa +47 more
TL;DR: A global, quantitative assessment of the amphibian chytridiomycosis panzootic demonstrates its role in the decline of at least 501 amphibian species over the past half-century and represents the greatest recorded loss of biodiversity attributable to a disease.
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Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat
Michelle Ward,Ayesha I. T. Tulloch,Ayesha I. T. Tulloch,James Q. Radford,Brooke Williams,April E. Reside,Stewart L. Macdonald,Helen Mayfield,Martine Maron,Hugh P. Possingham,Hugh P. Possingham,Samantha J. Vine,James O'Connor,Emily Massingham,Aaron C. Greenville,John C. Z. Woinarski,Stephen T. Garnett,Mark Lintermans,Ben C. Scheele,Josie Carwardine,Dale G. Nimmo,David B. Lindenmayer,Robert M. Kooyman,Jeremy S. Simmonds,Laura J. Sonter,James E. M. Watson,James E. M. Watson +26 more
TL;DR: An assessment of the habitat of native vertebrate species burnt by the 2019–2020 Australian mega-fires shows that 70 taxa were severely affected, and 21 of these were already listed as threatened with extinction.
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Interventions for Reducing Extinction Risk in Chytridiomycosis-Threatened Amphibians
Ben C. Scheele,Ben C. Scheele,David J. Hunter,Laura F. Grogan,Lee Berger,Jon E. Kolby,Jon E. Kolby,Michael McFadden,Gerry Marantelli,Lee F. Skerratt,Don A. Driscoll +10 more
TL;DR: A conceptual framework with clear interventions to guide experimental management and applied research is developed so that further extinctions of amphibian species threatened by chytridiomycosis might be prevented and promising management actions that can be implemented and tested based on current knowledge are proposed.
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The trajectory of dispersal research in conservation biology. Systematic review
Don A. Driscoll,Sam C. Banks,Philip S. Barton,Karen Ikin,Pia E. Lentini,David B. Lindenmayer,Annabel L. Smith,Laurence E. Berry,Emma Burns,Amanda B. Edworthy,Maldwyn J. Evans,Rebecca K Gibson,Robert Heinsohn,Brett W. A. Howland,Geoff Kay,Nicola Munro,Ben C. Scheele,Ingrid A. Stirnemann,Dejan Stojanovic,Nici Sweaney,Nélida R. Villaseñor,Martin J. Westgate +21 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of 655 conservation-related publications compared five topics: climate change, habitat restoration, population viability analysis, land planning (systematic conservation planning) and invasive species, finding that the quality of dispersal data used in climate change research has increased since the 1990s.
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Niche Contractions in Declining Species: Mechanisms and Consequences
TL;DR: The 'niche reduction hypothesis' is argued that threats often reduce the realized niche breadth of declining species because environmental, biotic, and evolutionary processes reduce or amplify threats, or because a species' capacity to tolerate threats varies across niche space.