Ralph Charles Mac Nally

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used models of remotely sensed estimates of forest-stand condition (degree of die-back) with models of avian responses to stand condition to determine how the avifauna responded to a 13-year drought, and how the birds might respond to a predicted much warmer and drier climate in the next 60 years.

TL;DR: David A. Keith, Jose R. Ferrer, Emily Nicholson, Melanie J. Tozer, Jeanne L. Nel, Ralph Mac Nally, Edward J. Gregr, Kate E. Watermeyer, Franz Essl, Don Faber-Langendoen, Janet Franklin, Caroline E. Lehmann, Andres Etter, Dirk J. Roux, Jonathan S. Stark, Jessica A. Polidoro, Eva Ramirez

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether floodplain ecosystems allow terrestrial bird species to extend into more arid regions than they otherwise would be expected to occupy and evaluated associations between aridity and the occurrence of 130 species using bird survey data from 2998 sites along the two major river corridors in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia.

TL;DR: Genetic algorithms and a Bayesian approach are used to compare the influence of presence/absence data and reporting rate data on models of species richness based on indicator species and identified suites of species whose occurrence patterns explained as much as 70% of deviance in species richness of a different taxonomic group.

TL;DR: Mac Nally et al. as discussed by the authors found that the brown treecreeper Climacteris picumnus responds strongly to a meso-scale manipulation of fallen-timber loads in river red gum Eucalyptus camaldulensis forest in northern Victoria, Australia.