Dr Martine Maron

Dr Martine Maron
Dr Martine Maron

Position

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management

Contact

Room: 35-531
Phone: 336-53836
E-mail: m.maron@uq.edu.au
Google Scholar Site 

Qualifications

  • PhD (Monash)
  • BSc (Honours) (Monash)
  • Grad. Cert. Tertiary Teaching & Learning (USQ)

Professional Associations

  • Assistant Director, BirdLife Australia
  • Chair, BirdLife Australia Research and Conservation Committee
  • Co-Chair, South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team
  • BirdLife Australia Student Awards Committee
  • Australasian Ornithological Congress Advisory Committee
  • Birds Queensland Research Committee
  • Ecological Society of Australia

Background

I am a landscape and conservation ecologist with a particular interest in conservation of biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes. My research group works on the challenge of achieving effective biodiversity conservation and management in agricultural, pastoral and forest systems. I also work on conservation policy including biodiversity offset and land stewardship policy. My group’s research focuses mainly on fauna, particularly birds and other vertebrates, and we have current field-based projects in Victoria, southern and central Queensland, and West Africa.

I am a Director of BirdLife Australia, and Chair of the BirdLife Australia Research and Conservation Committee and the south-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Team. I work with a broad network of collaborators including those from government and non-government organisations to help achieve effective uptake of research outcomes into policy and environmental management. I have a particular interest in understanding the mechanisms which drive species loss from fragmented or degraded landscapes.

Research interests

  • Landscape ecology and habitat restoration
  • Biodiversity management in human-dominated landscapes
  • Conservation outcomes from environmental policy and legislation
  • Ecological mechanisms behind spatial pattern in biodiversity
  • Habitat fragmentation
  • Decision support tools for targeting investment in natural resource management
  • Agricultural intensification, habitat change and land stewardship

Selected publications

Mac Nally, R., Bowen, M., Howes, A., McAlpine, C. Maron, M., in press. Despotic, high-impact species and the sub-continental scale control of avian assemblage structure. Ecology (Accepted  2 Sept 2011)

Levin, N., Legge, S., Price, B. Bowen, M., Litvack, E., Maron, M. and McAlpine, C. In press. MODIS time series as a tool for monitoring savanna bird diversity. International Journal of Wildland Fire (Accepted 11 Jan 2012)

Maron, M, Bowen, M., Fuller, R A, Smith, G C, Eyre, T, Mathieson, M., Watson, J E M & McAlpine, C A. 2012. Spurious relationships and the relationship between species richness and vegetation cover. Global Ecology and Biogeography (online early view)

Ellis, R., McWhorter, T., Maron, M., 2012. Landscape ecology and conservation physiology: a review. Landscape Ecology 27:1-12Burbidge, A., Maron, M., Baker, J., Clarke, M., Oliver, D. and Ford, G. 2011. Linking science and practice in ecological research and management: how can we do it better? Ecological Management and Restoration 12:54-60

Maron, M., Main, A., Bowen, M., Howes, A. L., Kath, J., Pillette, C.and McAlpine, C. A. 2011. Relative influence of habitat modification and interspecific competition on woodland bird assemblages in eastern Australia. Emu: Austral Ornithology 111: 40-51

McAlpine, C. A., Seabrook, L., Rhodes, J. R., Maron M. et al. 2010. Can a problem-solving approach strengthen landscape ecology’s contribution to sustainable landscape planning? Landscape Ecology 25: 1155-1168
 
Howes, A. H., Maron, M. and McAlpine, C. A. 2010. Bayesian networks and adaptive management of wildlife habitat: a case study of woodland birds in sub-tropical Australia. Conservation Biology 24, 974–983.
 
Maron, M. 2010. Retaining and restoring wildlife values of woodlands. Pp. 241-247 in:  Temperate Woodland Conservation Management, edited by David Lindenmayer, Andrew Bennett and Richard Hobbs, CSIRO Publishing 
 
Maron, M., Dunn, P. K., McAlpine, C. A. and Apan, A. 2010. Can habitat offsets really compensate for habitat loss? The case of the red-tailed black-cockatoo. Journal of Applied Ecology 47, 348–355
 
Howes, A. L. and Maron, M. 2009. Noisy miners and conservation management of continuous subtropical woodlands. Wildlife Research 36:617–626
 
Attwood, S. J., Park, S. E., Maron, M., Collard, S. J., Robinson, D., Reardon-Smith, K. M. and Cockfield, G. 2009. Declining birds in Australian agricultural landscapes may benefit from aspects of the European agri-environment model. Biological Conservation 142:1981–1991
 
Eyre, T. J., Maron, M., Mathieson, M. T. and Haseler, M. 2009. Impacts of grazing, selective logging and hyper-aggressors on diurnal bird fauna in intact forest landscapes of the Brigalow Belt, Queensland. Austral Ecology 34:705–716
 
Kath, J., Maron, M. and Dunn, P. K. 2009. Interspecific competition and small bird diversity in an urbanizing landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning 92:72–79
 
Maron, M. 2009. Nesting, foraging and aggression of noisy miners relative to road edges in an extensive Queensland forest. Emu 109:75–81
 
 
Maron, M. and Cockfield, G. 2008. Tradeoffs in landscape restoration projects. Ecological Applications 18:2041–2049.
 
Attwood, S. Maron, M., House, A. and Zammit, C. 2008. Arthropod responses to agricultural intensification: a global meta-analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17:585–599
 
Maron, M. 2008. Size isn’t everything: the importance of small remnants to bird conservation in Australia. Australian Field Ornithology 25:53–58
 
Maron, M. 2007. Threshold effect of eucalypt density on an aggressive avian competitor. Biological Conservation 136: 100-107.
 
Maron, M. and S. Kennedy 2007. Roads, fire and aggressive competitors: Determinants of bird distribution in subtropical production forests. Forest Ecology & Management 240: 24-31.
 
Maron, M. and J. A. Fitzsimons 2007. Agricultural intensification and loss of matrix habitat over 23 years in the West Wimmera, south-eastern Australia. Biological Conservation 135: 603-609.
 
Maron, M. and A. Lill 2006. Intraspecific variation in detection of bird-habitat relationships: declining birds in southern Australian woodlands. Pacific Conservation Biology 12(4): 301-312.
 
Maron, M. 2005. Agricultural change and paddock tree loss: implications for an endangered subspecies of Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. Ecological Management & Restoration 6(3): 207–212.
 
Maron, M. and A. Lill. 2005. The influence of livestock grazing and weed invasion on habitat use by birds in grassy woodland remnants. Biological Conservation 124: 439–450.
 
Maron, M., A. Lill, D. M. Watson and R. Mac Nally. 2005. Temporal variation in bird assemblages: how representative is a one-year snapshot? Austral Ecology 30: 383–394.
 
Maron, M., R. Mac Nally, D. M. Watson and A. Lill. 2004. Can the biotic nestedness matrix be used predictively? Oikos 106: 433–444.
 
Maron, M. and A. Lill 2004. Discrimination among potential buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii) feeding trees by the endangered south-eastern red-tailed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne). Wildlife Research 31: 311–317.
 

Funded projects

  • Early-warning signs of extinctions in fragmented landscapes (UQ Early Career)
  • Restoration of Fragmented Brigalow Landscapes for Conservation: Evaluating Alternative Futures in a Changing Climate’ (ARC Linkage Projects)
  • Maximising woodland bird diversity in Brigalow Belt forests (Land and Water Australia)
  • Delivering wildlife habitat management decision support in the brigalow belt (Caring for our Country)

Research staff and students

Principal supervision of PhD candidates

Associate supervision of PhD candidates

 

Teaching responsibilities

Coordinator
  • ENVM2100 Sustainable Development 1
  • ENVM 7100 Foundations of Sustainable Development

  Contributor

  • ENVM3101: Sustainable Development Field Trip
  • GEOS3105/7205: Climate Change and Environmental Management
  • CONS6017/3017: Landscape Ecology
  • PLAN1003: Local Planning, Landscape and Heritage
  • ENVM3203/7206: Tools for Environmental Assessment

 

 

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