xxvi Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities
Parks Victoria
Parks Victoria is a statutory authority responsible for managing Victoria’s parks
and reserves system. We are committed to delivering on-ground management to
protect and enhance the natural and cultural values of the State’s diverse park
network, which spans more than 4 million hectares. We manage parks in the
context of their surrounding landscape and in partnership with Traditional
Owners, other government and non-government organisations and community
groups to ensure parks are healthy and resilient for current and future generations.
Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group, University of Melbourne
Researchers in the Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group work across a wide
spectrum of taxa and environments. Our research foci include environmental
decision making, ecosystem management, and conservation biology, underpinned
by a collective background in community and population ecology, mathematics
and statistics, and ecophysiology.
Queensland Wader Study Group
The Queensland Wader Study Group was formed in 1992 as a special interest
group within Birds Queensland to monitor wader (shorebird) populations in
Queensland and to work towards their conservation through surveys, ongoing
monthly population monitoring and high tide roost mapping for local, state and
national governments, NGOs and researchers.
Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin
University
Research on threatened species and communities, in Australia and globally, are a
key element of the multidisciplinary portfolio of work undertaken by the Research
Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University, with
many projects spanning both the biophysical and social aspects of conservation
biology.