By Dr Mitchell Lyons

Book Chapters

Kendrick G; Hovey R; Lyons M; Roelfsema C; Ruiz Montoya L; Phinn S, 2018, 'Australian Seagrass Seascapes: Present Understanding and Future Research Directions', in Seagrasses of Australia Structure, Ecology and Conservation, Springer, pp. 257 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71354-0

Kendrick GA; Hovey RK; Lyons M; Roelfsema C; Montoya LR; Phinn S, 2018, 'Australian seagrass seascapes: Present understanding and future research directions', in Larkum AWD; Kendrick GA; Ralph PJ (ed.), Seagrasses of Australia: Structure, Ecology and Conservation, Springer, pp. 257 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71354-0_9

Phinn S; Roelfsema C; Kovacs E; Canto R; Lyons M; Saunders M; Maxwell P, 2018, 'Mapping, monitoring and modelling seagrass using remote sensing techniques', in Seagrasses of Australia Structure, Ecology and Conservation, Springer, pp. 445 - 487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71354-0

Phinn S; Roelfsema C; Kovacs E; Canto R; Lyons M; Saunders M; Maxwell P, 2018, 'Mapping, monitoring and modelling seagrass using remote sensing techniques', in Larkum AWD; Kendrick GA; Ralph PJ (ed.), Seagrasses of Australia: Structure, Ecology and Conservation, Springer, pp. 445 - 487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71354-0_15

Lyons M; Lucas R, 2018, 'Remote sensing of wetland types: Sea grasses', in The Wetland Book: I: Structure and Function, Management, and Methods, pp. 1659 - 1663, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_313

Journal articles

Cresswell AK; Haller-Bull V; Gonzalez-Rivero M; Gilmour JP; Bozec YM; Barneche DR; Robson B; Anthony KRN; Doropoulos C; Roelfsema C; Lyons M; Mumby PJ; Condie S; Lago V; Ortiz JC, 2024, 'Capturing fine-scale coral dynamics with a metacommunity modelling framework', Scientific Reports, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73464-y

Lyons MB; Murray NJ; Kennedy EV; Kovacs EM; Castro-Sanguino C; Phinn SR; Acevedo RB; Alvarez AO; Say C; Tudman P; Markey K; Roe M; Canto RF; Fox HE; Bambic B; Lieb Z; Asner GP; Martin PM; Knapp DE; Li J; Skone M; Goldenberg E; Larsen K; Roelfsema CM, 2024, 'New global area estimates for coral reefs from high-resolution mapping', Cell Reports Sustainability, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100015

Le Breton T; Lyons M; Ignacio B; Auld TD; Ooi M, 2024, 'Conceptual model for assessing a science–policy–management framework for threat mitigation', Conservation Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14413

Le Breton T; Schweickle L; Dunne C; Lyons M; Ooi M, 2023, 'Fire frequency and severity mediate recruitment response of a threatened shrub following severe megafire', Fire Ecology, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00217-z

Aravena RA; Lyons MB; Keith DA, 2023, 'High Resolution Forest Masking for Seasonal Monitoring with a Regionalized and Colourimetrically Assisted Chorologic Typology', Remote Sensing, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15143457

Aravena RA; Lyons MB; Keith DA, 2023, 'Holistic Reduction to Compare and Create New Indices for Global Inter-Seasonal Monitoring: Case Study for High Resolution Surface Water Mapping', Remote Sensing, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15082063

Budd AM; Schils T; Cooper MK; Lyons MB; Mills MS; Deinhart ME; Le Port A; Huerlimann R; Strugnell JM, 2023, 'Monitoring threatened species with environmental DNA and open ecological data: Local distribution and habitat preferences of scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini)', Biological Conservation, 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109881

Murray NJ; Phinn SP; Fuller RA; DeWitt M; Ferrari R; Johnston R; Clinton N; Lyons MB, 2022, 'High-resolution global maps of tidal flat ecosystems from 1984 to 2019', Scientific Data, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01635-5

Murray NJ; Bunting P; Canto RF; Hilarides L; Kennedy EV; Lucas RM; Lyons MB; Navarro A; Roelfsema CM; Rosenqvist A; Spalding MD; Toor M; Worthington TA, 2022, 'coastTrain: A Global Reference Library for Coastal Ecosystems', Remote Sensing, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14225766

Collette JC; Sommerville KD; Lyons MB; Offord CA; Errington G; Newby ZJ; Von Richter L; Emery NJ, 2022, 'Stepping up to the thermogradient plate: A data framework for predicting seed germination under climate change', Annals of Botany, 129, pp. 787 - 794, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac026

Le Breton TD; Lyons MB; Nolan RH; Penman T; Williamson GJ; Ooi MKJ, 2022, 'Megafire-induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20, pp. 327 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2482

Murray NJ; Worthington TA; Bunting P; Duce S; Hagger V; Lovelock CE; Lucas R; Saunders MI; Sheaves M; Spalding M; Waltham NJ; Lyons MB, 2022, 'High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands', Science, 376, pp. 744 - 749, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abm9583

Callaghan CT; Bowler DE; Blowes SA; Chase JM; Lyons MB; Pereira HM, 2022, 'Quantifying effort needed to estimate species diversity from citizen science data', Ecosphere, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3966

McMahon K; Kilminster K; Canto R; Roelfsema C; Lyons M; Kendrick GA; Waycott M; Udy J, 2022, 'The Risk of Multiple Anthropogenic and Climate Change Threats Must Be Considered for Continental Scale Conservation and Management of Seagrass Habitat', Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.837259

Kovacs EM; Roelfsema C; Udy J; Baltais S; Lyons M; Phinn S, 2022, 'Cloud Processing for Simultaneous Mapping of Seagrass Meadows in Optically Complex and Varied Water', Remote Sensing, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14030609

Kennedy EV; Roelfsema CM; Lyons MB; Kovacs EM; Borrego-Acevedo R; Roe M; Phinn SR; Larsen K; Murray NJ; Yuwono D; Wolff J; Tudman P, 2021, 'Author Correction: Reef Cover, a coral reef classification for global habitat mapping from remote sensing (Scientific Data, (2021), 8, 1, (196), 10.1038/s41597-021-00958-z)', Scientific Data, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01011-9

Kennedy EV; Roelfsema CM; Lyons MB; Kovacs EM; Borrego-Acevedo R; Roe M; Phinn SR; Larsen K; Murray NJ; Yuwono D; Wolff J; Tudman P, 2021, 'Reef Cover, a coral reef classification for global habitat mapping from remote sensing', Scientific Data, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00958-z

Roelfsema CM; Lyons MB; Castro-Sanguino C; Kovacs EM; Callaghan D; Wettle M; Markey K; Borrego-Acevedo R; Tudman P; Roe M; Kennedy EV; Gonzalez-Rivero M; Murray N; Phinn SR, 2021, 'How much shallow coral habitat is there on the great barrier reef?', Remote Sensing, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13214343

Baxter C; Mallen-Cooper M; Lyons MB; Cornwell WK, 2021, 'Measuring reflectance of tiny organisms: The promise of species level biocrust remote sensing', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, pp. 2174 - 2183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13690

Cunliffe AM; Anderson K; Boschetti F; Brazier RE; Graham HA; Myers-Smith IH; Astor T; Boer MM; Calvo LG; Clark PE; Cramer MD; Encinas-Lara MS; Escarzaga SM; Fernández-Guisuraga JM; Fisher AG; Gdulová K; Gillespie BM; Griebel A; Hanan NP; Hanggito MS; Haselberger S; Havrilla CA; Heilman P; Ji W; Karl JW; Kirchhoff M; Kraushaar S; Lyons MB; Marzolff I; Mauritz ME; McIntire CD; Metzen D; Méndez-Barroso LA; Power SC; Prošek J; Sanz-Ablanedo E; Sauer KJ; Schulze-Brüninghoff D; Šímová P; Sitch S; Smit JL; Steele CM; Suárez-Seoane S; Vargas SA; Villarreal M; Visser F; Wachendorf M; Wirnsberger H; Wojcikiewicz R, 2021, 'Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non-forest ecosystems', Remote Sens Ecol Conserv, n/a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rse2.228

Aravena RA; Lyons MB; Roff A; Keith DA, 2021, 'A colourimetric approach to ecological remote sensing: Case study for the rainforests of south‐eastern Australia', Remote Sensing, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13132544

Murray NJ; Kennedy EV; Álvarez-Romero JG; Lyons MB, 2021, 'Data Freshness in Ecology and Conservation', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 36, pp. 485 - 487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.03.005

Li J; Knapp DE; Lyons M; Roelfsema C; Phinn S; Schill SR; Asner GP, 2021, 'Automated global shallowwater bathymetry mapping using google earth engine', Remote Sensing, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13081469

Roelfsema CM; Lyons M; Murray N; Kovacs EM; Kennedy E; Markey K; Borrego-Acevedo R; Ordoñez Alvarez A; Say C; Tudman P; Roe M; Wolff J; Traganos D; Asner GP; Bambic B; Free B; Fox HE; Lieb Z; Phinn SR, 2021, 'Workflow for the Generation of Expert-Derived Training and Validation Data: A View to Global Scale Habitat Mapping', Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.643381

Fisher A; Mills C; Lyons M; Cornwell W; Letnic M, 2021, 'Remote sensing of trophic cascades: multi-temporal landsat imagery reveals vegetation change driven by the removal of an apex predator', Landscape Ecology, 36, pp. 1341 - 1358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01206-w

Callaghan CT; Watson JEM; Lyons MB; Cornwell WK; Fuller RA, 2021, 'Conservation birding: A quantitative conceptual framework for prioritizing citizen science observations', Biological Conservation, 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108912

Callaghan CT; Poore AGB; Major RE; Cornwell WK; Wilshire JH; Lyons MB, 2021, 'How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1581 cities', Biodiversity and Conservation, 30, pp. 217 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02088-1

Mills CH; Wijas B; Gordon CE; Lyons M; Feit A; Wilkinson A; Letnic M, 2021, 'Two alternate states: shrub, bird and mammal assemblages differ on either side of the Dingo Barrier Fence', Australian Zoologist, 41, pp. 534 - 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.005

Li J; Knapp DE; Fabina NS; Kennedy EV; Larsen K; Lyons MB; Murray NJ; Phinn SR; Roelfsema CM; Asner GP, 2020, 'A global coral reef probability map generated using convolutional neural networks', Coral Reefs, 39, pp. 1805 - 1815, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-02005-6

B. Lyons M; M. Roelfsema C; V. Kennedy E; M. Kovacs E; Borrego-Acevedo R; Markey K; Roe M; M. Yuwono D; L. Harris D; R. Phinn S; Asner GP; Li J; E. Knapp D; S. Fabina N; Larsen K; Traganos D; J. Murray N, 2020, 'Mapping the world's coral reefs using a global multiscale earth observation framework', Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 6, pp. 557 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rse2.157

Raoult V; Colefax AP; Allan BM; Cagnazzi D; Castelblanco-Martínez N; Ierodiaconou D; Johnston DW; Landeo-Yauri S; Lyons M; Pirotta V; Schofield G; Butcher PA, 2020, 'Operational protocols for the use of drones in marine animal research', Drones, 4, pp. 1 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones4040064

Callaghan CT; Major RE; Cornwell WK; Poore AGB; Wilshire JH; Lyons MB, 2020, 'A continental measure of urbanness predicts avian response to local urbanization', Ecography, 43, pp. 528 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04863

Inman VL; Lyons MB, 2020, 'Automated inundation mapping over large areas using landsat data and google earth engine', Remote Sensing, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/RS12081348

Francis RJ; Lyons MB; Kingsford RT; Brandis KJ, 2020, 'Counting mixed breeding aggregations of animal species using drones: Lessons from waterbirds on semi-automation', Remote Sensing, 12, pp. 1185, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12071185

Callaghan CT; Wilshire JH; Martin JM; Major RE; Lyons MB; Kingsford RT, 2020, 'The greenspace bird calculator: A citizen-driven tool for monitoring avian biodiversity in urban greenspaces', Australian Zoologist, 40, pp. 468 - 476, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.009

Morales-Barquero L; Lyons MB; Phinn SR; Roelfsema CM, 2019, 'Trends in remote sensing accuracy assessment approaches in the context of natural resources', Remote Sensing, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11192305

Lee MR; Powell JR; Oberle B; Cornwell WK; Lyons M; Rigg JL; Zanne AE, 2019, 'Good neighbors aplenty: fungal endophytes rarely exhibit competitive exclusion patterns across a span of woody habitats', Ecology, 100, pp. e02790, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2790

Lyons M; Brandis K; Wilshire J; Murray N; McCann J; Kingsford R; Callaghan C, 2019, 'A protocol for using drones to assist monitoring of large breeding bird colonies', EcoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/p9j3f

Callaghan CT; Poore AGB; Major RE; Cornwell W; Wilshire J; Lyons M, 2019, 'How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1,581 cities', EcoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/ur4fe

Callaghan C; Major RE; Cornwell WK; Poore AGB; Wilshire J; Lyons M, 2019, 'Continental-scale urbanness predicts local-scale responses to urbanization', EcoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/ky2hu

Lyons MB; Brandis KJ; Murray NJ; Wilshire JH; McCann JA; Kingsford RT; Callaghan CT, 2019, 'Monitoring large and complex wildlife aggregations with drones', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, pp. 1024 - 1035, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13194

Callaghan CT; Bino G; Major RE; Martin JM; Lyons MB; Kingsford RT, 2019, 'Heterogeneous urban green areas are bird diversity hotspots: insights using continental-scale citizen science data', Landscape Ecology, 34, pp. 1231 - 1246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00851-6

Sims RJ; Lyons M; Keith DA, 2019, 'Limited evidence of compositional convergence of restored vegetation with reference states after 20 years of livestock exclusion', Austral Ecology, 44, pp. 734 - 746, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12744

Murray NJ; Phinn SR; DeWitt M; Ferrari R; Johnston R; Lyons MB; Clinton N; Thau D; Fuller RA, 2019, 'The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats', Nature, 565, pp. 222 - 225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0805-8

Callaghan CT; Major RE; Lyons MB; Martin JM; Wilshire JH; Kingsford RT; Cornwell WK, 2019, 'Using citizen science data to define and track restoration targets in urban areas', Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, pp. 1998 - 2006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13421

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