By Dr Roxane Janet Francis

Journal articles

Wilson JP; Amano T; Bregnballe T; Corregidor-Castro A; Francis R; Gallego-García D; Hodgson JC; Jones LR; Luque-Fernández CR; Marchowski D; McEvoy J; McKellar AE; Oosthuizen WC; Pfeifer C; Renner M; Sarasola JH; Sokač M; Valle R; Zbyryt A; Fuller RA, 2026, 'Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level', Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 12, pp. 629 - 644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70059

Francis RJ; Moseby K, 2026, 'Using Drone Imagery to Reveal How Fire, Vegetation Cover and Landform Shape Thermal Mosaics in Desert Landscapes', Drones, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones10070519

Stewart J; Francis RJ; Eldridge DJ; Kingsford RT; de Lima NM, 2025, 'Advancing remote sensing of biocrusts with drone imagery and machine learning', Geoderma, 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117315

Francis RJ; Grantham HS; Keith DA; Ferrer-Paris JR; Kingsford RT, 2025, 'Automated Mapping of the Freshwater Ecosystem Functional Groups of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Global Ecosystem Typology in a Large Region of Arid Australia', Remote Sensing, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs17091488

Brandis KJ; Zawada K; Meagher P; Ramp D; Francis R, 2025, 'Development of tiliqua species provenance models for use in combating the illegal wildlife trade', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 13, pp. 1526584, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1526584

Brandis KJ; Francis RJ; Zawada KJA; Hasselerharm CD; Ramp D, 2024, 'Advancing the application of pXRF for animal samples', Plos One, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297830

Yang S; Francis RJ; Holding M; Kingsford RT, 2024, 'Aerial photography and machine learning for estimating extremely high flamingo numbers on the Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana', Global Ecology and Conservation, 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03011

Francis RJ; Kingsford RT; Moseby K; Read J; Pedler R; Fisher A; McCann J; West R, 2024, 'Tracking landscape scale vegetation change in the arid zone by integrating ground, drone and satellite data', Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 10, pp. 374 - 387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rse2.375

Francis RJ; Brandis KJ, 2024, 'Assessment of Ground and Drone Surveys of Large Waterbird Breeding Rookeries: A Comparative Study', Drones, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones8040135

Francis RJ; Brandis KJ; Chessman BC; Slavich E; Kingsford RT, 2024, 'Conservation implications of isotopic variation in nails and blood with wetland quality in three species of Australian freshwater turtle', Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.4056

Lee-Kiorgaard HJ; Stuart SA; Lawson JR; Bulger DW; Gallagher RV; Nipperess DA; Cornwell WK; Boomer JJ; Francis RJ; Brazill-Boast J, 2024, 'Weighing up the options: experiences in applying decision science from a large-scale conservation program', Australian Zoologist, 43, pp. 502 - 509, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.030

Brandis KJ; Francis RJ; Bino G, 2024, 'Vegetation and inundation characteristics of waterbird breeding sites in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia', Marine and Freshwater Research, 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf23221

Brandis KJ; Meagher P; Schoppe S; Zawada K; Widmann I; Widmann P; Dolorosa RG; Francis R, 2023, 'Determining the Provenance of Traded Wildlife in the Philippines', Animals, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13132165

Nakagawa S; Lagisz M; Francis R; Tam J; Li X; Elphinstone A; Jordan NR; O’brien JK; Pitcher BJ; Van Sluys M; Sowmya A; Kingsford RT, 2023, 'Rapid literature mapping on the recent use of machine learning for wildlife imagery', Peer Community Journal, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.261

Emmett L; Subramaniam S; Crumbaker M; Joshua AM; Weickhardt AJ; Lee ST; Ng S; Francis RJ; Goh JCH; Pattison DA; Tan H; Kirkwood ID; Sandhu SK; Nguyen A; Gedye C; Rutherford N; Hofman M; Martin A; Stockler MR; Davis ID, 2023, 'LBA84 Enzalutamide and 177Lu-PSMA-617 in poor-risk, metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC): A randomised, phase II trial: ENZA-p (ANZUP 1901)', Annals of Oncology, 34, pp. s1325, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annonc.2023.10.086

Francis RJ; Brandis KJ; McCann JA, 2022, 'Offline Imagery Checks for Remote Drone Usage', Drones, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones6120395

Francis RJ; Kingsford RT; Brandis KJ, 2022, 'Using drones and citizen science counts to track colonial waterbird breeding, an indicator for ecosystem health on the Chobe River, Botswana', Global Ecology and Conservation, 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02231

Francis RJ; Brandis KJ; Chessman BC; Slavich E; Kingsford RT, 2022, 'Abundance and nutritional status of freshwater turtles to guide delivery of environmental flows in the Murray-Darling Basin, south-eastern Australia', Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 32, pp. 282 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3767

Francis R; Bino G; Inman V; Brandis K; Kingsford RT, 2021, 'The Okavango Delta's waterbirds – Trends and threatening processes', Global Ecology and Conservation, 30, pp. e01763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01763

Francis RJ; Kingsford RT; Murray-Hudson M; Brandis KJ, 2021, 'Urban waste no replacement for natural foods - Marabou storks in Botswana', Journal of Urban Ecology, 7, pp. juab003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jue/juab003

Francis RJ; Brandis KJ; Kingsford RT; Callaghan CT, 2020, 'Quantifying bird diversity at three sites of differing herbivore presence', Journal of Ornithology, 161, pp. 1117 - 1127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-020-01804-6

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

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