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Heather Neilly

@heatherneilly.bsky.social
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2024 ARC Industry Fellow. 2021 ESA Wiley Next Gen Ecologist. Arid zone. Rangelands. Ecological restoration. Plants. Animals. Soil. The whole shebang @FedUniAustralia Calperum Station. Nanya Station. Thoughts my own

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Dale Nimmo @biodiversityguy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Some more Sentinel Hub images of the Little Desert (Victoria, Australia) wildfires, showing the breadth of impact. The fire spans about 55 km from east to west. Some unburnt patches remain within the fire boundary, but there are also extensive areas with no unburnt refuges.
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Great, thank you I will check it out
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We have used Dodonaea viscosa (sticky hop bush) which is local/native, but considered a ‘woody weed’. It grows quickly and takes over disturbed sites, and so we thinned it from other restoration sites and transported to these sites (without seeds of course). A win win for both spots!
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Yes that is the next paper 😉
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Sure does! plus reduces herbivory from kangaroos and goats, a major barrier to restoration in this part of Aus (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...)
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‘Branching’ with complex coarse woody debris reduces herbivory on recovering erosion scalds
Coarse woody debris (CWD) has many benefits in restoration, including protecting seedlings from herbivory, and it is often reintroduced where CWD is depauperate. At Calperum Station on the Murray Riv....
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We applied 22,500m2 of woody debris to overgrazed arid Australia, the first pic sums up the results pretty nicely!! It not only helped veg and soil recover but provided habitat for reptiles and mammals, details in Restoration Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Oh lovely thank you!
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hello Melbournians #ESAus2024 any brekky place reccos near the conference?
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
You did a great job!
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Wow what a project! Teaching crocs and goannas to not eat invasive and poisonous cane toads via taste aversion. Congrats to all involved on such an ambitious, collaborative project in remote northern Aust #DCBA #MacquarieUniversity #BunubaRangers #ESAus2024
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
How’s the serenity?
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
How cool is this from the City of Melbourne?! Are searchable planting guides available for other Aus cities? #ESAus2024
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A fantastic talk by @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social on urban biodiversity and working with practitioners. But more importantly a masterclass in how to deliver an engaging plenary #ESAus2024 #scicom
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Oh I missed this talk! Will have to go check out your poster
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
@taradoesscience.bsky.social
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Cities are making brushtail possums sick! Check out Tara’s poster 168 and speed talk at 5:20pm at the Nature in Cities symposium @ESAus2024
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A traditional smoking ceremony to welcome us to Wurundjeri country for #ESAus2024 Looking forward to a week of inspiration and connection
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Ecological Society of Australia @ecolsocaus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Have you packed your most fabulous animal prints for #ESAus2024? We'll be snapping pics of people's style each day of the conference for the chance to win best-dressed! #ecology
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Please add me!
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John Griffin @jngriffy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Strongly agree with this letter in Science arguing that field-based research should be more highly and fairly valued in academia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The value of field research in academia
From anthropology to zoology, immersion within communities, cultural settings, and study systems is integral to research and learning (1, 2). Fieldwork, the direct observation and collection of data i...
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A rare treat in the aussie desert! 50mm (and counting) of soft soaking rain. Enough to shut most tracks and cancel fieldwork. Better get started on that data entry I guess #caleprum #wildoz #officebound
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Dr Emily Scicluna 🌏 @drdunnart.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A couple gems of the #mallee. #spinytailedgecko #growlinggrassfrog #commonscalyfoot #redtailedwormlizard #coralsnake #snake #gecko #herpetology #WildOz #WomenInSTEM #fieldwork #ecology #science
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Final catch of the day, what a beauty! The apex predator Burton’s legless lizard (Lialis burtonis) wrapping up an amazing week, many thanks to @harrison-kent.bsky.social @hannah-churches.bsky.social @rebeccaarnold.bsky.social and the formidable @drdunnart.bsky.social and her team of legends!
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
When you can no longer tell the student from the sand dune #phdlife #mallee #fieldrat
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Catch of the day: a sweet little coral snake (Brachyurophis australis) #calperum #wildoz
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Very excited to get these Tomst soil moisture and temp loggers into our erosion scald ‘branching’ (aka woody debris addition) experimental plots on the Murray River floodplain. These scalds are the result of 100 yrs of sheep grazing. Can you tell the difference between our control and treatment?!
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Catch of the day: double dunnies! Common dunnart (Sminthopsis murina) lucky @drdunnart.bsky.social is here #calperum
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Catch of the day Desert Skink Liopholis inornata aka ‘bulldog’ @hannah-churches.bsky.social #calperum
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@drdunnart.bsky.social
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@drdunnart.bsky.social
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Catch of the day Ctenophorus spinodomus x 3 #calperum
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
And we’re off! A week of pitfall trapping in the beautiful mallee #calperum #wildoz #ecology @harrykent.bsky.social @hannah-churches.bsky.social @rebeccaarnold.bsky.social
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
😇🥚
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harrison-kent.bsky.social @harrison-kent.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Beautiful place to be kicking off #fieldwork for the next few weeks
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harrison-kent.bsky.social @harrison-kent.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A little eastern mallee dragon (Ctenophorus spinodomus) from setting up some pit fall traps this morning. #WildOz
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Don A. Driscoll @dadriscoll.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature
Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Please share, and help me find a #PhD student to study #ecosystem #engineers and their role in #ecological #restoration
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello blue sky! I’m a #restoration #ecologist working in #aridzone #dryland #conservation in particular #mallee #woodlands in #Australia currently an #ARCfellow and some extra #s for good measure #wildoz #ecology #research #fringedlily #plants #animals
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Heather Neilly @heatherneilly.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Me please! Restoration ecologist in arid Australia
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