Publications — conservation

  1. Saltré, F, KJ Peters, DJ Rogers, J Chadœuf, V Weisbecker, CJA Bradshaw. 2026. Balancing high densities and conservation targets to optimise koala management strategies. Ecology and Evolution 16: e72470. doi:10.1002/ece3.72470
  2. Arbieu, U, C Bellard, CJA Bradshaw, RA Correia, P Courtois, E Di Minin, I Jarić, B Leroy, JR Murfree, M Orr, S Roturier, M Sartore-Baldwin, D Veríssimo, F Courchamp. 2026. Wildlife diversity in global team sport branding. BioScience 76: 179-187. doi:10.1093/biosci/biaf181
  3. Gates, K, J Sandoval-Castillo, JE Beaman, K Burke da Silva, F Saltré, K Belov, CJ Hogg, CJA Bradshaw, LB Beheregaray. 2025. Conservation arks: genomic erosion and inbreeding in an abundant island population of koalas. Molecular Ecology 34: e70097. doi:10.1111/mec.70097
  4. Arbieu, U, C Bellard, CJA Bradshaw, RA Correia, P Courtois, E Di Minin, I Jarić, B Leroy, JR Murfree, M Orr, S Roturier, M Sartore-Baldwin, D Veríssimo, F Courchamp. 2025. Professional sport organizations as potential champions of biodiversity conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2025: e2862. doi:10.1002/fee.2862
  5. Beaman, JE, K Gates, F Saltré, CJ Hogg, K Belov, K Ashman, K Burke da Silva, LB Beheregaray, CJA Bradshaw. 2025. A guide for developing demo-genetic models to simulate genetic rescue. Evolutionary Applications 18: e70092. doi:10.1111/eva.70092
  6. Turner, A, G Heard, R Mathwin, CJA Bradshaw, A Hall, S Wassens. 2025. Cool-season environmental water delivery increases extinction risk for chytrid-infected amphibians. Conservation Science and Practice 7: e70022. doi:10.1111/csp2.70022
  7. Mulà, C, CJA Bradshaw, M Cabeza, F Manca, S Montano, G Strona. 2025. Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation. Nature Ecology and Evolution 9: 822-832. doi:10.1038/s41559-025-02667-x
  8. Mathwin, R, S Wassens, A Turner, GW Heard, A Hall, CJA Bradshaw. 2024. Modelling the sustainable harvest of wild populations for the conservation of a threatened amphibian. Austral Ecology 49: e13492. doi:10.1111/aec.13492
  9. Mathwin, R, S Wassens, MS Gibbs, J Young, Q Ye, F Saltré,  CJA Bradshaw. 2024. Stochastic metapopulation dynamics of a threatened amphibian to improve water delivery. Ecosphere 15: e4741. doi:10.1002/ecs2.4741
  10. Mathwin, R, S Wassens, MS Gibbs, J Young, Q Ye, F Saltré, CJA Bradshaw. 2023. Modelling the effects of water regulation on the population viability of threatened amphibians. Ecosphere 14: e4379. doi:10.1002/ecs2.4379
  11. Di Minin, E, M ‘t Sas-Rolfes, J Selier, M Louis, CJA Bradshaw. 2022. Dismantling the poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade. Biological Conservation 265: 109418. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109418 [PDF]
  12. Bradshaw, CJA, PR Ehrlich, A Beattie, G Ceballos, E Crist, J Diamond, R Dirzo, AH Ehrlich, J Harte, ME Harte, G Pyke, PH Raven, WJ Ripple, F Saltré, C Turnbull, M Wackernagel, DT Blumstein. 2021. Response: Commentary: Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2: 700869. doi:10.3389/fcosc.2021.700869 [PDF]
  13. Di Minin, E, H Clements, R Correia, G Cortés Capano, C Fink, A Haukka, A Hausmann, R Kulkarni, CJA Bradshaw. 2021. Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods. One Earth 4: 238-253. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2021.01.014 [PDF]
  14. Bradshaw, CJA, PR Ehrlich, A Beattie, G Ceballos, E Crist, J Diamond, R Dirzo, AH Ehrlich, J Harte, ME Harte, G Pyke, PH Raven, WJ Ripple, F Saltré, C Turnbull, M Wackernagel, DT Blumstein. 2021. Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1: 615419. doi:10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419 [PDF] (recommended in Faculty Opinions)
  15. Mathwin, R, S Wassens, J Young, Q Ye, CJA Bradshaw. 2021. Manipulating water for amphibian conservation. Conservation Biology 35: 24-34. doi:10.1111/cobi.13501 [PDF]
  16. Bradshaw, CJA. 2020. Grand challenges in global biodiversity threats. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1: 609007. doi:10.3389/fcosc.2020.609007 [PDF]
  17. Friedman, K, M Braccini, M Bjerregaard-Walsh, R Bonfil, CJA Bradshaw, S Brouwer, I Campbell, R Coelho, E Cortés, W Dimmlich, MG Frisk, I Kingma, SR McCully Phillips, C O’Criodain, D Parker, S Shephard, J Tovar-Ávila, K Yokawa. 2020. Informing CITES Parties: strengthening science-based decision-making when listing marine species. Fish and Fisheries 21: 13-31. doi:10.1111/faf.12411 [PDF]
  18. Bradshaw, CJA. 2019. Opportunities to improve the future of South Australia’s terrestrial biodiversity. Rethinking Ecology 4: 45-77. doi:10.3897/rethinkingecology.4.32570 [PDF]
  19. Hennenberg, KJ, H Böttcher, CJA Bradshaw. 2018. Revised European Union renewable-energy policies erode nature protection. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 1519-1520. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0659-3 [PDF]
  20. Bradshaw, CJA, TAA Prowse, M Drew, BM Gillanders, SC Donnellan, C Huveneers. 2018. Predicting sustainable shark harvests when stock assessments are lacking. ICES Journal of Marine Science 75: 1591-1601. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsy031 [PDF]
  21. Di Minin, E, N Leader-Williams, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. Trophy hunting does and will support biodiversity: reply to Ripple et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 496-498. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.03.010 [PDF]
  22. Di Minin, E, N Leader-Williams, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. Banning trophy hunting will exacerbate biodiversity loss. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 99-102. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.006 [PDF]
  23. Mellin, C, D Mouillot, M Kulbicki, TR McClanahan, L Vigliola, CJA Bradshaw, RE Brainard, P Chabanet, GJ Edgar, DA Fordham, AM Friedlander, V Parravicini, AMM Sequeira, RD Stuart-Smith, L Wantiez, MJ Caley. 2016. Humans and seasonal climate variability threaten large-bodied coral reef fish with small ranges. Nature Communications 7: 10491. doi:10.1038/ncomms10491 [PDF]
  24. Bradshaw, CJA, I Craigie, WF Laurance. 2015. National emphasis on high-level protection reduces risk of biodiversity decline in tropical forest reserves. Biological Conservation 190: 115-122. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.05.019 [PDF]
  25. Prowse, TAA, CN Johnson, P Cassey, CJA Bradshaw, BW Brook. 2015. Ecological and economic benefits to cattle rangelands of restoring an apex predator. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 455-466. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12378 [PDF]
  26. Nimmo, DG, SJ Watson, D Forsyth, CJA Bradshaw. 2015. Dingoes can help conserve wildlife and our methods can tell. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 281-285. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12369 [PDF]
  27. Brook, BW, CJA Bradshaw. 2015. Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology 29: 702-712. doi:10.1111/cobi.12433 [PDF]
  28. Bradby, K, J Fitzsimons, A Del Marco, DA Driscoll, EG Ritchie, J Lau, CJA Bradshaw, RJ Hobbs. 2014. Ecological connectivity or Barrier Fence? Critical choices on the agricultural margins of Western Australia. Ecological Management and Restoration 15: 180-190. doi:10.1111/emr.12130 [PDF]
  29. Frankham R, CJA Bradshaw, BW Brook. 2014. 50/500 rules need upward revision to 100/1000 – Response to Franklin et al. Biological Conservation 176: 286. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2014.05.006 [PDF]
  30. Moen, J, L Rist, K Bishop, FS Chapin III, D Ellison, T Kuuluvainen, H Petersson, K Puetmann, J Rayner, IG Warkentin, CJA Bradshaw. 2014. Eye on the taiga: removing global policy impediments to safeguard the boreal forest. Conservation Letters 7: 408-418. doi:10.1111/conl.12098 [PDF]
  31. Frankham R, CJA Bradshaw, BW Brook. 2014. Genetics in conservation management: revised recommendations for the 50/500 rules, Red List criteria and population viability analyses. Biological Conservation 170: 53-63. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.12.036 (Editor’s Choice, Biological Conservation) (Web of Science Essential Science Indicators ‘Highly Cited Paper’) [PDF]
  32. Ritchie, EG, CJA Bradshaw, CR Dickman, R Hobbs, CN Johnson, EL Johnston, WF Laurance, D Lindenmayer, MA McCarthy, DG Nimmo, HH Possingham, RL Pressey, DM Watson, J Woinarski. 2013. Continental-scale governance and the hastening of loss of Australia’s biodiversity. Conservation Biology 27: 1133-1135. doi:10.1111/cobi.12189 [PDF]
  33. Field, IC, BJ Tillett, BJ, R Charters, GJ Johnson, RC Buckworth, MG Meekan, CJA Bradshaw. 2013. Distribution, relative abundance and risks from fisheries to threatened Glyphis sharks and sawfishes in northern Australia. Endangered Species Research 21: 171-180. doi:10.3354/esr00513 [PDF]
  34. Bradshaw, CJA, IC Field, CR McMahon, GJ Johnson, MG Meekan, RC Buckworth. 2013. More analytical bite in estimating targets for shark harvest. Marine Ecology Progress Series 488: 221-232. doi:10.3354/meps10375 [PDF]
  35. Ritchie, EG, CJA Bradshaw, MA Burgman, CR Dickman, K French, R Hobbs, L Hughes, CN Johnson, E Johnston, WF Laurance, D Lindenmayer, ID Lunt, JK Martin, MA Mccarthy, S Mcintyre, DG Nimmo, KM Parris, HP Possingham, RL Pressey, DM Watson, JZ Woinarski. 2013. Relaxed laws imperil Australian wildlife. Nature 498: 434. doi:10.1038/498434d [PDF + SI]
  36. Bradshaw, CJA, DMJS Bowman, NR Bond, BP Murphy, AD Moore, DA Fordham, R Thackway, MJ Lawes, H McCallum, SD Gregory, RC Dalal, MM Boer, AJJ Lynch, RA Bradstock, BW Brook, BK Henry, LP Hunt, DO Fisher, D Hunter, CN Johnson, DA Keith, EC Lefroy, TD Penman, WS Meyer, JR Thomson, CM Thornton, J VanDerWal, RJ Williams, L Keniger, A Specht. 2013. Brave new green world – consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity. Biological Conservation 161: 71-90. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.02.012 [PDF]
  37. Fordham, DA, BW Brook, MJ Caley, CJA Bradshaw, C Mellin. 2013. Conservation management and sustainable harvest quotas are sensitive to choice of climate modelling approach for two marine gastropods. Diversity and Distributions 19: 1299-1312. doi:10.1111/ddi.12092 [PDF]
  38. Frankham, R, BW Brook, CJA Bradshaw, LW Traill, D Spielman. 2013. 50/500 and minimum viable populations: response to Jamieson and Allendorf. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:187-188. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2013.01.002 [PDF]
  39. Laurance WF, DC Useche, J Rendeiro, M Kalka, CJA Bradshaw, SP Sloan, SG Laurance, M Campbell and 208 others. 2012. Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. Nature 489: 290-294. doi:10.1038/nature11318 (recommended in F1000) [PDF]
  40. Lyon, JP, C Todd, SJ Nicol, A McDonald, D Stoessel, BA Ingram, RJ Barker, CJA Bradshaw. 2012. Reintroduction success of threatened Australian trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis) based on growth and reproduction. Marine and Freshwater Research 63: 598-605. doi:10.1071/MF12034 [PDF]
  41. van Oosterzee, P, J Blignaut, CJA Bradshaw. 2012. iREDD hedges against avoided deforestation’s unholy trinity of leakage, permanence and additionality. Conservation Letters 5: 266-273. doi:10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00237.x [PDF]
  42. Warkentin, IG, Bradshaw, CJA. 2012. A tropical perspective on conserving the boreal ‘lung of the planet’. Biological Conservation 151: 50-52. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.025 [PDF]
  43. Bradshaw, CJA. 2012. Little left to lose: deforestation and forest degradation in Australia since European colonisation. Journal of Plant Ecology 5: 109-120. doi:10.1093/jpe/RTR038 [PDF]
  44. Brook, BW, CJA Bradshaw. 2012. Strange bedfellows? Techno-fixes to solve the big conservation issues in southern Asia. Biological Conservation 151: 7-10. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.007 [PDF]
  45. Bradshaw, CJA, Clements, GR, WF Laurance, BW Brook. 2011. Better SAFE than sorry. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 487-488. doi:10.1890/11.WB.028 [PDF]
  46. Brook, BW, CJA Bradshaw, LW Traill, R Frankham. 2011. Minimum viable population size: not magic, but necessary. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26: 619-620. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2011.09.006 [PDF]
  47. Gibson, L, TM Lee, LP Koh, BW Brook, TA Gardner, J Barlow, CA Peres, CJA Bradshaw, WF Laurance, TE Lovejoy, NS Sodhi. 2011. Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity. Nature 478: 378-381. doi:10.1038/nature10425 [PDF] (Web of Science Essential Science Indicators ‘Highly Cited Paper’)
  48. Bradshaw, CJA, WF Laurance, L Gibson, PR Ehrlich, BW Brook. 2011. Homage to an avant-garde conservation leader, Navjot Sodhi. Conservation Biology 25: 1056-1058. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01730.x [PDF]
  49. Clements, GR, CJA Bradshaw, BW Brook, WF Laurance. 2011. The SAFE index: using a threshold population target to measure relative species threat. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 521-525. doi:10.1890/100177 [PDF]
  50. Giam, X, NS Sodhi, BW Brook, HTW Tan, CJA Bradshaw. 2011. Relative need for conservation assessment of vascular plant species among ecoregions. Journal of Biogeography 38: 55-68. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02383.x [PDF]
  51. Traill, LW, CJA Bradshaw, S Delean, BW Brook. 2010. Wetland conservation and sustainable use under global change: a tropical Australian case study using magpie geese. Ecography 33: 818-825. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.06205.x [PDF]
  52. Giam, X, CJA Bradshaw, HTW Tan, NS Sodhi. 2010. Future habitat loss and the conservation of plant biodiversity. Biological Conservation 143: 1594-1602. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.019 [PDF]
  53. Laurance, WF, LP Koh, RA Butler, NS Sodhi, CJA Bradshaw, DJ Neidel, H Consunji, J Mateo-Vega. 2010. Improving the performance of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil for nature conservation. Conservation Biology 24: 377-381 [PDF]
  54. Traill, LW, BW Brook, R Frankham, CJA Bradshaw. 2010. Pragmatic population viability targets in a rapidly changing world. Biological Conservation 143: 28-34 [PDF]
  55. Koh, LP, J Ghazoul, RA Butler, WF Laurance, NS Sodhi, J Mateo-Vega, CJA Bradshaw. 2010. Wash and spin cycle threats to tropical biodiversity. Biotropica 42: 67-71. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00588.x [PDF]
  56. Bickford, D, TH Ng, Q Lan, EP Kudavidanage, CJA Bradshaw. 2010. Forest fragment and breeding habitat characteristics explain frog diversity and abundance in Singapore. Biotropica 42: 119-125. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00542.x [PDF]
  57. Field, IC, MG Meekan, RC Buckworth, CJA Bradshaw. 2009. Susceptibility of sharks, rays and chimaeras to global extinction. Advances in Marine Biology 56: 275-363. doi:10.1016/S0065-2881(09)56004-X [PDF]
  58. Bradshaw, CJA, IG Warkentin, NS Sodhi. 2009. Urgent preservation of boreal carbon stocks and biodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 541-548 [PDF]
  59. Field, IC, MG Meekan, RC Buckworth, CJA Bradshaw. 2009. Protein mining the world’s oceans: Australasia as an example of illegal expansion-and-displacement fishing. Fish and Fisheries 10: 323-328 [PDF]
  60. Warkentin, IG, D Bickford, NS Sodhi, CJA Bradshaw. 2009. Eating frogs to extinction. Conservation Biology 23: 1056-1059 [PDF]
  61. Koh, LP, RA Butler, CJA Bradshaw. 2009. Conversion of Indonesia’s peatlands. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 238 [PDF]
  62. Sodhi, NS, CJA Bradshaw, BW Brook. 2009. Tropical Conservation Biology: response to Lugo’s tendentious review. Environmental Conservation 36: 11-13 [PDF]
  63. Bradshaw, CJA, NS Sodhi, BW Brook. 2009. Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in progress. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 79-87 [PDF]
  64. Clements, R., PKL Ng, XX Lu, S Ambu, M Schilthuizen, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Using biogeographical patterns of endemic land snails to improve conservation planning for limestone karsts. Biological Conservation 141: 2751-2764 [PDF]
  65. Bradshaw, CJA, X Giam, HTW Tan, BW Brook, NS Sodhi. 2008. Threat or invasive status in legumes is related to opposite extremes of the same ecological and life-history attributes. Journal of Ecology 96: 869-883 [PDF]
  66. Brook, BW, NS Sodhi, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Synergies among extinction drivers under global change. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 453-460 [PDF] (Web of Science Essential Science Indicators ‘Highly Cited Paper’)
  67. Bickford, D, LP Koh, TM Lee, AC Diesmos, Sodhi, NS, CH Sekercioglu, BW Brook, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Forgetting habitat loss in amphibian extinctions – missing the forest for the disease. PLoS Biology [PDF]
  68. Sodhi, NS, D Bickford, AC Diesmos, TM Lee, LP Koh, BW Brook, CH Sekercioglu, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Measuring the meltdown: drivers of global amphibian extinction and decline. PLoS One 3(2): e1636 [PDF]
  69. Sodhi, NS, LP Koh, KS-H Peh, HTW Tan, RL Chazdon, RT Corlett, TM Lee, RK Colwell, BW Brook, CH Sekercioglu, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms. Diversity and Distributions 14: 1-10. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00398.x [PDF]
  70. Traill, LW, CJA Bradshaw, BW Brook. 2007. Minimum viable population size: a meta-analysis of 30 years of published estimates. Biological Conservation 139: 159-166 [PDF]
  71. Bradshaw, CJA, BW Brook, CR McMahon. 2007. Dangers of sensationalizing conservation biology. Conservation Biology 21: 570-571 [PDF]
  72. Bradshaw, CJA, Y Fukuda, M Letnic, BW Brook. 2006. Incorporating known sources of uncertainty to determine precautionary harvests of saltwater crocodiles. Ecological Applications 16: 1436-1448 [PDF]
  73. Bradshaw, CJA, Y Isagi, S Kaneko, DMJS Bowman, BW Brook. 2006. Conservation value of non-native banteng in northern Australia. Conservation Biology 20: 1306-1311 [PDF]
  74. Brook, BW, LW Traill, CJA Bradshaw. 2006. Minimum viable population size and global extinction risk are unrelated. Ecology Letters 9: 375-382 [PDF + SI]
  75. Otway, NM, CJA Bradshaw, RG Harcourt. 2004. Estimating the rate of quasi-extinction of the Australian grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) population using deterministic age- and stage-classified models. Biological Conservation 119: 341-350 [PDF]