Ben Wagner
@gliderhabitat.bsky.social
Research Fellow @unimelb. Studying arboreal mammal habitat in mixed species eucalypt forests and forest resilience and adaptation in the Australian alps.
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Twenty-three years of potoroo poo shows that these mycophagists are eating different ectomycorrhizal #truffles under #ClimateChange.
#OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08410
🧪 #mycology #ecology #WildOz
#OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08410
🧪 #mycology #ecology #WildOz
February 5, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Twenty-three years of potoroo poo shows that these mycophagists are eating different ectomycorrhizal #truffles under #ClimateChange.
#OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08410
🧪 #mycology #ecology #WildOz
#OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08410
🧪 #mycology #ecology #WildOz
Excited to have our research on impacts of post-fire on nutritional quality in eucalypt forests for species such as the endangered southern #greaterglider and koala out this week in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social's Forest ecology and Management.
Find the open access paper here: go.unimelb.edu.au/qjr2
Find the open access paper here: go.unimelb.edu.au/qjr2
Chemical composition of post-fire epicormic foliage affects nutritional quality for folivores
Forest fires can cause major changes in stand structure and habitat suitability for forest wildlife. For species that browse on foliage, the tree’s fi…
go.unimelb.edu.au
February 4, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Excited to have our research on impacts of post-fire on nutritional quality in eucalypt forests for species such as the endangered southern #greaterglider and koala out this week in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social's Forest ecology and Management.
Find the open access paper here: go.unimelb.edu.au/qjr2
Find the open access paper here: go.unimelb.edu.au/qjr2
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After decades of research, our new book on the eucalypts of WA's goldfields has finally arrived! Designed, compiled and printed in Australia.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks of this one.
For more information, sample pages and to order:
www.dn.com.au/Eucalypts_of...
Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks of this one.
For more information, sample pages and to order:
www.dn.com.au/Eucalypts_of...
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
After decades of research, our new book on the eucalypts of WA's goldfields has finally arrived! Designed, compiled and printed in Australia.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks of this one.
For more information, sample pages and to order:
www.dn.com.au/Eucalypts_of...
Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks of this one.
For more information, sample pages and to order:
www.dn.com.au/Eucalypts_of...
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I recently gave a talk about Wilkerr (dingoes) at #ESA2025 (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...). Many call them 'wild dogs' in S.A. Below the dingo fence they are to be _eradicated_, by law. But the only true wild dog I knew of was the legendary dachshund, Valerie. #DadJokes @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I recently gave a talk about Wilkerr (dingoes) at #ESA2025 (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...). Many call them 'wild dogs' in S.A. Below the dingo fence they are to be _eradicated_, by law. But the only true wild dog I knew of was the legendary dachshund, Valerie. #DadJokes @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
Very happy to have my #drone photo of East Gippsland’s beautiful lowland mixed species eucalypt forests printed alongside other amazing photographers and ecologists in the new @csiropublishing.bsky.social ,Ecology Matters’. Launched at this year’s @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2025 conference!
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Very happy to have my #drone photo of East Gippsland’s beautiful lowland mixed species eucalypt forests printed alongside other amazing photographers and ecologists in the new @csiropublishing.bsky.social ,Ecology Matters’. Launched at this year’s @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2025 conference!
Big thanks to @deannicolle1.bsky.social for generously showing us around his Currency Creek Arboretum this morning. What a wonderful and unique place to explore all the wonderful Eucalypts that are out there! Great way to wrap up @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2025 in #adelaide.
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Big thanks to @deannicolle1.bsky.social for generously showing us around his Currency Creek Arboretum this morning. What a wonderful and unique place to explore all the wonderful Eucalypts that are out there! Great way to wrap up @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2025 in #adelaide.
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Grateful that I got to present some of my fire research on beautiful #KaurnaCountry at #ESA2025
Big thanks to the Gulbali Collaboration Kickstarter award for getting me here.
#EcologicalSocietyOfAustralia #EcologyAustralia #BiodiversityOnTheBrink #Adelaide
Big thanks to the Gulbali Collaboration Kickstarter award for getting me here.
#EcologicalSocietyOfAustralia #EcologyAustralia #BiodiversityOnTheBrink #Adelaide
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Grateful that I got to present some of my fire research on beautiful #KaurnaCountry at #ESA2025
Big thanks to the Gulbali Collaboration Kickstarter award for getting me here.
#EcologicalSocietyOfAustralia #EcologyAustralia #BiodiversityOnTheBrink #Adelaide
Big thanks to the Gulbali Collaboration Kickstarter award for getting me here.
#EcologicalSocietyOfAustralia #EcologyAustralia #BiodiversityOnTheBrink #Adelaide
Join us tomorrow (Wednesday 26.11) in the Gilbert Suite for three jam-packed sessions exploring and celebrating Australian Landscape Ecology at #ESA2025, starting at 10:30am!
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Join us tomorrow (Wednesday 26.11) in the Gilbert Suite for three jam-packed sessions exploring and celebrating Australian Landscape Ecology at #ESA2025, starting at 10:30am!
Happy to be able to share that our work investigating the efficacy of thermal #drones for nocturnal #wildlife surveys is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological applications: doi.org/10.1002/eap..... Find a summary in @theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/drones-with-...
Drones with thermal cameras are revealing the secrets of elusive Australian forest wildlife
The new technology will help scientists monitor and protect some of Australia’s most iconic and threatened forest species.
theconversation.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Happy to be able to share that our work investigating the efficacy of thermal #drones for nocturnal #wildlife surveys is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological applications: doi.org/10.1002/eap..... Find a summary in @theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/drones-with-...
@mandaloca2.bsky.social showing us that #dingoes have social networks too. Great talk on social interactions and drivers of population density of vulnerable Victorian dingoes at #iccb2025
June 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
@mandaloca2.bsky.social showing us that #dingoes have social networks too. Great talk on social interactions and drivers of population density of vulnerable Victorian dingoes at #iccb2025
At #ICCB2025? If you’re interested in #drones, arboreal #mammals and their recovery patterns in state #forests, I’d be keen to walk you through my poster! See me Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4 - Poster Board 32.
Looking forward to catch up with friends and colleagues soon!
Looking forward to catch up with friends and colleagues soon!
June 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Out now: Our paper on deforestation risks across #newguinea led by Christoph Parsch with @biogeokreft.bsky.social and Bill Laurence. Another output of our fruitful collab between #unimelb and #unigoettingen
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
Forecasting deforestation and carbon loss across New Guinea using machine learning and cellular automata
The island of New Guinea harbors some of the world's most biologically diverse and highly endemic tropical ecosystems. Nevertheless, progressing land-…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Out now: Our paper on deforestation risks across #newguinea led by Christoph Parsch with @biogeokreft.bsky.social and Bill Laurence. Another output of our fruitful collab between #unimelb and #unigoettingen
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
I submitted some photos to this year’s #VicBioCon25 photo competition. If you like them, consider giving them a vote :)
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February 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I submitted some photos to this year’s #VicBioCon25 photo competition. If you like them, consider giving them a vote :)
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Was great to talk about our research in windthrow yesterday at the Ecological Society of Australia conference and have some great chats with people about their own observations across Australia.
Dr Tom @itsnotfairman.bsky.social boldly convinces us that severe wind is an under-appreciated disturbance in SE Qld. He urges us to consider extreme wind events as opportunities to do conservation mngmt like thin woody thickening, restore habitats, and reintroduce cultural burns. #ESA2024
December 11, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Was great to talk about our research in windthrow yesterday at the Ecological Society of Australia conference and have some great chats with people about their own observations across Australia.
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Dr Tom @itsnotfairman.bsky.social boldly convinces us that severe wind is an under-appreciated disturbance in SE Qld. He urges us to consider extreme wind events as opportunities to do conservation mngmt like thin woody thickening, restore habitats, and reintroduce cultural burns. #ESA2024
December 11, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Dr Tom @itsnotfairman.bsky.social boldly convinces us that severe wind is an under-appreciated disturbance in SE Qld. He urges us to consider extreme wind events as opportunities to do conservation mngmt like thin woody thickening, restore habitats, and reintroduce cultural burns. #ESA2024
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Hey #ESAus2024, if you're looking for more Aussie ecologists to follow here, there's some great people on the #WildOz starter pack below! 🦘🐨🌿🪲
Please suggest anyone else who's missing! 🙏
go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
Please suggest anyone else who's missing! 🙏
go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
December 11, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Hey #ESAus2024, if you're looking for more Aussie ecologists to follow here, there's some great people on the #WildOz starter pack below! 🦘🐨🌿🪲
Please suggest anyone else who's missing! 🙏
go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
Please suggest anyone else who's missing! 🙏
go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
New #greaterglider research out, led by ARI’s talented Justin Cally. We looked into the effects of the large scale storm calamity in the wombat state forest in Victoria’s west on greater glider habitat:
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
December 7, 2024 at 8:24 PM
New #greaterglider research out, led by ARI’s talented Justin Cally. We looked into the effects of the large scale storm calamity in the wombat state forest in Victoria’s west on greater glider habitat:
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
Guess who’s finally on Bluesky! Welcome Tom
I'll kick off my first bluesky post with a link to our paper that just came out in the last few months - looking at how fuels change with severe windthrow in south-east Australia. One of those studies which led to more questions than answers! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Throwing fuel on the fire? Contrasting fine and coarse fuel responses to windthrow in temperate eucalypt forests in south-eastern Australia
Windthrow is a disturbance in south-eastern Australian forests which significantly re-arranges forest and fuel structure by removing canopy trees. The…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Guess who’s finally on Bluesky! Welcome Tom
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Hello Bluesky!🦋 We'll be posting all our updates for #VicBioCon25 here, as well as continuing to post on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter- here's a behind the scenes shot of one of our social media team members hard at work!
November 22, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Hello Bluesky!🦋 We'll be posting all our updates for #VicBioCon25 here, as well as continuing to post on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter- here's a behind the scenes shot of one of our social media team members hard at work!
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Here for the koalaty content 🐨
November 21, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Here for the koalaty content 🐨
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The Ecological Society of Australia is here. Such a relief to have a platform for scientists to communicate with each other and the world more generally.
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 2:42 AM
The Ecological Society of Australia is here. Such a relief to have a platform for scientists to communicate with each other and the world more generally.
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
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Our paper on global endemism in island plants is highlighted by @mongabay.bsky.social - many thanks for featuring this story!
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ecology #PlantScience #nature #plants #biology #science #research #conservation #island
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ecology #PlantScience #nature #plants #biology #science #research #conservation #island
More than 20% of Earth’s plants grow only on islands, global study finds
More than a fifth of the Earth’s plant species are found only on islands, making them one of the largest biodiversity hotspots, a breakthrough global study has found. This conclusion has pushed the sc...
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November 13, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Our paper on global endemism in island plants is highlighted by @mongabay.bsky.social - many thanks for featuring this story!
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ecology #PlantScience #nature #plants #biology #science #research #conservation #island
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ecology #PlantScience #nature #plants #biology #science #research #conservation #island
A bit late to the game, but I participated in this collaboration of over 100 Australian ecologists, led by the amazing @dadriscoll.bsky.social on Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires that was recently published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:47 AM
A bit late to the game, but I participated in this collaboration of over 100 Australian ecologists, led by the amazing @dadriscoll.bsky.social on Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires that was recently published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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...
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...
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...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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...
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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‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire theconversation.com/catastrophic...
Based on @dadriscoll.bsky.social et al.'s paper out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Based on @dadriscoll.bsky.social et al.'s paper out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire
Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:42 PM
‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire theconversation.com/catastrophic...
Based on @dadriscoll.bsky.social et al.'s paper out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Based on @dadriscoll.bsky.social et al.'s paper out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...