All Stories

  1. A method to predict connectivity for nomadic waterbird species from tracking data

    Article • Landscape Ecology, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sam Nicol

  2. FlywayNet: A hidden semi‐Markov model for inferring the structure of migratory bird networks from count data

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  3. A general optimal adaptive framework for managing a threatened species

    Article • Ecological Solutions and Evidence, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  4. Vote-processing rules for combining control recommendations from multiple models

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, August 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sam Nicol

  5. A primer on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs)

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  6. Evaluating the Ecological Benefits of Management Actions to Complement Environmental Flows in River Systems

    Article • Environmental Management, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sam Nicol

  7. Management feasibility of established invasive plant species in Queensland, Australia: A stakeholders’ perspective

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Sam Nicol

  8. Quantifying the impact of uncertainty on threat management for biodiversity

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sam Nicol

  9. Priority Threat Management for biodiversity conservation: A handbook

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, October 2018, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  10. Making the best use of experts' estimates to prioritise monitoring and management actions: A freshwater case study

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Sam Nicol, Dr Klaus Dieter Joehnk

  11. Science to support the management of riverine flows

    Article • Freshwater Biology, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  12. A general modeling framework for describing spatially structured population dynamics

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2017, Wiley

    Wayne Thogmartin, Dr Sam Nicol

  13. Quantitative tools for implementing the new definition of significant portion of the range in the U.S. Endangered Species Act

    Article • Conservation Biology, October 2017, Wiley

    Wayne Thogmartin, Dr Sam Nicol

  14. A preliminary approach to quantifying the overall environmental risks posed by development projects during environmental impact assessment

    Article • PLOS One, July 2017, PLOS

    Dr Sam Nicol

  15. Springs: Conserving perennial water is critical in arid landscapes

    Article • Biological Conservation, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Sam Nicol

  16. Selecting simultaneous actions of different durations to optimally manage an ecological network

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  17. Finding the best management policy to eradicate invasive species from spatial ecological networks with simultaneous actions

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  18. Setting conservation priorities for migratory networks under uncertainty

    Article • Conservation Biology, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  19. Navigating Complex Decisions in Restoration Investment

    Article • Conservation Letters, November 2016, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  20. A management-oriented framework for selecting metrics used to assess habitat- and path-specific quality in spatially structured populations

    Article • Ecological Indicators, October 2016, Elsevier

    Wayne Thogmartin, Dr Sam Nicol

  21. Abiotic and biotic interactions determine whether increased colonization is beneficial or detrimental to metapopulation management

    Article • Theoretical Population Biology, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Sam Nicol

  22. Priority threat management of non-native plants to maintain ecosystem integrity across heterogeneous landscapes

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2015, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  23. Priority threat management of invasive animals to protect biodiversity under climate change

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2015, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  24. Adapting environmental management to uncertain but inevitable change

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sam Nicol

  25. Quantifying the impact ofGambusia holbrookion the extinction risk of the critically endangered red-finned blue-eye

    Article • Ecosphere, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  26. Benefits of integrating complementarity into priority threat management

    Article • Conservation Biology, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  27. Optimal water depth management on river-fed National Wildlife Refuges in a changing climate

    Article • Climatic Change, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sam Nicol

  28. Minimizing the Cost of Keeping Options Open for Conservation in a Changing Climate

    Article • Conservation Biology, January 2014, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  29. Spatial heterogeneity in statistical power to detect changes in lake area in Alaskan National Wildlife Refuges

    Article • Landscape Ecology, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sam Nicol

  30. Which States Matter? An Application of an Intelligent Discretization Method to Solve a Continuous POMDP in Conservation Biology

    Article • PLOS One, February 2012, PLOS

    Dr Sam Nicol

  31. General rules for managing and surveying networks of pests, diseases, and endangered species

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Sam Nicol

  32. Beyond stochastic dynamic programming: a heuristic sampling method for optimizing conservation decisions in very large state spaces

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, October 2010, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol

  33. Conservation decision-making in large state spaces

    Article • Ecological Modelling, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Sam Nicol

  34. Should metapopulation restoration strategies increase patch area or number of patches?

    Article • Ecological Applications, March 2010, Wiley

    Dr Sam Nicol