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Ellen Ryan-Colton is a PhD candidate in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) under the supervision of Dr. Christine Schlesinger, with a current focus on arid zone ecology, indigenous ecological knowledge and landscape change. Ellen has lived and worked in the remote APY Lands of northern South Australia, working with Aboriginal ranger groups to achieve their conservation and cultural goals, and currently partners with Aboriginal people from the APY Lands for her PhD research. Ellen is an active member of multiple state, interstate and international groups focussing on better understanding and management of invasive species, particularly drawing on her knowledge of buffel grass impacts in central Australia. At an international level, Ellen is a fellow of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessment of invasive alien species, and a member of the IPBES Indigenous Local Knowledge liaison group, for the next 3 years. Prior to her PhD research, Ellen has worked as an ecologist for over 10 years focussed on threatened species recovery, protected area management and landscape scale threats. Ellen has a First Class Honours in Bachelor of Environmental Science from the University of Wollongong.
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Does Buffel Grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) invasion impact plant-animal interactions in an arid system?
6/03/17 → …
Project: HDR Project › PhD
Research output
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Designing a large-scale track-based monitoring program to detect changes in species distributions in arid Australia
Southwell, D., Skroblin, A., Moseby, K., Southgate, R., Indigo, N., Backhouse, B., Bellchambers, K., Brandle, R., Brenton, P., Copley, P., Dziminski, M. A., Galindez-Silva, C., Lynch, C., Newman, P., Pedler, R., Rogers, D., Roshier, D. A., Ryan-Colton, E., Tuft, K., Ward, M., & 2 others , 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ecological Applications. p. 1-41 41 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ranking buffel: Comparative risk and mitigation costs of key environmental and socio-cultural threats in central Australia
Read, J. L., Firn, J., Grice, A. C., Murphy, R., Ryan-Colton, E. & Schlesinger, C. A., Dec 2020, In: Ecology and Evolution. 10, 23, p. 12745-12763 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Semi-Automated Analysis of Digital Photographs for Monitoring East Antarctic Vegetation
King, D. H., Wasley, J., Ashcroft, M. B., Ryan-Colton, E., Lucieer, A., Chisholm, L. A. & Robinson, S. A., 9 Jun 2020, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 11, 766.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The buffel kerfuffle: How one species quietly destroys native wildlife and cultural sites in arid Australia
Schlesinger, C., Ryan-Colton, E., Firn, J. & Read, J., 16 Nov 2020, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Rapid change in East Antarctic terrestrial vegetation in response to regional drying
Robinson, S. A., King, D. H., Bramley-Alves, J., Waterman, M. J., Ashcroft, M. B., Wasley, J., Turnbull, J. D., Miller, R. E., Ryan-Colton, E., Benny, T., Mullany, K., Clarke, L. J., Barry, L. A. & Hua, Q., 24 Sept 2018, In: Nature Climate Change. 8, p. 879-884 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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