Professor Martine Maron
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Martine Maron

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Background

Conserving biodiversity is essential for maintaining the health of the environment upon which human life and wellbeing relies. But the task will only get harder, with human pressures increasing in magnitude and ubiquity. My research tackles questions central to this challenge. A particular focus is biodiversity net gain policy, particularly the design and consequences of biodiversity offsetting, as well as the conservation and restoration of Australia’s woodlands and woodland bird assemblages. I collaborate with a broad network of individuals and organisations including government and non-government bodies to help achieve effective uptake of research findings into policy and environmental management. Sound conservation policy is essential if we are to apply ecological knowledge to reduce and ultimately halt biodiversity declines. I provide guidance on offset/no net loss/net gain policy development internationally including in Malaysia, the UK, Mozambique, and Guinea, and to intergovernmental convening bodies including IPBES, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the IUCN. I currently chair the IUCN’s Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation Thematic Group, am a director of BirdLife Australia and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, and am a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and The Biodiversity Council. My research group is part of the Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science.

Availability

Professor Martine Maron is:
Available for supervision
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Fields of research

Environmental Sciences

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), Monash University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
  • Postgraduate Diploma, University of Southern Queensland

Research interests

  • Conservation policy

  • Community ecology

  • Woodland conservation and management

  • Threatened species

  • Spatial ecology

  • Biodiversity accounting

Research impacts

I collaborate with conservation policymakers at State, National (e.g. New Zealand, Australia, Mozambique) and international (IUCN, UN, IPBES) levels to achieve policy change and benefits for biodiversity. Example impacts include:

  • Science input to the drafting process of goals and targets for the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 Global Biodiversity Strategy (Diaz et al. 2020)
  • Led writing of the first international policy on biodiversity offsetting for the IUCN
  • Development of the Conceptual Framework for Land Degradation Neutrality, adopted by 129 countries to date, to implement the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
  • Designed several widely-used tools to implement best-practice application of the mitigation hierarchy, including Australia’s Environmental Offsets Assessment Guide and Reef Trust Financial Contributions Offsets Calculator, New Zealand’s offset accounting model, and Mozambique’s new Impact Mitigation decree
  • Participated in the Consultative Group and Technical Group advising the EPBC Act review drafting proposed new National Environmental Standards for Australia for the Samuel Review
  • Achieved listing of a Key Threatening Process under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act: “Aggressive exclusion of birds from potential woodland and forest habitat by over-abundant noisy miners (Manorina melanocephala)” and authored the Threat Abatement Advice for this KTP
  • Developed a definition, condition scoring approach, and nomination for “Temperate and Subtropical Woodland Bird Community” for listing as a threatened under the EPBC Act (currently under consideration)

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236 works between 2004 and 2025
All (236) Journal Article (204) Book Chapter (3) Conference Publication (4) Book (1) Other Outputs (24)

141 - 160 of 236 works

2017

Journal Article

Ecological consequences of land clearing and policy reform in Queensland

Reside, April E., Beher, Jutta, Cosgrove, Anita , Evans, Megan C., Seabrook, Leonie, Silcock, Jennifer L., Wenger, Amelia S. and Maron, Martine (2017). Ecological consequences of land clearing and policy reform in Queensland. Pacific Conservation Biology, 23 (3), 219-230. doi: 10.1071/PC17001

Ecological consequences of land clearing and policy reform in Queensland

2017

Journal Article

Need for conservation planning in postconflict Colombia

Negret, Pablo Jose, Allan, James, Braczkowski, Alexander, Maron, Martine and Watson, James E. M. (2017). Need for conservation planning in postconflict Colombia. Conservation Biology, 31 (3), 499-500. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12935

Need for conservation planning in postconflict Colombia

2017

Journal Article

The anatomy of a failed offset

Lindenmayer, David B., Crane, Mason, Evans, Megan C., Maron, Martine, Gibbons, Philip, Bekessy, Sarah and Blanchard, Wade (2017). The anatomy of a failed offset. Biological Conservation, 210 (A), 286-292. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.04.022

The anatomy of a failed offset

2017

Other Outputs

Defending scientific integrity in conservation policy processes: lessons from Canada, Australia, and the United States

Carroll, Carlos, Hartl, Brett, Goldman, Gretchen T, Rohlf, Daniel J, Treves, Adrain, Kerr, Jeremy T, Ritchie, Euan G, Kingsford, Richard T, Gibbs, Katherine E, Maron, Martine and Watson, James E M (2017). Defending scientific integrity in conservation policy processes: lessons from Canada, Australia, and the United States. doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2946

Defending scientific integrity in conservation policy processes: lessons from Canada, Australia, and the United States

2017

Other Outputs

Defending scientific integrity in conservation policy processes: lessons from Canada, Australia, and the United States

Carroll, Carlos, Hartl, Brett, Goldman, Gretchen T, Rohlf, Daniel J, Treves, Adrain, Kerr, Jeremy T, Ritchie, Euan G, Kingsford, Richard T, Gibbs, Katherine E, Maron, Martine and Watson, James E M (2017). Defending scientific integrity in conservation policy processes: lessons from Canada, Australia, and the United States. doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2946v1

Defending scientific integrity in conservation policy processes: lessons from Canada, Australia, and the United States

2017

Journal Article

Australia needs a wake-up call

Shumway, Nicole, Maron, Martine and Watson, James E. M. (2017). Australia needs a wake-up call. Science, 355 (6328), 918-918. doi: 10.1126/science.aam8945

Australia needs a wake-up call

2017

Journal Article

Biodiversity offsetting in dynamic landscapes: influence of regulatory context and counterfactual assumptions on achievement of no net loss

Sonter, L. J., Tomsett, N., Wu, D. and Maron, M. (2017). Biodiversity offsetting in dynamic landscapes: influence of regulatory context and counterfactual assumptions on achievement of no net loss. Biological Conservation, 206, 314-319. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.025

Biodiversity offsetting in dynamic landscapes: influence of regulatory context and counterfactual assumptions on achievement of no net loss

2017

Journal Article

Towards a threat assessment framework for ecosystem services

Maron, Martine, Mitchell, Matthew G. E., Runting, Rebecca K., Rhodes, Jonathan R., Mace, Georgina M., Keith, David A. and Watson, Jason E. M. (2017). Towards a threat assessment framework for ecosystem services. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 32 (4), 240-248. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.12.011

Towards a threat assessment framework for ecosystem services

2017

Journal Article

Science censorship is a global issue

Ritchie, Euan G., Driscoll, Don A. and Maron, Martine (2017). Science censorship is a global issue. Nature, 542 (7640), 165-165. doi: 10.1038/542165b

Science censorship is a global issue

2017

Journal Article

Non-random patterns of vegetation clearing and potential biases in studies of habitat area effects

Simmonds, Jeremy S., van Rensburg, Berndt J. and Maron, Martine (2017). Non-random patterns of vegetation clearing and potential biases in studies of habitat area effects. Landscape Ecology, 32 (4), 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10980-016-0482-7

Non-random patterns of vegetation clearing and potential biases in studies of habitat area effects

2017

Journal Article

Spatial variation in the importance of different prey types in the diet of red foxes

Graham, Cameron A., Maron, Martine and McAlpine, Clive A. (2017). Spatial variation in the importance of different prey types in the diet of red foxes. Australian Zoologist, 38 (4), 610-628. doi: 10.7882/AZ.2017.025

Spatial variation in the importance of different prey types in the diet of red foxes

2016

Journal Article

Who are our reviewers and how do they review? The profile and work of Biological Conservation reviewers

Primack, Richard B., Maron, Martine and Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa (2016). Who are our reviewers and how do they review? The profile and work of Biological Conservation reviewers. Biological Conservation, 211, 177-182. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.039

Who are our reviewers and how do they review? The profile and work of Biological Conservation reviewers

2016

Journal Article

A disaggregated biodiversity offset accounting model to improve estimation of ecological equivalency and no net loss

Maseyk, F. J. F., Barea, L. P., Stephens, R. T. T., Possingham, H. P., Dutson, G. and Maron, M. (2016). A disaggregated biodiversity offset accounting model to improve estimation of ecological equivalency and no net loss. Biological Conservation, 204 (B), 322-332. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.10.016

A disaggregated biodiversity offset accounting model to improve estimation of ecological equivalency and no net loss

2016

Journal Article

Landscape structure influences urban vegetation vertical structure

Mitchell, Matthew G. E., Wu, Dan, Johansen, Kasper, Maron, Martine, McAlpine, Clive and Rhodes, Jonathan R. (2016). Landscape structure influences urban vegetation vertical structure. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53 (S), 1477-1488. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12741

Landscape structure influences urban vegetation vertical structure

2016

Journal Article

Protecting India's conservation offsets

Narain, Divya and Maron, Martine (2016). Protecting India's conservation offsets. Science, 353 (6301), 758-758. doi: 10.1126/science.aah3989

Protecting India's conservation offsets

2016

Journal Article

A loss-gain calculator for biodiversity offsets and the circumstances in which no net loss is feasible

Gibbons, Philip, Evans, Megan C., Maron, Martine, Ascelin, Gordon, Le Roux, Darren, von Hase, Amrei, Lindenmayer, David B. and Possingham, Hugh P. (2016). A loss-gain calculator for biodiversity offsets and the circumstances in which no net loss is feasible. Conservation Letters, 9 (4), 252-259. doi: 10.1111/conl.12206

A loss-gain calculator for biodiversity offsets and the circumstances in which no net loss is feasible

2016

Journal Article

How humans drive speciation as well as extinction

Bull, J. W. and Maron, M. (2016). How humans drive speciation as well as extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283 (1833) 20160600, 20160600. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0600

How humans drive speciation as well as extinction

2016

Journal Article

Taming a wicked problem: resolving controversies in biodiversity offsetting

Maron, Martine, Ives, Christopher D., Kujala, Heini, Bull, Joseph W., Maseyk, Fleur J. F., Bekessy, Sarah, Gordon, Ascelin, Watson, James E. M., Lentini, Pia E., Gibbons, Philip, Possingham, Hugh P., Hobbs, Richard J., Keith, David A., Wintle, Brendan A. and Evans, Megan C. (2016). Taming a wicked problem: resolving controversies in biodiversity offsetting. Bioscience, 66 (6), 489-498. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biw038

Taming a wicked problem: resolving controversies in biodiversity offsetting

2016

Journal Article

Fanning the flames of Australian wildfires

Doherty, Tim S. and Maron, Martine (2016). Fanning the flames of Australian wildfires. Nature, 531 (7596), 580-580. doi: 10.1038/531580b

Fanning the flames of Australian wildfires

2016

Journal Article

Queensland land clearing is undermining Australia’s environmental progress

Maron, Martine, Laurance, Bill, Pressey, Bob, Catterall, Carla P., McAlpine, Clive, Possingham, Hugh, Watson, James, Rhodes, Jonathan, Wilson, Kerrie and Hockings, Marc (2016, 02 22). Queensland land clearing is undermining Australia’s environmental progress

Queensland land clearing is undermining Australia’s environmental progress

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    New metrics to track fauna community condition in Australia
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2026
    Ecologically responsible mining to fuel a green energy transition
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2023 - 2024
    The effectiveness and evaluation of a species response to management approach
    New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2024
    Understanding Drivers and Identifying Solutions to Koala Habitat Loss and Degradation
    NSW Koala Research Plan
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2024
    Connecting bird community condition metrics to spatial BioCondition
    Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Environmental indicators for tracking environmental condition and trend in Queensland
    Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    Developing indices and process models for estimating offset benefits to species
    New South Wales Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    NatureNet Fellow - SEES - Embedding conservation of biodiversity and cultural values in strategic planning for northern Australia (Decision Making)
    The Nature Conservancy NatureNet Science Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    The ecology and conservation biogeography of the buff-breasted button-quail
    Birds Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2023
    The effects of fire, landform and land use on small vertebrates in central Queensland
    Bush Heritage Australia
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Review and Provision of Recommendations for the Koala Offsets Policy
    Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science
    Open grant
  • 2018
    Estimating trajectories of 20 mammals, 20 birds and 30 plants under the Threatened Species Strategy (NESP Threatened Species Project)
    Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Energy
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2020
    Improved Offsets for Koala Conservation
    Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    The effectiveness of approaches to urban flying-fox roost management (NESP Emerging Priorities project)
    National Environmental Science Program
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2024
    Acoustic observatory: A network to monitor biodiversity across Australia (ARC LIEF project administered by Queensland University of Technology)
    Queensland University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    SNAPP Compensatory Conservation Working Group
    The Nature Conservancy
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    Developing response to management models for priority SoS species
    New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2016
    3.12 Development of an offset financial contribution calculator for Reef Trust. NESP - Tropical Water Quality Hub (administered by Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Ltd)
    Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2023
    Improving the potential of biodiversity offsetting to reconcile development and conservation: will good environmental outcomes counterbalance the bad?
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2021
    NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub
    National Environmental Science Program
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Review of the proposed approach for a new Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy
    UniQuest Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2015
    Achieving Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Service Delivery: the Role of Landscape Structure
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2021
    Developing an evidence-based approach to restoration of subtropical forests following tenure change
    Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management
    Open grant
  • 2009
    Early warning signs of extinctions in fragmented landscapes
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2010
    Biodiversity declines and landscape change: unveiling the processes behiind the patterns
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2010
    Restoration of Fragmented Brigalow Landscapes for Conservation: Evaluating Alternative Futures in a Changing Climate
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Martine Maron is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Ecological and conservation impacts of noisy miner Manorina melanocephala control in subtropical woodlands

    This exciting project aims to develop a greater understanding of the effects of noisy miners Manorina melaocephala on the health of subtropical woodland ecosystems, and test an experimental approach to reducing negative impacts. The fieldwork will be based in the woodland landscapes around the UQ Hidden Vale Wildlife Centre in south-east Queensland, about 1.5 hours from the St Lucia campus. You would be joining the vibrant Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at the University of Queensland.

    We are seeking students with experience in Australian bird and/or plant identification and survey methods, and an enthusiasm for field-based work. Field expenses are funded, but the successful applicant would need to apply for PhD candidature and scholarship through The University of Queensland: Doctor of Philosophy - Study - The University of Queensland (uq.edu.au). At this stage, we are only able to accept applications from domestic students.

    To express your interest in this position, please contact Professor Martine Maron m.maron@uq.edu.au with a CV and cover email.

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Influence of the Prospect of Biodiversity Offsetting on Development Impact Permitting

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Brian Head

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The FaunaHealth Index: A holistic approach to mammal community health.

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr April Reside

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Conserving Koalas on Private Land under Climate Change

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Improving biodiversity offset policy for application in intact tropical landscapes

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Making businesses work for biodiversity: Decision-support tools for integrating biodiversity conservation into the finance sector

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Making businesses work for biodiversity: Decision-support tools for integrating biodiversity conservation into the finance sector

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Integrating conservation with production in Queensland grazing landscapes

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kieren McCosker

  • Doctor Philosophy

    New metrics to measure and track bird community condition in Australia

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr April Reside

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Trophic release, ecological cascades, and zoonotic disease risk of a terrestrial predator and mesopredator guild adapted to anthropogenic disturbances in Namibia

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Matthew Luskin

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Ecology and conservation of the Buff-breasted Button-quail (Turnix olivii)

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor James Watson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Autecology of an endangered Australian passerine: CarpentarianGrasswren (Amytornis dorotheae)

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor James Watson

Completed supervision

Enquiries

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  • Bird ecology
  • Birds - conservation
  • Conservation - birds
  • Conservation biology
  • Conservation policy
  • Habitat offsets
  • Landscape ecology
  • Restoration ecology

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