Staff profile

Dr Angie Haslem

Research Fellow

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences
Department of Zoology

Biological Sciences Building 1, Room 347, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BConsEcol (Hons) PhD, Deakin

Membership of professional associations

Ecological Society of Australia

Area of study

Wildlife and Conservation Biology

Brief profile

My research interests belong to two different fields, linked by a common theme of biodiversity conservation in the face of disturbance. My PhD research focused on conservation in agricultural environments – with key topics being the potential value of countryside (‘matrix’) habitats for native species, and the influence of landscape properties on species occurrence.  My current research is in the field of fire ecology – specifically, the way in which the temporal aspects of fire regimes (time-since-fire, inter-fire interval) affect habitat attributes for fauna and sources of fuel.

Recent publications

Haslem A, Avitabile SC, Taylor RS, Kelly LT, Watson SJ, Nimmo DG, Kenny SA, Callister KE, Spence-Bailey LM, Bennett AF and Clarke MF (in press) Time-since-fire and inter-fire interval influence hollow availability for fauna in a fire-prone system. Biological Conservation.

Nimmo DG, Kelly LT, Spence-Bailey LM, Watson SJ, Haslem A, White JG, Clarke MF and Bennett AF (in press) Predicting the century-long, post-fire responses of reptiles. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Steinbauer MJ, Haslem A and Edwards ED (in press) Using meteorological and lunar information to explain catch variability of Orthoptera and Lepidoptera from 250 W Farrow light traps. Insect Conservation and Diversity.

Watson SJ, Taylor RS, Nimmo DG, Kelly LT, Haslem A, Clarke MF and Bennett AF (2012) Effects of time-since-fire on birds: how informative are generalized fire-response curves for conservation management? Ecological Applications 22: 685-696.

Haslem A, Kelly LT, Nimmo DG, Watson SJ, Kenny SA, Taylor RS, Avitabile SC, Callister KE, Spence-Bailey LM, Clarke MF and Bennett AF (2011) Habitat or fuel? Implications of long-term, post-fire dynamics for the development of key resources for fauna and fire. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 247-256.

Haslem A and Bennett AF (2011) Countryside vegetation provides supplementary habitat at the landscape scale for woodland birds in farm mosaics. Biodiversity and Conservation 20: 2225-2242.

Kelly LT, Nimmo DG, Spence-Bailey LM, Haslem A, Watson SJ, Clarke MF and Bennett AF (2011) Influence of fire history on small mammal distributions: insights from a 100-year post-fire chronosequence. Diversity and Distributions, 17: 462-473.

Haslem A, Callister KE, Avitabile SC, Griffioen PA, Kelly LT, Nimmo DG, Spence-Bailey LM, Taylor RS, Watson SJ, Brown L, Bennett AF and Clarke MF (2010) A framework for mapping vegetation over broad spatial extents: a technique to aid land management across jurisdictional boundaries. Landscape and Urban Planning 97: 296-305.

Clarke MF, Avitabile SC, Brown L, Callister KE, Haslem A, Holland GJ, Kelly LT, Kenny SA, Nimmo DG, Spence-Bailey LM, Taylor RS, Watson SJ and Bennett AF (2010) Ageing mallee eucalypt vegetation after fire: insights for successional trajectories in semiarid mallee ecosystems. Australian Journal of Botany 58: 363-372.

Bennett AF, Haslem A, Cheal DC, Clarke MF, Jones RN, Koehn JD, Lake PS, Lumsden LF, Lunt ID, Mackey BG, Mac Nally R, Menkhorst PW, New TR, Newell, GR, O’Hara, T, Quinn, GP, Radford, JQ, Robinson, D, Watson, JEM and Yen, AL (2009) Ecological processes: A key element in strategies for nature conservation. Ecological Management and Restoration 10: 192-199.

Haslem A and Bennett AF (2008) Birds in agricultural mosaics: the influence of landscape pattern and countryside heterogeneity. Ecological Applications 18: 185-196.

Haslem A and Bennett AF (2008) Countryside elements and the conservation of birds in agricultural environments. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 125: 191-203.

Bennett AF, Radford JQ and Haslem A (2006) Properties of land mosaics: implications for nature conservation in agricultural environments. Biological Conservation 133: 250-264.