Mark Lethbridge

Lecturer

Contact Details:

Room 313 Social Sciences North

School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
Flinders University, GPO Box 2100,
Adelaide SA 5001, Australia

Email:	Mark.Lethbridge@flinders.edu.au
Phone:	(08) 8201 5640 (618) 8201 5640	(in Australia (outside Australia)
Fax:	(08) 8201 3521 (618) 8201 3521	(in Australia (outside Australia)

Research Interests

Application of spatial and population modelling particularly in:

1. optimal landscape reconstruction,

2. habitat modelling,

3. climate change modelling,

4. capturing and modelling the threatening processes affecting native species to guide conservation management,

5. aerial survey methods,

6. Camel management in the Australian desert lands,

7. analysing the effects of Goat pressure in Rangelands,

8. monitoring strategies of birds, mammals and vegetation across scale,

9. Population Viability Analysis (PVA) modelling.

PhD Students

Megan Harper

Honours Students

2007

Erin Parham, The complementary use of Conservation Planning Tools

Michael Stead, TBA (part-time).

Nicole Anderson, TBA (part-time)

2006

Alex Clark, An analysis of Fox movement in the Eyre Peninsula to guide management

Nicki Mahoney, Spatially-explicit modelling of Serious Criminal Trespass using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines

2005

Erik Van Wijk, Modelling selected dominant trees in the Mount Lofty Ranges

Alice Egan, The effects of grazing pressure on the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby

2004

Laura Mitchell, Assessing the Potential of Aerial Imagery as an Alternative to Ground-based Monitoring in Semi-arid Rangelands.

2003

Jacqueline Best, Environmental Influences on Frog Distributions in the Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia.

2002

Megan Harper, Using an Individual-based Simulation Model to explore Bridal Veil (Asparagus Declinatus) invasion and control.

Elen Shute, Exploring habitat for Ground Parrot reintroduction on the Fleurieu Peninsula.

Dainis Skabe, GIS and Archaeology: GIS Modelling of Indigenous Archaeology at Lake Condah.

2001

Shannon Waite, Modelling the risk of the environmental Weed: Bridal Veil (Asparagus Declinatus).

Sarah Gilmore, A measure of locational disadvantage in Metropolitan Adelaide: A Spatial and Analytical Perspective.

Professional Affiliations

Ecological Society of Australia.

Statistical Society of Australia Inc.

Other Committees

Spatial Education Australia (SEDA).

Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby Recovery Team

Qualifications

Bachelor of Applied Science, University of South Australia.

Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Adelaide.

PhD, University of South Australia.

Selected Publications

Lethbridge, M.R. and Alexander P.A. 2007. Comparing population growth rates using weighted bootstrapping; Guiding the conservation management of Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus (yellow-footed rock-wallaby), Biol. Conserv (in press).

Souter, N.J., Bull, C.M., Lethbridge, M.R., and Hutchinson, M.N. 2007. Habitat requirements of the endangered pygmy blue tongue

lizard, Tiliqua adelaidensis. Biol. Conserv. 135(1):33-45

Lethbridge, M.R., van Wijk E., Harper M., Best, J. 2006. Modelling of Bird and Plant Distributional Data in the Mount Lofty Ranges (MLR) for Conservation Planning, Report to the Department for Environment & Heritage.

Bass, D.A., Lawrie, S.L. and Crossman, N.D. and Lethbridge, M.R. 2006. The importance of population growth, seed dispersal and habitat suitability in determining plant invasiveness, Euphytica, 148 p97-109.

DeBats D.A. and Lethbridge, M.R. 2005. GIS and the City: Nineteenth Century Residential Patterns, Historical Geography 33 p78-98.

Lethbridge M.R. and Best, J. 2004. Predictive modelling the distribution of selected plant species in the Scott Creek area of the Mount Lofty Ranges, Report to the Native Vegetation Council of South Australia.

Lethbridge M.R. 2004. The Survey of the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby in the Gawler Ranges and Recommendations for further Monitoring, Report to the Department for Environment & Heritage.

Lethbridge M.R. and Best, J. 2004. An Investigation of Predicting the Distribution of Selected Plant Species in the Mount Lofty Ranges, Report to the Conservation Council of South Australia.

Lethbridge M.R., Kazumi A. and Egan A. 2003. Aroona Sanctuary Mark-recapture Analysis, Report to the Royal Zoological of South Australia.

Lethbridge, M.R. 2002. A Presence-absence Survey of the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Report to the Department for Environment and Heritage S.A., Wildlife Conservation Fund Grant: DEH 21/1120.

Lethbridge M.R., Possingham H.P. and Tyre A.J. 2001. A Spatially Explicit Population Viability Model using GIS, Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Canberra.

Lethbridge M.R., Possingham H.P. and Tyre A.J. 2001. A Spatially Explicit Population Viability Model using GIS: Insights to Dispersal, Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on GeoCompuation, Brisbane.

Lethbridge M.R. 1999., A survey of the Black-footed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) in the Davenport Ranges, South Australia, Report to the Department for Environment & Heritage, S.A.

Builth H. and Lethbridge, M.R. 1999. Understanding the relationship of the Gunditjmara Aboriginal people of western Victoria and the specific landform using GIS, Proceedings of the OZRI GIS Conference, Adelaide.

Collaboration

2007

Camel tracking and aerial survey analysis – Rural Solutions SA

Mallee Bird modelling - DEH

Climate change modelling – Paul Green

2005-2006

Mount Lofty Ranges bird and tree modelling - DEH

2004 – present

The application of the optimal landscape reconstruction tool: Optimal Reconstruction of Altered Habitat (OPRAH) – with

Hugh Possingham, University of Queensland

Scott Field, University of Queensland

Michael Westphal, University of Arizona

2000 to present

Flinders and Gawler Ranges – Operation Bounceback (DEH) - biodiversity, threatened species monitoring and management.

1996 to present

Dr Heather Builth, Windamara Aboriginal Corporation.

GIS & hydrology models to understand the function of indigenous archaeology.

Biological & GIS Software

Spatially explicit Population Viability Analysis software for threatened species. For more information email: Mark.Lethbridge@flinders.edu.au

Proximity analysis. Monte Carlo tests of inter-group clustering or dispersion. Download here.

Animal home range and radio tracking software: “Triangulate” For more information email: Mark.Lethbridge@flinders.edu.au

Testing home ranges calculations for sufficient data: three DOS packages are available to test for core areas and ‘n’: core.exe (for helping find the MCP core area), forcast.exe (MCP percentiles for accumulated ‘n’ records’) and boothr.exe (Bootstrapped MCP percentiles for accumulated ‘n’ records’). Documentation here.

User of: Optimal Reconstruction of Altered Habitat (OPRAH) software – available soon.

Refereeing

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Conservation Ecology

Pattern Recognition Letters

Successful Research Grants

2007, Radio Tracking Analysis of Camels the Desert Lands of Australia– with Rural Solutions S.A., $6,500

2007, Aerial Survey and Analysis of Camels in the Desert Lands of Australia – with Rural Solutions S.A., $8,000

2006, Riverland bird modelling – for Department for Environment and Heritage, $36,580

2004, Mt Lofty Ranges Birds for Biodiversity Project, $10,000:

Habitat modelling and landscape reconstruction optimisation modelling for the needs of key bird species in the Mount Lofty Ranges.

2004, Mt Lofty Ranges Birds for Biodiversity Project, $16,000:

Habitat Modelling of selected plant species over a wider area of the Mount Lofty Ranges.

2003, Native Vegetation Council, $18,700:

Habitat modelling, soil analysis and remote sensing investigation of selected plant species in the Scott Creek area.

2003, Bounceback, a NHT Initiative with DEH, $120,000.

A series of 12 projects in the Gawler Ranges & Flinders Ranges (from October 2003 to 2009).

Projects include vegetation monitoring, fauna mark recapture/resighting, aerial monitoring and analysis, genetic analysis (with Dr Mark Eldridge,

Macquarie), fox bait uptake (with Dr David Peacock, now WALB).

2002, Commonwealth Bank, “Lending a hand project” through Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA), $21,000:

The mark-recapture of the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby, 2001 – 2003.

2002, Mt Lofty Ranges Birds for Biodiversity Project, NHT Devolved Grant Scheme, $17,500:

Habitat Modelling of selected plant species in the Mount Lofty Ranges. In collaboration with Dr Scott Field, Adelaide University.

2002, Birds for Biodiversity, Mt Lofty Ranges, NHT Devolved Grant Scheme, $7,235:

A study of the White-naped Honeyeater. In collaboration with Dr Scott Field, Adelaide University. PhD Candidate: Megan Harper.

2000, Research Grant, Wildlife Conservation Fund, $7,500:

A survey of the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby in the North Flinders Ranges (with P. Copley & P. Alexander.)

1999, Special Grant, Department for Environment & Heritage, $2,500:

A survey of the Black-footed Rock-wallaby in the Davenport Ranges.

1999, Research Grant, Wildlife Conservation Fund, $4,000:

Radio tracking of the Yellow-footed rock-wallaby.

Current Teaching

GEOG1003, Introduction to GIS

GEOG3017, Advanced GIS

GEOG3020, GIS Modelling

GEOG7015, (Hons), GIS for Environmental Modelling

GEOG3019, GIS Applied Project

Other Courses/Qualifications

Advanced Multivariate Analysis Course, 2001

Advanced Java Programmer, 1999

E.R. Mapper 6.0, 1999

Oracle Database Administrator, 1996

Oracle PL/SQL Course, 1995

Maestro Data Modelling, 1996

Sun Network Administrator, 1995

Novell Certified Network Administrator, 1995

GIS Environmental Modelling, 1994

Outdoor First Aid Course, Red Cross, 2003

Last updated 19^th Nov 2007