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  • Teo HC, M.J. Hill, A.M. Lechner, F.Y. Teo, C.N. Gibbins (2021) Landscape-scale Remote Sensing and Classification of Lentic Habitats in a Tropical City. Wetlands 41:95. doi: 10.1007/s13157-021-01491-w

  • Ngo KD, S.V. Nghiem, A.M. Lechner, T.T. Vu (2021) Building Structure Mapping on Level Terrains and Sea Surfaces in Vietnam. Remote Sens 13:1–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13132439

  • Foggin, J.M., A.M. Lechner, M. Emslie­Smith, A.C Hughes, T. Sternberg and R Dossani (2021) Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological challenges from large-scale infrastructure in a global biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12819

  • Noor K, S Wahdaniyah, N Kamarudin, AM Lechner, B. Azhar (2021) Spared from poaching and natural predation, wild boars are likely to play the role of dominant forest species in Peninsular Malaysia. For Ecol Manage 496:119458. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119458

  • DCF Tiang, A. Morris, M. Bell, C.N. Gibbins, B. Azhar, A.M. Lechner (2021) Ecological connectivity in fragmented agricultural landscapes and the importance of scattered trees and small patches. Ecological Complexity. 10

  • de la Torre, J.A., E.P. Wong, A.M. Lechner, N. Zulaikha, A. Zawawi, P.A. Patah, S. Saaban, B. Goossens, A. Campos-Arceiz (2021) There will be conflict – agricultural landscapes are prime, rather than marginal, habitats for Asian elephants. Animal Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12668

  • Chin, D., A. Morris, M. Bell, C.N. Gibbins, B. Azhar, A.M. Lechner (2021) Ecological connectivity in fragmented agricultural landscapes and the importance of scattered trees and small patches. Ecol. Complex. 10

  • Chen, HL, T.K. Nath, S. Chong, V. Foo, C. Gibbins, A.M. Lechner (2021) The plastic waste problem in Malaysia: management, recycling and disposal of local and global plastic waste. SN Applied Sciences. 3

  • Lourdes, K.T., C.N. Gibbins, P. Hamel, R. Sanusi, B. Azhar, A.M. Lechner (2021) A Review of Urban Ecosystem Services Research in Southeast Asia. Land. 10(1), 40

  • Ern Ang, M.L., D. Arts, D. Crawford, B.V. Labatos, K.D. Ngo, J.R. Owen, C. Gibbins, A.M. Lechner (2021). Socio-environmental land cover time series analysis of mining landscapes using Google Earth Engine and web-based mapping. Remote Sens. Appl. Soc. Environ. 21. 100458.

  • Lechner, A.M., R.L. Gomes, L. Rodrigues, M.J. Ashfold, S.B. Selvama, E.P. Wong, C.M. Raymond, A. Zieritz, K.W. Sing, P. Moug, L. Billa, S. Sagala, A. Cheshmehzangi, K. Lourdes, B. Azharm, R. Sanusi, C.D. Ives, Y.T. Tang, D. Tan, F.K.S. Chan, T.K. Nath, N.A.B. Sabarudin, S. Metcalfe, N.M. Gulsrud, M. Schuersch, A. Campos-Arceiz, M.G. Macklin, C. Gibbins (2020) Challenges and considerations of applying Nature-based Solutions in low- and middle- income countries in Southeast and East Asia. Blue Green Systems. 2(1): 331–351

  • Jamhuri, J., M.A. Edinoor, N. Kamarudin, A.M. Lechner, A. Ashton-Butt, B. Azhar (2020) Higher mortality rates for large- and medium-sized mammals on plantation roads compared to highways in Peninsular Malaysia. Ecol. Evol. ece3.6827 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6827

  • McKenna, P.B., A.M. Lechner, S. Phinn, P.D. Erskine (2020) Remote sensing of mine site rehabilitation for ecological outcomes: A global systematic review. Remote Sensing. 12, 1–32.

  • Teo, H.C., A.M. Lechner, S. Sagala, A. Campos-Arceiz (2020) Environmental Impacts of Planned Capitals and Lessons for Indonesia’s New Capital. Land 9, 438.

  • Paul A, T.K. Nath S.J. Noon, A.M. Lechner (2020) Public Open space, Green exercise and well-being in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Urban Forest and Urban Greening 55:126825. doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126825

  • Teo, H.C., A. Campos-Arceiz, B. Li, M. Wu, A. Lechner (2020) Building a Green Belt and Road: A Systematic Review and Comparative Assessment of the Chinese and English-Language Literature. PLoS One 15.

  • Lechner, A.M., L.N.H. Verbrugge, A. Chelliah, M. Ang, C.M. Raymond (2020) Rethinking tourism conflict potential within and between groups using participatory mapping. Landscape and Urban Planning, 203. 103902

  • Ng, L., A. Campos-Arceiz, S. Sloan, A.C. Hughes, D. Tiang, B. Li, A.M. Lechner (2020) The scale of biodiversity impacts of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia. Biological Conservation. 248

  • Samantha, L.D., S. L. Tee, N. Kamarudin, A.M. Lechner, B. Azhar (2020) Assessing habitat requirements of Asian tapir in forestry landscapes: implications for conservation. Global Ecology and Conservation. 23, e01137 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01137

  • Shuhada, S.N., S. Salim, F. Nobilly, A.M. Lechner, B Azhar (2020) Conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm cultivation reduces the diversity and abundance of macrofungi. Global Ecology and Conservation, e01122

  • Lechner, A.M., G. Foody, D. Boyd (2020) Applications in remote sensing to forest ecology and management. One Earth. 2 (5), 405 - 412

  • Akbar, D., J. Everingham, J. Rolfe, A.M. Lechner, S. Kinnear (2020) Workshop processes to generate stakeholder consensus about post-mining land uses: An Australian case study. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

  • Narain, D., M. Maron, H. Teo, K. Hussey, A.M. Lechner (2020) Best-practice biodiversity safeguards for Belt and Road Initiative’s financiers. Nature Sustainability. 3: 650 - 657

  • Hughes, A.C., A.M. Lechner, A. Chitov, A. Horstmann, A. Hinsley, A. Tritto, A. Chariton, B. Li, D. Ganapin, E. Simonov, K. Morton, K. Toktomushev, M. Foggin, M. Tan-Mullins, M.  C. Orr, R. Griffiths, R. Nash, S. Perkin, R. Glémet, M. Kim, D. W. Yu. (2020) Horizon Scan of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 35(7), 583-593

  • Wang, Z., A.M. Lechner, Y. Yang, J. Wu, T. Baumgartl (2020) Mapping the cumulative impacts of long-term mining disturbance and progressive rehabilitation on ecosystem services. Science of the Total Environment. 717

  • Fagerholm, N., B. Martín-López, M. Torralba, E. Oteris-Rozas, A.M. Lechner, C. Bieling, A.S. Olafsson, C. Albert, C. Raymond, M.G. Martín, N. Gulsrud, T. Plieninger (2020) Perceived contributions of multifunctional landscapes to human wellbeing: Evidence from 13 European sites. People and Nature. 2 (1): 217 - 234

  • Ngo, K.N. A.M. Lechner, T.T. Vu (2020) Land cover mapping of the Mekong delta to support natural resource management with multi temporal sentinel 1a synthetic aperture radar imagery. Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment. 17

  • Denan, N., M. Wan, Z. Wan, D. Nasir, N. Razi, R. Sanusi, F. Nobilly, A. Ashton-Butt, A. M. Lechner, B. Azhar (2020) Predation of potential insect pests in oil palm plantations, rubber tree plantations and fruit orchards. Ecology and Evolution. 10 (2), 654-661

  • Lechner, A.M., C.M. Tan, A. Tritto, A. Horstmann, H. C. Teo, J. R. Owen, A. Campos-Arceiz (2019) Environmental impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia. Trends in Southeast Asia. ISEAS. 18

  • de la Torre, J.A., A.M. Lechner, E.P. Wong, D. Magintan, S. Saaban, A. Campos-Arceiz (2019) Using elephant movements to assess landscape connectivity under Peninsular Malaysia's central forest spine land use policy. Conservation Science and Practice 1 (12)

  • Anamulai, S., R. Sanusi, Z. Akbar, A.M. Lechner, A. Ashton-butte, B. Azhar (2019) Land use conversion from peat swamp forest to oil palm agriculture greatly modifies microclimate and soil conditions. PeerJ. 7:e7656

  • Ocelík, P., K. Svobodova, M. Hendrychová, L. Lehotsky, Jo. Everingham, S. Ali, J. Badera, A.M. Lechner (2019) A Contested Transition toward a Coal-Free Future: Advocacy Coalitions and Coal Policy in the Czech Republic. Energy Research & Social Science. 58

  • Sloan, S., M.J. Campbell, M. Alamgir, A.M. Lechner, J. Engert, W. F. Laurance (2019) Trans-National Conservation and Infrastructure Development in The Heart of Borneo. Plos One. 18;14(9)

  • Teo, H.C., A.M. Lechner, G. Walton, F.K.S Chan, A. Cheshmehzangi, M. Tan-Mullins, H.K. Chan, T. Sternberg, A. Campos-Arceiz (2019) Environmental impacts of infrastructure development under the Belt and Road Initiative. Environments. 6

  • Lechner, A.M., J. M. Owen, M.  Ang, M. Edraki, N. A. C. Awang, D. Kemp (2019) Historical socio-environmental assessment of resource development footprints using remote sensing, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. 15

  • Lechner, A.M., J. M. Owen, M. Ang, D. Kemp (2019) Spatially Integrated Social Sciences with Qualitative GIS to Support Impact Assessment in Mining Communities. Resources 8, 47

  • Jambari, A., S. Sasidhran, H. Rafhan, A. Halim, K. Amirin, A. Ashton-Butt, A. M. Lechner, B. Azhar (2019). Quantifying species richness and composition of elusive rainforest mammals in Taman Negara National Park, Peninsular Malaysia. Global Ecology and Conservation. 18

  • Tee, S.L., A. Solihhin, S. A. Juffiry, T. Rinalfi Putra, A. M. Lechner, B. Azhar, B. (2019) The effect of oil palm agricultural expansion on group size of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Peninsular Malaysia. Mamm. Biol. 94, 48–53.

  • Oon, A., H Shafri, A. M. Lechner, B. Azhar (2019) Discriminating between large-scale oil palm plantations and smallholdings on tropical peatlands using vegetation indices and supervised classification of LANDSAT-8. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 40:19, 7312-7328

  • Tee, S.L., L.D. Samantha, N. Kamarudin, Z. Akbar, A.M. Lechner, B. Azhar (2019) Urban forest fragmentation impoverishes native mammalian biodiversity in the tropics. Ecology and Evolution. 94, 48-53

  • Oon, A., K.D. Ngo, A.M. Lechner, A. Ashton-Butt, B. Azhar (2019) Assessment of ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 L-band and Sentinel-1 C-band SAR backscatter for discriminating between large-scale oil palm plantations and smallholdings on tropical peatlands. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. 13: 183-190

  • Weyer, V.D., A. de Waal, A.M. Lechner, C.J. Unger, T.G. O'Connor, T. Baumgartl, R. Schulze, W.F. Truter (2019) Quantifying rehabilitation risks for surface-strip coal mines using a soil compaction Bayesian network in South Africa and Australia: To demonstrate the R2AIN Framework. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 15 (2), pp. 190-208. DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4128

  • Nath, T. K., A.M. Lechner, S.S. Zhe Han (2018) Urban Green Space and well-being in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 36, 34-41

  • Jamhuri, J., L.D. Samantha. S.L. Tee, N. Kamarudin, A. Ashton-Butt, A. Zubaid, A.M. Lechner, B. Azhar (2018) Selective logging causes the decline of large-sized mammals including those in unlogged patches surrounded by logged and agricultural areas. Biol. Conserv. 227, 40–47.

  • Everingham. J., J. Rolfe, A. M. Lechner, S. Kinnear, D. Akbar (2018) A proposal for stakeholder engagement in planning post-mining land uses. Land use policy. 79: 397-406

  • Isidro, C., N. McIntyre, A. M. Lechner, I. Callow (2018) Quantifying suspended solids in small rivers using satellite data. Science of the Total Environment. 634, 1554-1562

  • Hunter, J.T., A.M. Lechner (2018) A multi-scale, hierarchical, ecoregional and floristic classification of arid and semi-arid ephemeral wetlands in New South Wales, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Science. 68(10): 418-431

  • Lechner, A. M., F.K.S. Chan and A. Campos-Arceiz (2018) Biodiversity conservation should be a Core Value of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 23, 23-24

  • Wang, Z., A.M. Lechner, T. Baumgartl (2018) Ecosystem services mapping uncertainty assessment: a case study in the Fitzroy Basin mining region. Water, 10:88, 1-25

  • Yang, Y., P.D. Erskine, A.M. Lechner, D. Mulligan, S. Zhang (2018) Dynamic monitoring of land disturbance and recovery in the context of sustainable mining. Journal of Cleaner Production, 178, 353 - 362

  • Wang, Z., A.M. Lechner, T. Baumgartl (2018) Mapping cumulative impacts of mining on sediment retention ecosystem service in an Australian mining region. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology. 25:1, 69-80

  • Magintan, D., S.M. Norb, T.P. Eana, A.M. Lechner, B. Azhar (2017) The conservation value of unlogged and logged forests for native mammals in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Journal for Nature Conservation. 40: 113–119

  • Weyer, V. D., W F. Truter, A.M. Lechner, C.J. Unger (2017) Surface-strip coal mine rehabilitation planning and analysis in South Africa and Australia: A review of inadequacies. Resources Policy: 54: 117-129

  • McKenna, P., P. Erskine, A.M. Lechner, S. Phinn (2017) Measuring fire severity using UAV imagery in semi-arid Central Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 38:14, 4244-4264

  • Halwatura, D., McIntyre, N., A.M. Lechner, S. Arnold (2017) Capability of meteorological drought indices for detecting soil moisture droughts. Journal of Hydrology. 12: 396-412

  • Isidro, C., N. McIntyre A. M. Lechner, I. Callow (2017) Applicability of earth observation for identifying small-scale mining footprints in a wet tropical region. Remote Sensing. 9(9), 945; doi:10.3390/rs9090945

  • Lechner, A.M., N. McIntyre, C.M. Raymond, K. Witt, M. Scott, W. Rifkin (2017) Challenges of integrated modelling in mining regions to address social, environmental and economic impacts. Environmental Modelling and software. 93: 268–281

  • Lechner, A.M., D. Sprod, O. Carter, E.C. Lefroy (2017) Characterising landscape connectivity for conservation planning using a dispersal guild approach. Landscape Ecology. 32(1): 99-113

  • Lechner, A.M., B. Devi, A. Schleger, G. Brown, P. McKenna, S. Ali, S. Rachmat, M. Syukril, P. Rogers (2017) A Socio-Ecological Approach to GIS Least-Cost Modelling for Regional Mining Infrastructure Planning: A Case Study from South-East Sulawesi, Indonesia. Resources. 6(1): 7

  • Levin, N., A.M. Lechner, G. Brown (2017) An evaluation of crowdsourced information for assessing the importance of protected areas. Applied Geography. 79: 115–126

  • Lechner, A.M., C. Unger, O. Kassulke (2016) Spatial assessment of open cut coal mining progressive rehabilitation to support the monitoring of rehabilitation liabilities. Resources Policy. 50: 234–243

  • Lechner, A.M. and J.R. Rhodes (2016) Effects of landscape spatial and thematic resolution on ecological analysis. Current Landscape Ecology Reports. 1:98–105 DOI: 10.1007/s40823-016-0011-z

  • Lechner, A.M., N. McCaffery, P. McKenna, W.N. Venables, J.T. Hunter (2016) Ecoregionalisation classification of wetlands based on a cluster analysis of environmental data. Applied Vegetation Science. 9 (4): 724–735

  • Hunter, J.T., A.M. Lechner (2016) Reliability of map accuracy assessments: a reply to Roff et al. (2016). Ecological Management & Restoration 17 (2): 128-132

  • Lechner, A.M., T. Baumgart, P. Matthew, V. Glenn (2016) The impact of underground longwall mining on prime agricultural land: a review and research agenda. Land Degradation and Development.27(6): 1650-1663

  • Lechner, A.M., R.M.B. Harris, V. Doerr, E. Doerr, M. Drielsma, E.C. Lefroy (2015) Moving from static connectivity models to dynamic connectivity planning for local and regional scales. Journal for Nature Conservation. 28:78-88

  • Raymond, C.M, A.M., Lechner, M. Lockwood, R.M.B., Harris, O., Carter, L. Gilfedder (2015) Private land managers’ capacities to conserve threatened communities under climate change. Journal of Environmental Management. 159(8): 235–244

  • Lechner, A.M., V. Doerr, R.M.B. Harris, E. Doerr, T. Lefroy (2015) A framework for multi-scale connectivity modelling incorporating fine-scale dispersal behaviour. Landscape and Urban Planning. 141: 11–23

  • Ives, C.D., D. Biggs, M. Hardy, A.M. Lechner, M. Wolnicki, C.M. Raymond (2015) Integrating Social Data into Strategic Environmental Assessment. Land Use Policy. 27(4), 309-319

  • Lechner, A.M., G. Brown, C.M. Raymond (2015) Modeling the impact of future development and public conservation orientation on landscape connectivity for conservation planning. Landscape Ecology. 30(4), 699-713

  • Halwatura, D., A.M. Lechner, S. Arnold (2015) Design droughts as planning tool for ecosystem establishment in post-mining landscapes. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 19: 1 -23

  • Halwatura, D., A.M. Lechner, S. Arnold (2015) Design droughts: a new planning tool for ecosystem. International Journal of GEOMATE. 8(1): 1138-1142

  • Unger, C., A.M. Lechner, J. Kenway, J., A. Walton, M. Edraki, V. Glenn, D.R. Mulligan (2015) A jurisdictional maturity model for risk management, accountability and continual improvement of abandoned mine remediation programs. Resources Policy. 43:1-10

  • Gould, S. F., N.J. Beeton, R.M.B. Harris, M.F. Hutchinson, A.M. Lechner, L.L. Porfirio, B.G. Mackey (2014) A tool for simulating and communicating uncertainty when modelling species distributions under future climates. Ecology and Evolution, 4(24): 4798-4811

  • Lechner, A.M., C.M. Raymond, V. Adams, M. Polyakov, A. Gordon, J. Rhodes, M. Mills, A. Stein, C.D. Ives, E.C. Lefroy (2014) Characterizing spatial uncertainty when integrating social data in conservation planning. Conservation Biology. 28(6): 1497–1511

  • Bao, N., A.M. Lechner, K. Johansen, Y. Bao (2014) Object-based classification of semi-arid vegetation to support mine rehabilitation and monitoring, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 8(1)

  • Audet, P., S. Arnold, A. M. Lechner, T. Baumgartl (2013) Site-specific climate analysis elucidates revegetation challenges for post-mining landscapes in eastern Australia, Biogeosciences, 10: 6545-6557

  • Lechner, A.M., K.J. Reinke, Y, Wang, L. Bastin (2013) Interaction of remote sensing data pixel size, aggregation method, landscape heterogeneity and land cover extent on the characterisation of landscape pattern and classification accuracy. Ecological Complexity, 15: 71-82

  • Gordon, A, L. Bastin, W.T. Langford, A.M. Lechner, S.A. Bekessy (2013) Simulating the value of collaboration in multi-actor conservation planning. Ecological Modelling, 240: 19-25

  • Unger, C., Lechner, A., I. Wilson, (2013) Prevention of negative mining legacies - A mine rehabilitation perspective on legislative changes in Queensland, AusIMM Bulletin 1: 60-64

  • Lechner, A.M., S.D. Jones, W.T. Langford, S.A. Bekessy (2012) Are landscape ecologists addressing uncertainty in their remote sensing data? Landscape Ecology, 27(9): 1249-126

  • Bao, N., A.M. Lechner, A. Fletcher, P. Erskine, D. Mulligan, Z. Bai (2012) SPOTing long-term changes in vegetation over short-term variability. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, 28(1): 2-24

  • Bao, N., A.M. Lechner, A. Fletcher, A. Mellor, D. Mulligan, Z. Bai (2012) Comparison of relative radiometric normalisation methods using PIFs for change detection studies in rural and urban landscapes. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 6(1)

  • Lechner, A.M., W.T. Langford, S.D. Jones, A, Gordon and S.A. Bekessy (2012) Investigating species–environment relationships at multiple scales: differentiating between intrinsic scale and the modifiable areal unit problem. Ecological Complexity, 11(9): 91–102

  • Lechner, A.M., A. Stein, S.D. Jones, and J.G. Ferwerda (2009) Remote Sensing of small and linear features: Quantifying the effects of patch size and length, grid position and detectability on land cover mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 2194-2204

  • Southwell, D.M., A.M. Lechner, T. Coates, and B.A. Wintle (2008) The sensitivity of population viability analysis to uncertainty about habitat requirements: Implications for the management of the endangered southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus). Conservation Biology, 22: 1045-1054

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