Publications

Shaun R. Levick, Anna E. Richards, Garry D. Cook, Jon Schatz, Marcus Guderle, Richard J. Williams, Parash Subedi, Susan E. Trumbore, Alan N. Andersen (2019). Rapid response of habitat structure and above-ground carbon storage to altered fire regimes in tropical savanna. Biogeosciences.

Paulo M. Brando, Divino Silvério, Leonardo Maracahipes-Santos, Claudinei Oliveira-Santos, Shaun R. Levick, Michael T. Coe, Mirco Migliavacca, Jennifer K. Balch, Marcia N. Macedo, Daniel C. Nepstad, Leandro Maracahipes, Eric Davidson, Gregory Asner, Olaf Kolle, Susan Trumbore (2019). Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO2and H2O fluxes. Global Change Biology.

Grigorijs Goldbergs, Stefan W. Maier, Shaun R. Levick, Andrew Edwards (2019). Limitations of high resolution satellite stereo imagery for estimating canopy height in Australian tropical savannas. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.

Divino V. Silvério, Paulo M. Brando, Mercedes M.C. Bustamante, Francis E. Putz, Daniel Magnabosco Marra, Shaun R. Levick, Susan E. Trumbore (2019). Fire, fragmentation, and windstorms: A recipe for tropical forest degradation. Journal of Ecology.

Jenia Singh, Shaun R. Levick, Marcus Guderle, Christiane Schmullius, Susan E. Trumbore (2018). Variability in fire-induced change to vegetation physiognomy and biomass in semi-arid savanna. Ecosphere.

Grigorijs Goldbergs, Shaun R. Levick, Michael Lawes, Andrew Edwards (2018). Hierarchical integration of individual tree and area-based approaches for savanna biomass uncertainty estimation from airborne LiDAR. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Grigorijs Goldbergs, Stefan W. Maier, Shaun R. Levick, Andrew Edwards (2018). Efficiency of individual tree detection approaches based on light-weight and low-cost UAS imagery in Australian Savannas. Remote Sensing.

Antje Ehrle, Alan N. Andersen, Shaun R. Levick, Jens Schumacher, Susan E. Trumbore, Beate Michalzik (2017). Yellow-meadow ant (Lasius flavus) mound development determines soil properties and growth responses of different plant functional types. European Journal of Soil Biology.

Michael J. O’Brien, Bettina M.J. Engelbrecht, Julia Joswig, Gabriela Pereyra, Bernhard Schuldt, Steven Jansen, Jens Kattge, Simon M. Landhäusser, Shaun R. Levick, Yakir Preisler, Päivi Väänänen, Cate Macinnis-Ng (2017). A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones. Journal of Applied Ecology.

William R.L. Anderegg, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta, Maxime Cailleret, Jesus Julio Camarero, Brent E. Ewers, David Galbraith, Arthur Gessler, Rüdiger Grote, Cho ying Huang, Shaun R. Levick, Thomas L. Powell, Lucy Rowland, Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, Volodymyr Trotsiuk (2016). When a Tree Dies in the Forest: Scaling Climate-Driven Tree Mortality to Ecosystem Water and Carbon Fluxes. Ecosystems.

Andrew B. Davies, Shaun R. Levick, Mark P. Robertson, Berndt J. van Rensburg, Gregory P. Asner, Catherine L. Parr (2016). Termite mounds differ in their importance for herbivores across savanna types, seasons and spatial scales. Oikos.

E.-D. Schulze, S Boch, J Müller, S R Levick, J Schumacher (2016). Seltene und gefährdete Pflanzen wachsen im Laubwald überall. AFZ/Der Wald.

Andrew B. Davies, Berndt J. Van Rensburg, Mark P. Robertson, Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner, Catherine L. Parr (2016). Seasonal variation in the relative dominance of herbivore guilds in an African savanna. Ecology.

Shaun R. Levick, Dominik Hessenmöller, E. Detlef Schulze (2016). Scaling wood volume estimates from inventory plots to landscapes with airborne LiDAR in temperate deciduous forest. Carbon Balance and Management.

Gregory P. Asner, Nicholas Vaughn, Izak P.J. Smit, Shaun Levick (2016). Ecosystem-scale effects of megafauna in African savannas. Ecography.

Martin M. Gossner, Beate Wende, Shaun Levick, Peter Schall, Andreas Floren, Karl Eduard Linsenmair, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Ernst Detlef Schulze, Wolfgang W. Weisser (2016). Deadwood enrichment in European forests – Which tree species should be used to promote saproxylic beetle diversity?. Biological Conservation.

Saskia Rughöft, Martina Herrmann, Cassandre S. Lazar, Simone Cesarz, Shaun R. Levick, Susan E. Trumbore, Kirsten Küsel (2016). Community composition and abundance of bacterial, archaeal and nitrifying populations in savanna soils on contrasting bedrock material in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Sophia Ratcliffe, Frédéric Holzwarth, Karin Nadrowski, Shaun Levick, Christian Wirth (2015). Tree neighbourhood matters - tree species composition drives diversity-productivity patterns in a near-natural beech forest. Forest Ecology and Management.

Shaun R. Levick, Samantha A. Setterfield, Natalie A. Rossiter-Rachor, Lindsay B. Hutley, Damien McMaster, Jorg M. Hacker (2015). Monitoring the distribution and dynamics of an invasive grass in tropical savanna using airborne LiDAR. Remote Sensing.

G. P. Asner, N. Owen-Smith, S. R. Loarie, A. B. Davies, E. Le Roux, S. R. Levick (2015). Habitat differences do not explain population declines of sable antelope in an African savanna. Journal of Zoology.

Shaun R. Levick, Claire A. Baldeck, Gregory P. Asner (2015). Demographic legacies of fire history in an African savanna. Functional Ecology.

Mikhail Urbazaev, Christian Thiel, Renaud Mathieu, Laven Naidoo, Shaun R. Levick, Izak P.J. Smit, Gregory P. Asner, Christiane Schmullius (2015). Assessment of the mapping of fractional woody cover in southern African savannas using multi-temporal and polarimetric ALOS PALSAR L-band images. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Fabian Schwabe, Thomas Göttert, Nicole Starik, Shaun R. Levick, Ulrich Zeller (2015). A study on the postrelease behaviour and habitat preferences of black rhinos (Diceros bicornis) reintroduced into a fenced reserve in Namibia. African Journal of Ecology.

Andrew B. Davies, Mark P. Robertson, Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner, Berndt J. van Rensburg, Catherine L. Parr (2014). Variable effects of termite mounds on African savanna grass communities across a rainfall gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science.

Andrew B. Davies, Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner, Mark P. Robertson, Berndt J. van Rensburg, Catherine L. Parr (2014). Spatial variability and abiotic determinants of termite mounds throughout a savanna catchment. Ecography.

K. E. Joyce, S. V. Samsonov, S. R. Levick, J. Engelbrecht, S. Belliss (2014). Mapping and monitoring geological hazards using optical, LiDAR, and synthetic aperture RADAR image data. Natural Hazards.

C. A. Baldeck, M. S. Colgan, J. B. Féret, S. R. Levick, R. E. Martin, G. P. Asner (2014). Landscape-scale variation in plant community composition of an African savanna from airborne species mapping. Ecological Applications.

Martin Thurner, Christian Beer, Maurizio Santoro, Nuno Carvalhais, Thomas Wutzler, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Anatoly Shvidenko, Elisabeth Kompter, Bernhard Ahrens, Shaun R. Levick, Christiane Schmullius (2014). Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner (2013). The rate and spatial pattern of treefall in a savanna landscape. Biological Conservation.

Oliver A. Chadwick, Josh J. Roering, Arjun M. Heimsath, Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner, Lesego Khomo (2013). Shaping post-orogenic landscapes by climate and chemical weathering. Geology.

M. S. Colgan, G. P. Asner, S. R. Levick, R. E. Martin, O. A. Chadwick (2012). Topo-edaphic controls over woody plant biomass in South African savannas. Biogeosciences.

Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner, Izak P.J. Smit (2012). Spatial patterns in the effects of fire on savanna vegetation three-dimensional structure. Ecological Applications.

P. Villamor, N. Litchfield, D. Barrell, R. Van Dissen, S. Hornblow, M. Quigley, S. Levick, W. Ries, B. Duffy, J. Begg, D. Townsend, T. Stahl, E. Bilderback, D. Noble, K. Furlong, H. Grant (2012). Map of the 2010 Greendale Fault surface rupture, Canterbury, New Zealand: Application to land use planning. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.

Gregory P. Asner, Shaun R. Levick (2012). Landscape-scale effects of herbivores on treefall in African savannas. Ecology Letters.

J Beavan, S R Levick, J Lee, K Jones (2012). Ground displacements and dilatational strains caused by $backslash$tthe 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. GNS science consultancy report.

P.; Barrell, D.; Litchfield, N.; Van Dissen, R.; Hornblow Villamor, S., S. Levick (2011). Greendale Fault investigation of surface rupture characteristics for fault avoidance zonation, GNS Science Consultancy Report 2011-121. GNS Science Consultancy Report.

Shaun R. Levick, Kevin H. Rogers (2011). Context-dependent vegetation dynamics in an African savanna. Landscape Ecology.

R D Beetham, J G Begg, P Barker, S R Levick, J Beetham (2011). Assessment of liquefaction and related ground failure hazards in Palmerston North, New Zealand. New Zealand: GNS Science consultancy report.

Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David E. Knapp (2010). The spatial extent of termite influences on herbivore browsing in an African savanna. Biological Conservation.

Gregory P. Asner, Shaun R. Levick, Izak P.J. Smit (2010). Remote sensing of fractional cover and biochemistry in Savannas. Ecosystem Function in Savannas: Measurement and Modeling at Landscape to Global Scales.

Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner, Oliver A. Chadwick, Lesego M. Khomo, Kevin H. Rogers, Anthony S. Hartshorn, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David E. Knapp (2010). Regional insight into savanna hydrogeomorphology from termite mounds. Nature Communications.

Drăguţ L, Tiede D, Levick S. R (2010). ESP: A Tool to Estimate Scale Parameter for Multiresolution Image Segmentation of Remotely Sensed Data.”. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

Shaun R. Levick, Gregory P. Asner, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David E. Knapp (2009). The relative influence of fire and herbivory on savanna three-dimensional vegetation structure. Biological Conservation.

Robert Kröger, Lesego M. Khomo, Shaun Levick, Kevin H. Rogers (2009). Moving window analysis and riparian boundary delineation on the Northern Plains of Kruger National Park, South Africa. Acta Oecologica.

G. P. Asner, S. R. Levick, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, D. E. Knapp, R. Emerson, J. Jacobson, M. S. Colgan, R. E. Martin (2009). Large-scale impacts of herbivores on the structural diversity of African savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

S.R. Levick, K.H. Rogers (2008). Structural biodiversity monitoring in savanna ecosystems: Integrating LiDAR and high resolution imagery through object-based image analysis. Object-Based Image Analysis.

Shaun Levick, Kevin Rogers (2008). Patch and species specific responses of savanna woody vegetation to browser exclusion. Biological Conservation.

S. R. Levick, K. H. Rogers (2006). LiDAR and object-based image analysis as tools for monitoring the structural diversity of savanna vegetation. International Archives for the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. 34, Part XXX.