Constructive engagement with farming stakeholders around diffuse nutrient pollution remains an ongoing global sustainability challenge. Using a participatory action-research approach, this study integrates multi-year, high-frequency nitrate-sensing across three North Queensland sugarcane catchments (Herbert, Tully and Russell-Mulgrave) to examine whether digital sensing technologies, by delivering water quality information at...

Cambodia’s coral reefs are vital for supporting marine biodiversity and coastal livelihoods, but they remain understudied and are increasingly threatened by overfishing, habitat degradation, and climate change. Using Reef Check citizen science data from 91 reef sites (2021–2023), we examined how turbidity and productivity, sea surface temperature (SST), hard coral cover and marine protected area (MPA) designation shape coral r...

Irrigation can strongly influence agricultural productivity and sustainability. While sensor‐based irrigation has the potential to improve yield, reduce input costs and enhance resource‐use efficiency, its adoption in commercial agriculture remains limited. This study evaluated and demonstrated the performance of an IoT soil water monitoring system and the effects of sensor‐based irrigation on crop yield and economic returns i...

Conservation translocations require careful assessment of dietary resources to ensure population viability. Here, we used environmental DNA metabarcoding to characterise fungal assemblages across three major habitat types on Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia, prior to the planned reintroduction of two threatened mycophagous species: the boodie ( Bettongia lesueur ) and woylie ( Bettongia ogilbyi ). We detected 243 fungal A...

Habitat fragmentation is a key driver of reduced genetic connectivity and loss of genetic variation among populations, elevating the risk of inbreeding depression and reduced adaptive potential. The black-throated finch ( Poephila cincta ) is an endemic Australian finch with two recognised subspecies, a northern ( P. c. atropygialis ) and southern form ( P. c. cincta ) separated by a biogeographic barrier in northern Australia...

Constructed value of information (CVoI) is an expert elicitation decision‐analytic tool used to prioritize sources of uncertainty based on their potential to improve decision outcomes if resolved. Despite increased application of CVoI, the robustness of CVoI prioritization of sources of uncertainty relative to differences in expert elicitation and scoring methods has not been evaluated. We engaged a group of species experts in...