Professor Martine Maron

Professor

School of the Environment
Faculty of Science
m.maron@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 53836

Overview

Conserving biodiversity is essential for maintaining the health of the environment that supports human life and wellbeing. But the task will only get harder, with human pressures increasing in magnitude and ubiquity. My research tackles questions central to this challenge. I work on understanding why species respond the way they do to landscape change and how even highly modified landscapes can be managed to be more biodiverse. Sound conservation policy is essential if we are to apply ecological knowledge to reduce and ultimately halt biodiversity declines. Given that at least some development that damages biodiversity is inevitable, offsetting damage in one place with biodiversity improvement in another may be our only option. My research seeks to improve the practice and policy of conservation policy such as biodiversity offsetting. I collaborate with a broad network of individuals and organisations including government and non-government bodies to help achieve effective uptake of research findings into policy and environmental management. My research lab is affiliated with both the Landscape Ecology and Conservation Group in GPEM and the Environmental Decisions Hub funded by the National Environmental Research Program.

Qualifications

  • Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Southern Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours), Monash University

Publications

  • Sonter, Laura J., Maron, Martine, Bull, Joseph W., Giljum, Stefan, Luckeneder, Sebastian, Maus, Victor, McDonald-Madden, Eve, Northey, Stephen A., Sánchez, Luis E., Valenta, Rick, Visconti, Piero, Werner, Tim T. and Watson, James E. M. (2023). How to fuel an energy transition with ecologically responsible mining. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (35) e2307006120, 1-3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2307006120

  • zu Ermgassen, Sophus O. S. E., Devenish, Katie, Simmons, B. Alexander, Gordon, Ascelin, Jones, Julia P. G., Maron, Martine, Schulte to Bühne, Henrike, Sharma, Roshan, Sonter, Laura J., Strange, Niels, Ward, Michelle and Bull, Joseph W. (2023). Evaluating the impact of biodiversity offsetting on native vegetation. Global Change Biology, 29 (15), 4397-4411. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16801

  • Ma, Deqiang, Rhodes, Jonathan and Maron, Martine (2023). Minimum multipliers for fishery offsets in marine habitats vary depending on the no net loss goal. Biological Conservation, 284 110204, 110204. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110204

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Supervision

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • DeClerck, Fabrice A. J., Koziell, Izabella, Benton, Tim, Garibaldi, Lucas A., Kremen, Claire, Maron, Martine, Del Rio, Cristina Rumbaitis, Sidhu, Aman, Wirths, Jonathan, Clark, Michael, Dickens, Chris, Carmona, Natalia Estrada, Fremier, Alexander K., Jones, Sarah K., Khoury, Colin K., Lal, Rattan, Obersteiner, Michael, Remans, Roseline, Rusch, Adrien, Schulte, Lisa A., Simmonds, Jeremy, Stringer, Lindsay C., Weber, Christopher and Winowiecki, Leigh (2023). A whole earth approach to nature-positive food: biodiversity and agriculture. Science and innovations for food systems transformation. (pp. 469-496) edited by Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, Louise O. Fresco and Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_25

  • Maron, Martine (2018). Is "no net loss of biodiversity" a good idea?. Effective conservation science: data not dogma. (pp. 141-146) edited by Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier and Brian Silliman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198808978.003.0022

  • Maron, Martine (2010). Retaining and restoring wildlife values of woodlands. Temperate woodland conservation and management. (pp. 241-248) edited by David Lindenmayer, Andrew Bennett and Richard Hobbs. Collingwood, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.

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Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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Completed Supervision