Associate Professor Ben Sparrow

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2017 - ongoing	Associate Professor	The University of Adelaide
  2016 - ongoing	Director TERN Eco-informatics and AusPlots	The University of Adelaide
  2013 - ongoing	Director - TERN Ausplots	The University of Adelaide
  2012 - 2013	Science and Technology Lead - TERN MSPN	The University of Adelaide
  2010 - 2011	TERN Ausplots Survey Manager	The University of Adelaide
  2009 - 2010	Manager - Land Resources South	Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, NT
  2009 - 2009	Acting Regional Manager - Natural Resources Division	NRETAS
  2008 - 2009	Principal Scientist - Land Resources South	Land Sciences Branch - NRETAS
  2004 - 2008	Spatial Ecologist - Biodiversity Conservation (South)	Parks and Wildlife - NRETAS
  2000 - 2004	Spatial Scientist - Biological Survey and Monitoring Section	Department of Environment and Heritage
  1999 - 2002	Part Time Lecturer	UniSA- School of Geo-informatics, Planning and Building.
  1997 - 2000	Remote Sensing Specialist, Image Data Section	Department of Environment and Heritage

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  1993 - 1996	The University of Adelaide	Australia	B.App.Sc (NRM) (Hons.)

• Research Interests

  Community Ecology Ecology Environmental Management Environmental Monitoring Environmental Science and Management Environmental Sciences Landscape Ecology Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2024	Martín-Forés, I., Guerin, G. R., Lewis, D., Gallagher, R. V., Vilà, M., Catford, J. A., . . . Sparrow, B. (2024). Towards integrating and harmonising information on plant invasions across Australia. NeoBiota, 92, 61-83. DOI
  2024	Slik, F., Pinho, B. X., Griffith, D. M., Webb, E., Raghubanshi, A. S., Quaresma, A. C., . . . Van Sam, H. (2024). Wind dispersed tree species have greater maximum height. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(9), 11 pages. DOI
  2024	Grypma, H. -A., Bardsley, D. K., & Sparrow, B. (2024). The Critical Social Processes for Standardising the Ecological Monitoring of Australian Landscapes. Environmental Management, 1-15. DOI
  2023	Martín-Forés, I., Bywaters, S. L., Sparrow, B., & Guerin, G. R. (2023). Orchid fruiting success is unrelated to surrounding floral resources in South Australian plant communities. Journal of Plant Ecology, 16(2), 1-9. DOI Scopus1
  2023	Schacher, A., Roger, E., Williams, K. J., Stenson, M. P., Sparrow, B., & Lacey, J. (2023). Use-Specific Considerations for Optimising Data Quality Trade-Offs in Citizen Science: Recommendations from a Targeted Literature Review to Improve the Usability and Utility for the Calibration and Validation of Remotely Sensed Products. Remote Sensing, 15(5), 16 pages. DOI Scopus5
  2023	Martín-Forés, I., Guerin, G. R., Lewis, D., Gallagher, R. V., Vilà, M., Catford, J. A., . . . Sparrow, B. (2023). The Alien Flora of Australia (AFA), a unified Australian national dataset on plant invasion. Scientific Data, 10(1), 834-1-834-9. DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC1
  2022	Guerin, G. R., Gallagher, R. V., Wright, I. J., Andrew, S. C., Falster, D. S., Wenk, E., . . . Sparrow, B. (2022). Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities. Basic and Applied Ecology, 58, 98-109. DOI Scopus13 WoS8
  2022	Martín‐Forés, I., Bywaters, S. L., Sparrow, B., & Guerin, G. R. (2022). Simultaneous effect of habitat remnancy, exotic species, and anthropogenic disturbance on orchid diversity in South Australia. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(4), 13 pages. DOI Scopus4 WoS1
  2022	Munroe, S., McInerney, F., Guerin, G., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Sparrow, B. (2022). Plant families exhibit unique geographic trends in C4 richness and cover. DOI
  2022	Munroe, S. E. M., Guerin, G. R., McInerney, F. A., Martín-Forés, I., Welti, N., Farrell, M., . . . Sparrow, B. (2022). A vegetation carbon isoscape for Australia built by combining continental-scale field surveys with remote sensing. Landscape Ecology, 37(8), 1987-2006. DOI Scopus7 WoS2
  2022	Munroe, S. E. M., McInerney, F. A., Guerin, G. R., Andrae, J. W., Welti, N., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Sparrow, B. (2022). Plant families exhibit unique geographic trends in C4 richness and cover in Australia. PLoS One, 17(8), e0271603-1-e0271603-21. DOI Scopus3 WoS1 Europe PMC1
  2022	Hunter, J. T., Lewis, D., Addicott, E., Luxton, S., Cowie, I., Sparrow, B., & Leitch, E. (2022). A plot-based analysis of the vegetation of the Northern Territory, Australia: a first assessment within the International Vegetation Classification framework. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 3, 161-174. DOI Scopus1
  2022	Baruch, Z., Guerin, G., Martín-Forés, I., Munroe, S., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. J. (2022). Shifts in floristic composition and structure in Australian rangelands. PLoS ONE, 17(12 October), 15 pages. DOI
  2021	Falster, D., Gallagher, R., Wenk, E. H., Wright, I. J., Indiarto, D., Andrew, S. C., . . . Ziemińska, K. (2021). AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Scientific data, 8(1), 254-1-254-20. DOI Scopus93 WoS45 Europe PMC20
  2021	Munroe, S. E. M., McInerney, F. A., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Guerin, G. R., Leitch, E., . . . Sparrow, B. (2021). The photosynthetic pathways of plant species surveyed in Australia’s national terrestrial monitoring network. Scientific Data, 8(1), 97-1-97-10. DOI Scopus7 WoS5 Europe PMC3
  2021	Munroe, S., Guerin, G., Saleeba, T., Martín‐Forés, I., Blanco‐Martin, B., Sparrow, B., & Tokmakoff, A. (2021). ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(3), 9 pages. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
  2021	Sabatini, F. M., Lenoir, J., Hattab, T., Arnst, E. A., Chytrý, M., Dengler, J., . . . Monteagudo Mendoza, A. (2021). sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(9), 1740-1764. DOI Scopus57 WoS30
  2021	Martin Fores, I., Guerin, G., Munroe, S., & Sparrow, B. (2021). Applying conservation reserve design strategies to define ecosystem monitoring priorities. Ecology and Evolution, 11(23), 16365-17567. DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC3
  2021	Guerin, G. R., Williams, K. J., Leitch, E., Lowe, A. J., & Sparrow, B. (2021). Using generalised dissimilarity modelling and targeted field surveys to gap‐fill an ecosystem surveillance network. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(4), 766-776. DOI Scopus9 WoS8
  2021	Munroe, S., McInerney, F. A., Guerin, G., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Sparrow, B. (2021). Plant families exhibit unique geographic trends in C4 richness and cover. DOI
  2020	Munroe, S., McInerney, F., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Guerin, G., Leitch, E., . . . Caddy-Retalic, S. (2020). The photosynthetic pathways of plant species surveyed in Australia’s national terrestrial monitoring network. DOI
  2020	Bastin, J. F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Gellie, N., Lowe, A., Mollicone, D., . . . Crowther, T. W. (2020). Erratum: The global tree restoration potential (Science (2017) 12 (e0169748) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169748). Science, 368(6494), eabc8905. DOI Scopus6
  2020	Guerin, G. R., Williams, K. J., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. J. (2020). Stocktaking the environmental coverage of a continental ecosystem observation network. Ecosphere, 11(12), e03307-1-e03307-17. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
  2020	Gallagher, R. V., Falster, D. S., Maitner, B. S., Salguero-Gómez, R., Vandvik, V., Pearse, W. D., . . . Enquist, B. J. (2020). Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4(3), 294-303. DOI Scopus129 WoS97 Europe PMC42
  2020	Gallagher, R. V., Falster, D. S., Maitner, B. S., Salguero-Gómez, R., Vandvik, V., Pearse, W. D., . . . Enquist, B. J. (2020). Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life.. Nature ecology & evolution, 4(4), 662. DOI Scopus1
  2020	Dong, N., Prentice, I. C., Wright, I. J., Evans, B. J., Togashi, H. F., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2020). Components of leaf-trait variation along environmental gradients. New Phytologist, 228(1), 82-94. DOI Scopus127 WoS71 Europe PMC36
  2020	Sparrow, B. D., Edwards, W., Munroe, S. E. M., Wardle, G. M., Guerin, G. R., Bastin, J. -F., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2020). Effective ecosystem monitoring requires a multi-scaled approach.. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 95(6), 1706-1719. DOI Scopus52 WoS31 Europe PMC8
  2020	Sparrow, B. D., Foulkes, J. N., Wardle, G. M., Leitch, E. J., Caddy-Retalic, S., van Leeuwen, S. J., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2020). A vegetation and soil survey method for surveillance monitoring of rangeland environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 157-1-157-18. DOI Scopus29 WoS24
  2019	Sparrow, B., Edwards, W., Munroe, S., Wardle, G., Guerin, G., Bastin, J. -F., . . . Lowe, A. (2019). Effective ecological monitoring requires a multi-scaled approach.. DOI
  2019	Hoffmann, A. A., Rymer, P. D., Byrne, M., Ruthrof, K. X., Whinam, J., McGeoch, M., . . . Williams, S. E. (2019). Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: some emerging Australian examples. Austral Ecology, 44(1), 3-27. DOI Scopus105 WoS76
  2019	Guerin, G. R., Andersen, A. N., Rossetto, M., van Leeuwen, S., Byrne, M., Sparrow, B., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2019). Consistent sorting but contrasting transition zones in plant communities along bioclimatic gradients. Acta Oecologica, 95, 74-85. DOI Scopus11 WoS9
  2019	Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Purschke, O., Hennekens, S. M., Chytrý, M., . . . Sparrow, B. (2019). sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(2), 161-186. DOI Scopus182 WoS123
  2019	Beland, M., Parker, G., Sparrow, B., Harding, D., Chasmer, L., Phinn, S., . . . Strahler, A. (2019). On promoting the use of lidar systems in forest ecosystem research. Forest Ecology and Management, 450, 1-9. DOI Scopus133 WoS89
  2019	Guerin, G. R., Martin Fores, I., Munroe, S. E. M., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. J. (2019). Alien plants alter the growth form ratio and structure of Australian grasslands. APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE, 22(4), 582-592. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
  2019	Cleverly, J., Eamus, D., Edwards, W., Grant, M., Grundy, M. J., Held, A., . . . Morris, B. (2019). TERN, Australia's land observatory: addressing the global challenge of forecasting ecosystem responses to climate variability and change. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 14(9), 16 pages. DOI Scopus35 WoS23
  2019	Bastin, J. F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Gellie, N., Lowe, A., Mollicone, D., . . . Crowther, T. W. (2019). Response to Comments on “The global tree restoration potential”. Science, 366(6463), 6 pages. DOI Scopus22 WoS21 Europe PMC3
  2018	Guerin, G., Martín-Forés, I., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. (2018). The biodiversity impacts of non-native species should not be extrapolated from biased single-species studies. Biodiversity and Conservation, 27(3), 785-790. DOI Scopus34 WoS31 Europe PMC3
  2018	Guerin, G., Andersen, A., Rossetto, M., van Leeuwen, S., Byrne, M., Sparrow, B., . . . Lowe, A. (2018). When macroecological transitions are a fiction of sampling: comparing herbarium records to plot-based species inventory data. Ecography, 41(11), 1864-1875. DOI Scopus8 WoS8
  2018	Guerin, G., O Connor, P., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. (2018). An ecological climate change classification for South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 142(1), 70-85. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
  2018	Guerin, G., Christmas, M., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. (2018). Projected climate change implications for the South Australian flora testing title. Swainsona, 30, 25-31.
  2018	Baruch, Z., Caddy-Retalic, S., Guerin, G. R., Sparrow, B., Leitch, E., Tokmakoff, A., & Lowe, A. J. (2018). Floristic and structural assessment of Australian rangeland vegetation with standardized plot-based surveys. PLoS ONE, 13(9), e0202073-1-e0202073-18. DOI Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC1
  2017	Bastin, J. F., Mollicone, D., Grainger, A., Sparrow, B., Picard, N., Lowe, A., & Castro, R. (2017). Response to comment on "the extent of forest in dryland biomes". Science, 358(6362), 2 pages. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
  2017	Lemetre, C., Maniko, J., Charlop-Powers, Z., Sparrow, B., Lowe, A., & Brady, S. (2017). Bacterial natural product biosynthetic domain composition in soil correlates with changes in latitude on a continent-wide scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(44), 11615-11620. DOI Scopus41 WoS23 Europe PMC26
  2017	Bastin, J. F., Mollicone, D., Grainger, A., Sparrow, B., Picard, N., Lowe, A., & Castro, R. (2017). Response to Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes”. Science, 358(6364), 1 page. DOI Scopus1 WoS2
  2017	Bastin, J. -F., Mollicone, D., Grainger, A., Sparrow, B., Picard, N., Lowe, A., & Castro, R. (2017). Response to Comment on "The extent of forest in dryland biomes".. Science (New York, N.Y.), 358(6365), 1. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC1
  2017	Bastin, J., Berrahmouni, N., Grainger, A., Maniatis, D., Mollicone, D., Moore, R., . . . Castro, R. (2017). The extent of forest in dryland biomes. Science, 356(6338), 635-638. DOI Scopus318 WoS257 Europe PMC36
  2017	Lowe, A. J., Smyth, A. K., Atkins, K., Avery, R., Belbin, L., Brown, N., . . . Wardle, G. M. (2017). Publish openly but responsibly. Science, 357(6347), 141. DOI Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC4
  2017	Guerin, G., Sparrow, B., Tokmakoff, A., Smyth, A., Leitch, E., Baruch, Z., & Lowe, A. (2017). Opportunities for integrated ecological analysis across inland Australia with standardised data from AusPlots Rangelands. PLoS One, 12(1), e0170137-1-e0170137-19. DOI Scopus19 WoS15 Europe PMC6
  2017	Frank, M., Sparrow, B., Zoshi, J., & Low, M. (2017). Lowering cost and waste in flue gas desulfurization wastewater treatment. Power, 161(3). Scopus1
  2016	Tokmakoff, A., Sparrow, B., Turner, D., & Lowe, A. (2016). AusPlots Rangelands field data collection and publication: infrastructure for ecological monitoring. Future Generation Computer Systems, 56, 537-549. DOI Scopus15 WoS14

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2012	White, A., Sparrow, B., Leitch, E., Foulkes, J., Flitton, R., Lowe, A. J., & Caddy-Retalic, S. (2012). AusPlots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual (1.2.9 ed.). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2014	Sparrow, B., Dormontt, E., Thurgate, N., Burns, E., Lindenmayer, D., & Lowe, A. (2014). Our capacity to tell an Australian ecological story. In D. Lindenmayer, E. Burns, N. Thurgate, & A. Lowe (Eds.), Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction (1 ed., pp. 49-82). Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
  2014	Ens, E., Burns, E., Russell-Smith, J., Sparrow, B., & Wardle, G. (2014). The cultural imperative: broadening the vision of long-term ecological monitoring to enhance environmental policy and management outcomes. In D. Lindenmayer, E. Burns, N. Thurgate, & A. Lowe (Eds.), Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction (1 ed., pp. 83-108). Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
  2014	Foulkes, J., de Preu, N., Sinclair, R., Thurgate, N., Sparrow, B., & White, A. (2014). Chenopod and acacia shrublands. In D. Lindenmayer, E. Burns, N. Thurgate, & A. Lowe (Eds.), Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction (1 ed., pp. 439-478). Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
  2014	Lindenmayer, D., Burns, E., Thurgate, N., Lowe, A., Dickman, C., Dormontt, E., . . . Wood, S. (2014). Synopsis. In D. Lindenmayer, E. Burns, N. Thurgate, & A. Lowe (Eds.), Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction (1 ed., pp. 573-595). Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing.
  2012	White, I., Foulkes, J., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. (2012). Biodiversity monitoring in the Australian rangelands. In D. Lindenmayer, & P. Gibbons (Eds.), Biodiversity Monitoring in Australia (1 ed., pp. 179-190). Australia: CSIRO Publishing.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2021	McCallum, K., Laws, M., Bignall, J., O'Neill, S., & Sparrow, B. (2021). The value of standardised field survey methods for researchers. In A. Gackle (Ed.), Proceedings of the TERN Science Symposium 2021 (pp. 16-20). Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. DOI
  2018	Sparrow, B., Ebsary, A., Mandel, D., & Man, M. (2018). An advanced electrochemical system for EOR produced water desalination and reduced polymer consumption. In Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery Vol. 2018-April. USA: Society of Petroleum Engineering. DOI Scopus2
  2017	Guerin, G. R., Sparrow, B., Tokmakoff, A., Smyth, A., & Leitch, E. (2017). Standardised vegetation survey and monitoring data across the Australian rangelands from TERN AusPlots. In Proceedings of the 19th Australian Rangelands Society Biennial Conference (pp. 1-9). Australia: Australian Rangelands Society.
  2014	Tokmakoff, A., Sparrow, B., Turner, D., & Lowe, A. (2014). AusPlots Rangelands Field Data Collection and Publication: Infrastructure for Ecological Monitoring. In e-Science (e-Science), 2014 IEEE 10th International Conference on Vol. 1 (pp. 249-255). Guaruja, BRAZIL: IEEE. DOI Scopus2 WoS3
  2013	Sparrow, B., Ward, B., Armston, J., Schaefer, M., Thurgate, N., van den Hengel, A., . . . Phinn, S. R. (2013). Basal area from photos. In EcoTas. Auckland, NZ..
  2012	Jones, S., Malthus, T., Johansen, K., Held, A., Soto-Berelov, M., & Sparrow, B. (2012). AUSCOVER CALVAL: Towards a National Framework for Calibration and Validation. In The of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Melbourne 25th August to 1st September. Melbourne.
  2011	Caddy-Retalic, S., Sparrow, B. D., White, I. A., Foulkes, J. N., Thurgate, N. Y., & Thackway, R. (2011). AusPlots-Rangelands: integrating science and community knowledge in site selection. In Ecological Society of Australia annual meeting Hobart.
  2011	White, I. A., Foulkes, J. N., Sparrow, B. D., & Lowe, A. J. (2011). AusPlots-Rangelands using traditional and innovative methods to describe biodiversity on the Australian rangelands. In Ecological Society of Australia annual meeting. Hobart, Tasmania..
  2008	Sparrow, B., & Leitch, E. (2008). Producing a Vegetation map for Owen Springs  Regional Reserve.. In 14th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference. Darwin.
  2008	Cowan, P., Sparrow, B., & Brock, C. (2008). PDA data collection combined with GPS and GIS technologies leads to improvements in park management.. In 14th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference.. Darwin.
  2004	Sparrow, B., & Foulkes, J. (2004). Utilising field survey data to classify Landsat imagery for Vegetation Mapping in Arid SA.. In 13th Biennial Australian Rangeland Society Conference.. Alice Springs.
  2002	Sparrow, B., & Foulkes, J. (2002). Evaluating a method for combining ecological and remote sensing data for structural vegetation mapping.. In 11th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference.. Brisbane.
  2002	Treilibs, C., Sparrow, B., Lewis, M., & Grierson, I. (2002). Is Thermal Imagery Useful For Animal Detection?. In 11th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference.. Brisbane.
  2000	Cameron, J., Hart, D., & Sparrow, B. (2000). Near Shore Seagrass Change Mapping Using Landsat Thematic Mapper.. In 10th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference. Adelaide..
  1998	Sparrow, B., Lewis, M., & Grierson, I. (1998). The Detection of Dryland Salinity using and Airborne Video System.. In 9th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference. Sydney.

• Conference Items

  Year	Citation
  2022	Martin-Fores, I., Guerin, G., Munroe, S., & Sparrow, B. (2022). Optimisation tool to maximise ecological complementarity and spatial and environmental representativeness when designing monitoring and conservation priorities. Poster session presented at the meeting of Ecological Society of Australia annual conference.
  2022	Munroe, S., Guerin, G., McInerney, F., Martin-Fores, I., Welti, N., Farrell, M., . . . Sparrow, B. (2022). A vegetation carbon isoscape for Australia built by combining continental-scale field surveys with remote sensing. Poster session presented at the meeting of Ecological Society of Australia annual conference.
  2021	Martín-Forés, I., Guerin, G., Munroe, S., & Sparrow, B. (2021). Applying conservation reserve design strategies to define ecosystem monitoring priorities. Poster session presented at the meeting of TERN Science Symposium. Online.
  2021	Guerin, G., Munroe, S., Martin Fores, I., Tokmakoff, A., & Sparrow, B. (2021). ausplotsR – rapid access to vegetation plot data across environments. Poster session presented at the meeting of TERN Science Symposium. Online.
  2021	Irvine, K., O'Neill, S., Lawrence, R., Lawrence, R., Saleeba, T., Tokmakoff, A., . . . Sparrow, B. (2021). Extending biodiversity monitoring across space and time through citizen science. Poster session presented at the meeting of TERN Science Symposium.
  2021	Munroe, S., McInerney, F., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Guerin, G., Leitch, E., . . . Sparrow, B. (2021). Plants down under: defining and mapping the photosynthetic pathway of plants across Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of TERN Science Symposium.
  2019	Irvine, K., Sparrow, B., O'Neill, S., Guerin, G. R., Tokmakoff, A., Munroe, S., . . . Lawrence, R. (2019). Wild Orchid Watch: creating a citizen science program. Poster session presented at the meeting of Ecological Society of Australia conference, 'ESA19: Science for Practical Solutions'. Launceston, Tasmania.
  2018	Guerin, G. R., O'Connor, P., Sparrow, B., Lowe, A. J., & Rogers, D. (2018). An ecological climate change classification for South Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of South Australian NRM Science Conference. The University of Adelaide.
  2018	Sparrow, B., & Guerin, G. R. (2018). The biodiversity impacts of non-native species should not be extrapolated from biased single-species studies. Poster session presented at the meeting of 6th SA Weeds Conference. Charles Hawker Conference Centre, Urrbrae..
  2017	Guerin, G. R., Sparrow, B., Tokmakoff, A., Smyth, A., & Leitch, E. (2017). Opportunities for integrated ecological analysis across inland Australia with standardised data from AusPlots Rangelands. Poster session presented at the meeting of The 99% Solution: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. ANZSEE (Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics) Conference. UniSA, Adelaide.
  2017	Sparrow, B., Leitch, E., & Guerin, G. R. (2017). Investing in ecological infrastructure: A surveillance monitoring method for global rangeland ecosystems. Poster session presented at the meeting of The 99% Solution: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. ANZSEE (Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics) Conference. UniSA, Adelaide.
  2017	Leitch, E., Sparrow, B., Macdonald, C., Tokmakoff, A., Guerin, G. R., & O'Neill, S. (2017). Why do ecological communities stop at state borders? AusPlots and the need for consistent, national scale, surveillance monitoring. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstract Booklet of the 19th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangelands Society. Port Augusta, SA: Australian Rangelands Society.
  2017	Guerin, G. R., Sparrow, B., Tokmakoff, A., Smyth, A., & Leitch, E. (2017). Standardised vegetation survey and monitoring data across the Australian rangelands from TERN AusPlots. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstract Booklet of the 19th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangelands Society. Port Augusta, SA: Australian Rangelands Society.
  2015	Baruch, Z., Guerin, G. R., Leitch, E., Tokmakoff, A., Caddy-Retalic, S., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. J. (2015). Continental analysis of Australian rangeland vegetation: floristic and structural diversity. Poster session presented at the meeting of Interconnectedness. Ecological Society of Australia Annual Conference 2015. The Hilton Hotel, Adelaide.
  2014	Baruch, Z., Leitch, E., Sparrow, B., Guerin, G. R., Tokmakoff, A., & Lowe, A. (2014). AusPlots Rangelands vegetation communities: First insight on their relationship with the environmental matrix. Poster session presented at the meeting of Ecological Society of Australia 2014 Annual Conference. Alice Springs Convention Centre, Alice Springs.
  2014	Baruch, Z., Leitch, E., Sparrow, B., Guerin, G., Tokmakoff, A., & Lowe, A. (2014). Vegetation communities from AusPlots rangeland sites: First insight on their relationship with the environmental matrix. Poster session presented at the meeting of The Ecological Society of Australia Annual Conference Alice Springs September.
  2014	Leitch, E., Flitton, R., Sparrow, B., Fox, I., Caddy-Retalic, S., & Lowe, A. (2014). AusPlots: Four years of rangelands surveillance. Poster session presented at the meeting of The Ecological Society of Australia Annual Conference. Alice Springs.
  2014	Sparrow, B., Thurgate, N., Lyon, P., O'Neill, S., Wundke, D., Phinn, S., & Christensen, B. (2014). Enhancing long-term surveillance monitoring across Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of The Ecological Society of Australia Annual Conference. Alice Springs.
  2014	Sparrow, B., Ward, B., Armston, J., Schaefer, M., Muir, J., Tokmakoff, A., . . . Phinn, S. (2014). Collecting Basal area information from field photography. Poster session presented at the meeting of TERENO (Terrestrial Environmental Observatories International Conference). Bonn, Germany.
  2013	Sparrow, B., Ward, B., Armston, J., Schaefer, M., Thurgate, N., van den Hengel, A., . . . Phinn, S. (2013). Basal area from photos - Is it possible?. Poster session presented at the meeting of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco.
  2013	White, A., Foulkes, J., Sparrow, B., Thurgate, N., Lowe, A., & Tern. (2013). AusPlots Rangelands: Update. A nationally-accepted methods for assessing rangelands condition: Two years of AusPlots Rangelands. Poster session presented at the meeting of TERN Symposium. Canberra.
  2013	Sparrow, B., Dormontt, E., Thurgate, N., Phinn, S., & Lowe, A. (2013). Our capacity to tell an Australian Ecological Story. Poster session presented at the meeting of Intecol. London.
  2013	Armston, J., Newnham, G., Strahler, A. H., Schaaf, C., Danson, M., Gaulton, R., . . . San, M. (2013). Intercomparison of Terrestrial Laser Scanning Instruments for Assessing Forested Ecosystems: Field Experiment. Poster session presented at the meeting of American Geophysical Union Fall December.
  2012	Jones, S., Soto-Berelov, M., Malthus, T., Held, A., Johansen, K., Suarez, L., & Sparrow, B. (2012). A status report on Auscover CALVAL (Australian Activities in Calibration and Validation).. Poster session presented at the meeting of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Conference. Munich, Germany.

• Report for External Bodies

  Year	Citation
  2023	Grympa, K., Bardsley, D., & Sparrow, B. (2023). The Social Science of Standardising the Ecological Monitoring of Landscapes: A Scoping Study.
  2019	Guerin, G. R., Sparrow, B., & Lowe, A. (2019). Habitat suitability and distribution of Olearia pannosa subsp. pannosa under climate change.
  2015	Wundke, D., Sparrow, B., Thurgate, N. Y., O'Neill, S., & Lowe, A. (2015). Ausplots Rangelands Condition Protocols Manual.
  2015	O'Neill, S., Sparrow, B., Thurgate, N. Y., & Lowe, A. (2015). Ausplots Rangelands Vertebrate Fauna Survey Protocols manual..
  2009	Sparrow, B., & Leitch, E. (2009). Vegetation Survey and Mapping of the Eastern and Southern Finke Bioregion and the Stony Plains Inlier NT and SA: The Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport.
  2009	Brandle, R., Sparrow, B., Foulkes, J., Robinson, A. C., A.., Cuff, T., . . . South, H. (2009). Survey of the My Willoughby Indigenous Protected: Department for Environment and N Sparrow and P Brocklehurst Vegetation Survey and Mapping of the.
  2009	Cuff, N., Thompson, T., Sparrow, B., & Brocklehurst, P. (2009). Vegetation Survey and mapping of the McArthur River Catchment, Northern Territory.. Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport.
  2008	Brocklehurst, P., Sparrow, B., Wilson, B., Clark, M., A.., & The, E. (2008). Scoping Paper: Scale Vegetation Map of the Northern Territory: Department of Natural Resources and Sport.
  2006	Neave, H., Sparrow, B., & Clifford, B. (2006). Preliminary Report: Towards a Resource Assessment of the Burt Plain Bioregion for Conservation Planning.. Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport..

• Datasets

  Year	Citation
  2020	Munroe, S., McInerney, F., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Guerin, G., Emrys, L., . . . Sparrow, B. (2020). The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species surveyed in TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Plots. DOI
  2016	Guerin, G., Sparrow, B., Tokmakoff, A., Smyth, A., Leitch, E., Baruch, Z., & Lowe, A. (2016). Ausplots Rangelands supplementary dataset (Guerin et al. 2016), Version 1.0.. DOI

• Preprint

  Year	Citation
  2022	Munroe, S., Guerin, G., McInerney, F., Martín-Forés, I., Welti, N., Farrell, M., . . . Sparrow, B. (2022). A vegetation carbon isoscape for Australia built by combining continental-scale field surveys with remote sensing. DOI
  2021	Martín-Forés, I., Bywaters, S., Sparrow, B., & Guerin, G. (2021). Orchid fruiting success is unrelated to surrounding floral resources in South Australian plant communities. DOI
  2021	Martín-Forés, I., Bywaters, S., Sparrow, B., & Guerin, G. (2021). Simultaneous effect of habitat remnancy, exotic species and anthropogenic disturbance on orchid diversity and abundance. DOI
  2021	Martín-Forés, I., Guerin, G., Munroe, S., & Sparrow, B. (2021). Applying conservation reserve design strategies to define ecosystem monitoring priorities. DOI
  2020	Munroe, S., Guerin, G., Saleeba, T., Martín-Forés, I., Blanco-Martin, B., Sparrow, B., & Tokmakoff, A. (2020). ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. DOI

Ben has no current teaching role. He is available for guest lectures on different environmental monitoring types, Surveillance monitoring, Integrating Remote Sensing with ecological data and on his current AusPlots and Eco-informatics roles. Ben is also available to Supervise Honours students and co-supervise PhD students.  He has previously taught Earth Observations, Remote Sensing, GIS, Terrain Information Systems, Photogrammetry and GPS at UniSA.

• Other Supervision Activities

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Location	Program	Supervision Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2021 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	How can standardised data collection increase the efficiency of reporting under Federal Natural Resource Management programs?	The University of Adelaide	Professional Honours	Honours	Full Time	Bethany Cox
  2018 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Assessment of the Within-Site and Between-Site Spatial Heterogeneity of Soils using Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy	The University of Adelaide	School of Agriculture, Food and Wine	Honours	Full Time	Ruby Hume

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2016 - ongoing	Member	Enabling ecosystem surveillance working group	Ecosystem Science Council	Australia
  2015 - ongoing	Member	Drylands Working Group	Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), The United Nations (UN)	-
  2015 - ongoing	Member	Terrestrial Laser Scanning International interest Group	-	-
  2008 - 2010	Chair	Convenor - 15th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference	Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute	Australia

• Position: Lead, TERN Ecosystem Surveillance
• Phone: 83131201
• Email: ben.sparrow@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: Waite
• Building: Davies Building
• Org Unit: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network