Gabriel Crowley

Biographical note

Dr Gay Crowley is an environmental scientist who spends her time between north Queensland and Kangaroo Island, South Australia. She has over 30 years’ experience in natural resource planning, management and research. Having spent most of her life in the bush, including living on a cattle station, she has a practical landholder’s perspective of conservation practice.

Research interests/expertise

Gay’s work focuses on project coordination, planning and research for natural resource management. Her research interests are

Knowledge systems and tools to assist land managers to plan and evaluate their management.
Threatened species distribution, habitat, feeding ecology to inform management.
Fire management for conservation and emission reduction outcomes.
Biogeography of the Australian monsoon tropics.

Research codes

Natural resource management (050209)

Terrestrial Ecology (060208)

Biogeography (060302)

Socio-Economic Objectives

Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences (970105)

Land and Water Management (9609)

Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity (9608)

Honours

D.L. Serventy Medal for outstanding contributions to publication in the field of ornithology in the Australasian region (2008)

Publications

Journal articles

Adams, V. M., Álvarez-Romero, J. G., Capon, S. J., Crowley, G. M., Dale, A. P., Kennard, M. J., . . . Pressey, R. L. (2017). Making time for space: The critical role of spatial planning in adapting natural resource management to climate change. Environmental Science & Policy, 74(2), 57-67. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.05.003

Brooke, M. d. L., Butchart, S. H. M., Garnett, S. T., Crowley, G. M., Mantilla-Beniers, N. B., & Stattersfield, A. J. (2008). Rates of movement of threatened bird species between Red-list Categories and towards extinction. Conservation Biology, 22(2), 417-427. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00905.x

Crowley, G. M. (1994). Groundwater rise, soil salinization and the decline of Casuarina in southeastern Australia during the late Quaternary. Australian Journal of Ecology, 19, 417-424. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.1994.tb00507.x

Crowley, G. M. (1994). Soil salinity events and Australian vegetation history. Quaternary Science Reviews, 13, 15-22. doi:10.1016/0277-3791(94)90122-8

Crowley, G. M. (1996). Book review: History of the Australian vegetation: Cretaceous to Recent. New Phytologist, 132(2), 358-359.

Crowley, G. M. (1996). Late Quaternary mangrove distribution in Northern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany, 9, 219-225. doi:10.1071/SB9960219

Crowley, G. M. (2008). Cockatoo Grass Alloteropsis semialata as a keystone species in northern Australia. Northern Territory Naturalist, 20, 58-63.

Crowley, G. M., & Gagan, M. K. (1995). Holocene evolution of coastal wetlands in wet-tropical northeastern Australia. The Holocene, 5(4), 385-399.

Crowley, G. M., & Garnett, S. T. (1998). Vegetation change in the grasslands and grassy woodlands of east-central Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology, 4, 132-148.

Crowley, G. M., & Garnett, S. T. (1999). Seed of the annual grasses Schizachyrium spp. as a food for tropical granivorous birds. Australian Journal of Ecology, 24, 208-220. doi:10.1046/j.1442-9993.1999.00964.x

Crowley, G. M., & Garnett, S. T. (2000). Changing fire management in the pastoral lands of Cape York Peninsula: 1623 to 1996. Australian Geographical Studies, 38, 10-26. doi:10.1111/1467-8470.00097

Crowley, G. M., & Garnett, S. T. (2001). Food value and tree selection by Glossy Black-Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus lathami. Austral Ecology, 26(1), 116-126. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2001.01093.pp.x

Crowley, G. M., & Garnett, S. T. (2001). Growth, seed production and effect of defoliation in an early flowering perennial grass, Alloteropsis semialata (Poaceae), on Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 49, 735-743.

Crowley, G. M., Garnett, S. T., & Shephard, S. (2009). Impact of storm-burns on Melaleuca viridiflora invasion of grasslands and grassy woodlands on Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Austral Ecology, 34, 196-209. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2008.01921.x

Crowley, G. M., Grindrod, J., & Kershaw, A. P. (1995). Modern pollen deposition in the tropical lowlands of northeast Queensland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 83, 299-327. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(94)90142-2

Crowley, G. M., & Thompson, P. (2005). Managing perceptions: Can a change in attitude towards fire and its management ameliorate environmental problems in Australia's north? Wingspan, 15, S12-S14.

Drucker, A. G., Garnett, S. T., Luckert, M. K., Crowley, G. M., & Gobius, N. (2008). Manager-based valuations of alternative fire management regimes on Cape York Peninsula, Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17(5), 660-673. doi:10.1071/WF07102

Gagan, M. K., Johnson, D. P., & Crowley, G. M. (1994). Sea level control of stacked late Quaternary coastal sequences, central Great Barrier Reef. Sedimentology, 41, 329-351. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.1994.tb01409.x

Garnett, S. T., Britton, P., & Crowley, G. M. (2000). A northward extension of range of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami. Sunbird, 30, 18-22.

Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (1994). Wet season feeding by four species of granivorous birds in the Northern Territory. Australian Bird Watcher, 5, 306-309.

Garnett, S., & Crowley, G. (1995). The decline of the Black Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus melanota on Cape York Peninsula. Emu - Austral Ornithology, 95(1), 66-68. doi:10.1071/MU9950066

Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (1995). Golden-shouldered Parrot. Nature Australia, 25, 18-19.

Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (1995). Feeding ecology of Hooded Parrots Psephotus dissimilis during the early wet season. Emu, 95, 54-61. doi:10.1071/MU9950054

Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (1996). A new population of the Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis on Cape York Peninsula. Sunbird, 26(3), 60-62.

Garnett, S. T., Crowley, G. M., & Balmford, A. (2003). The costs and effectiveness of funding the conservation of Australian threatened birds. BioScience, 53(7), 658-664. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0658:TCAEOF]2.0.CO;2

Garnett, S. T., Crowley, G. M., Delaney, M., & Shephard, P. (1998). Fluctuations in the population of the Squatter Pigeon Geophaps scripta at Coen, Cape York Peninsula. Sunbird, 28, 53-54.

Garnett, S., Crowley, G., Duncan, R., Baker, N., & Doherty, P. (1993). Notes on Live Night Parrot Sightings in North-western Queensland. Emu - Austral Ornithology, 93(4), 292-296. doi:10.1071/MU9930292

Garnett, S. T., Crowley, G. M., Hunter-Xenie, H. M., Kozanayi, W., Sithole, B., Palmer, C., . . . Zander, K. K. (2009). Transformative knowledge transfer through empowering and paying community researchers. Biotropica, 41, 571-577. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00558.x

Garnett, S. T., Crowley, G. M., & Stattersfield, A. J. (2003). Changes in the conservation status of Australian birds resulting from differences in taxonomy, knowledge and the definitions of threats. Biological Conservation, 113, 269-276. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00377-4

Garnett, S. T., Pedler, L. P., & Crowley, G. M. (1999). The breeding biology of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus lathami, on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Emu, 99, 262-279.

Komsic, W., Garnett, S., & Crowley, G. (1996). Magpie Geese Anseranas Semipalmata nesting in trees. Sunbird, 26(3), 79-80.

Landsberg, J., & Crowley, G. M. (2004). Monitoring rangeland biodiversity: Plants as indicators. Austral Ecology, 29(1), 59-77. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01357.x

Perry, J., Kutt, A., Garnett, S. T., Crowley, G. M., Vanderduys, E., & Perkins, G. (2010). Changes in the avifauna on Cape York Peninsula over an eight year period: The relative effect of fire, vegetation type and climate. Emu, 112, 120-131. doi:10.1071/MU10009

Preece, N., Crowley, G. M., Lawes, M. J., & van Oosterzee, P. (2012). Comparing above-ground biomass among forest types in the Wet Tropics: Small stems and plantation types matter in carbon accounting. Forest Ecology and Management, 264, 228-237. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.016

Book chapters

Bennett, P. M., Owens, I. P. F., Nussey, D., Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (2005). Mechanisms of extinction in birds: phylogeny, ecology and threats. In A. Purvis, A. Gittleman & A. Brooks (Eds.), Phylogeny & conservation (pp. 317-336). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crowley, G. M. (2001). Grasslands of Cape York Peninsula - a fire-dependent habitat. In R. Dyer, P. Jacklyn, I. Partridge, J. Russell-Smith & R. Williams (Eds.), Savanna burning-understanding and using fire in Northern Australia (pp. 34-37). Darwin: Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre.

Crowley, G., & Garnett, S. (1993). Fire in the woodlands and grasslands of Cape York Peninsula. Position paper for Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy Working Group Meeting.

Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (1997). The Golden-shouldered Parrot of Cape York Peninsula: The importance of cups of tea to effective conservation. In P. Hale & D. Lamb (Eds.), Conservation uutside nature reserves (pp. 201-205). Brisbane: Centre for Conservation Biology, University of Queensland.

Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (1999). Golden-shouldered parrot. In P. J. Higgins (Ed.), Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic, Vol. 4. Parrots to Dollarbird. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (2002). Cape York Peninsula. In R. A. Mittermeier, C. G. Mittermeier, P. R. Gil, J. Pilgrim, G. Fonesca, T. Brooks & W. R. Konstant (Eds.), Wilderness: Earth's last wild places (pp. 220-229). Mexico City: Cemex.

Garnett, S. T., & Crowley, G. M. (2008). The history of threatened birds in Australia and its offshore islands. In W. E. J. Davis, H. F. Recher, W. E. Boles & J. A. Jackson (Eds.), Contributions to the history of Australasian ornithology (pp. 387-438). Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Nuttall Ornithological Club.

Garnett, S. T., Crowley, G. M., & Barrett, G. W. (2003). Birds. In National Land and Water Resources Audit (Ed.), Australian terrestrial biodiversity assessment 2002. Canberra: Department of Primary Industries and Energy and AGPS.

Garnett, S. T., Woinarski, J. C. Z., Crowley, G. M., & Kutt, A. S. (2010). Biodiversity conservation in Australian tropical rangelands. In J. Du Toit, R. Kock & J. Deutsch (Eds.), Wild rangelands: Conserving wildlife while maintaining livestock in semi-arid ecosystems (pp. 191-234). London: Blackwell Scientific.

Other publications

Crowley, G. M. (2010). Management guidelines for the threatened species of the Northern Territory. Version 1. Darwin: Tropical Savannas CRC.

Crowley, G. M. (2016). Climate change in the Southern Gulf region: Nature, impacts and responses. Mount Isa, QLD: Southern Gulf Natural Resource Management.

Crowley, G. M. (2016). Trends in natural resource management in Australia’s Monsoonal North: The beef industry. Cairns: The Cairns Institute, James Cook University.

Crowley, G. M. (2016). Trends in natural resource management in Australia’s Monsoonal North: The conservation economy. Cairns: The Cairns Institute, James Cook University.

Crowley, G. M., & Dale, A. (2013). Informing natural resource management and Regional Development Australia planning in North Queensland. Cairns: The Cairns Institute, James Cook University.

Crowley, G. M., Dale, A., Banks, R., Barclay, S., Birch, P., Buchan, A., . . . Wilson, B. (2014). Environmental research plan for natural resource management organisations and Regional Development Australia boards in northern Australia. NERP TE Project CF14 Final report. Cairns: Reef and Rainforest Research Centre.

Crowley, G. M., Dale, A., Banks, R., Barclay, S., Birch, P., Buchan, A., . . . Wilson, B. (2014). Environmental research plan for natural resource management organisations and regional development Australia boards in northern Australia: Supplementary report. Cairns: Reef and Rainforest Research Centre.

Crowley, G., Dale, A., Turton, S., & Bennett, D. (2013). Science to inform climate change planning in north Queensland. Workshop report - 4 June 2013 - Cairns Regional Library. Report to the National Environmental Research Program.

Crowley, G. M., Felderhof, L., & Colless, L. (2016). Fuel base maps for Savanna Burning and Savanna Fire Management projects in Queensland. Atherton, Australia: Firescape Science.

Crowley, G. M., Felderhof, L., McIvor, J. G., & Bolam, M. (2013). Business and RD&E plan to determine the value proposition for greater use of fire in the grazing lands of northern Australia. Final report for MLA project B.NBP.0755. North Sydney: Meat and Livestock Australia.

Crowley, G. M., Garnett, S. T., & Carruthers, S. (1998). The use of GIS in the mapping and spatial analysis of Glossy Black-Cockatoo Habitat on Kangaroo Island. Adelaide: Department of Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs.

Crowley, G., Garnett, S., Meakins, W., & Heinrich, A. (1998). Protection and re-establishment of Glossy Black-Cockatoo habitat in South Australia: Evaluation and recommendations. Kingscote, SA: Glossy Black-Cockatoo Rescue Fund, South Australian National Parks Foundation.

Crowley, G. M., Garnett, S. T., & Pedler, L. P. (1999). Assessment of the role of captive breeding and translocation in the recovery of the South Australian subspecies of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus. Melbourne: Birds Australia.

Hilbert, D. W., Hill, R., Moran, C., Turton, S. M., Bohnet, I., Marshall, N. A., . . . Westcott, D. A. (2014). Climate change issues and impacts in the Wet Tropics NRM cluster region. Cairns: James Cook University.

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