Prof. Ralph Mac Nally

Professor

BSc (Hons), Ph D DSc,
Grad. Dip. Comp. Stud. Melbourne

Telephone: +61-3-9905-5642
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: Ralph.MacNally@sci.monash.edu.au

• Landscape ecology and futures
• Change ecology – ecological impacts of broad-scale drivers
• Invasion biology
• Community ecology, focusing on birds
• Ecosystem dynamics
• Ecological inference

More research information

• 2009. Mac Nally, R., A.F. Bennett, J.R. Thomson, J.Q. Radford, G. Unmack, G. Horrocks, and P. Vesk, Collapse of an avifauna: climate change appears to exacerbate habitat loss and degradation. Diversity and Distributions, 15: 720-730.
• 2009. Mac Nally, R., G. Horrocks, H. Lada, P.S. Lake, J.R. Thomson, and A.C. Taylor, Distribution of anuran amphibians in massively altered landscapes in south-eastern Australia: Effects in climate change in an aridifying region. Gobal Ecology and Biodiversity.
• 2009. Cunningham, S., R. Mac Nally, J. Read, P. Baker, M. White, J.R. Thomson, and P. Griffioen, A robust technique for mapping vegetation across a major river system. Ecosystems, 12: 207-219.
• 2009. Horner, G., P.J. Baker, R. Mac Nally, S. Cunningham, J. Thomson, and F. Hamilton, Regeneration and mortality of floodplain forests subjected to a drying climate and water extraction. Global Change Biology: doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01915.x.
• 2009. Selwood, K., R. Mac Nally, and J.R. Thomson, Native bird breeding in a chronosequence of revegetated sites. Oecologia, 159: 435-446.
• 2009. Thomson, J.R., A. Moilanen, P. Vesk, A.F. Bennett, and R. Mac Nally, Where and when to revegetate: a quantitative method for scheduling landscape reconstruction. Ecological Applications, 19: 817-828.
• 2008. Mac Nally, R., E. Fleishman, J. Thomson, and D.S. Dobkin, Use of guilds for modeling avian responses to vegetation change in the Intermountain West (U.S.A.). Global Ecology and Biodiversity, 17: 758-769.
• 2008. Clarke, A., R. Mac Nally, N. Bond, and P.S. Lake, Macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: a review. Freshwater Biology, 53: 1707-1721.
• 2008. Davis, N.E., D.J. O'Dowd, P. Green, and R. Mac Nally, Effects of alien ant invasion on abundance, behavior and reproductive success of endemic island birds. Conservation Biology, 22: 1165-1176.
• 2008. Lada, H., J. Thomson, R. Mac Nally, and A.C. Taylor, Impacts of massive landscape change on a carnivorous marsupial in south-eastern Australia: inferences from landscape genetics analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 1732-1741.
• 2008. Lindenmayer, D., …, R. Mac Nally, …, A Checklist for Ecological Management of Landscapes for Conservation. Ecology Letters, 11: 78-91.
• 2007. Mac Nally, R., Use of the abundance spectrum and relative-abundance distributions to analyze assemblage change in massively altered landscapes. American Naturalist, 170: 319-330.