Key Publications 2009-2012
SYNTHESES
Amos, J. N., A. F. Bennett, R. Mac Nally, G. Newell, A. Pavlova, J. Q. Radford, J. R. Thomson, M. White, and P. Sunnucks. 2012. Predicting landscape-genetic consequences of habitat loss, fragmentation and mobility for multiple species of woodland birds. PLoS ONE 7:e30888.
Mac Nally, R., P. J. Baker, S. C. Cunningham, G. J. Horner, and J. R. Thomson. 2011. Dynamics of Murray-Darling floodplain forests under multiple water stressors - The past, present and future of an Australian icon. Water Resources Research 47: W00G05.
Sutherland, W. J., …, R. Mac Nally, …, and A. R. Watkinson. 2011. Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 10-16.
ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Thomson, J. R., N. R. Bond, S. C. Cunningham, L. Metzeling, P. Reich, R. M. Thompson, and R. Mac Nally. 2012. The influences of climatic variation and vegetation on stream biota: Lessons from the Big Dry in southeastern Australia. Global Change Biology
Winder, M., A. Jassby, and R. Mac Nally 2011. Synergies between climate anomalies and hydrological modifications facilitate estuarine biotic invasions. Ecology Letters 14: 749-757.
Mac Nally, R., A. F. Bennett, J. R. Thomson, J. Q. Radford, G. Unmack, G. Horrocks, and P. Vesk. 2009. Collapse of an avifauna: climate change appears to exacerbate habitat loss and degradation. Diversity and Distributions 15: 720-730.
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Horner, G., P. J. Baker, R. Mac Nally, S. Cunningham, J. Thomson, and F. Hamilton. 2009. Regeneration and mortality of floodplain forests subjected to a drying climate and water extraction. Global Change Biology 15: 2176-2186.
Cunningham, S., R. Mac Nally, J. Read, P. Baker, M. White, J. R. Thomson, and P. Griffioen. 2009. A robust technique for mapping vegetation across a major river system. Ecosystems 12: 207-219.
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
Mac Nally, R., M. Bowen, A. Howes, C. A. McAlpine, and M. Maron. 2012. Despotic, high-impact species and sub-continental scale control of avian assemblage structure. Ecology.
Yen, J., J. R. Thomson, P. A. Vesk, and R. Mac Nally. 2011. To what are woodland birds responding? Inference on relative importance of in-site habitat variables using several ensemble habitat modelling techniques. Ecography 34: 946-954.
INVASION BIOLOGY
Green, P. T., D. J. O'Dowd, K. L. Abbott, M. Jeffery, K. Retallick, and R. Mac Nally 2011. Invasional meltdown: invader-invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion. Ecology 92: 1758-1768.
Schmidt, D., D. Spring, R. Mac Nally, J. R. Thomson, B. W. Brook, O. Cacho, and M. McKenzie. 2010. Finding needles (or ants) in haystacks: Bayesian prediction of locations of invasive organisms to inform eradication. Ecological Applications 20: 1217-1227.
Davis, N. E., D. J. O'Dowd, R. Mac Nally, and P. T. Green. 2010. Disruption of avian frugivory following ant invasion. Biology Letters 6:85-88.
RESTORATION ECOLOGY
Mac Nally, R., L. De Vries, and J. R. Thomson. 2010. Are replanted floodplain forests in south-eastern Australia providing biodiversity benefits? Restoration Ecology 18: 89-94.
Thomson, J. R., A. Moilanen, P. Vesk, A. F. Bennett, and R. Mac Nally. 2009. Where and when to revegetate: a quantitative method for scheduling landscape reconstruction. Ecological Applications 19:817-828.
Selwood, K., R. Mac Nally, and J. R. Thomson. 2009. Native bird breeding in a chronosequence of revegetated sites. Oecologia 159: 435-446.
LAND-USE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY
Camilleri, S., J. Thomson, and R. Mac Nally. 2010. The interaction between land use and catchment physiognomy: Understanding avifaunal patterns of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. J. Biogeography 37: 293-304.
Lake, P. S., J. R. Thomson, H. Lada, R. Mac Nally, D. Reid, J. Stanaway, and A. C. Taylor. 2010. Diversity and distribution of macroinvertebrates in lentic habitats in massively altered landscapes in south-eastern Australia. Diversity & Distributions 16: 713-724.
Mac Nally, R., G. Horrocks, H. Lada, P. S. Lake, J. R. Thomson, and A. C. Taylor. 2009. Distribution of anuran amphibians in massively altered landscapes in south-eastern Australia: Effects of climate change in an aridifying region. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 575-585.
FOREST ECOLOGY
Hatanaka, N., W. Wright, R. Loyn, and R. Mac Nally. 2011. ‘Ecologically complex carbon’ – linking biodiversity values, carbon storage and habitat structure in some austral temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 260-271.
Cunningham, S., J. Thomson, R. Mac Nally, J. Read, and P. Baker. 2011. Groundwater change forecasts widespread forest dieback across an extensive floodplain system. Freshwater Biology 56: 1494-1508.
Horner, G., P. J. Baker, R. Mac Nally, S. C. Cunningham, J. R. Thomson, and F. Hamilton. 2010. Carbon and habitat benefits from thinning floodplain forests: managing early stand structure makes a difference. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 286-293.
Cunningham, S. C., J. R. Thomson, J. Read, P. J. Baker, and R. Mac Nally. 2010. Does stand structure influence susceptibility of eucalypt floodplain forests to dieback? Austral Ecology 35: 348-356.
FRESHWATER ECOLOGY
Raulings, E., K. Morris, R. Thompson, and R. Mac Nally. 2011. Do birds of a feather disperse plants together? Freshwater Biology 56: 1390-1402.
Mac Nally, R., E. Wallis, and P. S. Lake. 2011. Geometry of biodiversity patterning: Assemblages of benthic macroinvertebrates at tributary junctions. Aquatic Ecology 45: 43-54.
Clarke, A., R. Mac Nally, N. Bond, and P. S. Lake. 2010. Macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: the relative importance of a and b diversity. Diversity & Distributions 16:725-736.
Clarke, A., R. Mac Nally, N. Bond, and P. S. Lake. 2010. Effect of flow permanence on macroinvertebrate diversity and community structure in three forested, headwater streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67: 1649-1657
ESTUARINE ECOLOGY
Mac Nally, R., J. R. Thomson, W. Kimmerer, F. Feyrer, K. B. Newman, A. Sih, W. Bennett, L. Brown, E. Fleishman, S. D. Culberson, and G. Castillo. 2010. Analysis of pelagic species decline in the upper San Francisco Estuary using Multivariate Autoregressive modelling (MAR). Ecological Applications 20: 1417-1430.
Thomson, J. R., W. Kimmerer, L. Brown, K. B. Newman, R. Mac Nally, W. Bennett, F. Feyrer, and E. Fleishman. 2010. Bayesian change-point analysis of temporal patterns in fish abundances in the upper San Francisco estuary. Ecological Applications 20:1431-1448.
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