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Prof. Ralph Mac Nally - Publications

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

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Publication List
Publications (2007–)
  • 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. 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.
  • 2009. Selwood, K., R. Mac Nally, and J.R. Thomson, Native bird breeding in a chronosequence of revegetated sites. Oecologia, 159: 435-446.
  • 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. 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. 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.  Mac Nally, R., L. De Vries, and J. Thomson, Are replanted floodplain forests in south-eastern Australia providing biodiversity benefits? Restoration Ecology: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00430.x. Accepted February 14, 2008.
  • 2009. Loo, S.E., R. Mac Nally, D.J. O'Dowd, P.S. Lake, and J. Thomson, Multi-scale analysis of factors influencing the distribution of an invasive grass. Biological Invasions, DOI 10.1007/s10530-008-9368-1.
  • 2009. Loo, S.E., R. Mac Nally, D.J. O'Dowd, and P.S. Lake, Synchronizing riparian and aquatic weed management: analysis of the spread and costs of control of a freshwater invasive grass. Restoration Ecology, 17(3): 378-385.
  • 2009. Cunningham, S., J. Thomson, J. Read, P. Baker, and R. Mac Nally, Does stand structure make eucalypt floodplain forests more susceptible to dieback? Austral Ecology.
  • 2009. Ballinger, A., R. Mac Nally, and P.S. Lake, Decay State and Inundation History Control Assemblage Structure of Log-dwelling Invertebrates in Floodplain Forests. Regulated Rivers: Research and Applications.
  • 2008. Mac Nally, R., S. Cunningham, K. Shelly, C. Sgro, R. Thompson, P.S. Lake, P. Sunnucks, T. Cavagnaro, D. O'Dowd, P. Baker, and J. Beadall, Biodiversity and climate change. Garnaut Climate Change Report, ed. R. Garnaut.
  • 2008. Vesk, P., R. Mac Nally, J. Thomson, and G. Horrocks, Revegetation and the significance of lags in the provision of habitat resources for birds, in Landscape Analysis and Visualisation. Spatial Models for Natural Resource Management and Planning, C. Pettit, et al., Editors. Springer-Verlag: Berlin/Heidelberg. p. 183-209.
  • 2008. Mac Nally, R., R. M. Thompson, and D. O'Dowd. To make a short story long …, in Sustainability: Australia's Future., Palamedia Publishers, Sydney. p. 52-53.
  • 2008. Wallis, E., R. Mac Nally, and P.S. Lake, Physical habitat changes at tributary confluences in cobble-bed upland streams. Water Resources Research, 44(W11421): W11421.
  • 2008. Vesk, P., R. Nolan, J. Thomson, J. Dorrough, and R. Mac Nally, Time lags in provision of habitat resources through revegetation. Biological Conservation, 141: 174-186.
  • 2008. Spring, D.A., J.O.S. Kennedy, D.B. Lindenmayer, M.A. McCarthy, and R. Mac Nally, Optimal management of a flammable multi-stand forest for timber production and maintenance of nesting sites for wildlife. Forest Ecology and Management, 255: 3857-3865.
  • 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. Mac Nally, R., The lag dæmon: Hysteresis in rebuilding landscapes and implications for biodiversity futures. J. Environmental Management, 88: 1202-1211.
  • 2008. Mac Nally, R. and G. Horrocks, Longer-term responses of a floodplain-dwelling marsupial to experimental manipulation of fallen timber loads. Basic & Applied Ecology, 9: 456-465.
  • 2008. Mac Nally, R., G. Molyneux, J.R. Thomson, P.S. Lake, and J. Read, Variation in width of riparian-zone vegetation of higher-elevation streams and implications for conservation management. Plant Ecology, 198: 89-100.
  • 2008. Lindenmayer, D., R. Hobbs, R. Montague-Drake, J. Alexandra, A. Bennett, M. Burgman, P. Cale, A. Calhoun, V. Cramer, P. Cullen, D. Driscoll, L. Fahrig, J. Fischer, J. Franklin, Y. Haila, M. Hunter, P. Gibbons, S. Lake, G. Luck, C. MacGregor, S. McIntyre, R. Mac Nally, A. Manning, J. Miller, H. Mooney, R. Noss, H. Possingham, D. Saunders, F. Schmiegelow, M. Scott, D. Simberloff, T. Sisk, G. Tabor, B. Walker, J. Wiens, J. Woinarski, and E. Zavaleta, A Checklist for Ecological Management of Landscapes for Conservation. Ecology Letters, 11: 78-91.
  • 2008. Lada, H. and R. Mac Nally, Decline and potential recovery of Yellow-footed Antechinus in parts of south-eastern Australia: A perspective with implications for management. Ecological Management and Restoration, 9: 120-125.
  • 2008. Lada, H., R. Mac Nally, and A.C. Taylor, Phenotype and gene flow in a marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) in contrasting habitats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 94: 303-314.
  • 2008. Lada, H., R. Mac Nally, and A.C. Taylor, Responses of a carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) to local habitat factors in two forest types. Journal of Mammalogy, 89: 398-407.
  • 2008. Lada, H., R. Mac Nally, and A.C. Taylor, Distinguishing past from present gene flow along and across a river: the case of the carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) on southern Australian floodplains. Conservation Genetics, 9: 569-580.
  • 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. Harrison, P., D. Spring, M. MacKenzie, and R. Mac Nally, Dynamic reserve design with the union find algorithm. Ecological Modelling, 215: 369-376.
  • 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. Clarke, A., R. Mac Nally, N. Bond, and P.S. Lake, Macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: a review. Freshwater Biology, 53: 1707-1721.
  • 2007. Mac Nally, R., Remnant geometry, landscape morphology and principles and procedures for landscape design, in Vegetation Management and Landscape Design in Australia: From Principles to Practice, R. Hobbs and D. Lindenmayer, Editors. 2007, Blackwell: Oxford. p. 49-57.
  • 2007. Webb, J., N. Bond, S. Wealands, R. Mac Nally, G. Quinn, P. Vesk, and M. Grace, Bayesian clustering with AutoClass explicitly recognises uncertainties in landscape classification. Ecography, 30: 526-536.
  • 2007. Walsh, C., K. Waller, J. Gehling, and R. Mac Nally, Riverine invertebrate assemblages are degraded more by catchment urbanization than by riparian deforestation. Freshwater Biology, 52: 574-587.
  • 2007. Thomson, J., E. Fleishman, R. Mac Nally, and D.S. Dobkin, Comparison of predictors of species richness and the number of rare species of butterflies and birds. J. Biogeography, 34: 90-101.
  • 2007. Thomson, J., R. Mac Nally, E. Fleishman, and G. Horrocks, Predicting bird species distributions in reconstructed landscapes. Conservation Biology, 21: 752-766.
  • 2007. Spring, D.A., O. Cacho, R. Mac Nally, and R. Sabbadin, Pre-emptive conservation versus "fire-fighting": a decision theoretic approach. Biological Conservation, 136: 531-540.
  • 2007. Mac Nally, R., Consensus weightings of evidence for inferring breeding success in broad-scale bird studies. Austral Ecology, 32: 479-485.
  • 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.
  • 2007. Mac Nally, R. and G. Horrocks, Inducing whole-assemblage change by experimental manipulation of habitat structure. Journal of Animal Ecology, 76: 643-650.
  • 2007. Loo, S.E., R. Mac Nally, and P.S. Lake, Forecasting the invaded range of Potamopyrgus antipodarum: A comparison of models built with native and invaded range data. Ecological Applications, 17: 181-189.
  • 2007. Lada, H., R. Mac Nally, and A.C. Taylor, Genetic reconstruction of population dynamics of a marsupial carnivore (Antechinus flavipes) in response to floods. Molecular Ecology, 16: 2934-2947.
  • 2007. Lada, H., J.R. Thomson, R. Mac Nally, G. Horrocks, and A.C. Taylor, Evaluating simultaneous effects of three anthropogenic effects on a floodplain-dwelling marsupial Antechinus flavipes. Biological Conservation, 134: 527-536.
  • 2007. Johnson, M., P. Reich, and R. Mac Nally, Bird assemblages of a fragmented agricultural landscape and the relative importance of vegetation structure and landscape pattern. Wildlife Research, 34: 185-193.
  • 2007. Fleishman, E. and R. Mac Nally, Contemporary drivers of fragmentation and measurement of their effects on animal diversity. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85(1080-1090).
  • 2007. Cunningham, S., J. Read, P. Baker, and R. Mac Nally, A quantitative assessment of tree health and its relationship to physiological stress in stands of Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Myrtaceae) in southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 55: 692-699.
  • 2007. Ballinger, A., P.S. Lake, and R. Mac Nally, Do terrestrial invertebrates experience floodplains as landscape mosaics? Immediate and longer-term effects of flooding on ant assemblages in a floodplain forest. Oecologia, 152: 227-238.

Ten Career-best Publications

  • Mac Nally, R. C. (1983) On assessing the significance of interspecific competition to guild structure. Ecology, 64, 1646-1652.
  • Mac Nally, R., Bennett, A. F. and Horrocks, G. (2000) Forecasting the impacts of habitat fragmentation. Evaluation of species-specific predictions of the impact of habitat fragmentation on birds in the box-ironbark forests of central Victoria, Australia. Biological Conservation, 95, 7-29.
  • Mac Nally, R. (2000) Regression and model-building in conservation biology, biogeography and ecology: the distinction between—and reconciliation of—‘predictive’ and ‘explanatory’ models. Biodiversity and Conservation 9:655-671.
  • Mac Nally, R., Bennett, A. F., Brown, G. W., Lumsden, L. F., Yen, A., Hinkley, S., Lillywhite, P. & Ward, D. (2002) How well do ecosystem-based planning units represent different components of biodiversity? Ecological Applications, 12, 900-912.
  • Mac Nally, R., and E. Fleishman (2004) A successful predictive model of species richness using ‘indicator’ species. Conservation Biology,18, 646-654.
  • Mac Nally, R. (2005) Scale and an organism-centric focus for studying interspecific interactions in landscapes. In Issues in Landscape Ecology, ed. Wiens, J.A. & Moss, M.R., pages 52-69. Cambridge University Press.
  • Mac Nally, R. & Horrocks, G. (2007) Inducing whole-assemblage change by experimental manipulation of habitat structure. Journal of Animal Ecology, 76, 643-50.
  • Mac Nally, R. (2007) Use of the abundance spectrum and relative-abundance distributions to analyze assemblage change in massively altered landscapes. American Naturalist, 170, 319-330.
  • 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.
  • 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.