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2023
Estimating co-extinction threats in terrestrial ecosystems, Global Change Biology
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2023
Directionally supervised cellular automaton for the initial peopling of Sahul, Quaternary Science Reviews
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2023
Logistic-growth models measuring density feedback are sensitive to population declines, but not fluctuating carrying capacity, Ecology and Evolution
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2023
Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union, Environmental Sciences Europe
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2023
Predicting predator-prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest, Ecography
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2023
Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions, BioScience
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2023
Time-travelling pathogens and their risk to ecological communities, PLoS Computational Biology
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2023
Lower infant mortality, lower household size, and more access to contraception reduce fertility in low- and middle-income nations, PLoS One
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2022
Principles for scientists working at the river science-policy interface, River Research and Applications
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2022
Zoonotic diseases and our troubled relationship with nature, American Journal of Health Promotion
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2022
Sahul’s megafauna species were vulnerable to plant-community changes due to their position in the trophic network, Ecography
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2022
Co-extinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land-use change, Science Advances
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2022
Dismantling the poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade, Biological Conservation
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2021
Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods, One Earth
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2021
Manipulating water for amphibian conservation, Conservation Biology
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2021
Predicting potential future reduction in shark bites on people, Royal Society Open Science
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2021
Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul’s megafauna, eLife
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2021
Landscape rules predict optimal super-highways for the first peopling of Sahul, Nature Human Behaviour
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2021
Predicting targets and costs for feral-cat reduction on large islands using stochastic population models, Conservation Science and Practice
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2021
Detailed assessment of the reported economic costs of invasive species in Australia, NeoBiota
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2021
Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul, Nature Communications
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2021
Natural and anthropogenic climate variability shape assemblages of range-extending coral-reef fishes, Journal of Biogeography
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2021
High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide, Nature
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2021
Opposing life stage-specific effects of ocean warming at source and sink populations of range-shifting coral-reef fishes, Journal of Animal Ecology
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2021
Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future, Frontiers in Conservation Science
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2020
Dietary generalism accelerates arrival and persistence of coral-reef fishes in their novel ranges under climate change, Global Change Biology
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2020
Processes controlling programmed cell death of root velamen radicum in an epiphytic orchid, Annals of Botany
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2020
Variation in stem xylem traits is related to differentiation of upper limits of tree species along an elevational gradient, Forests
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2020
Grand challenges in global biodiversity threats, Frontiers in Conservation Science
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2020
Informing CITES Parties: strengthening science-based decision-making when listing marine species, Fish and Fisheries
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2020
Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial, Quaternary Science Reviews
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2020
Combining agent-based, trait-based and demographic approaches to model coral-community dynamics, eLife
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2019
Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna-extinction patterns, Nature Communications
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2019
Opportunities to improve the future of South Australia's terrestrial biodiversity, Rethinking Ecology
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2019
Statistical language backs conservatism in climate-change assessments, BioScience
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2019
Increased population size of fish in a lowland river following restoration of structural habitat, Ecological Applications
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2019
Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident, Scientific Reports
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2019
Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul, Nature Ecology and Evolution
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2019
Testing the socio-economic and environmental determinants of better child-health outcomes in Africa: a cross-sectional study among nations, BMJ Open
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2019
Comparative population genomics confirms little population structure in two commercially targeted carcharhinid sharks, Marine Biology
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2019
Climate-driven shifts in the distribution of koala browse species from the Last Interglacial to the near future, Ecography
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2019
Socio-economic predictors of environmental performance among African nations, Scientific Reports
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2019
FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul, Scientific Data
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2018
Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning, Routledge
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2018
Evidence of sensory-driven behaviour in the Ediacaran organism Parvancorina: implications and autecological interpretations, Gondwana Research
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2018
Distribution models predict large contractions in habitat-forming seaweeds in response to ocean warming, Diversity and Distributions
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2018
Gender bias when assessing recommended ecology articles, Rethinking Ecology
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2018
High-quality fossil dates support a synchronous, late-Holocene extinction of devils and thylacines in mainland Australia, Biology Letters
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2018
Predicting sustainable shark harvests when stock assessments are lacking, ICES Journal of Marine Science
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2018
The Effective Scientist. A Handy Guide to an Academic Career, Cambridge University Press
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2018
Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change, Scientific Reports
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2018
Previous exposure to myxomatosis reduces survival of European rabbits during outbreaks of rabbit haemorrhagic disease for biological control, Journal of Applied Ecology
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2018
Effectiveness of five personal shark-bite deterrents for surfers, PeerJ
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2018
Revised European renewable-energy policies erode nature protection, Nature Ecology and Evolution
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2017
Future extinction risk for wetland plants is higher from individual patch loss than total area reduction, Biological Conservation
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2017
Burden of proof: a comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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2017
Species decline under nitrogen fertilization reduces community-level resistance to fungal diseases, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
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2017
Niche constraints and dispersal-limited competition together assemble wetland plant communities, Journal of Vegetation Science
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2017
Highly localized replenishment of coral reef fish populations near nursery habitats, Marine Ecology Progress Series
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2017
100 articles every ecologist should read, Nature Ecology and Evolution
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2016
How to rank journals, PLoS One
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2016
Banning trophy hunting will exacerbate biodiversity loss, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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2016
Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia, Nature Communications
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2016
Humans and seasonal climate variability threaten large-bodied coral reef fish with small ranges, Nature Communications
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2016
Where to dig for fossils: combining climate-envelope, taphonomy and discovery models, PLoS One
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2016
Warming and fertilization alter the dilution effect of host diversity on disease severity, Ecology
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2016
An efficient protocol for the global sensitivity analysis of stochastic ecological models, Ecosphere
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2016
What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
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2016
Implications of Australia’s population policy for future greenhouse-gas emissions targets, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies
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2016
Massive yet grossly underestimated global costs of invasive insects, Nature Communications
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2016
Vertebral chemistry demonstrates habitat use and population structure of bronze whaler sharks, Marine Ecology Progress Series
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2016
A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates, Scientific Data
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2016
Diversity patterns of seasonal wetland plant communities mainly driven by rare terrestrial species, Biodiversity and Conservation
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2016
Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation, Science Advances
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2015
Obliquity-driven expansion of North Atlantic sea ice during the last glacial, Geophysical Research Letters
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2015
Global estimates of boreal forest carbon stocks and flux, Global and Planetary Change
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2015
Global zero-carbon energy pathways using viable mixes of nuclear and renewables, Applied Energy
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2015
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America, and the Environment, Chicago University Press
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2015
National emphasis on high-level protection reduces risk of biodiversity decline in tropical forest reserves, Biological Conservation
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2015
Ecological and economic benefits to cattle rangelands of restoring an apex predator, Journal of Applied Ecology
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2015
Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation, Conservation Biology
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2015
Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover, Science
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2014
Predicting current and future global distributions of whale sharks, Global Change Biology
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2014
Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
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2014
An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator-prey interactions in Holocene Australia, Ecology
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2014
Strong but opposing β-diversity-stability relationships in coral reef fish communities, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
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2014
Genetics in conservation management: revised recommendations for the 50/500 rules, Red List criteria and population viability analyses, Biological Conservation
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2014
Predictors of contraction and expansion of area of occupancy for British birds, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
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2014
Nuclear power can reduce emissions and maintain a strong economy: rating Australia's optimal future electricity-generation mix by technologies and policies, Applied Energy
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2013
No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multi-species metamodels, Journal of Animal Ecology
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2013
Brave new green world – consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity, Biological Conservation
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2013
Near-complete extinction of native small mammal fauna 25 years following forest fragmentation, Science
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2013
Past human influences alter future range estimates: advancing the predictive capacity of species distribution models, Global Change Biology
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2013
Conservation management and sustainable harvest quotas are sensitive to choice of climate modelling approach for two marine gastropods, Diversity and Distributions
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2012
Little left to lose: deforestation and forest degradation in Australia since European colonisation, Journal of Plant Ecology
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2012
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas, Nature
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2012
iREDD hedges against avoided deforestation’s unholy trinity of leakage, permanence and additionality, Conservation Letters
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2012
Robust estimates of extinction time in the geological record, Quaternary Science Reviews
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2012
Novel coupling of individual-based epidemiological and demographic models predicts realistic dynamics of tuberculosis in alien buffalo, Journal of Applied Ecology
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2011
Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity, Nature
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2011
Relative need for conservation assessment of vascular plant species among ecoregions, Journal of Biogeography
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2011
Seaweed communities in retreat from ocean warming, Current Biology
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2010
Reef size and isolation determine the temporal stability of coral reef fish populations, Ecology
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2010
Mechanisms driving change: altered species interactions and ecosystem functions from global warming, Journal of Animal Ecology
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2010
Evaluating the relative environmental impact of countries, PLoS One
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2009
Urgent preservation of boreal carbon stocks and biodiversity, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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2009
Susceptibility of sharks, rays and chimaeras to global extinction, Advances in Marine Biology
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2009
Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in progress, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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2008
Threat or invasive status in legumes is related to opposite extremes of the same ecological and life-history attributes, Journal of Ecology
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2008
Synergies among extinction drivers under global change, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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2007
Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world, Global Change Biology
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2007
Minimum viable population size: a meta-analysis of 30 years of published estimates, Biological Conservation
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2007
Tropical Conservation Biology, Blackwell
2021 Reuters Hot List of Top Climate Scientists; 2021 top 15.9% of top 2% citations of all scientists across all fields; 2020-21 Australian Research Council College of Experts; 2017 Verco Medal, R Soc SA; 2012 Research Excellence Award, Univ Adelaide; 2011 ARC Future Fellow III; 2010 Australian Ecology Research Award, Ecol Soc Aust; 2010 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year; 2009 HG Andrewartha Medal, R Soc SA; 2008 SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award