A5061021539- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Data Analysis with R
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Plant and animal studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Forest Management and Policy
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal and Plant Science Education
The University of Queensland
2016-2025
Australian Research Council
2019-2023
CSIRO Land and Water
2016-2022
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
2020
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
2020
James Cook University
2020
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2017
Abstract Community ecology is frequently invoked as complementary to and useful for guiding ecological restoration. While the conceptual literature devoted this unification, first‐hand accounts from practitioners ecologists suggest that integration may be weak in practice. To date, there have been no analyses of how extensively community theory appears empirical restoration literature. We address knowledge gap with first quantitative assessment extent which concepts appear by analysing use...
Change begets change In the Anthropocene, humans are altering ecosystems, causing extinctions, and reassorting species distributions. As we facilitate these changes, creating new collections of species. Such “novel communities” not specific to our epoch, patterns diversity extinction associated with past events can shed light on implications current community restructuring. Pandolfi et al. looked at marine plankton communities over ∼66 million years found that emergence novel leads further...
Languages change over time, driven by creation of new words and cultural pressure to optimize communication. Programming languages resemble written language but communicate primarily with computer hardware rather than a human audience. I tested whether there were detectable changes time in use R, mature, open-source programming used for scientific computing. Across 393 142 GitHub repositories published between 2014 2021, extracted 143 409 288 R functions, 'verbs', pairing linguistic...
Abstract Aim Understanding biodiversity–ecosystem function (BEF) relationships in forest systems is crucial for effective management and restoration, yet testing these often limited by biased diversity patterns forestry plantings (biased towards commercially valuable species) uncontrollable mature natural forests. Multispecies reforestation present a opportunity to investigate BEF woody systems, especially across large environmental gradients. Location Reforestation the arable region of...
In many plant and sessile marine invertebrate (SMI) taxa, population community dynamics are heavily influenced by processes occurring during the dispersal establishment phases. The Janzen–Connell (J–C) hypothesis predicts increased survival of early life stages with decreasing conspecific density distance from adults. Evidence J–C effects in maintaining diversity is common communities, but its importance SMI communities remains unclear. Under controlled aquarium conditions, we examined...
ABSTRACT Background Human pressures are driving the emergence of unprecedented, ‘novel’, ecological and environmental systems. The concept novel (eco)systems is well accepted by scientific community, but use measurement novelty has outgrown initial definitions critiques. There still unresolved methodological conceptual differences in quantifying that prevent a unified research approach. Framework Here we present framework guidelines to unify past future novelty. Under this framework,...
Coral reefs are experiencing increasing disturbance regimes. The influence these disturbances have on coral reef health is traditionally captured through field-based monitoring, representing a very small area (<1%). Satellite-based observations offer the ability to up-scale spatial extent of monitoring efforts larger areas, providing valuable insights into benthic trajectories time. Our aim was demonstrate repeatable habitat mapping approach integrating field and satellite data acquired...
The clearing of natural vegetation for agriculture has reduced the capacity systems to provide ecosystem functions. Ecological restoration can restore desirable functions, such as creating habitat animal conservation and carbon sequestration woody biomass. In order maintain these beneficial projects need mature into self‐perpetuating communities. Here we compared ecological attributes two types restoration, “active” tree plantings with “passive” forest regeneration (“natural regrowth”)...
Marine environments face acute pressures from human impacts, often resulting in substantial changes community structure. On the inshore Great Barrier Reef (GBR), palaeoecological studies show collapse of previously dominant coral Acropora impacts degraded water quality associated with European colonization. Even more dramatic can result replacement corals by fleshy macroalgae on modern reefs, but their past distribution is unknown because they leave no fossil record. Here, we apply DNA...
The stable coexistence of very similar species has perplexed ecologists for decades and been central to the development theory. According modern theory, can coexist stably (i.e. persist indefinitely with no long‐term density trends) as long species' niche differences exceed competitive ability differences, even if these are small. Recent studies have directly quantified in experimental communities at small spatial scales, but provide limited information about across scales heterogeneous...
Abstract Climate change, land clearing and invasive species are affecting ecosystems in concert, so effective management requires knowledge sharing collaboration across multiple fields of applied ecological research. We provide an examination the growth interconnectivity four major subfields ecology: climate change biology, conservation invasion biology restoration ecology; estimated using citations from entire population peer‐reviewed journal articles published between 1990 2017. Over this...
Abstract Bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms in the environment (i.e., environmental microbiomes) provide vital ecosystem services affect human health. Despite their importance, public awareness of microbiomes has lagged behind that microbiomes. A key problem been a scarcity research demonstrating microbial connections across biomes (e.g., marine, soil) between We show present article, through analyses almost 10,000 microbiome papers three global data sets, there are significant...
Evidence suggests that snakes can hear, but how naturally respond to sound is still unclear. We conducted 304 controlled experiment trials on 19 across five genera in a sound-proof room (4.9 x 4.9 m) at 27ºC, observing the effects of three sounds individual snake behavior, compared controls. quantified eight behaviors (body movement, body freezing, head-flicks, tongue-flicks, hissing, periscoping, head fixation, lower jaw drop) response sounds, which were filtered pink-noise within following...
Mangrove forests are degraded by extreme climatic events worldwide, often leaving behind dead standing stems called “ghost forests”. Ghost may provide opportunities for seagrass colonization but there is limited research into the conditions found within these ecosystems, or whether they a suitable habitat seagrasses. This study aimed to characterize environmental mangrove ghost forests, determine survival, and identify was present of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Six locations adjacent live...
Functional traits are proxies for a species' ecology and physiology often correlated with plant vital rates. As such they have the potential to guide species selection restoration projects. However, predictive trait-based models only explain small proportion of performance, suggesting that commonly measured do not capture all important ecological differences between species. Some residual variation in rates may be evolutionarily conserved captured using taxonomic groupings alongside common...
Earth's ecological assemblages are rapidly being driven towards unprecedented, novel states. We know little about novelty in our oceans, limiting ability to detect, contextualise, and manage substantive anthropogenic change. This is especially true for states with altered functional compositions. Here, we provide a quantitative assessment of taxonomic historical coral communities across the east Australian coast, capturing changes composition taxa their traits over past 1500 years....
Abstract Aim Measuring changes in ecological diversity over time is core to understanding and managing human impacts on natural systems. Observational data do not capture pre‐modern community states or multiple generations of long‐lived taxa, so interpretation current trends requires comparison with the past. We aimed estimate long periods a series fossil coral terraces. Location Huon peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Time Period 9817–6433 years before 1950 AD. Major Taxa Studied Thirty‐five...
Change in language use is driven by cultural forces; it unclear whether that extends to programming languages. They are designed be used humans, but interaction with computer hardware rather than a human audience may limit opportunities for evolution of the lexicon terms. I tested this R, an open source, mature and commonly statistical computing. In corpus 360,321 GitHub repositories published between 2014 2021, extracted 168,857,044 function calls act as n-grams R language. Over eight-year...