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Research Report 2019 - Office of the School of Natural Sciences

Journal Article
Allen, KJ and Brookhouse, M* and French, BJ and Nichols, SC* and Dahl, B* and Norrie, D* and Prior, LD and Palmer, JG* and Bowman, DMJS, “Two climate-sensitive tree-ring chronologies from Arnhem Land, monsoonal Australia”, Austral Ecology, 44 (4) pp. 581-596. doi:10.1111/aec.12699 ISSN 1442-9993 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Ammitzboll, H and Vaillancourt, RE and Potts, BM and Harrison, PA and Brodribb, T and Sussmilch, FC and Freeman, JS, “Independent genetic control of drought resistance, recovery, and growth of Eucalyptus globulus seedlings”, Plant, Cell and Environment, 43 (1) pp. 103-115. doi:10.1111/pce.13649 ISSN 0140-7791 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Baker, SC and Kasel, S* and van Galen, LG and Jordan, GJ and Nitschke, CR* and Pryde, EC*, “Identifying regrowth forests with advanced mature forest values”, Forest Ecology and Management, 433 pp. 73-84. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.048 ISSN 0378-1127 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Barker, SLL and Hood, S and Hughes, RM* and Richards, S*, “The lithogeochemical signatures of hydrothermal alteration in the Waihi epithermal district, New Zealand”, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 62 (4) pp. 513-530. doi:10.1080/00288306.2019.1651345 ISSN 0028-8306 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Blackburn, D and Vega, M and Nolan, G, “Using acoustic wave velocity to select fibre-managed plantation Eucalyptus nitens logs for laminated veneer lumber products”, Southern Forests pp. 1-12. doi:10.2989/20702620.2018.1555945 ISSN 2070-2620 (2019) [Professional, Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Botterill-James, T and Munch, KL and Halliwell, B and Chapple, DG* and Gardner, MG* and Wapstra, E and While, GM, “Low food availability during gestation enhances offspring post-natal growth, but reduces survival, in a viviparous lizard”, Oecologia, 189 (3) pp. 611-620. doi:10.1007/s00442-019-04349-5 ISSN 0029-8549 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Brinkhoff, R and Porter, M and Hovenden, MJ, “Elevated CO2 causes large changes to morphology of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)”, Crop and Pasture Science, 70 (6) pp. 555-565. doi:10.1071/CP18569 ISSN 1836-0947 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Buettel, JC and Ringwaldt, EM and Hovenden, MJ and Brook, BW, “Importance of the local environment on nutrient cycling and litter decomposition in a tall eucalypt forest”, Forests, 10 (4) Article 340. doi:10.3390/f10040340 ISSN 1999-4907 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Butler, JB and Potts, BM and Vaillancourt, RE and Lee, DJ* and Pegg, GS* and Freeman, JS, “Independent QTL underlie resistance to the native pathogen Quambalaria pitereka and the exotic pathogen Austropuccinia psidii in Corymbia”, Tree Genetics and Genomes, 15 Article 72. doi:10.1007/s11295-019-1378-x ISSN 1614-2942 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Camarretta, N and Harrison, PA and Bailey, T and Potts, B and Lucieer, A and Davidson, N* and Hunt, M, “Monitoring forest structure to guide adaptive management of forest restoration: a review of remote sensing approaches”, New Forests, 51 pp. 573-596. doi:10.1007/s11056-019-09754-5 ISSN 0169-4286 (2020) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Camarretta, N and Harrison, PA and Bailey, T and Davidson, N* and Lucieer, A and Hunt, MA and Potts, BM, “Stability of species and provenance performance when translocated into different community assemblages”, Restoration Ecology, 28 (2) pp. 447-458. doi:10.1111/rec.13098 ISSN 1061-2971 (2020) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Costa e Silva, J* and Potts, B and Harrison, PA and Bailey, T, “Temperature and rainfall are separate agents of selection shaping population differentiation in a forest tree”, Forests, 10 (12) Article 1145. doi:10.3390/f10121145 ISSN 1999-4907 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Cunningham, CX and Scoleri, V and Johnson, CN and Barmuta, LA and Jones, ME, “Temporal partitioning of activity: rising and falling top-predator abundance triggers community-wide shifts in diel activity”, Ecography, 42 (12) pp. 2157-2168. doi:10.1111/ecog.04485 ISSN 0906-7590 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Cunningham, CX and Johnson, CN and Hollings, T and Kreger, KM and Jones, ME, “Trophic rewilding establishes a landscape of fear: Tasmanian devil introduction increases risk-sensitive foraging in a key prey species”, Ecography, 42 (12) pp. 2053-2059. doi:10.1111/ecog.04635 ISSN 0906-7590 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Fielding, MW and Buettel, JC and Nguyen, HKD and Brook, BW, “Ravens exploit wildlife roadkill and agricultural landscapes but do not affect songbird assemblages”, Emu, 120 (1) pp. 11-21. doi:10.1080/01584197.2019.1629820 ISSN 0158-4197 (2020) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Fitzpatrick, LJ and Olsson, M* and Parsley, LM and Pauliny, A* and Pinfold, TL and Pirtle, T and While, GM and Wapstra, E, “Temperature and telomeres: thermal treatment influences telomere dynamics through a complex interplay of cellular processes in a cold‑climate skink”, Oecologia, 191 (4) pp. 767-776. doi:10.1007/s00442-019-04530-w ISSN 0029-8549 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Fitzpatrick, LJ and Olsson, M* and Parsley, LM and Pauliny, A* and While, GM and Wapstra, E, “Tail loss and telomeres: consequences of large-scale tissue regeneration in a terrestrial ectotherm”, Biology Letters, 15 (7) Article 20190151. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0151 ISSN 1744-9561 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Fraik, AK* and Quackenbush, C* and Margres, MJ* and Comte, S and Hamilton, DG and Kozakiewicz, CP* and Jones, ME and Hamede, R and Hohenlohe, PA* and Storfer, A* and Kelley, JL*, “Transcriptomics of Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) ear tissue reveals homogeneous gene expression patterns across a heterogeneous landscape”, Genes, 10 (10) Article 801. doi:10.3390/genes10100801 ISSN 2073-4425 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Gardiner, R and Proft, K and Comte, S and Jones, ME and Johnson, CN, “Home range size scales to habitat amount and increasing fragmentation in a mobile woodland specialist”, Ecology and Evolution, 9 (24) pp. 14005-14014. doi:10.1002/ece3.5837 ISSN 2045-7758 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Griffin, AR and Potts, BM and Vaillancourt, RE and Bell, JC*, “Life cycle expression of inbreeding depression in Eucalyptus regnans and intergenerational stability of its mixed mating system”, Annals of Botany, 124 (1) pp. 179-187. doi:10.1093/aob/mcz059 ISSN 0305-7364 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Hingston, AB, “Documenting demise? Sixteen years observing the Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor in suburban Hobart, Tasmania”, Australian Field Ornithology, 36 pp. 97-108. doi:10.20938/afo36097108 ISSN 1448-0107 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Hingston, AB, “Partial replacement of Rainbow Lorikeets Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus by hybrid lorikeets in Hobart, Tasmania”, Australian Field Ornithology, 36 pp. 64-70. doi:10.20938/afo36064070 ISSN 1448-0107 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Hood, SB and Cracknell, MJ and Gazley, MF* and Reading, AM, “Improved supervised classification of bedrock in areas of transported overburden: applying domain expertise at Kerkasha, Eritrea”, Applied Computing and Geosciences, 3-4 Article 100001. doi:10.1016/j.acags.2019.100001 ISSN 2590-1974 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
James, S and Jennings, G and Kwon, YM* and Stammnitz, M* and Fraik, A* and Storfer, A* and Comte, S and Pemberton, D* and Fox, S* and Brown, B* and Pye, R and Woods, G and Lyons, B and Hohenlohe, PA* and McCallum, H* and Siddle, H* and Thomas, F* and Ujvari, B* and Murchison, EP* and Jones, M and Hamede, R, “Tracing the rise of malignant cell lines: distribution, epidemiology and evolutionary interactions of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils”, Evolutionary Applications, 12 (9) pp. 1772-1780. doi:10.1111/eva.12831 ISSN 1752-4571 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Kozakiewicz, CP and Burridge, CP and Funk, WC* and Salerno, PE* and Trumbo, DR* and Gagne, RB* and Boydston, EE* and Fisher, RN* and Lyren, LM* and Jennings, MK* and Riley, SPD* and Serieys, LEK* and VandeWoude, S* and Crooks, KR* and Carver, S, “Urbanization reduces genetic connectivity in bobcats (Lynx rufus) at both intra‐ and interpopulation spatial scales”, Molecular Ecology, 28 (23) pp. 5068-5085. doi:10.1111/mec.15274 ISSN 0962-1083 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Le, S and Harwood, CE and Nghiem, CQ* and Griffin, AR and Vaillancourt, RE, “Patterns of hybrid seed production in adjacent seed orchards of Acacia auriculiformis and A. mangium in Vietnam”, Annals of Forest Science, 76 (2) Article 46. doi:10.1007/s13595-019-0823-1 ISSN 1286-4560 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Macdonald, S and Bailey, T and Hunt, M and Davidson, N* and Jordan, GJ, “Stable states in soil chemistry persist in eucalypt woodland restorations”, Applied Vegetation Science, 22 (1) pp. 105-114. doi:10.1111/avsc.12404 ISSN 1402-2001 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Martin, LB* and Addison, B* and Bean, AGD* and Buchanan, KL* and Crino, OL* and Eastwood, JR* and Flies, AS and Hamede, R and Hill, GE* and Klaassen, M* and Koch, RE* and Martens, JM* and Napolitano, C* and Narayan, EJ* and Peacock, L* and Peel, AJ* and Peters, A* and Raven, N* and Risely, A* and Roast, MJ* and Rollins, LA* and Ruiz Aravena, M and Selechnik, D* and Stokes, HS* and Ujvari, B* and Grogan, LF*, “Extreme competence: keystone hosts of infections”, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 34 (4) pp. 303-314. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2018.12.009 ISSN 0169-5347 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Nickolas, H and Williams, D* and Downes, G* and Tilyard, P and Harrison, PA and Vaillancourt, RE and Potts, B, “Genetic correlations among pulpwood and solid-wood selection traits in Eucalyptus globulus”, New Forests, 5 pp. 137-158. doi:10.1007/s11056-019-09721-0 ISSN 0169-4286 (2020) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Nickolas, H and Harrison, PA and Tilyard, P and Vaillancourt, RE and Potts, BM, “Inbreeding depression and differential maladaptation shape the fitness trajectory of two co-occurring Eucalyptus species”, Annals of Forest Science, 76 (1) Article 10. doi:10.1007/s13595-018-0796-5 ISSN 1286-4560 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Roman, L and Lowenstine, L* and Parsley, LM and Wilcox, C* and Hardesty, BD* and Gilardi, K* and Hindell, MA, “Is plastic ingestion in birds as toxic as we think? Insights from a plastic feeding experiment”, Science of The Total Environment, 665 pp. 660-667. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.184 ISSN 0048-9697 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Watts, ET and Johnson, CN and Carver, S and Butler, CD and Harvey, AM* and Cameron, EZ, “Maternal protectiveness in feral horses: responses to intraspecific and interspecific sources of risk”, Animal Behaviour, 159 pp. 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.10.018 ISSN 0003-3472 (2020) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Woolley, KL and Nadikudi, M and Koupaei, MN and Corban, M and McCartney, P* and Bissember, AC and Lewis, TW and Gueven, N and Smith, JA, “Amide linked redox-active naphthoquinones for the treatment of mitochondrial dysfunction”, MedChemComm, 10 (3) pp. 399-412. doi:10.1039/c8md00582f ISSN 2040-2511 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Wu, H and Shabala, L and Zhou, M and Su, N and Wu, Q and Ul-Haq, T* and Zhu, J and Mancuso, S* and Azzarello, E* and Shabala, S, “Root vacuolar Na+ sequestration but not exclusion from uptake correlates with barley salt tolerance”, The Plant Journal, 100 (1) pp. 55-67. doi:10.1111/tpj.14424 ISSN 0960-7412 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Yan, D and Wong, YF* and Shellie, RA and Marriott, PJ* and Whittock, SP and Koutoulis, A, “Assessment of the phytochemical profiles of novel hop (Humulus lupulus L.) cultivars: a potential route to beer crafting”, Food Chemistry, 275 pp. 15-23. doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.09.082 ISSN 0308-8146 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Yee, M and Ratkowsky, DA, “Not all dead wood is the same - a selection error reveals an unusual emergence of beetles from decaying celerytop pine logs”, Tasmanian Naturalist, 141 pp. 83-91. ISSN 0819-6826 (2019) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Zhao, B and Johnston, FH and O'Sullivan, T and Williamson, G and Melody, S and Dalton, M and Venn, A and Negishi, K, “Early life exposure to coal mine fire and tobacco smoke affect subclinical vascular function”, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 105 (6) pp. 539-544. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2019-317528 ISSN 0003-9888 (2020) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Conference Publication
Abera, A and O'Reilly, MM and Holland, BR and Fackrell, M* and Heydar, M, “Decision support model for the patient admission scheduling problem with random arrivals and departures”, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models, 13-15 February 2019, Hobart, Australia, pp. 10-14. (2019) [Refereed Conference Paper] [Full Text] [Detail]
Balasso, M, “Alternative uses of Eucalyptus fibre-grown Plantations”, Program for the InnoRenew CoE 1st International Conference Timber - A healthy future for sustainable buildings, 07 March 2019, Koper, Slovenia (2019) [Keynote Presentation] [Full Text] [Detail]
Balasso, M and Hunt, M and Nolan, G and Kotlarewski, N and Jacobs, A* and O'Reilly-Wapstra, J, “Evaluation of non-destructive techniques and visual assessments of grade fibre-grown Eucalyptus logs for structural products”, Proceedings of the 21st International Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium, 24-28 September 2019, Freiburg, Germany (2019) [Conference Extract] [Full Text] [Detail]
Balasso, M, “Our daily wood”, Program for the Forest Education Foundation's Conference, 31 October- 01 November 2019, Launceston, Tasmania (2019) [Keynote Presentation] [Full Text] [Detail]
Balasso, M and Hunt, M and Nolan, G and Kotlarewski, N and Jacobs, A* and O'Reilly-Wapstra, J, “Use of non-destructive techniques to optimise the production of structural products from Eucalyptus plantations grown for fibre”, Proceedings of the XXV IUFRO World Congress, 29 September - 05 October 2019, Curitiba, Brazil (2019) [Conference Extract] [Full Text] [Detail]
Balasso, M and Hunt, M and Nolan, G and Kotlarewski, N and Jacobs, A*, “Alignment of resources for higher quality production: change and challenges in alternative uses of fibre-grown E. nitens plantations”, Proceedings of the 12th Graduate Research Conference of University of Tasmania, 06-07 September 2018, Hobart (2018) [Conference Extract] [Full Text] [Detail]
Balasso, M and Hunt, M and Nolan, G and Kotlarewski, N and Jacobs, A*, “From the forest to products: how segregation systems will allow the characterisation of fibre-grown plantations for higher value production”, Proceedings of the 2018 Society of Wood Science and Technology/Japan Wood Research Society International Convention, 5-9 November 2018, Nagoya University, Japan, pp. 340-341. (2018) [Conference Extract] [Full Text] [Detail]
Balasso, M and Hunt, M and Nolan, G and Kotlarewski, N and Jacobs, A*, “From the forest to products: how segregation systems will allow the characterisation of fibre-grown plantations for higher value production”, Proceedings of the 61st International Convention of Society of Wood Science and Technology and Japan Wood Research Society, 05-09 November 2018, Nagoya, Japan (2018) [Conference Extract] [Full Text] [Detail]
Heydar, M and O'Reilly, MM, “Markovian decision-support model for patient-to-ward assignment problem in a random environment”, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models, 13-15 February 2019, Hobart, Australia, pp. 33-34. ISBN 978-0-646-99707-0 (2019) [Conference Extract] [Full Text] [Detail]
Thesis
Balasso, M, “Ecological requirements of the three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus L.) in boreal forests of northern Sweden” (2016) [Masters Research] [Full Text] [Detail]

* This author is not affiliated with the University of Tasmania.