Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

The Institute maintains a strong publications record, producing around 30 articles per annum in refereed journals. Academic staff are encouraged to target high impact journals that are of specific relevance to their discipline areas while it actively encourages academic collaboration and interdisciplinary research. Higher Degree Research students are also encouraged to publish their research findings within their candidature. Recent publications are listed below. Publications for previous years are accessed by clicking on the link to the left. 

Ahmad MN, Büker P, Khalid S, Van Den Berg L, Shah HU, Wahid A, Emberson L, Power SA, Ashmore M, (2013) 'Effects of ozone on crops in north-west Pakistan', Environmental Pollution, vol.174, pp 244-249

Anderson IC, (2013) 'Prof. John William Gibson Cairney, 1959-2012 Obituary', New Phytologist, vol.197, no.3, pp 694-695   

Anderson IC, Drigo B, Keniry K, Ghannoum O, Chambers SM, Tissue DT, Cairney JW, (2013) 'Interactive effects of preindustrial, current and future atmospheric CO₂ concentrations and temperature on soil fungi associated with two Eucalyptus species', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol.83, no.2, pp 425-437

Aslam TJ, Johnson SN, Karley AJ, (2013) 'Plant-mediated effects of drought on aphid population structure and parasitoid attack', Journal of Applied Entomology, vol.137, no.1-2, pp 136-145

Aspinwall MJ, King JS, McKeand SE, (2013) 'Productivity differences among loblolly pine genotypes are independent of individual-tree biomass partitioning and growth efficiency', Trees, vol.27, no.3, pp 533-545

Bentley LP, Stegen JC, Savage VM, Smith DD, von Allmen EI, Sperry JS, Reich PB, Enquist BJ, (2013) 'An empirical assessment of tree branching networks and implications for plant allometric scaling models', Ecology Letters, vol.16, no.8, pp 1069-1078

Bertuzzi S, Davies L, Power SA, Tretiach M, (2013) 'Why lichens are bad biomonitors of ozone pollution?', Ecological Indicators, vol.34, pp 391-397

Bowatte S, Newton PCD, Hill A-M, Theobald P, Luo D, Hovenden M, Osanai Y, (2013) 'Offspring of plants exposed to elevated or ambient CO2 differ in their impacts on soil nitrification in a common garden experiment', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.62, pp 134-136

Bowman DMJS, Murphy BP, Boer MM, Bradstock RA, Cary GJ, Cochrane MA, Fensham, Krawchuk MA, Price OF, Williams RJ, (2013) 'Forest fire management, climate change and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses', Frontiers in Ecology and Environment, vol.11, no.2, pp 66-67

Bradshaw CJA, Bowman DMJS, Bond NR, Murphy BP, Moore AD, Fordham DA, Thackway R, Lawes MJ, McCallum H, Gregory SD, Dalal RC, Boer MM, Lynch AJJ, Bradstock RA, Brook BW, Henry BK, Hunt LP, Fisher DO, Hunter D, Johnson CN, Keith DA, Lefroy EC, Penman TD, Meyer WS, Thomson JR, Thornton CM, VanDerWal J, Williams RJ, Keniger L, Specht A, (2013)'Brave new green world - Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity', Biological Conservation, vol.161, pp 71-90

Brassard BW, Chen HYH, Cavard X, Laganiere J, Reich PB, Bergeron Y, Pare D, Yuan ZY, (2013) 'Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling', Journal of Ecology, vol.101, no.1, pp 210-219 

Brodersen CR, Choat B, Chatelet DS, Shackel KA, Matthews MA, McElrone AJ, (2013) 'Xylem vessel relays contribute to radial connectivity in grapevine stems (Vitis Vinifera and V. Arizonica; Vitaceae)', American Journal of Botany, vol.100, no.2, pp 314-321  

Brodersen CR, McElrone AJ, Choat B, Lee EF, Shackel KA, Matthews MA, (2013) 'In Vivo Visualizations of Drought-Induced Embolism Spread in Vitis vinifera', Plant Physiology, vol.161, no.4, pp 1820-1829 

De Kauwe MG, Medlyn BE, Zaehle S, Walker AP, Dietze MC, Hickler T, Jain AK, Luo Y, Parton WJ, Prentice IC, Smith B, Thornton PE, Wang S, Wang Y-P, Wårlind D, Weng E, Crous KY, Ellsworth DS, Hanson PJ, Seok Kim H, Warren JM, Oren R, Norby RJ, (2013) 'Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO₂: A model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites', Global Change Biology, vol.19, no.6, pp 1759-1779

Drake JE, Darby BA, Giasson M-A, Kramer MA, Phillips RP, Finzi AC, (2013) 'Stoichiometry constrains microbial response to root exudation-insights from a model and a field experiment in a temperate forest', Biogeosciences, vol.10, no.2, pp 821-838

Drigo B, Kowalchuk GA, Knapp BA, Pijl AS, Boschker HTS, van Veen JA, (2013) 'Impacts of 3 years of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on rhizosphere carbon flow and microbial community dynamics', Global Change Biology, vol.19, no.2, pp 621-636

Duursma RA, Medlyn BE, (2013) 'MAESPA: A model to study interactions between water limitation, environmental drivers and vegetation function at tree and stand levels, with an example application to [CO2] × drought interactions', Geoscientific Model Development, vol.5, no.4, pp 919-940

Duursma RA, Payton P, Bange MP, Broughton KJ, Smith RA, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT, (2013) 'Near-optimal response of instantaneous transpiration efficiency to vapour pressure deficit, temperature and [CO₂] in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol.168, pp 168-176

Eisenhauer N, Dobies T, Cesarz S, Hobbie SE, Meyer RJ, Worm K, Reich PB, (2013) 'Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO₂ and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.110, no.17, pp 6889-6894

Elliott GN, Thomas N, MacRae M, Campbell CD, Ogden ID, Singh BK, (2013) 'Multiplex T-RFLP Allows for Increased Target Number and Specificity: Detection of Salmonella enterica and Six Species of Listeria in a Single Test', Plos One, vol.7, no.8, article no. e43672 

Fisichelli NA, Frelich LE, Reich PB, (2013) 'Climate and interrelated tree regeneration drivers in mixed temperate-boreal forests', Landscape Ecology, vol.28, no.1, pp 149-159

Fisichelli NA, Frelich LE, Reich PB, Eisenhauer N, (2013) 'Linking direct and indirect pathways mediating earthworms, deer, and understory composition in Great Lakes forests', Biological Invasions, vol.15, no.5, pp 1057-1066

Franks PJ, Adams MA, Amthor JS, Barbour MM, Berry JA, Ellsworth DS, Farquhar GD, Ghannoum O, Lloyd J, McDowell N, Norby RJ, Tissue DT, von Caemmerer S, (2013) 'Sensitivity of plants to changing atmospheric CO₂ concentration: From the geological past to the next century', New Phytologist, vol.197, no.4, pp 1077-1094

Fraser LH, Henry HA, Carlyle CN, White SR, Beierkuhnlein C, Cahill Jr JF, Casper BB, Cleland E, Collins SL, Dukes JS, Knapp AK, Lind E, Long R, Luo Y, Reich PB, Smith MD, Sternberg M, Turkington R, (2013) 'Coordinated distributed experiments: An emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol.11, no.3, pp 147-155

Fry EL, Manning P, Allen DGP, Hurst A, Everwand G, Rimmler M, Power SA, (2013) 'Plant Functional Group Composition Modifies the Effects of Precipitation Change on Grassland Ecosystem Function', PLoS ONE, vol.8, no.2, Article no.e57027

Granda E, Camarero JJ, Gimeno TE, Martínez-Fernández J, Valladares F, (2013) 'Intensity and timing of warming and drought differentially affect growth patterns of co-occurring Mediterranean tree species', European Journal of Forest Research, vol.132, no.3, pp 469-480

Green ER, Ellis RJ, Gadsdon SRM, Milcu A, Power SA, (2013) 'How does N deposition affect belowground heathland recovery following wildfire?', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.57, pp 775-783

Héroult A, Lin Y-S, Bourne A, Medlyn BE, Ellsworth DS, (2013) 'Optimal stomatal conductance in relation to photosynthesis in climatically contrasting Eucalyptus species under drought', Plant, Cell and Environment, vol.36, no.2, pp 262-274

Hortal S, Bastida F, Armas C, Lozano YM, Moreno JL, García C, Pugnaire FI, (2013) 'Soil microbial community under a nurse-plant species changes in composition, biomass and activity as the nurse grows', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.64, pp 139-146

Kern CC, Montgomery RA, Reich PB, Strong TF, (2013) 'Canopy gap size influences niche partitioning of the ground-layer plant community in a northern temperate forest', Journal of Plant Ecology, vol.6, no.1, pp 101-112

Kikuzawa K, Onoda Y, Wright IJ, Reich PB, (2013) 'Mechanisms underlying global temperature-related patterns in leaf longevity', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol.22, no.8, pp 982-993

Kribeche H, Bautista S, Gimeno T, Blade C, Vallejo VR, (2013) 'Evaluating the Effectiveness of Post Fire Emergency Rehabilitation Treatments on Soil Degradation and Erosion Control in Semi-Arid Mediterranean Areas of the Spanish South East', Arid Land Research and Management, vol.27, no.4, pp 361-376

Lee MA, Power SA, (2013) 'Direct and indirect effects of roads and road vehicles on the plant community composition of calcareous grasslands', Environmental Pollution, vol.176, pp 106-113  

Lewis JD, Smith RA, Ghannoum O, Logan BA, Phillips NG, Tissue DT, (2013) 'Industrial-age changes in atmospheric [CO₂] and temperature differentially alter responses of faster- and slower-growing Eucalyptus seedlings to short-term drought', Tree Physiology, vol.33, no.5, pp 475-488

Logan BA, Reblin JS, Zonana DM, Dunlavey RF, Hricko CR, Hall AW, Schmiege SC, Butschek RA, Duran KL, Emery RJN, Kurepin LV, Lewis JD, Pharis RP, Phillips NG, Tissue DT, (2013) 'Impact of eastern dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium pusillum) on host white spruce (Picea glauca) development, growth and performance across multiple scales', Physiologia Plantarum, vol.147, no.4, pp 502-513

McElrone AJ, Choat B, Parkinson DY, MacDowell AA, Brodersen CR, (2013) 'Using high resolution computed tomography to visualize the three dimensional structure and function of plant vasculature', Journal of Visualized Experiments, vol.74

McPherson H, van der Merwe M, Delaney SK, Edwards MA, Henry RJ, McIntosh E, Rymer PD, Milner ML, Siow J, Rossetto M, (2013) 'Capturing chloroplast variation for molecular ecology studies: a simple next generation sequencing approach applied to a rainforest tree', BMC Ecology, vol.13, article no.8

Mills JD, Nalpathamkalam T, Jacobs HI, Janitz C, Merico D, Hu P, Janitz M, (2013) 'RNA-Seq analysis of the parietal cortex in Alzheimer's disease reveals alternatively spliced isoforms related to lipid metabolism', Neurosci Lett,  vol.536, pp 90-95

Mitchell PJ, O'Grady AP, Tissue DT, White DA, Ottenschlaeger ML, Pinkard EA (2013) 'Drought response strategies define the relative contributions of hydraulic dysfunction and carbohydrate depletion during tree mortality', New Phytologist, vol.197, no.3, pp 862-872

Moles AT, Peco B, Wallis IR, Foley WJ, Poore AGB, Seabloom EW, Vesk PA, Bisigato AJ, Cella-Pizarro L, Clark CJ, Cohen PS, Cornwell WK, Edwards W, Ejrnaes R, Gonzales-Ojeda T, Graae BJ, Hay G, Lumbwe FC, Magana-Rodriguez B, Moore BD, Peri PL, Poulsen JR, Stegen JC, Veldtman R, Zeipel H, Andrew NR, Boulter SL, Borer ET, Cornelissen JHC, Farji-Brener AG, DeGabriel JL, Jurado E, Kyhn LA, Low B, Mulder CPH, Reardon-Smith K, Rodriguez-Velazquez J, De Fortier A, Zheng Z, Blendinger PG, Enquist BJ, Facelli JM, Knight T, Majer JD, Martinez-Ramos M, McQuillan P, Hui FKC, (2013) 'Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?', New Phytologist, vol.198, no.1, pp 252-263  

Moore BD, Foley WJ, Forbey JS, Degabriel JL, (2013) 'Self-medication: A learning process?', Science, vol.340, no.6136, p 1041

Mueller KE, Eissenstat DM, Müller CW, Oleksyn J, Reich PB, Freeman KH, (2013) 'What controls the concentration of various aliphatic lipids in soil?', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.63, pp 14-17

Mueller KE, Hobbie SE, Tilman D, Reich PB, (2013) 'Effects of plant diversity, N fertilization, and elevated carbon dioxide on grassland soil N cycling in a long-term experiment', Global Change Biology, vol.19, no.4, pp 1249-1261

Murphy BP, Bradstock RA, Boer MM, Carter J, Cary GJ, Cochrane MA, Fensham RJ, Russell-Smith J, Williamson GJ, Bowman DMJS, (2013) 'Fire regimes of Australia: A pyrogeographic model system', Journal of Biogeography, vol.40, no.6, pp 1048-1058

Murray TJ, Ellsworth DS, Tissue DT, Riegler M, (2013) 'Interactive direct and plant-mediated effects of elevated atmospheric [CO2] and temperature on a eucalypt-feeding insect herbivore', Global Change Biology, vol.19, no.5, pp 1407-1416

Murray TJ, Tissue DT, Ellsworth DS, Riegler M, (2013) 'Interactive effects of pre-industrial, current and future [CO2] and temperature on an insect herbivore of Eucalyptus', Oecologia, vol.171, no.4, pp 1025-1035

Nazaries L, Pan Y, Bodrossy L, Baggs EM, Millard P, Murrell JC, Singh BK, (2013) 'Evidence of Microbial Regulation of Biogeochemical Cycles from a Study on Methane Flux and Land Use Change', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol.79, no.13, pp 4031-4040

Nielsen UN, Wall DH, (2013) 'The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions: Different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic?' Ecology Letters, vol.16, no.3, pp 409-419

Norris MD, Avis PG, Reich PB, Hobbie SE, (2013) 'Positive feedbacks between decomposition and soil nitrogen availability along fertility gradients', Plant and Soil, vol.367, no.s 1-2, pp 347-361

Osanai Y, Bougoure D, Hayden H, Hovenden M, (2013) 'Co-occurring grass species differ in their associated microbial community composition in a temperate native grassland', Plant and Soil, vol.368, pp 419-431

Osnas JLD, Lichstein JW, Reich PB, Pacala SW, (2013) 'Global leaf trait relationships: Mass, area, and the leaf economics spectrum', Science, vol.340, no.6133, pp 741-744

O'Sullivan OS, Weerasinghe KWLK, Evans JR, Egerton JJG, Tjoelker MG, Atkin OK, (2013) 'High-resolution temperature responses of leaf respiration in snow gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) reveal high-temperature limits to respiratory function', Plant, Cell and Environment, vol.36, no.7, pp 1268-1284

Pérez-Harguindeguy N, Díaz S, Garnier E, Lavorel S, Poorter H, Jaureguiberry P, Bret-Harte MS, Cornwell WK, Craine JM, Gurvich DE, Urcelay C, Veneklaas EJ, Reich PB, Poorter L, Wright IJ, Ray P, Enrico L, Pausas JG, De Vos AC, Buchmann N, Funes G, Quétier F, Hodgson JG, Thompson K, Morgan HD, Ter Steege H, Van Der Heijden MGA, Sack L, Blonder B, Poschlod P, Vaieretti MV, Conti G, Staver AC, Aquino S, Cornelissen JHC, (2013) 'New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide', Australian Journal of Botany, vol.61, no.3, pp 167-234

Peters EB, Wythers KR, Bradford JB, Reich PB, (2013) 'Influence of Disturbance on Temperate Forest Productivity', Ecosystems, vol.16, no.1, pp 95-110  

Pfautsch S, Adams MA, (2013) 'Water flux of Eucalyptus regnans: Defying summer drought and a record heatwave in 2009', Oecologia, vol.172, no.2, pp 317-326

Pfautsch S, Aspinwall M, Drake J, Choat B, Tissue D, Burykin T, Tjoelker M, (2013) 'Putting the puzzle together: Investigating hydraulic functioning and water transport at high spatial resolution in tall trees', Acta Horticulturae, vol.991, pp 245-252

Powell JR, Anderson IC, Rillig MC, (2013) 'A new tool of the trade: plant-trait based approaches in microbial ecology', Plant and Soil, vol.365, no.s 1-2, pp 35-40

Reich PB, Hobbie, SE, (2013) 'Decade-long soil nitrogen constraint on the CO₂ fertilization of plant biomass', Nature Climate Change, vol.3, no.3, pp 278-282

Rymer PD, Dick CW, Vendramin GG, Buonamici A, Boshier D, (2013) 'Recent phylogeographic structure in a widespread 'weedy' Neotropical tree species, Cordia alliodora (Boraginaceae)', Journal of Biogeography, vol.40, no.4, pp 693-706

Sherwin GL, George L, Kannangara K, Tissue DT, Ghannoum O, (2013) 'Impact of industrial-age climate change on the relationship between water uptake and tissue nitrogen in eucalypt seedlings', Functional Plant Biology, vol.40, no.2, pp 201-212

Southon GE, Field C, Caporn SJM, Britton AJ, Power SA, (2013) 'Nitrogen Deposition Reduces Plant Diversity and Alters Ecosystem Functioning: Field-Scale Evidence from a Nationwide Survey of UK Heathlands', PLoS ONE, vol.8, no.4, Article no.e59031

Sterck FJ, Duursma RA, Pearcy RW, Valladares F, Cieslak M, Weemstra M, (2013) 'Plasticity influencing the light compensation point offsets the specialization for light niches across shrub species in a tropical forest understorey', Journal of Ecology, vol.101, no.4, pp 971-980

Turbill C, Ruf T, Smith S, Bieber C, (2013) 'Seasonal variation in telomere length of a hibernating rodent', Biology Letters, vol.9, no.2, Article no.1095

Twine NA, Janitz C, Wilkins MR, Janitz M, (2013) 'Sequencing of hippocampal and cerebellar transcriptomes provides new insights into the complexity of gene regulation in the human brain', Neurosci Lett, vol.541, pp 263-268

Tyler BM, Kale SD, Wang QQ, Tao K, Clark HR, Drews K, Antignani V, Rumore A, Hayes T, Plett JM, Fudal I, Gu B, Chen QH, Affeldt KJ, Berthier E, Fischer GJ, Dou DL, Shan WX, Keller NP, Martin F, Rouxel T, Lawrence CB, (2013) 'Microbe-Independent Entry of Oomycete RxLR Effectors and Fungal RxLR-Like Effectors Into Plant and Animal Cells Is Specific and Reproducible', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, vol.26, no.6, pp 611-616  

Verbruggen E, Veresoglou SD, Anderson IC, Caruso T, Hammer EC, Kohler J, Rillig MC, (2013) 'Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - short-term liability but long-term benefits for soil carbon storage?', New Phytologist, vol.197, no.2, pp 366-368

Volder A, Briske DD, Tjoelker MG, (2013) 'Climate warming and precipitation redistribution modify tree-grass interactions and tree species establishment in a warm-temperate savanna', Global Change Biology, vol.19, no.3, pp 843-857

Wang H, Ridley J, Dunn DW, Wang R, Cook JM, Yu DW, (2013) 'Biased oviposition and biased survival together help resolve a fig-wasp conflict', Oikos, vol.122, no.4, pp 533-540

Wang N, Trivedi P, (2013) 'Citrus Huanglongbing: A Newly Relevant Disease Presents Unprecedented Challenges', Phytopathology, vol.103, no.7, pp 652-665

Westoby M, Reich PB, Wright IJ, (2013) 'Understanding ecological variation across species: Area-based vs mass-based expression of leaf traits', New Phytologist, vol.199, no.2, pp 322-323

Wright A, Schnitzer SA, Dickie IA, Gunderson AR, Pinter GA, Mangan SA, Reich PB, (2013) 'Complex facilitation and competition in a temperate grassland: Loss of plant diversity and elevated CO₂ have divergent and opposite effects on oak establishment', Oecologia, vol.171, no.2, pp 449-458

Wythers KR, Reich PB, Bradford JB, (2013) 'Incorporating temperature-sensitive Q(10) and foliar respiration acclimation algorithms modifies modeled ecosystem responses to global change', Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, vol.118, no.1, pp 77-90  

Xiang S, Reich PB, Sun S, Atkin OK, (2013) 'Contrasting leaf trait scaling relationships in tropical and temperate wet forest species', Functional Ecology, vol.27, no.2, pp 522-534

Xu MY, He ZL, Deng Y, Wu LY, van Nostrand JD, Hobbie SE, Reich PB, Zhou JZ, (2013) 'Elevated CO₂ influences microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling', BMC Microbiology, vol.13, Article no.124  

Zeppel M, Logan B, Lewis JD, Phillips N, Tissue D, (2013) 'Why lose water at night? Disentangling the mystery of nocturnal sap flow, transpiration and stomatal conductance - When, where, who?', Acta Horticulturae, vol.991, pp 307-312