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 pp 533-545

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

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

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

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

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  

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  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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