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Publications

2012

  • Enright, N.J. Keith, D.A., Clarke, M.F., Miller, B.P. 2012. Australian sclerophyllous shrubby ecosystems: heathlands, heathy woodlands and mallee woodlands. Pages 215-234. In: Bradstock, R., Gill, A. & Williams, R. (eds) Flammable Australia: fire regimes and biodiversity in a changing world. CSIRO Publishing. Melbourne. ISBN:780643104822.
  • Fontaine, J.B., Westcott, V.C., Enright, N.J., Lade, J.C., Miller, B.P. In press. Fire behaviour in southwestern Australian shrublands: evaluating the influence of fuel age and fire weather. Intl. J. Wildl. Fire.
  • Meers, T.L., Enright, N.J. Bell, T.L., Kasel, S. 2012. Deforestation strongly affects soil seed banks in Eucalypt forests: generalisations in functional traits and implications for restoration. Forest Ecology and Management 266:94-107.
  • Standish, R.J., J.B. Fontaine, R.J. Harris, W.D. Stock, R.J. Hobbs. In press. Interactive effects of altered rainfall and simulated nitrogen deposition on seedling establishment in a global biodiversity hotspot. Oikos.
  • Stephens, S.L., J.D. McIver, R.E.J. Boerner, C.J. Fettig, J.B. Fontaine, B.R. Hartsough, P. Kennedy, D.W. Schwilk. In press. Effects of forest fuel reduction treatments in the United States. Bioscience.

2011

  • Enright, N.J., Fontaine, J.B., Westcott, V.C., Lade, J. and Miller, B.P. 2011. Fire interval effects on persistence of resprouter species in Mediterranean-type shrublands. Plant Ecology 212:2071-2084. DOI 10.1007/s11258-011-9970-7
  • Lamont, B.B., Enright, N.J., He, T. 2011. Fitness and evolution of resprouters in relation to fire. Plant Ecology 212:1945-1958. DOI 10.1007/s11258-011-9982-3
  • Burley, A.L., Enright, N.J., Mayfield, M.M. 2011. Demographic response and life history of traditional forest resource tree species in a tropical mosaic landscape in Papua New Guinea. Forest Ecology and Management 262:750-758.
  • Orscheg, C., Enright., N.J., Coates, F. and Thomas, I. 2011. Recruitment limitation in dry sclerophyll forests: Regeneration requirements and potential density dependent effects in Eucalyptus tricarpa (L.A.S. Johnson) L.A.S. Johnson & K.D. Hill (Myrtaceae) Austral Ecology 36: Doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02221.x
  • Orscheg, C. and Enright, N.J. 2011. Patterns of seed longevity and dormancy in obligate seeding legumes of box-ironbark forests, southeastern Australia. Austral Ecology 36: 185-194.
  • Esther, A., Groeneveld, J., Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P., Lamont, B.B., Perry, G.L.W., Tietjen, B., Jeltsch, F. 2011. Low-dimensional trade-offs fail to explain richness and structure in species-rich plant communities? Theoretical Ecology 4:495-511. DOI:10.1007/s12080-010-0092-y
  • Enright, N.J. 2011. Fire and Ecosystem Function. Chapter 11, pages 210-228, In: Millington, D. Blumler, M. MacDonald, G. & Schickhoff, U. (eds) Handbook of Biogeography. Sage Publications. London. ISBN:1412919517.
  • Enright, N.J. & Jaffre, T. 2011. Ecology of the Malesian Podocarps. pp. 57-77. In: Turner, B.L. & Cernusak, L.A. (eds) Ecology of the Podocarpaceae in Tropical Forests. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany: No. 95. Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Press. Washington. D.C. ISSN:0081-024X.
  • Ladd, P.G. & Enright, N.J. 2011. Podocarps on the edge. pp. 141-156. In: Turner, B.L. & Cernusak, L.A. (eds) Ecology of the Podocarpaceae in Tropical Forests. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany: No. 95. Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Press. Washington. D.C. ISSN:0081-024X
  • Cernusak, L. A., H. Adie, P. J. Bellingham, E. Biffin, T. J. Brodribb, D. A. Coomes, J. W. Dalling, I. A. Dickie, N. J. Enright, K. Kitayama, P. G. Ladd, H. Lambers, M. J. Lawes, C. H. Lusk, R. J. Morley, & B.L. Turner. 2011. Podocarpaceae in tropical forests: a synthesis. pp. 189-196. In: Turner, B.L. & Cernusak, L.A. (eds) Ecology of the Podocarpaceae in Tropical Forests. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany: No. 95. Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Press. Washington. D.C. ISSN:0081-024X
  • Halofsky, J.E., D.C. Donato, D.E. Hibbs, J.L. Campbell, M.Donaughy-Cannon, J.B. Fontaine, J.R. Thompson, R.G. Anthony, B.T. Bormann, L.J. Kayes, B.E. Law, D.L. Peterson, T.A. Spies. 2011. Mixed-severity fire regimes: lessons and hypotheses from the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion. Ecosphere 2(4):1-19.

2010

  • Enright, N.J. & Cao, K-F. 2010. Plant ecology in China. Plant Ecology 209:181-7.
  • He, T., B.B. Lamont, S.L. Krauss, N.J. Enright. 2010. Genetic connectivity and inter-population seed dispersal of Banksia hookeriana at the landscape scale. Annals of Botany 106:457-66.
  • Perry, G.L.W., J. Ogden, N.J Enright and L.V Davy. 2010. Vegetation patterns and trajectories in disturbed landscapes, Great Barrier Island, northern New Zealand N.Z. J. Ecology 34:311-323.
  • Rigg, L.S., Enright, N.J., Jaffré, T. & Perry, G.L.W. 2010. Contrasting population Dynamics of the endemic New Caledonian conifer, Araucaria laubenfelsii, in Maquis and Rainforest. Biotropica 42:479-87.
  • Meers, T.L., T.L. Bell, N.J. Enright and S. Kasel 2010. Do generalisations of global trade-offs in plant design apply to an Australian sclerophyllous flora? Australian Journal of Botany 58:257–270.
  • Miller, B.P., G.L.W Perry, N.J. Enright, and B.B. Lamont. 2010. Contrasting spatial pattern and pattern-forming processes in natural versus restored shrublands. J. Appl. Ecol. 47:701-09.
  • Meers, T.L., Kasel, S., Bell, T.L. & Enright, N.J. 2010. Conversion of native forest to Pinus radiata plantation: Response of understorey plant composition using a plant functional trait approach. Forest Ecology and Management 259:399-409.
  • Esther, A. , J. Groeneveld, N.J. Enright, B.P. Miller, B.B. Lamont, G.L.W. Perry, F.B. Blank, F. Jeltsch. 2010. Sensitivity of plant functional types to climate change: Classification tree analysis of a simulation model. Journal of Vegetation Science. 21:447-61.
  • Fontaine, J.B., D.C. Donato, Campbell, J.L., Martin, J., Law, BE. 2010. Effects of postfire logging on forest surface air temperatures in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, USA. Forestry 83(5):477-482.
  • DeMars, C., Rosenberg, D., Fontaine, J.B. 2010. Multi-scale factors affecting avian use of isolated remnant oak trees: implications for biological diversity in agro-ecosystems. Biological Conservation 143(6):1485-1492.
  • Yates, C.J., Ladd, P.G. 2010. Using population viability analysis to predict the effect of fire on the extinction risk of an endangered shrub Verticordia fimbrilepis subsp. fimbrilepis in a fragmented landscape. Plant Ecology 211(2):305-319.

2009

  • Williams RJ, Bradstock RA, Cary GJ, Enright NJ, Gill AM, Liedloff A, Lucas C, Whelan RJ, Andersen AN, Bowman DMJS, Clarke PJ, Cook GD, Hennessy K, York A. 2009. Interactions between Climate Change, Fire Regimes and Biodiversity in Australia - A Preliminary Assessment. Report to the Department of Climate Change and Department of Environment, Water Heritage and the Arts: Canberra. 196p. ISBN:9781921298622.
  • Herath, D.N., B.B. Lamont, N.J. Enright & B.P. Miller. 2009. Impact of fire on plant-species persistence in post-mine restored and natural shrubland communities near Eneabba, southwestern Australia. Biological Conservation 142:2175-80.
  • Perry, G.L.W., Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P. Lamont, B.B. & Etienne, R.S. 2009. Dispersal, edaphic fidelity, and speciation in species-rich Western Australian shrublands: evaluating a neutral model of biodiversity. Oikos 118:1349-62.
  • He, T., B.B. Lamont, S.L. Krauss & N.J. Enright. 2009. Quantifying long distance seed dispersal rates among populations of Banksia attenuata (Proteaceae). Ecography 32:1-10.
  • Lenczewski, M., Rigg, L.S., Jaffre, T. & Enright, N.J. 2009. Microbial Communities of Ultramafic Soils in Maquis and Rainforest at Mont Do, New Caledonia. Austral Ecology 34:567-76.
  • Herath, D.N., B.B. Lamont, N.J. Enright & B.P. Miller. 2009. Comparison of post-mine rehabilitated and natural shrubland communities in Southwestern Australia. Restoration Ecology 17:577-85.
  • He, T., B.B. Lamont, S.L. Krauss, N.J. Enright, B.P. Miller & A. Gove. 2009. Ants cannot account for interpopulation dispersal of the arillate pea Daviesia triflora. New Phytologist 181:725-33.
  • Krauss, S.L., T. He, L.G. Barrett, B.B. Lamont, N.J. Enright, B.P. Miller & M. Hanley. 2009. Contrasting impacts of pollen and seed dispersal on spatial genetic structure in Banksia hookeriana (Proteaceae). Heredity 102:274-85.
  • Perry, G.L.W., Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P. and Lamont, B.B. 2009. Nearest-neighbour interactions in species-rich shrublands: the roles of abundance, spatial patterns and resources. Oikos 118:161-74.
  • Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P. & Jaffré, T. 2009. Ecology and population dynamics of the endemic New Caledonian conifer, Araucaria muelleri (Araucariaceae). Pages 359-64. In: Wilcox, M.D. & Bieleski, R. Araucariaceae: Proceedings of the 2002 Araucariaceae Symposium. International Dendrology Society/Touchwood Books. Auckland. N.Z. 546p. ISBN:9780473152260.
  • Donato, D.C., Campbell, J.L., J.B. Fontaine, Law, B.E. 2009. Quantifying char in postfire woody detritus inventories. Journal of Fire Ecology 5(2):104-115.
  • Kennedy, P.L., J.B. Fontaine. 2009. Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and fire surrogates on wildlife in US dry forests. Oregon State University Special Report 1096.
  • Donato, D.C., J.B. Fontaine, W.D. Robinson, J.B. Kauffman, B.E. Law. 2009. Conifer regeneration in stand-replacement portions of a landscape-scale mixed-severity wildfire. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39:823-838.
  • Fontaine, J.B. D.C. Donato, W.D. Robinson, B.E. Law, J.B. Kauffman. 2009. Bird communities following high-severity fire: response to single and repeat fires in a mixed-evergreen forest, Oregon, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 257(6):1496-1504.
  • Donato, D.C., J.B. Fontaine, W.D. Robinson, J.B. Kauffman, B.E. Law. 2009. Vegetation response to a short interval between high-severity wildfires in a mixed-evergreen forest. Journal of Ecology 97:142-154.
  • Nield, A.P., Ladd, P.G., Yates, C.J. 2009. Reproductive biology, post-fire succession dynamics and population viability analysis of the critically endangered Western Australian shrub Calytrix breviseta subsp. breviseta (Myrtaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 57(6):451-464.
  • Wilkins, C.F., Ladd, P.G., Vincent, B.J., Crawford, A.D., Sage, L.W. 2009. Using hierarchies of cause to inform conservation of a naturally rare but critically endangered shrub Lasiopetalum pterocarpum (Malvaceae s.l.). Australian Journal of Botany 57(5):414-424.
  • Ladd, P.G., Arroyo, M.T.K. 2009. Comparisons of breeding systems between two sympatric species, Nastanthus spathulatus (Calyceraceae) and Rhodophiala rhodolirion (Amaryllidaceae), in the high andes of central Chile. Plant Species Biology 24(1):2-10.

2008

  • Groeneveld, J., Enright, N.J. & Lamont B. B. 2008. Simulating the effects of different spatio-temporal fire regimes on plant metapopulation persistence in a Mediterranean-type region. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 1477-85.
  • Enright, N.J. & Thomas, I. 2008. Pre-European fire regimes in Australian ecosystems. Geography Compass 2: 979-1011
  • He, T., B.B. Lamont, S.L. Krauss, N.J. Enright, B.P. Miller. 2008. Covariation between intraspecific genetic diversity and species diversity within a plant functional group. Journal of Ecology 96:956-61.
  • Esther, A., J. Groeneveld, N.J. Enright, B.P. Miller, B.B. Lamont, G.L.W. Perry, F.M. Schurr, F. Jeltsch. 2008. Assessing the importance of seed immigration on coexistence of plant functional types in a species-rich ecosystem. Ecological Modelling 213:402-16.
  • Perry, G.L.W., Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P.and Lamont, B.B. 2008. Spatial patterns in species-rich Mediterranean-type shrublands of southwestern Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 19:705-16.
  • Meers, T.L., Bell, T.L., Enright, N.J. & Kasel, S. 2008. The role of plant functional traits in determining the vegetation composition of abandoned grazing land in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 19:515-24.
  • Kirchner, A. and Ladd, P.G. 2008. Design of rock waste dumps in arid environments. Annual Symposium, Ecology of Industrial Pollution: Remediation, Restoration and Preservation, Austin Court, UK.

2007

  • Enright, N.J. & Miller, B.P. 2007. Grazing and browsing impacts on the desert vegetation of Khirthar National Park, Sindh, Pakistan. Journal of Rangeland Ecology and Management 60:680-84.
  • Perry, G.L.W. & Enright, N.J. 2007. Contrasting Outcomes of Spatially Implicit and Spatially Explicit Models of Vegetation Dynamics in a Forest-Shrubland Mosaic. Ecological Modelling 207:327-38.
  • Enright, N.J., Mosner, E., Miller, B.P., Johnson, N. & Lamont, B.B. 2007. Patterns of soil versus canopy seed storage and plant species coexistence in species-rich shrublands of southwestern Australia. Ecology 88:2292-2304.
  • Miller B.P., Walshe T, Enright N.J., and Lamont B.B. 2007. Error in the inference of fire history from grasstrees. Austral Ecology 32:908-16.
  • Miller, B.P., N.J. Enright & B.B. Lamont. 2007. Range contraction, real and imagined, in Banksia hookeriana, a restricted endemic shrub of south-western Australia. Diversity & Distributions 13:406-17.
  • Lamont, B.B., N.J. Enright, E.T.F. Witkowski & J. Groeneveld. 2007. Conservation biology of banksias: insights from natural history to simulation modeling. Australian Journal of Botany 55:280-292.
  • Crosti, R., Dixon, K.W., Ladd, P.G. and Yates, C.J. (2007) Changes in the structure and species dominance in vegetation over 60 years in an urban bushland remnant. Pacific Conservation Biology 13(3):158-170.
  • Yates, C.J., Ladd, P.G., Coates, D.J. and McArthur, S. (2007) . Hierarchies of cause: Understanding rarity in an endemic shrub Verticordia staminosa (Myrtaceae) with a highly restricted distribution. Australian Journal of Botany 55:294-205.
  • Dufty, P., Garkaklis, M., Ladd, P.G. and Huston, R. (2007) Utilising adaptive management practices in the conservation of a declared rare Acacia species. In (eds.) D. Rokich, G. Wardell-Johnson, C. Yates, J. Stevens, K. Dixon, R. McLellan and G. Moss, Proceedings of the MedEcos XI Conference (The International Mediterranean Ecosystems Conference), Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Perth, Australia, pp.77-78.
  • Heath, M., Ladd, P. and Davis, J.A. (2007) The effect of prescribed burning on the leaf litter invertebrates of the jarrah forest, with special reference to Apocrita (Insecta: Hymenoptera). In (eds.) D. Rokich, G. Wardell-Johnson, C. Yates, J. Stevens, K. Dixon, R. McLellan and G. Moss, Proceedings of the MedEcos XI Conference (The International Mediterranean Ecosystems Conference), Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Perth, Australia, pp.115-116.
  • Ladd, P.G., Enright, N.J. and Crosti, R. 2007. A variable sense of place as exemplified in an iconic urban reserve in Western Australia. In (eds.) G. Stewart, M. Ignatieva, J. Bowring, S. Egoz and I. Melnichuk,Globalisation and Landscape Architecture: Issues for Education and Practice, St Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy, Russia, pp.120-123.
  • Nield, A. and Ladd, P. 2007. Investigating the existence of assembly rules in coastal vegetation. In (eds.) D. Rokich, G. Wardell-Johnson, C. Yates, J. Stevens, K. Dixon, R. McLellan and G. Moss, Proceedings of the MedEcos XI Conference (The International Mediterranean Ecosystems Conference), Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Perth, Australia, pp.177-178.
  • Whipple, P., Bell, R. and Ladd, P.G. 2007. Biomass estimation of a Banksia-Eucalyptus-Melaleuca woodland on the Swan Coastal Plain. In (eds.) D. Rokich, G. Wardell-Johnson, C. Yates, J. Stevens, K. Dixon, R. McLellan and G. Moss, Proceedings of the MedEcos XI Conference (The International Mediterranean Ecosystems Conference), Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Perth, Australia, pp.269-270.

2006

  • Enright, N.J., Lamont, B.B. and Miller, B.P. 2006. Commentary: Anomalies in grasstree fire history reconstructions for southwestern Australian vegetation. Reply from Enright, N.J., Lamont, B.B. and Miller, B.P. 2006. Austral Ecology 31:792-3
  • Krauss, S.L., T. He, B.B. Lamont, B.P. Miller, N.J. Enright . 2006. Late Quaternary climate change and spatial genetic structure in the shrub Banksia hookeriana. Mol. Ecol. 15, 1125-37
  • Perry G.L.W., Miller, B.P. & Enright, N.J. 2006. A Comparison of Some Commonly Used Methods for the Statistical Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns. Plant Ecology 187:59-82
  • Perry, G.L.W. & N.J Enright. 2006. Spatially explicit landscape ecological models: a review of methods and applications. Progress in Physical Geography 30:47-72
  • Haig, S.M., E.A. Beever, S.M. Chambers, H.M. Draheim, B.D. Dugger, S. Dunham, E. Elliott-Smith, J.B. Fontaine, D.C. Kesler, B.J. Knaus, I.F. Lopes, P. Loschl, T.D. Mullins, L.M. Sheffield. 2006. Taxonomic considerations in listing subspecies under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Conservation Biology 20:1584-1594.
  • Wheelwright, N.T., E.E. Dukeshire, J.B. Fontaine, S.H. Gutow, D.A. Moeller, J.G. Schuetz, T.M. Smith, S.L. Rodgers, A.G. Zink. 2006. Pollinator limitation, autogamy and minimal inbreeding depression in insect-pollinated plants on a boreal island. American Midland Naturalist 155:19-38
  • Donato, D.C., J.B. Fontaine, J.L. Campbell, W.D. Robinson, J.B. Kauffman, B.E. Law. 2006. Response to comments on ‘Post-wildfire logging hinders regeneration and increases fire risk’. Science 313:615c
  • Donato, D.C., J.B. Fontaine, J.L. Campbell, W.D. Robinson, J.B. Kauffman, B.E. Law. 2006. Post-wildfire logging hinders regeneration and increases fire risk. Science 311:352
  • Crosti, R., Ladd, P.G., Dixon, K.W. and Piotto, B. 2006. Post-fire germination: the effect of smoke on seeds of selected species from the central Mediterranean basin. Forest Ecology and Management 221:306-312.
  • Ladd, P. 2006. Is there wind pollination in the southern heaths (Styphelioideae, Ericaceae)? Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik 127(1):57-67.
  • Semeniuk, C.A., Milne, L.A., Semeniuk, V. and Ladd, P.G. 2006. Holocene palynology of five wetland basins in the Becher Point area, southwestern Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 89:129-154.

2005

  • Enright, N.J., Lamont, B.B. and Miller, B.P. 2005. Anomalies in grasstree fire history reconstructions for southwestern Australian vegetation. Austral Ecology 30, 668-73
  • Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P. and Akhter, R. 2005. Desert vegetation and vegetation-environment relationships in Khirthar National Park, Sindh, Pakistan. J. Arid Envts 61:397-418
  • Enright, N.J., Groeneveld, J., Lamont, B.B. and Miller, B.P. 2005. Grasstree reconstructions of pre-European fire regimes and models of Banksia (Proteaceae) species co-existence in the northern sandplain shrublands of SW Australia: are they compatible? In: Walshe, T.V. and Williams, J.E. (Eds). Variability in fire interval. How important is it and how do we manage it? Proceedings of a Workshop held 26 September 2003, Albany, Western Australia. pp. 11-21. University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia (ISBN 1 74052 120 X)
  • Chalwell, S.T.S. and Ladd, P.G. 2005. Stem demography and post fire recruitment of Podocarpus drouynianus: A resprouting non-serotinous conifer. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 149:433-449.
  • Ladd, P.G., Crosti, R. and Pignatti, S. 2005. Vegetative and seedling regeneration after fire in planted Sardinian pinewood compared with that in other areas of Mediterranean-type climate. Journal of Biogeography 32:85-98.
  • Yates, C.J. and Ladd, P.G. 2005. Relative importance of reproductive biology and establishment ecology for persistence of a rare shrub in a fragmented landscape. Conservation Biology 19(1):239-249.
  • Dufty, P. and Ladd, P. 2005. Wetland vegetation monitoring, Jandakot wetlands - 2004 Survey . Report to Water and Rivers Commission, Western Australia, 121pp.