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List of works by Janet Wilmshurst

A 2000 year history of vegetation and landscape change in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand ⬇️

1995 doctoral thesis by Janet Mary Wilmshurst at University of Canterbury

A Holocene record of climate, vegetation change and peat bog development, east Otago, South Island, New Zealand

scientific article published in May 1999

A Last Interglacial pollen-temperature reconstruction, central North Island, New Zealand

article

A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes

scientific article published in 2013

A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

scientific article

A guide to assess distance from ecological baselines and change over time in palaeoecological records

scientific article published in 2023

A high-precision chronology for the rapid extinction of New Zealand moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)

article

A high-resolution chronology of rapid forest transitions following polynesian arrival in New Zealand

scientific article

A lost link between a flightless parrot and a parasitic plant and the potential role of coprolites in conservation paleobiology

scientific article

A megafauna's microfauna: gastrointestinal parasites of New Zealand's extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

scientific article published in 2013

A pre-deforestation pollen-climate calibration model for New Zealand and quantitative temperature reconstructions for the past 18 000 years BP

article

A protocol for subsampling Late Quaternary coprolites for multi-proxy analysis

article

A refined model of body mass and population density in flightless birds reconciles extreme bimodal population estimates for extinct moa

scientific article published in 2019

Accumulation rates or percentages? How to quantify Sporormiella and other coprophilous fungal spores to detect late Quaternary megafaunal extinction events

scholarly article

Age of North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) bones found on the forest floor in the Ruahine Range

article by JR Wood et al published December 2013 in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

An avian seed dispersal paradox: New Zealand's extinct megafaunal birds did not disperse large seeds.

scientific article published in April 2018

An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand

article

Ancient and modern scats record broken ecological interactions and a decline in dietary breadth of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot (Strigops habroptilus)

article published in March 2023

Ancient parasite DNA from late Quaternary Atacama Desert rodent middens

scientific article published in 2019

Assessing the ecological value of small testate amoebae (<45 μm) in New Zealand peatlands

article

Asynchronous climate change between New Zealand and the North Atlantic during the last deglaciation

scholarly article published by Chris Turney in 2003

Author Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene.

scientific article

Biomonitoring tool for New Zealand peatlands: Testate amoebae and vascular plants as promising bioindicators

scientific article published in 2024

Bone stable isotopes indicate a high trophic position for New Zealand’s extinct South Island adzebill (Aptornis defossor) (Gruiformes: Aptornithidae)

article

Causes of tree line stability: stem growth, recruitment and mortality rates over 15 years at New ZealandNothofagustree lines

article

Changes in New Zealand forest plant communities following the prehistoric extinction of avian megaherbivores

article

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

scholarly article

Climate change and cultural evolution across the world

scholarly article published December 2016

Climate, fire, farming and the recent vegetation history of subantarctic Campbell Island

article published in 2007

Climatic variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20–10kyrBP)

scholarly article

Comparing the effects of asynchronous herbivores on New Zealand montane vegetation communities

article

Contribution of floodplain sequestration to the sediment budget of the Waipaoa River, New Zealand

article

Corroded Pollen and Spores as Indicators of Changing Lake Sediment Sources and Catchment Disturbance

scholarly article

Dating initial Maori environmental impact in New Zealand

article

Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

scientific article (publication date: 3 June 2008)

Detecting the initial impact of humans and introduced species on island environments in Remote Oceania using palaeoecology

article

Divergent trends in land and ocean temperature in the Southern Ocean over the past 18,000 years

Does heating stimulate germination in Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka; Myrtaceae)?

scientific article published in 2017

Does the bipolar seesaw extend to the terrestrial southern mid-latitudes?

scholarly article

Duelling narratives of chironomids and pollen explain climate enigmas during The Last Glacial-Interglacial transition in North Island New Zealand

scientific article published in 2021

Ecological dynamics of moa extinctions reveal convergent refugia that today harbour flightless birds

scientific article published on 24 July 2024

Exotic Mammals and Invasive Plants Alter Fire-Related Thresholds in Southern Temperate Forested Landscapes

article

Experimental Simulation: Using Generative Modeling and Palaeoecological Data to Understand Human-Environment Interactions

scientific article published in 2016

Explaining fire-driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of New Zealand's prehistory

article

Exploring fire adaptation in a land with little fire: serotiny in Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae)

Floristic homogenization of South Pacific islands commenced with human arrival

scientific article published in 2024

Forest disturbance in the central North Island, New Zealand, following the 1850 BP Taupo eruption

article

Functional and environmental determinants of bark thickness in fire-free temperate rain forest communities

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Geographic and ecological segregation in an extinct guild of flightless birds: New Zealand’s moa

scientific article published in 2021

Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965.

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Global distribution modelling of a conspicuous Gondwanian soil protist reveals latitudinal dispersal limitation and range contraction in response to climate warming

scientific article published on 8 October 2023

HOTRUNZ: an open-access 1 km resolution monthly 1910–2019 time series of interpolated temperature and rainfall grids with associated uncertainty for New Zealand

scientific article published on 21 June 2022

High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia

scientific article (publication date: 27 December 2010)

High-resolution coproecology: using coprolites to reconstruct the habits and habitats of New Zealand's extinct upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus)

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Holocene black carbon in New Zealand lake sediment records

scientific article published in February 2024

Holocene temperature, humidity and seasonality in northern New Zealand linked to Southern Hemisphere summer insolation

scholarly article

Holocene vegetation and climate change in southern New Zealand: linkages between forest composition and quantitative surface moisture reconstructions from an ombrogenous bog

article

Integrating permanent plot and palaeoecological data to determine subalpine post‐fire succession, recovery and convergence over 128 years

scientific article published in 2020

Intensification of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds 2000-1000 years ago: evidence from the subantarctic Campbell and Auckland Islands (52-50°S)

article

Interspecies interference and monitoring duration affect detection rates in chew cards

scientific article published in 2016

Island biodiversity conservation needs palaeoecology

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration

Lake sediment fecal and biomass burning biomarkers provide direct evidence for prehistoric human-lit fires in New Zealand

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Last Glacial pollen-climate reconstructions from Northland, New Zealand

article

Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrate coprolites from New Zealand

article

Late-glacial and Holocene vegetation and climatic history of the Cass Basin, central South Island, New Zealand

article

Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation and climatic change on Auckland Island, Subantarctic New Zealand

article

Long-term ecology resolves the timing, region of origin and process of establishment for a disputed alien tree ⬇️

scientific article

Long‐term trajectories of non‐native vegetation on islands globally

scientific article published in 2023

Looking Back for the Future: Local Knowledge and Palaeoecology Inform Biocultural Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems in New Zealand

article

Microscopic and ancient DNA profiling of Polynesian dog (kurī) coprolites from northern New Zealand

article

Mid-Holocene coprolites from southern New Zealand provide new insights into the diet and ecology of the extinct little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis)

scientific article

Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Multidecadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14C: Evidence against a Southern Ocean sink at the end of the Little Ice Age CO2 anomaly

Multiscale climate change impacts on plant diversity in the Atacama Desert

article

Neville Taylor Moar BSc, MSc, PhD (Cant.), 31 July 1926–1 June 2016

scientific article published in 2016

New Zealand forest dynamics: a review of past and present vegetation responses to disturbance, and development of conceptual forest models

scholarly article published in 2018

New palaeontological data from the excavation of the Late Glacial Glencrieff miring bone deposit, North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

article

Novel interactions between non-native mammals and fungi facilitate establishment of invasive pines

scientific article published in 2014

Origin and timing of New Zealand's earliest domestic chickens: Polynesian commensals or European introductions?

scientific article

Origin of pollen and spores in surface lake sediments: Comparison of modern palynomorph assemblages in moss cushions, surface soils and surface lake sediments

article

Palaeoecological and historical observations of an endemic New Zealand bird (Strigops habroptila, kākāpō) reveal shifting drivers of decline during 800 years of human settlement

Palaeoecological signatures of vegetation change induced by herbivory regime shifts on subantarctic Enderby Island

scholarly article

Paleolimnology of Slapton Ley, Devon, UK

Palynology and the Ecology of the New Zealand Conifers

article

Past and Present Vulnerability of Closed-Canopy Temperate Forests to Altered Fire Regimes: A Comparison of the Pacific Northwest, New Zealand, and Patagonia

article

Plant pathogen responses to Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change in the central Atacama Desert, Chile

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands

Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands

Pollen-based temperature and precipitation records of the past 14,600 years in northern New Zealand (37°S) and their linkages with the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation

article

Pollen-climate reconstruction from northern South Island, New Zealand (41°S), reveals varying high- and low-latitude teleconnections over the last 16 000 years

article

Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Radiocarbon-dated faunal remains correlate very large rock avalanche deposit with prehistoric Alpine Fault rupture

article by JR Wood et al published December 2011 in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Rapid deforestation of South Island, New Zealand, by early Polynesian fires

article

Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

scientific article

Recent spread of Dracophyllum scrub on subantarctic Campbell Island, New Zealand: climatic or anthropogenic origins?

article

Reconstructing Holocene water tables in New Zealand using testate amoebae: differential preservation of tests and implications for the use of transfer functions

article

Reconstructing atmospheric circulation over southern New Zealand: Establishment of modern westerly airflow 5500 years ago and implications for Southern Hemisphere Holocene climate change

article

Reconstructing colonization dynamics to establish how human activities transformed island biodiversity

Reconstructing ecological functions provided by extinct fauna using allometrically informed simulation models: An in silico framework for ‘movement palaeoecology’

scientific article published in 2021

Reconstructing spatial vulnerability to forest loss by fire in pre-historic New Zealand

article

Redating the advance of the New Zealand Franz Josef Glacier during the Last Termination: evidence for asynchronous climate change

article

Reply to Mulrooney et al.: Accepting lower precision radiocarbon dates results in longer colonization chronologies for East Polynesia

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Resolving lost herbivore community structure using coprolites of four sympatric moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

scientific article (publication date: 15 October 2013)

Response to Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”

Response to Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”

scientific article published on 19 November 2021

Revealing the palaeoecology of silent taxa: selecting proxy species from associations in modern vegetation data

scientific article published in 2024

Seasonal variations in aridity and temperature characterize changing climate during the last deglaciation in New Zealand

article

Seasonality in the early Holocene: Extending fossil-based estimates with a forest ecosystem process model

article

Small wetlands are critical for safeguarding rare and threatened plant species

article

Sporormiella as a proxy for non-mammalian herbivores in island ecosystems

scholarly article

Standardizing names applied to pollen and spores in New Zealand Quaternary palynology

article

Superficially described and ignored for 92 years, rediscovered and emended: Apodera angatakere (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Hyalospheniformes) is a new flagship testate amoeba taxon from Aotearoa (New Zealand) ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 September 2021

Supplementary material to "Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands"

scholarly article

Supplementary material to "Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction"

scholarly article

Temperature, Wind, Cloud, and the Postglacial Tree Line History of Sub-Antarctic Campbell Island

scientific article

The 13th century polynesian colonization of Hawai’i Island

The Kaharoa Tephra as a Critical Datum for Earliest Human Impact in Northern New Zealand

article

The forgotten fauna: Native vertebrate seed predators on islands ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

The rail-cutter: a simple, cheap and compact system for opening sediment cores in the lab and field

scholarly article

The testate amoebae of New Zealand: A checklist, identification key and assessment of biogeographic patterns

scholarly article published in 2021

The vegetation cover of New Zealand at the Last Glacial Maximum

article

Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial

scientific article published in 2020

Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction

Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction

scholarly article

Two new Holocene vegetation records from the margins of the Canterbury Plains, South Island, New Zealand

scholarly article published in 2018

Use of pollen and ancient DNA as conservation baselines for offshore islands in New Zealand

scientific article

Using palaeoecology to determine baseline ecological requirements and interaction networks for de-extinction candidate species

article

Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change

scientific article

Vertical distribution of prokaryotes communities and predicted metabolic pathways in New Zealand wetlands, and potential for environmental DNA indicators of wetland condition

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Was extinction of New Zealand's avian megafauna an unavoidable consequence of human arrival?

scientific article published in February 2025

Wetland soil moisture complicates the use of Sporormiella to trace past herbivore populations

article

Winter climate limits subantarctic low forest growth and establishment

scientific article

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