List of works - George Perry

A comparison of methods for the statistical analysis of spatial point patterns in plant ecology

article

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

article

A least-cost network neutral landscape model of human sites and routes

scientific article published on 19 February 2024

A native and an invasive dune grass share similar, patchily distributed, root-associated fungal communities

article

A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species supports rankings based on expert opinion

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

A spatial simulation model to assess controls upon grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

scholarly article

A spatial simulation model to explore the long-term dynamics of podocarp-tawa forest fragments, northern 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

Assessing the importance of seed immigration on coexistence of plant functional types in a species-rich ecosystem

article

Assessing the performance of common landscape connectivity metrics using a virtual ecologist approach

scientific article published in 2018

Characterizing wildfire regimes in the United States

scientific article

Climate change, biodiversity and the urban environment: a critical review based on London, UK

article

Climatic conditions affect shoot flammability by influencing flammability‐related functional traits in nonfire‐prone habitats

scientific article published in 2023

Community-level spatial structure supports a model of stochastic geometry in species-rich shrublands

article

Complex habitat changes along elevational gradients interact with resource requirements of insect specialist herbivores

article by Claas Damken et al published December 2012 in Ecosphere

Contrasting Population Dynamics of the Endemic New Caledonian Conifer Araucaria laubenfelsii in Maquis and Rain Forest

article

Contrasting outcomes of spatially implicit and spatially explicit models of vegetation dynamics in a forest-shrubland mosaic

article

Contrasting spatial pattern and pattern-forming processes in natural vs. restored shrublands

scientific article published in 2010

Detecting plant spatial pattern change after disperser loss: A simulation and a case study

scholarly article

Determinants of tree mortality in mixed old-growth Nothofagus forest

scientific article published in 2012

Development of place-based catenal models for grassland ecosystems of the Upper Yellow River, Western China

scientific article published in 2022

Development, Application and Place of Neutral Theory in Ecology and Biogeography

article

Do plant functional traits determine spatial pattern? A test on species-rich shrublands, Western Australia ⬇️

article

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

scientific article published in 2017

Drivers of shoreline change on Pacific coral reef islands: linking island change to processes

scientific article published in 2023

Dynamics and predicted distribution of an irrupting ‘sleeper’ population: fallow deer in Tasmania

scientific article published on 03 January 2022

Eco-evolutionary priority and the assembly of the New Zealand flora

scientific article published in June 2022

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

scientific article published on 24 July 2024

Effects of mis-alignment between dispersal traits and landscape structure on dispersal success in fragmented landscapes

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Effects of predation by introduced mammals and mortality due to severe floods on population viability of the endangered Blue Duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos)

article published in 2015

Effects of uncertain cost-surface specification on landscape connectivity measures

scholarly article by Craig E. Simpkins et al published March 2017 in Ecological Informatics

Evaluating the Role of Social Norms in Fostering Pro-Environmental Behaviors

scientific article published on 04 June 2021

Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant ‘subfossil’ koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi

scientific article published on 17 October 2020

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)

Exploring the interaction of avian frugivory and plant spatial heterogeneity and its effect on seed dispersal kernels using a simulation model

article

Extending the Functionality of Behavioural Change-Point Analysis with k-Means Clustering: A Case Study with the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor)

scientific article

Feedbacks and landscape-level vegetation dynamics

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Fencing is not enough to reinstate regeneration: Evidence from a large fruited canopy tree Beilschmiedia tawa

article

Forest seedling community response to understorey filtering by tree ferns

GIS-supported simulation of the spatial behaviour of wildland fire, Cass Basin, New Zealand ⬇️

1996 master's thesis by George Leslie Whitefield Perry at University of Canterbury

GPS telemetry for parrots: A case study with the Kea (Nestor notabilis)

article published in 2015

Gametophyte niche differences among sympatric tree ferns

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Gender dimorphic species flower earlier than cosexuals

scientific article published in 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 post-fire mortality of resprouting woody plants in Tasmanian Mediterranean-type vegetation

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

How far might plant-eating dinosaurs have moved seeds?

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Humans, fire and landscape pattern: understanding a maquis-forest complex, Mont Do, New Caledonia, using a spatial 'state-and-transition' model

article

Identifying Narrative Descriptions in Agent-Based Models Representing Past Human-Environment Interactions

Identifying the controls on coastal cliff landslides using machine-learning approaches

scholarly article by Mark E. Dickson & George L.W. Perry published February 2016 in Environmental Modelling and Software

Incorporating management action suitability in conservation plans

scientific article published in 2022

Increasing agricultural land use is associated with the spread of an invasive fish (Gambusia affinis).

scientific article

Influences of fire-vegetation feedbacks and post-fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes

scientific article published in 2018

Invasion landscapes as social‐ecological systems: Role of social factors in invasive plant species control

scientific article published in 2021

Is there a 'suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Landscape change and the dynamics of open formations in a natural reserve

article

Low-dimensional trade-offs fail to explain richness and structure in species-rich plant communities

article

Matrix-level co-occurrence metrics are sensitive to sampling grain: a case study in species-rich shrublands

scientific article published in 2020

Model histories: Narrative explanation in generative simulation modelling

Modelling Mediterranean landscape succession-disturbance dynamics: A landscape fire-succession model

article

Models, data and mechanisms: quantifying wildfire regimes

scholarly article by James D. A. Millington et al published 2006 in Geological Society Special Publication

Multi-Model Inference in Biogeography

scholarly article by James D.A. Millington & George L.W. Perry published July 2011 in Geography Compass

Networks and themes in the publications of the New Zealand Ecological Society over the last six decades

scientific article published in 2021

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

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

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

Pattern analysis and spatial distribution of neurons in culture

article

Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Peri-Urban Community Attitudes towards Codling Moth Trapping and Suppression Using the Sterile Insect Technique in New Zealand

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Pioneer tree ferns influence community assembly in northern New Zealand forests

scientific article published in 2018

Positive Feedbacks to Fire-Driven Deforestation Following Human Colonization of the South Island of New Zealand

article

Prey selectivity and ontogenetic diet shift of the globally invasive western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis ) in agriculturally impacted streams

scientific article

Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs

scientific article

Quantifying the direct transfer costs of common brushtail possum dispersal using least-cost modelling: a combined cost-surface and accumulated-cost dispersal kernel approach

scientific article

Radiocarbon-dating and ancient DNA reveal rapid replacement of extinct prehistoric penguins

scholarly 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

Restoration prospects for Heitutan degraded grassland in the Sanjiangyuan

scholarly article

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

scientific article published in 2024

Scale‐dependent effects of landscape structure on pollinator traits, species interactions and pollination success

scientific article published in 2023

Scattered far and wide: A broadly distributed temperate dune grass finds familiar fungal root associates in its invasive range

scholarly article by Renee B. Johansen et al published September 2017 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Sensitivity of plant functional types to climate change: classification tree analysis of a simulation model

article

Shoot flammability is decoupled from leaf flammability, but controlled by leaf functional traits

scientific article published in 2019

Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Shoot-Level Flammability of Species Mixtures is Driven by the Most Flammable Species: Implications for Vegetation-Fire Feedbacks Favouring Invasive Species

article

Size-based fruit selection by a keystone avian frugivore and effects on seed viability

scientific article published in 2016

Spatial Population Models for Animals

Spatial modelling of "alternative" future landscapes under climate change and fire suppression, Mont Do, New Caledonia

scientific article published in 2003

Spatial modelling of vegetation change in dynamic landscapes: a review of methods and applications

article

Spatially adaptive probabilistic computation of a sub-kilometre resolution lightning climatology for New Zealand

article

Species-specific traits plus stabilizing processes best explain coexistence in biodiverse fire-prone plant communities

scientific article

Stochastic geometry best explains spatial associations among species pairs and plant functional types in species-rich shrublands

article

Strength of niche processes for species interactions is lower for generalists and exotic species

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Stress-tolerator leaf traits determine population dynamics in the endangered New Caledonian coniferAraucaria muelleri

article

The hare, tortoise and crocodile revisited: Tree fern facilitation of conifer persistence and angiosperm growth in simulated forests ⬇️

scholarly article

The role of land abandonment in landscape dynamics in the SPA ‘Encinares del rı́o Alberche y Cofio, Central Spain, 1984–1999

article

The spatial complexity of seed movement: Animal‐generated seed dispersal patterns in fragmented landscapes revealed by animal movement models

scientific article published in 2019

Trait matching and phenological overlap increase the spatio-temporal stability and functionality of plant-pollinator interactions

scientific article published on 17 May 2020

Tree fern ecology in New Zealand: A model for southern temperate rainforests

article

Understanding and Managing Social–Ecological Tipping Points in Primary Industries

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Using Machine Learning to Predict Geomorphic Disturbance: The Effects of Sample Size, Sample Prevalence, and Sampling Strategy

scholarly article by George L. W. Perry & Mark E. Dickson published November 2018 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Using network connectivity to prioritise sites for the control of invasive species

article

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

article

Using point process intensity to establish the spatio-temporal grain of continuous landscape tessellations and graphs

article published in 2012

Visualising continuous intra-landscape isolation with uncertainty using least-cost modelling based catchment areas: common brushtail possums in the Auckland isthmus

article by Thomas R. Etherington & George L.W. Perry published 5 June 2014 in International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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

scientific article published in February 2025

Will Peri-Urban Cydia pomonella (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Challenge Local Eradication?

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

List of works by George Perry

A comparison of methods for the statistical analysis of spatial point patterns in plant ecology

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

A least-cost network neutral landscape model of human sites and routes

A native and an invasive dune grass share similar, patchily distributed, root-associated fungal communities

A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species supports rankings based on expert opinion

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

A spatial simulation model to assess controls upon grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

A spatial simulation model to explore the long-term dynamics of podocarp-tawa forest fragments, northern New Zealand

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

Assessing the importance of seed immigration on coexistence of plant functional types in a species-rich ecosystem

Assessing the performance of common landscape connectivity metrics using a virtual ecologist approach

Characterizing wildfire regimes in the United States

Climate change, biodiversity and the urban environment: a critical review based on London, UK

Climatic conditions affect shoot flammability by influencing flammability‐related functional traits in nonfire‐prone habitats

Community-level spatial structure supports a model of stochastic geometry in species-rich shrublands

Complex habitat changes along elevational gradients interact with resource requirements of insect specialist herbivores

Contrasting Population Dynamics of the Endemic New Caledonian Conifer Araucaria laubenfelsii in Maquis and Rain Forest

Contrasting outcomes of spatially implicit and spatially explicit models of vegetation dynamics in a forest-shrubland mosaic

Contrasting spatial pattern and pattern-forming processes in natural vs. restored shrublands

Detecting plant spatial pattern change after disperser loss: A simulation and a case study

Determinants of tree mortality in mixed old-growth Nothofagus forest

Development of place-based catenal models for grassland ecosystems of the Upper Yellow River, Western China

Development, Application and Place of Neutral Theory in Ecology and Biogeography

Do plant functional traits determine spatial pattern? A test on species-rich shrublands, Western Australia ⬇️

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

Drivers of shoreline change on Pacific coral reef islands: linking island change to processes

Dynamics and predicted distribution of an irrupting ‘sleeper’ population: fallow deer in Tasmania

Eco-evolutionary priority and the assembly of the New Zealand flora

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

Effects of mis-alignment between dispersal traits and landscape structure on dispersal success in fragmented landscapes

Effects of predation by introduced mammals and mortality due to severe floods on population viability of the endangered Blue Duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos)

Effects of uncertain cost-surface specification on landscape connectivity measures

Evaluating the Role of Social Norms in Fostering Pro-Environmental Behaviors

Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant ‘subfossil’ koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi

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

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

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

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

Exploring the interaction of avian frugivory and plant spatial heterogeneity and its effect on seed dispersal kernels using a simulation model

Extending the Functionality of Behavioural Change-Point Analysis with k-Means Clustering: A Case Study with the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor)

Feedbacks and landscape-level vegetation dynamics

Fencing is not enough to reinstate regeneration: Evidence from a large fruited canopy tree Beilschmiedia tawa

Forest seedling community response to understorey filtering by tree ferns

GIS-supported simulation of the spatial behaviour of wildland fire, Cass Basin, New Zealand ⬇️

GPS telemetry for parrots: A case study with the Kea (Nestor notabilis)

Gametophyte niche differences among sympatric tree ferns

Gender dimorphic species flower earlier than cosexuals

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

High post-fire mortality of resprouting woody plants in Tasmanian Mediterranean-type vegetation

How far might plant-eating dinosaurs have moved seeds?

Humans, fire and landscape pattern: understanding a maquis-forest complex, Mont Do, New Caledonia, using a spatial 'state-and-transition' model

Identifying Narrative Descriptions in Agent-Based Models Representing Past Human-Environment Interactions

Identifying the controls on coastal cliff landslides using machine-learning approaches

Incorporating management action suitability in conservation plans

Increasing agricultural land use is associated with the spread of an invasive fish (Gambusia affinis).

Influences of fire-vegetation feedbacks and post-fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes

Invasion landscapes as social‐ecological systems: Role of social factors in invasive plant species control

Is there a 'suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.

Landscape change and the dynamics of open formations in a natural reserve

Low-dimensional trade-offs fail to explain richness and structure in species-rich plant communities

Matrix-level co-occurrence metrics are sensitive to sampling grain: a case study in species-rich shrublands

Model histories: Narrative explanation in generative simulation modelling

Modelling Mediterranean landscape succession-disturbance dynamics: A landscape fire-succession model

Models, data and mechanisms: quantifying wildfire regimes

Multi-Model Inference in Biogeography

Networks and themes in the publications of the New Zealand Ecological Society over the last six decades

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

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

Palynology and the Ecology of the New Zealand Conifers

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

Pattern analysis and spatial distribution of neurons in culture

Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

Peri-Urban Community Attitudes towards Codling Moth Trapping and Suppression Using the Sterile Insect Technique in New Zealand

Pioneer tree ferns influence community assembly in northern New Zealand forests

Positive Feedbacks to Fire-Driven Deforestation Following Human Colonization of the South Island of New Zealand

Prey selectivity and ontogenetic diet shift of the globally invasive western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis ) in agriculturally impacted streams

Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs

Quantifying the direct transfer costs of common brushtail possum dispersal using least-cost modelling: a combined cost-surface and accumulated-cost dispersal kernel approach

Radiocarbon-dating and ancient DNA reveal rapid replacement of extinct prehistoric penguins