List of works - Brett A Melbourne

A Low-Cost Sensor for Measuring Spatiotemporal Variation of Light Intensity on the Streambed

A continent-wide study reveals clear relationships between regional abiotic conditions and post-dispersal seed predation

Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities

scientific article published in February 2011

An evaluation of two hands-on lab styles for plant biodiversity in undergraduate biology

scientific article

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

scientific article published in June 2015

Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands

article

Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published in 2024

Bias in the effect of habitat structure on pitfall traps: An experimental evaluation

article

Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance

scientific article

Changes in plant species density in an experimentally fragmented forest landscape: Are the effects scale-dependent?

article

Community context and dispersal stochasticity drive variation in spatial spread

scientific article published on 05 September 2020

Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

scientific article

Demographic stochasticity alters expected outcomes in experimental and simulated non‐neutral communities

scientific article

Differentiating between niche and neutral assembly in metacommunities using null models of β-diversity

scientific article published in 2015

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Effects of within- and between-Patch Processes on Community Dynamics in a Fragmentation Experiment

scientific article published in 2001

Estimating extinction risk with minimal data

article

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Experimental investigation of alternative transmission functions: Quantitative evidence for the importance of nonlinear transmission dynamics in host-parasite systems.

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity

scientific article

Generalist predator's niche shifts reveal ecosystem changes in an experimentally fragmented landscape

scientific article published in 2017

Genetic and demographic founder effects have long-term fitness consequences for colonising populations

scientific article published in February 2017

Genetic mixing facilitates adaptation to a novel environmental constraint

scientific article published on 6 April 2023

Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

scientific article

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

scientific article published on 9 March 2014

Highly variable spread rates in replicated biological invasions: fundamental limits to predictability

scientific article

How density dependence, genetic erosion and the extinction vortex impact evolutionary rescue

scientific article published on 22 November 2023

Immigration delays but does not prevent adaptation following environmental change: experimental evidence

scientific article published on 11 March 2024

Impact of pre-lab learning activities, a post-lab written report, and content reduction on evolution-based learning in an undergraduate plant biodiversity lab

article

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Interspecific competition slows range expansion and shapes range boundaries

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Interspecific competition slows range expansion and shapes range boundaries

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Invasion in a heterogeneous world: resistance, coexistence or hostile takeover?

scientific article published in January 2007

Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

scientific article

Linking metacommunity paradigms to spatial coexistence mechanisms.

scientific article published in September 2016

Making the right choice: testing the drivers of asymmetric infections within hosts and their consequences for pathology

scholarly article by Pieter T J Johnson et al published 6 March 2014 in Oikos

Nitrogen increases early‐stage and slows late‐stage decomposition across diverse grasslands

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

Parsing propagule pressure: Number, not size, of introductions drives colonization success in a novel environment

Parsing propagule pressure: Number, not size, of introductions drives colonization success in a novel environment ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Population demographic history and evolutionary rescue: Influence of a bottleneck event

scientific article published in August 2023

Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

scientific article

Rapid trait evolution drives increased speed and variance in experimental range expansions

scientific article

Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world's grasslands

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Reply to Wootton and Pfister: The search for general context should include synthesis with laboratory model systems

scientific article

SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY EXPLAINS THE SCALE DEPENDENCE OF THE NATIVE–EXOTIC DIVERSITY RELATIONSHIP

scientific article published in 2005

Scaling up population dynamics: integrating theory and data.

scientific article

Short- and long-term effects of habitat fragmentation differ but are predicted by response to the matrix

scientific article

Spatial and temporal variability of fragmentation effects in a long term, eucalypt forest fragmentation experiment

scientific article published in 2018

Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes: Where to From Here?

article

Species' traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity

scientific article

Statistical models for monitoring and predicting effects of climate change and invasion on the free-living insects and a spider from sub-Antarctic Heard Island

scholarly article by Kendi F. Davies et al published 27 July 2010 in Polar Biology

Statistical models of invertebrate distribution on Macquarie Island: a tool to assess climate change and local human impacts

scholarly article by Kendi F. Davies & Brett A. Melbourne published 23 March 1999 in Polar Biology

Stochastic processes drive rapid genomic divergence during experimental range expansions

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Success and failure of ecological management is highly variable in an experimental test

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

The power of evolutionary rescue is constrained by genetic load.

scientific article

The roles of demography and genetics in the early stages of colonization

scientific article published in October 2014

The scale transition: scaling up population dynamics with field data

scientific article

The spatial spread of invasions: new developments in theory and evidence

article

The status of two exotic terrestrial Crustacea on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

The tails of two geckos tell the story of dispersal in a fragmented landscape

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

The use of traits to interpret responses to large scale - edge effects: a study of epigaeic beetle assemblages across a Eucalyptus forest and pine plantation edge

article

Three types of rescue can avert extinction in a changing environment

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Using traits of species to understand responses to land use change: Birds and livestock grazing in the Australian arid zone

article

When can competition and dispersal lead to checkerboard distributions?

scientific article published in 2018

Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published on 5 August 2024

List of works by Brett A Melbourne

A Low-Cost Sensor for Measuring Spatiotemporal Variation of Light Intensity on the Streambed

A continent-wide study reveals clear relationships between regional abiotic conditions and post-dispersal seed predation

Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities

An evaluation of two hands-on lab styles for plant biodiversity in undergraduate biology

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands

Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

Bias in the effect of habitat structure on pitfall traps: An experimental evaluation

Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance

Changes in plant species density in an experimentally fragmented forest landscape: Are the effects scale-dependent?

Community context and dispersal stochasticity drive variation in spatial spread

Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

Demographic stochasticity alters expected outcomes in experimental and simulated non‐neutral communities

Differentiating between niche and neutral assembly in metacommunities using null models of β-diversity

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion

Effects of within- and between-Patch Processes on Community Dynamics in a Fragmentation Experiment

Estimating extinction risk with minimal data

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands ⬇️

Experimental investigation of alternative transmission functions: Quantitative evidence for the importance of nonlinear transmission dynamics in host-parasite systems.

Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity

Generalist predator's niche shifts reveal ecosystem changes in an experimentally fragmented landscape

Genetic and demographic founder effects have long-term fitness consequences for colonising populations

Genetic mixing facilitates adaptation to a novel environmental constraint

Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties

Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

Highly variable spread rates in replicated biological invasions: fundamental limits to predictability

How density dependence, genetic erosion and the extinction vortex impact evolutionary rescue

Immigration delays but does not prevent adaptation following environmental change: experimental evidence

Impact of pre-lab learning activities, a post-lab written report, and content reduction on evolution-based learning in an undergraduate plant biodiversity lab

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

Interspecific competition slows range expansion and shapes range boundaries

Interspecific competition slows range expansion and shapes range boundaries

Invasion in a heterogeneous world: resistance, coexistence or hostile takeover?

Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

Linking metacommunity paradigms to spatial coexistence mechanisms.

Making the right choice: testing the drivers of asymmetric infections within hosts and their consequences for pathology

Nitrogen increases early‐stage and slows late‐stage decomposition across diverse grasslands

Parsing propagule pressure: Number, not size, of introductions drives colonization success in a novel environment

Parsing propagule pressure: Number, not size, of introductions drives colonization success in a novel environment ⬇️

Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands ⬇️

Population demographic history and evolutionary rescue: Influence of a bottleneck event

Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

Rapid trait evolution drives increased speed and variance in experimental range expansions

Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world's grasslands

Reply to Wootton and Pfister: The search for general context should include synthesis with laboratory model systems

SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY EXPLAINS THE SCALE DEPENDENCE OF THE NATIVE–EXOTIC DIVERSITY RELATIONSHIP

Scaling up population dynamics: integrating theory and data.

Short- and long-term effects of habitat fragmentation differ but are predicted by response to the matrix

Spatial and temporal variability of fragmentation effects in a long term, eucalypt forest fragmentation experiment

Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes: Where to From Here?

Species' traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity

Statistical models for monitoring and predicting effects of climate change and invasion on the free-living insects and a spider from sub-Antarctic Heard Island

Statistical models of invertebrate distribution on Macquarie Island: a tool to assess climate change and local human impacts

Stochastic processes drive rapid genomic divergence during experimental range expansions

Success and failure of ecological management is highly variable in an experimental test

The power of evolutionary rescue is constrained by genetic load.

The roles of demography and genetics in the early stages of colonization

The scale transition: scaling up population dynamics with field data

The spatial spread of invasions: new developments in theory and evidence

The status of two exotic terrestrial Crustacea on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

The tails of two geckos tell the story of dispersal in a fragmented landscape

The use of traits to interpret responses to large scale - edge effects: a study of epigaeic beetle assemblages across a Eucalyptus forest and pine plantation edge

Three types of rescue can avert extinction in a changing environment

Using traits of species to understand responses to land use change: Birds and livestock grazing in the Australian arid zone

When can competition and dispersal lead to checkerboard distributions?

Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s