List of works - Ralph Mac Nally

A bust but no boom: responses of floodplain bird assemblages during and after prolonged drought

scientific article

A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation

scientific article published on 09 October 2007

A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

scientific article published on 12 October 2022

A method to identify drivers of societal change likely to affect natural assets in the future, illustrated with Australia's native biodiversity.

scientific article

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

scientific article

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

Allocating surveillance effort in the management of invasive species: A spatially-explicit model

article

Analysis of pelagic species decline in the upper San Francisco Estuary using multivariate autoregressive modeling (MAR) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2010

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation.

scientific article

Avifaunal disarray due to a single despotic species

article

Avifaunal disarray: quantifying models of the occurrence and ecological effects of a despotic bird species

article

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Conserving macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: the importance of knowing the relative contributions of α and β diversity

article

Balancing generality and specificity in ecological gradient analysis with species abundance distributions and individual size distributions

scientific article published on 04 November 2016

Bayesian change point analysis of abundance trends for pelagic fishes in the upper San Francisco Estuary ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2010

Bayesian clustering with AutoClass explicitly recognises uncertainties in landscape classification

scientific article published in 2007

Beyond refuges: Identifying temporally dynamic havens to support ecological resistance and resilience to climatic disturbances

scientific article published in 2019

Bird assemblages of a fragmented agricultural landscape and the relative importance of vegetation structure and landscape pattern

Building a regionally connected reserve network in a changing and uncertain world

scientific article

Can SPEcies At Risk of pesticides (SPEAR) indices detect effects of target stressors among multiple interacting stressors?

scientific article published on 17 October 2020

Can the biotic nestedness matrix be used predictively?

scientific article published in 2004

Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests

Catchment land use predicts benthic vegetation in small estuaries

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Collapse of an avifauna: climate change appears to exacerbate habitat loss and degradation

scientific article published in 2009

Comparative influence of forest management and habitat structural factors on the abundances of hollow-nesting bird species in subtropical Australian eucalypt forest.

scientific article published in October 2002

Congruence in riverine conditions and associations between native fish and several species of amphibians in a region prone to fish invasions

scientific article

Do terrestrial invertebrates experience floodplains as landscape mosaics? Immediate and longer-term effects of flooding on ant assemblages in a floodplain forest

scientific article published on 13 January 2007

Does fallen timber on floodplains influence distributions of nutrients, plants and seeds?

article

Ecological Resistance - Why Mechanisms Matter: A Reply to Sundstrom et al.

scientific article published on 7 April 2016

Ecological processes: A key element in strategies for nature conservation

article

Effects of an alien ant invasion on abundance, behavior, and reproductive success of endemic island birds

scientific article

Effects of fish kills on fish consumers and other water-dependent fauna: exploring the potential effect of mass mortality of carp in Australia

scientific article published in 2020

Effects of floristics, physiognomy and non-native vegetation on riparian bird communities in a Mojave Desert watershed

scientific article published in 2003

Environmental correlates of food-chain length, mean trophic level and trophic level variance in invaded riverine fish assemblages

scientific article published on 06 July 2018

Evaluating where and how habitat restoration is undertaken for animals

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Finding needles (or ants) in haystacks: predicting locations of invasive organisms to inform eradication and containment

scientific article

Flow permanence affects aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity and community structure in three headwater streams in a forested catchment

article

Foraging guild perturbations and ecological homogenization driven by a despotic native bird species

article

Forecasting New Zealand Mudsnail invasion range: model comparisons using native and invaded ranges

scientific article published on January 2007

Forecasting the impacts of habitat fragmentation. Evaluation of species-specific predictions of the impact of habitat fragmentation on birds in the box–ironbark forests of central Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 26 July 2002

Forest structure, habitat and carbon benefits from thinning floodplain forests: Managing early stand density makes a difference

scientific article published on 09 December 2009

FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Function regression in ecology and evolution: FREE

article

Genetic reconstruction of the population dynamics of a carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) in response to floods

scientific article

Green Tongues into the Arid Zone: River Floodplains Extend the Distribution of Terrestrial Bird Species

article

Habitat loss and the habitat fragmentation threshold: an experimental evaluation of impacts on richness and total abundances using grassland invertebrates

scientific article

Habitat-Specific Guild Structure of Forest Birds in South-Eastern Australia: A Regional Scale Perspective

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Harnessing knowledge of animal behavior to improve habitat restoration outcomes

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

High-productivity vegetation is important for lessening bird declines during prolonged drought

scientific article published in 2017

Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011.

scientific article

How do different aspects of biodiversity change through time? A case study on an Australian bird community

scientific article published in 2016

How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human-modified tropical forest landscapes?

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Human-induced biotic invasions and changes in plankton interaction networks

scientific article published in 2014

Identifying effective water-management strategies in variable climates using population dynamics models

scientific article published in 2013

Idiosyncratic responses of Amazonian birds to primary forest disturbance

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Inducing whole-assemblage change by experimental manipulation of habitat structure

scientific article

Institutional impediments to conservation of freshwater dependent ecosystems

scientific article

Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Integrating plant- and animal-based perspectives for more effective restoration of biodiversity

article

Interactions between nocturnal turbulent flux, storage and advection at an ‘ideal’ eucalypt woodland site

scholarly article

Interactions between nocturnal turbulent flux, storage and advection at an “ideal” eucalypt woodland site

scientific article published in 2017

Invasional meltdown: invader-invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion

scientific article

Invasive ants disrupt frugivory by endemic island birds ⬇️

scientific article

Is environmental legislation conserving tropical stream faunas? A large-scale assessment of local, riparian and catchment-scale influences on Amazonian fish

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Is there an ecological basis for species abundance distributions?

scientific article

Landscape-scale conservation of an endangered migrant:the Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) in its winter range

article

Legacies, lags and long-term trends: Effective flow restoration in a changed and changing world

Linking species richness and size diversity in birds and fishes

scientific article published on 03 March 2018

Major determinants of the occurrence of a globally invasive parasite in riverine fish over large-scale environmental gradients

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Model selection using information criteria, but is the “best” model any good?

article

Model-based adaptive spatial sampling for occurrence map construction

article

Multi-scale assessment of human-induced changes to Amazonian instream habitats

scientific article published in 2016

Multiple scale analysis of factors influencing the distribution of an invasive aquatic grass

article

Native bird breeding in a chronosequence of revegetated sites

scientific article (publication date: 21 November 2008)

Nestedness analysis and conservation planning: the importance of place, environment, and life history across taxonomic groups

scientific article

Nitrogen loads explain primary productivity in estuaries at the ecosystem scale

scholarly article by Ryan J. Woodland published in July 2015

Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another

scientific article published in 2019

Optimal management of a flammable multi-stand forest for timber production and maintenance of nesting sites for wildlife

article

Perils of correlating CUSUM-transformed variables to infer ecological relationships (Breton et al. 2006; Glibert 2010)

article

Potential future scenarios for Australia's native biodiversity given on-going increases in human population.

scientific article

Pre-emptive conservation versus “fire-fighting”: A decision theoretic approach

article

Predicting bird species distributions in reconstructed landscapes

scientific article

Predicting landscape-genetic consequences of habitat loss, fragmentation and mobility for multiple species of woodland birds

scientific article

Putting the "ecology" into environmental flows: ecological dynamics and demographic modelling.

scientific article

Quantitative assessment of stand condition and its relationship to physiological stress in stands of Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Myrtaceae)

scientific article published in 2007

Reforestation with native mixed-species plantings in a temperate continental climate effectively sequesters and stabilizes carbon within decades

scientific article

Regime shifts, thresholds and multiple stable states in freshwater ecosystems; a critical appraisal of the evidence.

scientific article published on 21 February 2015

Regional patterns of nectar availability in subtropical eastern Australia

scientific article published on 09 May 2018

Relating demographic characteristics of a small mammal to remotely sensed forest-stand condition

scientific article

Reptiles and habitat fragmentation in the box-ironbark forests of central Victoria, Australia: predictions, compositional change and faunal nestedness

scientific article

Resistance and resilience of terrestrial birds in drying climates: do floodplains provide drought refugia?

scientific article published in 2015

Responses of a Carnivorous Marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) to Local Habitat Factors in Two Forest Types

scientific article published on 10 April 2008

Riparian Ecosystems in the 21st Century: Hotspots for Climate Change Adaptation?

article

Scientific foundations for an IUCN Red List of ecosystems

scientific article

Second rate or a second chance? Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Secondary Invasions: Implications of Riparian Restoration for In-Stream Invasion by an Aquatic Grass

article

Spatial scale of autocorrelation of assemblages of benthic invertebrates in two upland rivers in South-Eastern Australia and its implications for biomonitoring and impact assessment in streams

scientific article

Species- and sex-specific connectivity effects of habitat fragmentation in a suite of woodland birds

scientific article

Streams and rural abandonment are related to the summer activity of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii in protected European forests

scientific article published on 30 January 2021

Synergies between climate anomalies and hydrological modifications facilitate estuarine biotic invasions ⬇️

scientific article published on June 6, 2011

The control of rank-abundance distributions by a competitive despotic species.

scientific article published on 4 September 2014

The effects of climate change and land-use change on demographic rates and population viability.

scientific article

The influences of climatic variation and vegetation on stream biota: lessons from the Big Dry in southeastern Australia

article

The lag daemon: hysteresis in rebuilding landscapes and implications for biodiversity futures

scientific article

The presence of non-native species is not associated with native fish sensitivity to water pollution in greatly hydrologically altered rivers

scientific article published on 10 July 2017

Thermodynamics predicts density-dependent energy use in organisms and ecological communities

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

Understanding salt-tolerance and biota–stressor interactions in freshwater invertebrate communities

scholarly article

Use of the abundance spectrum and relative-abundance distributions to analyze assemblage change in massively altered landscapes

scientific article

Variation in abundance of nectarivorous birds: does a competitive despot interfere with flower tracking?

scientific article

Water-quality impacts in semi-arid regions: can natural 'green filters' mitigate adverse effects on fish assemblages?

scientific article published on 02 August 2018

What’s next? The release of exotic pets continues virtually unabated 7 years after enforcement of new legislation for managing invasive species

scientific article

‘Ecologically complex carbon’- linking biodiversity values, carbon storage and habitat structure in some austral temperate forests

scientific article published in 2010

List of works by Ralph Mac Nally

A bust but no boom: responses of floodplain bird assemblages during and after prolonged drought

A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation

A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

A method to identify drivers of societal change likely to affect natural assets in the future, illustrated with Australia's native biodiversity.

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

Allocating surveillance effort in the management of invasive species: A spatially-explicit model

Analysis of pelagic species decline in the upper San Francisco Estuary using multivariate autoregressive modeling (MAR) ⬇️

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation.

Avifaunal disarray due to a single despotic species

Avifaunal disarray: quantifying models of the occurrence and ecological effects of a despotic bird species

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Conserving macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: the importance of knowing the relative contributions of α and β diversity

Balancing generality and specificity in ecological gradient analysis with species abundance distributions and individual size distributions

Bayesian change point analysis of abundance trends for pelagic fishes in the upper San Francisco Estuary ⬇️

Bayesian clustering with AutoClass explicitly recognises uncertainties in landscape classification

Beyond refuges: Identifying temporally dynamic havens to support ecological resistance and resilience to climatic disturbances

Bird assemblages of a fragmented agricultural landscape and the relative importance of vegetation structure and landscape pattern

Building a regionally connected reserve network in a changing and uncertain world

Can SPEcies At Risk of pesticides (SPEAR) indices detect effects of target stressors among multiple interacting stressors?

Can the biotic nestedness matrix be used predictively?

Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests

Catchment land use predicts benthic vegetation in small estuaries

Collapse of an avifauna: climate change appears to exacerbate habitat loss and degradation

Comparative influence of forest management and habitat structural factors on the abundances of hollow-nesting bird species in subtropical Australian eucalypt forest.

Congruence in riverine conditions and associations between native fish and several species of amphibians in a region prone to fish invasions

Do terrestrial invertebrates experience floodplains as landscape mosaics? Immediate and longer-term effects of flooding on ant assemblages in a floodplain forest

Does fallen timber on floodplains influence distributions of nutrients, plants and seeds?

Ecological Resistance - Why Mechanisms Matter: A Reply to Sundstrom et al.

Ecological processes: A key element in strategies for nature conservation

Effects of an alien ant invasion on abundance, behavior, and reproductive success of endemic island birds

Effects of fish kills on fish consumers and other water-dependent fauna: exploring the potential effect of mass mortality of carp in Australia

Effects of floristics, physiognomy and non-native vegetation on riparian bird communities in a Mojave Desert watershed

Environmental correlates of food-chain length, mean trophic level and trophic level variance in invaded riverine fish assemblages

Evaluating where and how habitat restoration is undertaken for animals

Finding needles (or ants) in haystacks: predicting locations of invasive organisms to inform eradication and containment

Flow permanence affects aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity and community structure in three headwater streams in a forested catchment

Foraging guild perturbations and ecological homogenization driven by a despotic native bird species

Forecasting New Zealand Mudsnail invasion range: model comparisons using native and invaded ranges

Forecasting the impacts of habitat fragmentation. Evaluation of species-specific predictions of the impact of habitat fragmentation on birds in the box–ironbark forests of central Victoria, Australia

Forest structure, habitat and carbon benefits from thinning floodplain forests: Managing early stand density makes a difference

FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments

Function regression in ecology and evolution: FREE

Genetic reconstruction of the population dynamics of a carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) in response to floods

Green Tongues into the Arid Zone: River Floodplains Extend the Distribution of Terrestrial Bird Species

Habitat loss and the habitat fragmentation threshold: an experimental evaluation of impacts on richness and total abundances using grassland invertebrates

Habitat-Specific Guild Structure of Forest Birds in South-Eastern Australia: A Regional Scale Perspective

Harnessing knowledge of animal behavior to improve habitat restoration outcomes

High-productivity vegetation is important for lessening bird declines during prolonged drought

Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011.

How do different aspects of biodiversity change through time? A case study on an Australian bird community

How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human-modified tropical forest landscapes?

Human-induced biotic invasions and changes in plankton interaction networks

Identifying effective water-management strategies in variable climates using population dynamics models

Idiosyncratic responses of Amazonian birds to primary forest disturbance

Inducing whole-assemblage change by experimental manipulation of habitat structure

Institutional impediments to conservation of freshwater dependent ecosystems

Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species

Integrating plant- and animal-based perspectives for more effective restoration of biodiversity

Interactions between nocturnal turbulent flux, storage and advection at an ‘ideal’ eucalypt woodland site

Interactions between nocturnal turbulent flux, storage and advection at an “ideal” eucalypt woodland site

Invasional meltdown: invader-invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion

Invasive ants disrupt frugivory by endemic island birds ⬇️

Is environmental legislation conserving tropical stream faunas? A large-scale assessment of local, riparian and catchment-scale influences on Amazonian fish

Is there an ecological basis for species abundance distributions?

Landscape-scale conservation of an endangered migrant:the Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) in its winter range

Legacies, lags and long-term trends: Effective flow restoration in a changed and changing world

Linking species richness and size diversity in birds and fishes

Major determinants of the occurrence of a globally invasive parasite in riverine fish over large-scale environmental gradients

Model selection using information criteria, but is the “best” model any good?

Model-based adaptive spatial sampling for occurrence map construction

Multi-scale assessment of human-induced changes to Amazonian instream habitats

Multiple scale analysis of factors influencing the distribution of an invasive aquatic grass

Native bird breeding in a chronosequence of revegetated sites

Nestedness analysis and conservation planning: the importance of place, environment, and life history across taxonomic groups

Nitrogen loads explain primary productivity in estuaries at the ecosystem scale

Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another

Optimal management of a flammable multi-stand forest for timber production and maintenance of nesting sites for wildlife

Perils of correlating CUSUM-transformed variables to infer ecological relationships (Breton et al. 2006; Glibert 2010)

Potential future scenarios for Australia's native biodiversity given on-going increases in human population.