List of works - Peter A. Vesk

A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras

scientific article published in 2009

A field ecologist's adventures in the virtual world: using simulations to design data collection for complex models

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas.

scientific article

A predictive model of avian natal dispersal distance provides prior information for investigating response to landscape change

scientific article published on 5 August 2011

A preliminary assessment of changes in plant-dwelling insects when threatened plants are translocated

article

A structured approach for building multi‐community State and Transition Models to support conservation planning

scientific article published on 10 July 2024

Active adaptive conservation of threatened species in the face of uncertainty

scientific article

Are trait-growth models transferable? Predicting multi-species growth trajectories between ecosystems using plant functional traits

scientific article

Assessing the accuracy of density‐independent demographic models for predicting species ranges

scientific article published in 2020

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora ⬇️

publication published on 30 September 2021

Bayesian clustering with AutoClass explicitly recognises uncertainties in landscape classification

scientific article published in 2007

Biocrust morphogroups provide an effective and rapid assessment tool for drylands

scientific article

Biological soil crust distribution is related to patterns of fragmentation and landuse in a dryland agricultural landscape of southern Australia

article

Building trait datasets: effect of methodological choice on a study of invasion

scientific article published in 2022

Chloroplast DNA diversity associated with protected slopes and valleys for hybridizingEucalyptusspecies on isolated ranges in south-eastern Australia

article

Climatic warming strengthens a positive feedback between alpine shrubs and fire

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2009

Combining functional traits, the environment and multiple surveys to understand semi-arid tree distributions

scientific article published on 12 October 2018

Comparing grass biomass estimation methods for management decisions in a semi‐arid landscape

scientific article published in 2024

Considering extinction of dependent species during translocation, ex situ conservation, and assisted migration of threatened hosts

scientific article

Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Current constraints and future directions in estimating coextinction

scientific article

Demographic Effects of Habitat Restoration for the Grey-Crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis, in Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Differences in forest plant functional trait distributions across land-use and productivity gradients.

scientific article published on 3 July 2013

Disentangling the four demographic dimensions of species invasiveness

article

Dispersed polyphosphate in fungal vacuoles in Eucalyptus pilularis/Pisolithus tinctorius ectomycorrhizas

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Drought damage and recovery - a conceptual model

article

Ecological indicators for assessing management effectiveness: A case study of horse riding in an Alpine National Park

scientific article published on 26 August 2014

Elemental composition of mantle tissue granules in Hyridella depressa (Unionida) from the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system, Australia: inferences from catchment chemistry

article

Empirically validating a dense woody regrowth ‘problem’ and thinning ‘solution’ for understory vegetation

scientific article published in 2015

Erratum to: Modeling rates of life form cover change in burned and unburned alpine heathland subject to experimental warming

article

Examining change over time in habitat attributes using Bayesian reinterpretation of categorical assessments

scientific article published in September 2013

Exploring how functional traits modulate species distributions along topographic gradients in Baxian Mountain, North China

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

Facultative and Obligate Trees in a Mesic Savanna: Fire Effects on Savanna Structure Imply Contrasting Strategies of Eco-Taxonomic Groups.

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Flat embedding of microorganisms on slides with LR white for immunocytochemistry

scientific article published on November 1993

Flow regulation reduces native plant cover and facilitates exotic invasion in riparian wetlands

article

Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Fuels and landscape flammability in an Australian alpine environment

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Functional trait changes in the floras of 11 cities across the globe in response to urbanization

scientific article published in 2016

Funding the bud bank: a review of the costs of buds

article

Genetic differentiation can be predicted from observational data for reproductive but not vegetative traits in a widespread short-lived plant

Getting trees on farms the easy way? Lessons from a model of eucalypt regeneration on pastures

scientific article published in 2006

Growth races in The Mallee: Height growth in woody plants examined with a trait-based model

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

High resolution scanning electron microscopy of plasmodesmata

scientific article

Hotspots of plant invasion predicted by propagule pressure and ecosystem characteristics

article

How many hosts? Modelling host breadth from field samples

scientific article published in 2010

Hyperaccumulators and herbivores-a Bayesian meta-analysis of feeding choice trials.

scientific article

Identifying and managing threatened invertebrates through assessment of coextinction risk

scientific article

Identifying species at coextinction risk when detection is imperfect: Model evaluation and case study

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Incorporating between-expert uncertainty into state-and-transition simulation models for forest restoration

scientific article published on 08 November 2009

Incorporating spatial autocorrelation into species distribution models alters forecasts of climate-mediated range shifts.

scientific article

Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces

scientific article published on 21 February 2021

Integrating Multiple Data Types to Connect Ecological Theory and Data Among Levels

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Integrating dynamic plant growth models and microclimates for species distribution modelling

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Integrating ecological uncertainty and farm-scale economics when planning restoration

scientific article published on 07 November 2007

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

article

Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

scientific article

Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness

scientific article published in 2017

Misinformation, internet honey trading and beekeepers drive a plant invasion

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Modeling biodiversity benchmarks in variable environments

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Modeling rates of life form cover change in burned and unburned alpine heathland subject to experimental warming

scientific article published on 20 February 2015

Modelling both dominance and species distribution provides a more complete picture of changes to mangrove ecosystems under climate change

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Movement re-established but not restored: Inferring the effectiveness of road-crossing mitigation for a gliding mammal by monitoring use

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY MASKS RANGE‐WIDE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION FOR VEGETATIVE BUT NOT REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN A SHORT‐LIVED PLANT

scientific article

Permanent removal of livestock grazing in riparian systems benefits native vegetation

scientific article

Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

article

Plant functional traits reflect different dimensions of species invasiveness

scientific article published on 27 February 2021

Plant resprouting: How many sprouts and how deep? Flexible modelling of multi-species experimental disturbances

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities

article

Policy-oriented environmental research: What is it worth?

Predicting plant species’ responses to grazing

article

Predicting species and community responses to global change using structured expert judgement: An Australian mountain ecosystems case study

scientific article published on 02 July 2021

Profiting from pilot studies: Analysing mortality using Bayesian models with informative priors

article

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

scientific article

Quantifying levels of biological invasion: towards the objective classification of invaded and invasible ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

Recovery potential of microwetlands from agricultural land uses

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Regional avian species declines estimated from volunteer-collected long-term data using List Length Analysis.

scientific article

Reproductive trajectories over decadal time-spans after fire for eight obligate-seeder shrub species in south-eastern Australia

scientific article published in 2014

Seed supply for broadscale restoration: maximizing evolutionary potential

scientific article published on 4 September 2008

Simple traits do not predict grazing response in Australian dry shrublands and woodlands

article

Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion

article

Sprouting ability across diverse disturbances and vegetation types worldwide

scientific article published in 2004

Sprouting by semi-arid plants: testing a dichotomy and predictive traits

article

State-and-transition modelling for Adaptive Management of native woodlands

Surprisingly fast recovery of biological soil crusts following livestock removal in southern Australia

article

Testing a model of biological soil crust succession

The Roles of Ecological and Evolutionary Processes in Plant Community Assembly: The Environment, Hybridization, and Introgression Influence Co-occurrence of Eucalyptus

scientific article

The cost of fruit and the penalty of youth: Predicting mean annual seed production in single-species forest stands

scientific article published on 29 January 2022

The influence of abundance on detectability

article

The neglected tool in the Bayesian ecologist's shed: a case study testing informative priors' effect on model accuracy

scientific article

The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

The role of plant functional traits in shrub distribution around alpine frost hollows

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Traits explain invasion of alien plants into tropical rainforests ⬇️

scientific article

Transferability of trait‐based species distribution models

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Translocation strategies for multiple species depend on interspecific interaction type

scientific article

Uncertain links in host-parasite networks: lessons for parasite transmission in a multi-host system.

scientific article published on May 2017

Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM)

article

Urbanisation, plant traits and the composition of urban floras

scientific article published on 05 November 2014

Useful surrogates of soil texture for plant ecologists from airborne gamma-ray detection

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Using data calibration to reconcile outputs from different survey methods in long-term or large-scale studies

scientific article published on 14 February 2022

Using functional traits to predict species growth trajectories, and cross-validation to evaluate these models for ecological prediction

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

What does species richness tell us about functional trait diversity? Predictions and evidence for responses of species and functional trait diversity to land-use change

article

Where and when to revegetate: a quantitative method for scheduling landscape reconstruction

scientific article

Which host-dependent insects are most prone to coextinction under changed climates?

scientific article

List of works by Peter A. Vesk

A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras

A field ecologist's adventures in the virtual world: using simulations to design data collection for complex models

A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas.

A predictive model of avian natal dispersal distance provides prior information for investigating response to landscape change

A preliminary assessment of changes in plant-dwelling insects when threatened plants are translocated

A structured approach for building multi‐community State and Transition Models to support conservation planning

Active adaptive conservation of threatened species in the face of uncertainty

Are trait-growth models transferable? Predicting multi-species growth trajectories between ecosystems using plant functional traits

Assessing the accuracy of density‐independent demographic models for predicting species ranges

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora ⬇️

Bayesian clustering with AutoClass explicitly recognises uncertainties in landscape classification

Biocrust morphogroups provide an effective and rapid assessment tool for drylands

Biological soil crust distribution is related to patterns of fragmentation and landuse in a dryland agricultural landscape of southern Australia

Building trait datasets: effect of methodological choice on a study of invasion

Chloroplast DNA diversity associated with protected slopes and valleys for hybridizingEucalyptusspecies on isolated ranges in south-eastern Australia

Climatic warming strengthens a positive feedback between alpine shrubs and fire

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

Combining functional traits, the environment and multiple surveys to understand semi-arid tree distributions

Comparing grass biomass estimation methods for management decisions in a semi‐arid landscape

Considering extinction of dependent species during translocation, ex situ conservation, and assisted migration of threatened hosts

Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?

Current constraints and future directions in estimating coextinction

Demographic Effects of Habitat Restoration for the Grey-Crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis, in Victoria, Australia

Differences in forest plant functional trait distributions across land-use and productivity gradients.

Disentangling the four demographic dimensions of species invasiveness

Dispersed polyphosphate in fungal vacuoles in Eucalyptus pilularis/Pisolithus tinctorius ectomycorrhizas

Drought damage and recovery - a conceptual model

Ecological indicators for assessing management effectiveness: A case study of horse riding in an Alpine National Park

Elemental composition of mantle tissue granules in Hyridella depressa (Unionida) from the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system, Australia: inferences from catchment chemistry

Empirically validating a dense woody regrowth ‘problem’ and thinning ‘solution’ for understory vegetation

Erratum to: Modeling rates of life form cover change in burned and unburned alpine heathland subject to experimental warming

Examining change over time in habitat attributes using Bayesian reinterpretation of categorical assessments

Exploring how functional traits modulate species distributions along topographic gradients in Baxian Mountain, North China

Facultative and Obligate Trees in a Mesic Savanna: Fire Effects on Savanna Structure Imply Contrasting Strategies of Eco-Taxonomic Groups.

Flat embedding of microorganisms on slides with LR white for immunocytochemistry

Flow regulation reduces native plant cover and facilitates exotic invasion in riparian wetlands

Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

Fuels and landscape flammability in an Australian alpine environment

Functional trait changes in the floras of 11 cities across the globe in response to urbanization

Funding the bud bank: a review of the costs of buds

Genetic differentiation can be predicted from observational data for reproductive but not vegetative traits in a widespread short-lived plant

Getting trees on farms the easy way? Lessons from a model of eucalypt regeneration on pastures

Growth races in The Mallee: Height growth in woody plants examined with a trait-based model

Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits

High resolution scanning electron microscopy of plasmodesmata

Hotspots of plant invasion predicted by propagule pressure and ecosystem characteristics

How many hosts? Modelling host breadth from field samples

Hyperaccumulators and herbivores-a Bayesian meta-analysis of feeding choice trials.

Identifying and managing threatened invertebrates through assessment of coextinction risk

Identifying species at coextinction risk when detection is imperfect: Model evaluation and case study

Incorporating between-expert uncertainty into state-and-transition simulation models for forest restoration

Incorporating spatial autocorrelation into species distribution models alters forecasts of climate-mediated range shifts.

Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces

Integrating Multiple Data Types to Connect Ecological Theory and Data Among Levels

Integrating dynamic plant growth models and microclimates for species distribution modelling

Integrating ecological uncertainty and farm-scale economics when planning restoration

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

Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness

Misinformation, internet honey trading and beekeepers drive a plant invasion

Modeling biodiversity benchmarks in variable environments

Modeling rates of life form cover change in burned and unburned alpine heathland subject to experimental warming

Modelling both dominance and species distribution provides a more complete picture of changes to mangrove ecosystems under climate change

Movement re-established but not restored: Inferring the effectiveness of road-crossing mitigation for a gliding mammal by monitoring use

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY MASKS RANGE‐WIDE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION FOR VEGETATIVE BUT NOT REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN A SHORT‐LIVED PLANT

Permanent removal of livestock grazing in riparian systems benefits native vegetation

Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

Plant functional traits reflect different dimensions of species invasiveness

Plant resprouting: How many sprouts and how deep? Flexible modelling of multi-species experimental disturbances

Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities

Policy-oriented environmental research: What is it worth?

Predicting plant species’ responses to grazing

Predicting species and community responses to global change using structured expert judgement: An Australian mountain ecosystems case study

Profiting from pilot studies: Analysing mortality using Bayesian models with informative priors

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

Quantifying levels of biological invasion: towards the objective classification of invaded and invasible ecosystems ⬇️

Recovery potential of microwetlands from agricultural land uses

Regional avian species declines estimated from volunteer-collected long-term data using List Length Analysis.

Reproductive trajectories over decadal time-spans after fire for eight obligate-seeder shrub species in south-eastern Australia