Climate change biology

Many of these publications are open access or otherwise readily available on the internet for example via ResearchGate.

However, if you would like papers to which you do not have access

please email Paul.Sunnucks@monash.edu /  Alexandra.Pavlova@monash.edu

Much of the work we do is relevant to understanding the impacts of climate change on wildlife, predicting futures, and how to mitigate negative impacts on populations of threatened species. 

Levels of genomewide genetic diversity are consistently shown to strongly predict adaptation to climate, hence managing wildlife populations to retain healthy levels of variability across their genomes will make important contributions to the possibility that they can adapt in the face of human-induced changes to environments. 

Accordingly, a very high proportion of our papers listed in other sections of PUBLICATIONS by THEME are relevant to climate change and preparedness.   Among others, the main inspiration of our large program on Mitonuclear interactions and adaptation is concerned with climate adaptation.  Likewise, much of our work in ecological genomics and genetic management has as a core concern assisting wildlife populations to retain or regain sufficient useful genetic variation to adapt to human impacts.  This includes our sections on Perspectives in conservation and genomics, Practical genetic management cases, and Genomes and Conservation genomics tools.

In the section below, we list papers that were even more specifically focussed on climate-related biology and conservation management. 

Climate change biology - papers

Yen JDL, Todd CR, Sharley J, Harris A, Geary WL, Kelly E, Pavlova A, Hunt TL, Ingram B, Lyon J, Tonkin Z (2022) Establishing new populations in water-secure locations may benefit species persistence more than interventions in water-stressed locations. Biological Conservation, 276, 109812.

Harrisson KA, Yen JDL, Pavlova A, Rourke ML, Gilligan D, Ingram BA, Lyon J, Tonkin Z, Sunnucks P (2016) Identifying environmental correlates of intra-specific genetic variation. Heredity 117, 155-164

Perdomo G, Sunnucks P, Thompson R. (2012) The role of temperature and dispersal in moss-microarthropod community assembly after a catastrophic event. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 367, 3042–3049

Briscoe NJ, Porter WP, Sunnucks P, Kearney MR (2012) Stage-dependent physiological responses in a butterfly cause non-additive effects on phenology. Oikos, 121, 1464-1472.

Barton M, Sunnucks P, Norgate M, Murray N and Kearney M (2014) Co-gradient variation in growth rate and development time of a broadly distributed butterfly.  PLoS ONE 9: e95258.

Byrne M, Steane D, Joseph L, Yeates D, Jordan G, Crayn D, Sniderman JMK, Aplin K, Cantrill D, Cook LG, Crisp MD, Keogh JS, Melville J, Moritz C, Porch N, Sunnucks P, Weston P (2011) Decline of a biome: contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota. Journal of Biogeography. 38, 1635–1656.

Kearney M, Briscoe NJ, Karoly DJ, Porter WP, Norgate M and Sunnucks P (2010) Early emergence in a butterfly causally linked to anthropogenic warming. Biology Letters 6, 674-677. 

Norgate M, Chamings J, Pavlova A, Bull J, Murray N and Sunnucks P (2009) Mitochondrial DNA indicates late Pleistocene divergence of isolated populations of Heteronympha merope, an emerging model in environmental change biology. PLoS ONE, 4, e7950.