Habitat fragmentation and connectivity

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

Fragmentation and connectivity - Papers:

Watson DM, Doerr VAJ, Banks SC, Driscoll DA, van der Ree R, Doerr ED, Sunnucks P (2017) Monitoring ecological consequences of efforts to restore landscape-scale connectivity. Biological Conservation, 206, 201–209

Terrestrial systems

Birds

Radford JQ, Amos JN, Harrisson KA, Sunnucks P and Pavlova A. Functional connectivity and population persistence in woodland birds: Insights for management from a multi-species conservation genetics study. Emu – Austral Ornithology, 121, 147-159.

 - synthesizes the outcomes of a multi-faceted conservation genetics study of a suite of birds affected by habitat loss and fragmentation.  We believe it to be an unusually comprehensive comparative conservation genetics study to date in numbers of species, individuals and data-types investigated.

Goretskaia M, Beme I, Popova D, Buchanan K, Sunnucks P, Amos JN, Pavlova A. (2018) Song parameters of the fuscous honeyeater Lichenostomus fuscus correlate with habitat characteristics in fragmented landscapes. Journal of Avian Biology, 49: e01493 doi: 10.1111/jav.01493

Kvistad L, Ingwersen D, Pavlova A, Bull JK, Sunnucks P (2015). Very low population structure in a highly mobile and wide-ranging endangered bird species.  PLoS ONE 10(12): e0143746.

Amos JN, Harrisson KA, Radford JQ, White M, Newell G, Mac Nally RM, Sunnucks P and Pavlova A (2014)  Species- and sex-specific connectivity effects of habitat fragmentation in a suite of woodland birds.  Ecology 95, 1556–1568.

Harrisson KA, Pavlova A, Amos JN, Radford JQ, Sunnucks P  (2014) Does reduced mobility through fragmented landscapes explain patch extinction patterns for three honeyeaters?  Journal of Animal Ecology. 83: 616–627. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12172

Harrisson KA, Pavlova A,  Amos JN, Takeuchi N,  Lill A, Radford JQ, Sunnucks P  (2013) Disrupted fine-scale population processes in fragmented landscapes despite large-scale genetic connectivity for a widespread and common cooperative breeder: the superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus). Journal of Animal Ecology, 82, 322-333. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12007

Amos JN, Balasubramaniam S, Grootendorst L, Harrisson KA, Lill A, Mac Nally R, Pavlova A, Radford JQ, Takeuchi N, Thomson JR & Sunnucks P. (2013) Little evidence that condition, stress indicators, sex ratio, or homozygosity are related to landscape or habitat attributes in declining woodland birds. Journal of Avian Biology, 44:45. 

Harrisson KA, Pavlova A, Amos JN, Takeuchi N, Lill A, Radford JQ, Sunnucks P (2012) Fine-scale effects of habitat loss and fragmentation despite large-scale gene flow for some regionally declining woodland bird species. Landscape Ecology, 27, 813-827.

Brown SM, Harrisson KA, Clarke RH, Bennett AF, Sunnucks P. (2013) Limited population structure, genetic drift and bottlenecks characterise an endangered bird species in a dynamic, fire-prone ecosystem. PLoS ONE. 8:e59732.

Amos JN, Bennett AF, Mac Nally R, Newell G, Pavlova A, Radford JQ, Thomson JR, White M, Sunnucks P (2012) Predicting landscape-genetic consequences of habitat loss, fragmentation and mobility for multiple species of woodland birds. PLoS ONE 7 e30888. 

Pavlova A, Amos JN, Goretskaia MI, Beme IR, Buchanan KL, Takeuchi N, Radford JQ and Sunnucks P (2012) Genes and song: genetic and social connections in fragmented habitat in a woodland bird with limited dispersal. Ecology 93, 1717-1727.

Sunnucks P (2011) Towards modelling persistence of woodland birds: the role of genetics. Emu- Austral Ornithology, 111, 19-39. 

Reptiles

Stow AJ & Sunnucks P (2004) High mate and site fidelity in Cunningham’s skinks (Egernia cunninghami) in natural and fragmented habitat. Molecular Ecology, 13, 419-430.

Stow AJ & Sunnucks P (2004) Inbreeding avoidance in Cunningham’s skinks (Egernia cunninghami) in natural and fragmented habitat. Molecular Ecology, 13, 443-447.

Stow AJ, Sunnucks P, Briscoe DA & Gardner MG (2001) The impact of habitat fragmentation on dispersal in Cunningham’s skink (Egernia cunninghami): evidence from allelic and genotypic analyses of microsatellites. Molecular Ecology 10, 867-78.

Terrestrial invertebrates

Schmuki C, MacEachern S, Runciman D. Vorburger C & Sunnucks P (2006) When log-dwellers meet loggers: impacts of forest fragmentation on two endemic log-dwelling beetles in southeastern Australia. Molecular Ecology 15, 1481-1492.

Stone GN & Sunnucks P (1993) Genetic consequences of an invasion through a patchy environment- the cynipid gallwasp Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Molecular Ecology 2: 251-268.

Road ecology

Soanes K, Taylor AC, Sunnucks P, Vesk P, Cesarini S, van der Ree, R. (2018) Evaluating the success of wildlife crossing structures using genetic approaches and an experimental design: lessons from a gliding mammal.  Journal of Applied Ecology. 55:129–138.

Sunnucks P & Balkenhol N. (2015)  Incorporating landscape genetics into road ecology.  van der Ree, R., Smith, D. J., and Grilo, C. (eds). Handbook of Road Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford. 552 pp. ISBN: 978-1-118-56818-7.

van der Ree R, Cesarini S, Sunnucks P, Moore J, Taylor AC (2010). Large gaps in canopy reduce road crossing by a gliding mammal. Ecology & Society. 15: 35.

Simmons JM, Sunnucks P, Taylor AC, van der Ree R (2010) Beyond road-kill, radiotracking, recapture and FST – a review of some genetic methods to improve understanding of the influence of roads on wildlife. Ecology & Society. 15: 9. 

Wombats

Walker FW, Sunnucks P & Taylor AC (2008) Evidence for habitat fragmentation altering within-population processes in wombats. Molecular Ecology, 17, 1674-1684.

Walker FW, Taylor AC & Sunnucks P (2008) Female dispersal and male kinship-based association in southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). Molecular Ecology, 17, 1361-1374.

Walker FW, Taylor AC & Sunnucks P (2007). Does soil type drive social organization in southern hairy-nosed wombats? Molecular Ecology, 16, 199-208.

Walker FW, Sunnucks P & Taylor AC (2006). Genotyping of remotely-collected hair samples reveals burrow use and ranging behavior of southern hairy-nosed wombats. Journal of Mammalogy. 87, 690-699.

Aquatic systems

Davis J, Sim L, Thompson RM, Pinder A, Murphy N, Brim Box J, Sheldon F, Morán-Ordóñez A, Sunnucks P  (2018) Patterns and drivers of aquatic invertebrate diversity across an arid biome. Ecography 41: 375-387.

Coleman RA, Gauffre B, Pavlova A, Beheregaray LB, Kearns J, Lyon J, Sasaki M, Leblois R, Sgro C and Sunnucks P (2018) Artificial barriers prevent genetic recovery of small isolated populations of a low mobility freshwater fish Heredity 120, 515-532

Razeng E, Smith AE, Harrisson KA, Pavlova A, Nguyen TTT, Pinder A, Suter P, Webb J, Brim Box J, Thompson R, Davis JA, Sunnucks P. (2017) Evolutionary divergence in freshwater insects with contrasting dispersal capacity, across a sea of desert.  Freshwater Biology 62, 1443-1459.

Razeng E, Morán-Ordóñez A, Brim Box J, Thompson RM, Davis J, Sunnucks P (2016) A potential role for overland dispersal in shaping aquatic invertebrate communities in arid regions. Freshwater Biology 61, 745–757

Murphy AL, Pavlova A, Thompson RM, Davis J, Sunnucks P (2015) Swimming through sand: connectivity of aquatic fauna in deserts.  Ecology and Evolution. 5: 5252–5264

Morán-Ordóñez A, Pavlova A, Pinder M, Sim L, Sunnucks P, Thompson RM, and Davis J (2015) Aquatic communities in arid landscapes: local conditions, dispersal traits and landscape configuration determine local biodiversity.  Diversity and Distributions 21, 1230-1241.

Davis J, Pavlova A, Thompson R, Sunnucks P (2013) Evolutionary refugia and ecological refuges: key concepts for conserving arid zone freshwater biodiversity under climate change. Global Change Biology. 19, 1970–1984