Publications: 2022, the year that was

Publications from the Ecosystem Change Ecology team during 2022.

In 2022 the team produced 23 peer reviewed publications, including papers in the highly regarded journals PNAS and Ecography. We’re really pleased that this list included two papers involving our students and 12 involving our Honorary Fellows.

• Schultheiss, P., Nooten, S.S., Wang, R., Wong, M.K.L., Brassard, F., & Guénard, B. (2022). The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2201550119. [View Article]

• Byrne, D., Scheben, A., Scott, J.K., Webber, B.L., Batchelor, K.L., Severn-Ellis, A.A., Gooden, B., & Bell, K.L. (2022). Genomics reveals the history of a complex plant invasion and improves the management of a biological invasion from the South African–Australian biotic exchange. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e9179. [View Article]

• Raman, A. (2022), Adaptations in weeds to changing climate – a case study of Parthenium hysterophorus (Asteraceae). In Daniels, A.E.D. (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Seminar on Plant Response to Climate Change, (pp. 15-26). Department of Botany and Research Centre, Scott Christian College, Manonmaniyam Sundaranar University, Nagerkoil, India.

• Weinberg, J., Ota, N., Goergen, G., Fagbohoun, J.R., Tepa-Yotto, G., & Kriticos, D.J. (2022). Spodoptera eridania: current and emerging crop threats from another invasive, pesticide-resistant moth. Entomologia Generalis, 42, 701-712.

• Ridsdill-Smith, J., Pavri, C., Campos, M., & Maino, J. (2022). Biology and ecology of redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor, in pastures. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. [View Article]

• Simmons, L.W., Lovegrove, M., Du, X., Ren, Y., & Thomas, M.L. (2022). Ontogeny can provide insight into the roles of natural and sexual selection in cricket cuticular hydrocarbon evolution. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225, jeb244375. [View Article]

• Adam, S., Campos, M., Heron, H., Staines, C., Westerduijn, R., & Chaboo, C. (2022). Natural history of Cassida sphaerula Boheman, 1854 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini) on Arctotheca prostrata (Salisb.) Britten (Asteraceae: Arctotidinae) in South Africa, with a checklist of South African Cassidinae (leaf-mining and tortoise beetles). Insecta Mundi, 0945, 1-23. [View Article]

• Batchelor, K.L., Scott, J.K., & Webber, B.L. (2022). Boneseed and bitou bush in Western Australia: a tale of two Chrysanthemoides. In R. Melland, C. Brodie, J. Emms, L. Feuerherdt, S. Ivory, & S. Potter (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Weeds Conference Adelaide September 2022. (pp. 7-10). Adelaide, South Australia: Weed Management Society of South Australia Inc. [View Article]

• Campos, M., Batchelor, K.L., Bell, K.L., Davy, M., Christensen, M., Didham, R.K., & Webber, B.L. (2022). Cottonbush invasion in Western Australia: ecology and social perspectives. In R. Melland, C. Brodie, J. Emms, L. Feuerherdt, S. Ivory, & S. Potter (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Weeds Conference Adelaide September 2022. (pp. 3-6). Adelaide, South Australia: Weed Management Society of South Australia Inc. [View Article]

• Raman, A. (2022). A device used and some methods practised by Tamil mariners in the mid-19th century: notes of Harry Congreve, Madras Infantry, 1850. Current Science, 123, 111-119. [View Article]

• Ridsdill-Smith, J. (2022). Entomology comes downunder: first time in the Southern Hemisphere, XIV International Congress of Entomology, Canberra, 22–30 August 1972. In J. Ridsdill-Smith, P.G. Weintraub, M.J. Whitten, & M.R. Berenbaum (Eds.), An important and victorious science: the international congresses of entomology (pp. 101-112). Annapolis: Entomological Society of America.

• Ridsdill-Smith, J., Weintraub, P.G., Whitten, M.J., & Berenbaum, M.R. (2022). Epilogue. In J. Ridsdill-Smith, P.G. Weintraub, M.J. Whitten, & M.R. Berenbaum (Eds.), An important and victorious science: the international congresses of entomology (pp. 271-276). Annapolis: Entomological Society of America.

• Raman, R., & Raman, A. (2022). Public hospitals in Madras and people associated with them. National Medical Journal of India, 35, 112-117. [View Article]

• Raman, R., & Raman, A. (2022). On the quarter-millennial anniversary of the Madras General Hospital. National Medical Journal of India, 35, 47-51. [View Article]

• Wong, M.K.L., Lee, R.H., Leong, C.-M., Lewis, O.T., & Guénard, B. (2022). Trait-mediated competition drives an ant invasion and alters functional diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, 20220504. [View Article]

• Boucherabine, S., Nassar, R., Zaher, S., Mohamed, L., Olsen, M., Alqutami, F., Hachim, M., Alkhaja, A., Campos, M., Jones, P., McKirdy, S., Alghafri, R., Tajouri, L., & Senok, A. (2022). Metagenomic sequencing and reverse transcriptase PCR reveal that mobile phones and environmental surfaces are reservoirs of multidrug-resistant superbugs and SARS-CoV-2. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 12, 806077. [View Article]

• Zheng, S., Didham, R.K., Yu, M., & Webber, B.L. (2022). Species-level CWM values mask contrasting intra- versus interspecific trait shifts at subtropical forest edges. Ecography, 2022, e05837. [View Article]

• Sharma, A., & Raman, A. (2022). Gall-inducing Psylloidea (Insecta: Hemiptera) – plant interactions. Journal of Plant Interactions, 17, 580-594. [View Article]

• Morgan, S., Binks, N.A., Didham, R.K., & Barnes, A.D. (2022). Functional group-dependent responses of forest bird communities to invasive predator control and habitat fragmentation. Diversity and Distributions, 28, 1298-1312. [View Article]

• Bradford, M., Venz, M., Bell, K.L., Hogan, L., Smith, G.C., Eby, P., Eyre, T.J., McKeown, A., Vanderduys, E., MacDonald, S., & Westcott, D. (2022). The diet of a specialist nectarivore in Australia: the little red flying-fox (Pteropus scapulatus, Pteropodidae). Austral Ecology, 47, 619-628. [View Article]

• Raman, A. (2022). Unheard voices: a Tranquebarian stroll. Current Science, 123, 494-498. [View Article]

• Singh, S.K., Kriticos, D.J., Ota, N., & Hodda, M. (2022). Potential distribution and biosecurity risks from three economically important plant-parasitic nematodes. Annals of Applied Biology, 180, 371-382. [View Article]

• Morin, L., Forrester, R.I., Batchelor, K., Holtkamp, R., Hosking, J.R., Lefoe, G., Virtue, J.G., & Scott, J.K. (2022). Decline of the invasive plant Asparagus asparagoides within the first seven years after release of biological control agents in Australia. Biological Control, 165, 104795. [View Article]

For more publications from the team, please see the Google Scholar or ReseacherID profiles for our scientists on the people page of our website.