Kathryn Hill

Research Interests

Plant Biology & Botany Statistics

Dr Kathryn Hill

School of Biological Sciences

College of Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I research plant ecophysiology; the relationship between plant anatomy and function and plant environment. Ecophysiology is a wonderful science as we can work on plants form anywhere growing at any time. I have researched plant function 65 million years ago in environments that are now extinct from Earth and the same species across a range of environments in present day.This work enables me to think about what climatic pressures were forcing plants to function in a specific way in the past and present, thus I can use these data to create paleo-climate proxies. This information is also valuable for modelling species survival with future climate change projections.

Date Institution name Country Title
2011 - 2015 University of Adelaide Australia Ph.D.

Date Title Institution Country
Research Fellow The University of Adelaide Australia

Year Citation
2024 Kraehe, A. A., Weisbecker, V., Hill, R. R., & Hill, K. E. (2024). Threatened stick-nest rats preferentially eat invasive boxthorn rather than native vegetation on Australia's Reevesby Island. Wildlife Research, 51(8), WR23140-1-WR23140-11.
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2024 Cabanas Grandío, P., Pierre, B., Bisignani, G., Cuneo, A., Papp, R., Schrader, J., & Lau, D. H. (2024). Sudden arrhythmic death in patients with syncope and implantable cardiac monitor. Heart Rhythm O2, 5(11), 821-824.
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2024 Atkins, R. A., Hill, R. S., Hill, K. E., Munroe, S. E. M., & Reed, E. H. (2024). Quaternary plant macrofossils from Robertson Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia: vegetative remains. Alcheringa, 48(4), 778-794.
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2023 Hill, K. E., Brown, S. C., Jones, A., Fordham, D., & Hill, R. S. (2023). Modelling Climate Using Leaves of Nothofagus cunninghamii—Overcoming Confounding Factors. Sustainability, 15(9), 7603.
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2023 Atkins, R., Hill, R., Hill, K., Munroe, S., & Reed, E. (2023). Quaternary plant macrofossils from Robertson Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia: reproductive structures. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 47(3), 348-366.
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2023 Whang, S. S., Hill, K. E., & Hill, R. S. (2023). A new species of Gymnostoma (Casuarinaceae) present during the Neogene aridification of Southern Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 312, 104873.
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2022 Atkins, R. A., Hill, R. S., Hill, K. E., Munroe, S. E. M., & Reed, E. H. (2022). Preservation quality of plant macrofossils through a Quaternary cave sediment sequence at Naracoorte, South Australia: Implications for vegetation reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 299, 104607-1-104607-12.
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2020 Hill, R. S., Whang, S. S., Korasidis, V., Bianco, B., Hill, K. E., Paull, R., & Guerin, G. R. (2020). Fossil evidence for the evolution of the Casuarinaceae in response to low soil nutrients and a drying climate in Cenozoic Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 68(3), 179-194.
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2020 Cheesman, A. W., Duff, H., Hill, K., Cernusak, L. A., & McInerney, F. A. (2020). Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: a modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia. American Journal of Botany, 107(8), 1165-1176.
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2019 Hill, K. E., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2019). Pinnule and stomatal size and stomatal density of living and fossil Bowenia and Eobowenia specimens give insight into physiology during Cretaceous and Eocene paleoclimates. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180(4), 323-336.
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2019 Hill, K. E., Barr, C., Tibby, J., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2019). A comparison of stomatal traits between contemporary and fossil leaves of Melaleuca quinquenervia: Do they reflect climate variation?. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 271, 104109-1-104109-8.
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2018 Hill, R. S., Tarran, M. A., Hill, K. E., & Beer, Y. K. (2018). The vegetation history of South Australia. Swainsona, 30(1), 9-16.
2018 Baruch, Z., Jones, A., Hill, K. E., McInerney, F., Blyth, C., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Breed, M. (2018). Functional acclimation across microgeographic scales in Dodonaea viscosa. AoB Plants, 10(3), ply029-1-ply029-15.
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2018 Hill, R. S., Hill, K. E., Carpenter, R. J., & Jordan, G. J. (2018). New macrofossils of the Australian cycad Bowenia and their significance in reconstructing the past morphological range of the genus. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180(2), 128-140.
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2017 Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M., Guerin, G., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J., . . . Lowe, A. (2017). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae). Austral Ecology, 42(5), 553-561.
DOI Scopus20 WoS18 Europe PMC4
2016 Hill, R., Beer, Y., Hill, K., Maciunas, E., Tarran, M., & Wainman, C. (2016). Evolution of the eucalypts - an interpretation from the macrofossil record. Australian Journal of Botany, 64(8), 600-608.
DOI Scopus33 WoS35 Europe PMC7
2015 Hill, K. E., Guerin, G. R., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2015). Temperature influences stomatal density and maximum potential water loss through stomata of Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima along a latitude gradient in southern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 62(8), 657-665.
DOI Scopus66 WoS59 Europe PMC16
2014 Hill, K. E., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2014). Do CO2, temperature, rainfall and elevation influence stomatal traits and leaf width in Melaleuca lanceolata across southern Australia?. Australian Journal of Botany, 62(8), 666-673.
DOI Scopus11 WoS9 Europe PMC2
- Thornhill, J., Glaser, Z. B., & Hill, K. (n.d.). Sex-specific differences in key functional traits in the dioecious shrub Dodonaea viscosa: an exploratory study..
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Year Citation
2016 Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M. F., Guerin, G. R., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2016). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae) Part 1: Latitude.
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2016 Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M. F., Guerin, G. R., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J. T., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2016). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae) Part 2: Elevation.
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Year Citation
- Sharifi, E., Mehdipour, A., Hill, K., Soebarto, V., Hayter, J., Koc, C. B., . . . Martins, L. A. (n.d.). Multi-criteria Street Tree Selection SA EI-2023 + Tool [Computer Software].
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Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 - 2025 Co-Supervisor The taphonomy and reconstruction of palaeovegetation and palaeoecosystems around Robertson Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Rachel Amber Atkins

Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
2019 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Addressing bias in use of stick-nest rat middens for paleo-ecology reconstruction The University of Adelaide - Honours - Annie Kraehe
2018 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Environmental stressors such as light, water and temperature affect leaf physiomorphology. Can we reconstruct palaeoclimates from leaf fossils compared to their nearest living relative grown under controlled conditions? The University of Adelaide - Honours Full Time George Batzios

Date Office Name Institution Country
2018 - ongoing Webmaster International Organisation of Palaeobotany Australia

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