Teaching Strengths
Dr Jamie Wood
Senior Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
My research integrates evolutionary and ancient environmental genomics approaches with other techniques (e.g., palynology, stable isotopes) to reconstruct ecological and environmental change over the past 50,000 years. Specific areas of research expertise and impact are detailed below. I am happy to discuss Honours, Masters or PhD projects on any related topics.
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(1) Environmental DNA
I have a keen interest in understanding how we can better use environmental DNA (eDNA) to study present day ecosystems, as well as those from the deeper past. My previous work has involved developing methods for assessing wetland condition using eDNA through to using eDNA to understand how land-use change affects current biodiversity. Current interests involve understanding the factors that drive the sources, composition, preservation and distribution of DNA within cave sediments (i.e., eDNA taphonomy). I am also interested in exploring the potential of commonly overlooked sites, including small rock overhangs and crevices, as sources of sedimentary ancient DNA.
Current Student Projects in Environmental DNA
Siobhan Evans (PhD): Using sedimentary DNA from caves to reconstruct past plant and animal communities in Australia
Thom Harvey (MPhil): Reconstructing pre-European mammalian and plant diversity in central and western NSW to inform conservation management
Luke Jackman (PhD): Preventing the extirpation and extinction of endangered Australian mammals using sedaDNA and bulk bone archives
Steven-Khoa Nguyen (BScHons): Detecting effects of revegetation on soil invertebrate communities in the Lower Murray River Catchment using eDNA
Past Student Projects in Environmental DNA
Charlotte Hogan (BScHons): Influence of reintroduced digging mammals on an arid soil fungi community.
Tessa Carella (BScHons): An environmental DNA assay for numbats.
Environmental DNA sampling in Naracoorte Caves (left), abandoned penguin colonies in Antarctica (top right), and New Zealand wetlands (bottom right).
(2) Palaeodiets
A sustained career research focus has involved reconstructing the diets of extinct species and the ecological processes that they once facilitated. This work was initiated following the serendipitous discovery of substantial palaeoscat accumulations in caves and rockshelters across New Zealand while undertaking my PhD fieldwork. My pioneering work in the sequencing of ancient bird, plant and parasite DNA preserved in these palaeoscats has generated >25 publications since 2008. By developing technical skills in ancient and environmental genomics, palynology, microscopic identification of animal and plant remains, and parasitology I have been able to routinely implement multidisciplinary approaches into this work. The research findings have overturned prevailing views about the diets and ecological roles of extinct birds in New Zealand’s prehuman ecosystems, leading to the publication of the comprehensive review “The diets of moa”. My “prodigious contributions to the study of moa coprolites” were recently recognised by the naming of a moa footprint ichnotaxon, Tutaenuipus woodi. Palaeoscats of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot have also revealed previously unknown ecological interactions, including feeding on nectar-rich flowers of the parasitic plant Dactylanthus taylorii (see image below), highlighting the potential role of palaeoscat analyses in conservation biology.
In addition to extinct and threatened birds, I have also undertaken studies of palaeoscats from a range of other animals, including dog and rat coprolites from New Zealand, ancient rodent middens from the Atacama Desert and ancient penguin guano from Antarctica. Current work aims to understand the extent of palaeoscat deposits in Australian caves, and use these to generate the first high resolution reconstructions of past trophic interactions within Australian ecosystems. A substantial impact on the broader field has been demonstrated through the development of rigorous methodological protocols for coprolite analyses, which are now commonly used globally.
Current Student Projects in Palaeodiets
Demelza Metha (MPhil): Diet and ecology of mammal species on the Nullarbor Plain using ancient and historic scats.
Past Student Projects in Palaeodiets
Alexander Boast (PhD): Palaeoecology and ancient DNA of the kakapo (Strigops habroptilus).
Kākāpō feeding on Dactylanthus taylorii flowers. (Artwork by Chris Gaskin)
Ghosts of species interactions past. International Biogeography Society Seminar - January 2025
Excavating ancient penguin guano in Antarctica. BTN Live - July 2025
(3) Extinction
My research involves reconstructing the ways in which humans modified ecosystems following initial settlement of new landmasses. Ultimately, these modifications drove extinction – a process that is a key research focus. My work led to understanding the general patterns and processes involved in human-mediated extinctions on islands, highlighted risks associated with co-extinction of parasites in both Moa and kākāpō, the quantification of avian extinction rates in New Zealand, and the evolution, phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic description of extinct species (e.g. Chatham Island kākā). I have recently co-authored a commentary in Nature Reviews Biodiversity calling for so-called ‘dark extinctions’ to be considered within the IUCN Red List.
Current student projects in Extinction
Sarah Lauvert (PhD): Preventing extinctions of threatened mammals with DNA in bulk bone deposits
Andrew Stempel (PhD): Cave Rights for Troglobites: Sequencing the Past to Secure the Future with modern DNA Technologies
Past Student Projects in Extinction
Alexander Boast (MPhil): Ancient DNA of New Zealand's extinct avifauna.
Infographic for 2026 Nature Reviews Biodiversity commentary on Dark Extinctions (credit: Stelios Katsanevakis).
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 - ongoing | Senior Lecturer | Adelaide University |
| 2022 - 2025 | Senior Lecturer | University of Adelaide |
| 2009 - 2022 | Senior Researcher | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research |
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Award | Team Award (Long-Term Ecology Group) | Science New Zealand National Awards | New Zealand | - |
| 2014 | Distinction | National Geographic Explorer | National Geographic | United States | - |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | University of Otago | New Zealand | PhD |
| 2004 | University of Otago | New Zealand | BSc Hons (Geology) |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Tomlinson, S., Lomolino, M. V., Wood, J. R., Anderson, A., Perry, G. L. W., Wilmshurst, J. M., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2025). Was extinction of New Zealand's avian megafauna an unavoidable consequence of human arrival?. Science of the Total Environment, 964, 178471-1-178471-10. |
| 2025 | Boast, A. P., Wood, J. R., Cooper, J., Bolstridge, N., Perry, G. L. W., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2025). DNA and spores from coprolites reveal that colourful truffle-like fungi endemic to New Zealand were consumed by extinct moa (Dinornithiformes).. Biol Lett, 21(1), 20240440. Scopus1 Europe PMC1 |
| 2025 | Wood, J. R., Zhou, C., Cole, T. L., Coleman, M., Anderson, D. P., Lyver, P. O., . . . Zhang, G. (2025). Sedimentary DNA insights into Holocene Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) populations and ecology in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.. Nat Commun, 16(1), 1798. Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC3 |
| 2025 | Boast, A. P., Wood, J. R., Worthy, T. H., Perry, G. L. W., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2025). Using New Zealand's late-Quaternary fossil record to estimate the past distribution and habitats of a relict species (kākāpō: Strigops habroptila). Quaternary Science Reviews, 356, 109287. Scopus2 WoS2 |
| 2025 | Evans, S., Llamas, B., & Wood, J. R. (2025). Sedimentary ancient DNA from caves: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Quaternary Science, 40(4), 565-578. Scopus4 WoS4 |
| 2025 | Bellvé, A. M., Wilmshurst, J. M., Wood, J. R., Whitehead, E., Scofield, R. P., Worthy, T. H., . . . Perry, G. L. W. (2025). Burrowing Into the Past: Extending Niche Space Models of Procellariiform Breeding Grounds by Merging Fossil and Historic Data. Diversity and Distributions, 31(5), 16 pages. Scopus3 WoS4 |
| 2025 | Boast, A. P., Wood, J. R., Bolstridge, N., Perry, G. L. W., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2025). Long-term parasite decline associated with near extinction and conservation of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot. Current Biology, 35(16), 3920-3929.e2. |
| 2025 | Davidson, R., Ravishankar, S., Souilmi, Y., Roca-Rada, X., Sobek, C., Taufik, L., . . . Pérez, V. (2025). The necessity for authentication of ancient DNA from archaeological artefacts. Journal of Archaeological Science, 181, 106317-1-106317-9. |
| 2025 | Rawlence, N. J., Lubbe, P., Adams, A. L., Shepherd, L. D., Cole, T. L., Knapp, M., . . . Tennyson, A. J. D. (2025). Ancient DNA and morphometrics reveal a new species of extinct insular shelduck from Rēkohu Chatham Islands. ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 204(3), 16 pages. Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 2024 | McKeown, M. M., Burge, O. R., Richardson, S. J., Wood, J. R., Mitchell, E. A. D., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2024). Biomonitoring tool for New Zealand peatlands: Testate amoebae and vascular plants as promising bioindicators. Journal of Environmental Management, 354, 120243-1-120243-15. Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC3 |
| 2024 | Tomlinson, S., Lomolino, M. V., Anderson, A., Austin, J. J., Brown, S. C., Haythorne, S., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2024). Reconstructing colonization dynamics to establish how human activities transformed island biodiversity. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 5261-1-5261-13. Scopus9 WoS6 Europe PMC3 |
| 2024 | Rawlence, N. J., Verry, A. J. F., Cole, T. L., Shepherd, L. D., Tennyson, A. J. D., Williams, M., . . . Mitchell, K. J. (2024). Ancient mitogenomes reveal evidence for the Late Miocene dispersal of mergansers to the Southern Hemisphere. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202(4), 10 pages. Scopus4 WoS4 |
| 2024 | Tomlinson, S., Lomolino, M. V., Wood, J. R., Anderson, A., Brown, S. C., Haythorne, S., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2024). Ecological dynamics of moa extinctions reveal convergent refugia that today harbour flightless birds. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8(8), 1472-1481. Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC5 |
| 2024 | Brunton-Martin, A., Wood, J., & Gaskett, A. C. (2024). Evidence for adaptation of colourful truffle-like fungi for birds in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 18908. Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC2 |
| 2023 | Wood, J. (2023). Post-settlement extinction rates for the New Zealand avifauna. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 47(1), 4 pages. Scopus7 WoS6 |
| 2023 | Boast, A. P., Wood, J. R., Bolstridge, N., Perry, G. L. W., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2023). Ancient and modern scats record broken ecological interactions and a decline in dietary breadth of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot (Strigops habroptilus). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 20 pages. Scopus8 WoS8 |
| 2023 | Burge, O. R., Richardson, S. J., Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2023). A guide to assess distance from ecological baselines and change over time in palaeoecological records. HOLOCENE, 33(8), 13 pages. Scopus10 WoS10 |
| 2023 | Williams, J. W., Spanbauer, T. L., Heintzman, P. D., Blois, J., Capo, E., Goring, S. J., . . . Wood, J. (2023). Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38(10), 946-960. Scopus23 WoS20 Europe PMC8 |
| 2023 | Heenan, P. B., Smissen, R. D., Cole, T. L., & Wood, J. R. (2023). Plastid DNA sequence data of the extinct <i>Logania depressa</i> (Loganiaceae) from New Zealand confirm its generic placement. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 61(2-3), 191-199. Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 2022 | Cole, T. L., Zhou, C., Fang, M., Pan, H., Ksepka, D. T., Fiddaman, S. R., . . . Zhang, G. (2022). Genomic insights into the secondary aquatic transition of penguins.. Nat Commun, 13(1), 13 pages. Scopus39 WoS37 Europe PMC30 |
| 2022 | Heenan, P. B., Shepherd, L. D., Teele, B., & Wood, J. R. (2022). Identification of late Holocene kōwhai (<i>Sophora</i>, Leguminosae) seeds from Central Otago dry rock shelters using nuclear DNA markers. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 63(1), 1-9. |
| 2022 | Heenan, P. B., Smissen, R. D., Cole, T. L., & Wood, J. R. (2022). Plastid DNA from the extinct Trilepidea adamsii confirms its close relationship to Alepis and Peraxilla (Loranthaceae). NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 63(1), 8 pages. |
| 2022 | Makiola, A., Holdaway, R. J., Wood, J. R., Orwin, K. H., Glare, T. R., & Dickie, I. A. (2022). Environmental and plant community drivers of plant pathogen composition and richness. New Phytologist, 233(1), 496-504. Scopus27 WoS26 Europe PMC10 |
| 2021 | De Pietri, V. L., Worthy, T. H., Scofield, R. P., Cole, T. L., Wood, J. R., Mitchell, K. J., . . . Wragg, G. M. (2021). A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 192(4), 1045-1070. Scopus11 WoS10 |
| 2021 | Lomolino, M. V., Tomlinson, S., Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., & Fordham, D. A. (2021). Geographic and ecological segregation in an extinct guild of flightless birds: New Zealand’s moa. Frontiers of Biogeography, 13(4), 1-13. Scopus6 |
| 2021 | Wood, J. R., Burge, O. R., Bolstridge, N., Bonner, K., Clarkson, B., Cole, T. L., . . . Wilmshurst, J. M. (2021). Vertical distribution of prokaryotes communities and predicted metabolic pathways in New Zealand wetlands, and potential for environmental DNA indicators of wetland condition. PLoS ONE, 16(1 January), 1-20. Scopus4 WoS2 Europe PMC1 |
| 2021 | Scofield, R. P., Wood, J. R., de Nascimento, L., Robertson, H. A., Colbourne, R. M., De Pietri, V. L., . . . Weir, J. T. (2021). Identification of the type locality of the South Island Brown Kiwi Apteryx australis : A nomenclatural framework for the Southern Tokoeka and an insight into the movements of sealers in the early 19th century. Conservation Genetics, 22(4), 645-652. Scopus2 WoS3 |
| 2021 | Carpenter, J. K., Innes, J. G., Wood, J. R., & Lyver, P. O. (2021). Good predators: The roles of weka (gallirallus australis) in new zealand’s past and present ecosystems. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 45(1), 1-14. Scopus17 WoS18 |
| 2021 | Marion, Z. H., Orwin, K. H., Wood, J. R., Holdaway, R. J., & Dickie, I. A. (2021). Land use, but not distance, drives fungal beta diversity. Ecology, 102(11), 1-9. Scopus11 Europe PMC4 |
| 2021 | Perry, G. L. W., Wilmshurst, J. M., & Wood, J. R. (2021). Reconstructing ecological functions provided by extinct fauna using allometrically informed simulation models: An in silico framework for ‘movement palaeoecology’. Functional Ecology, 35(11), 2575-2592. Scopus3 |
| 2021 | McKeown, M. M., Mitchell, E. A. D., Amesbury, M. J., Blandenier, Q., Charman, D., Duckert, C., . . . Wilmshurst, J. M. (2021). The testate amoebae of New Zealand: A checklist, identification key and assessment of biogeographic patterns. European Journal of Protistology, 81, 125789-1-125789-20. Scopus9 Europe PMC4 |
| 2021 | Wood, J. R., Vermeulen, M. J., Bolstridge, N., Briden, S., Cole, T. L., Rivera-Perez, J., . . . Wilmshurst, J. M. (2021). Mid-Holocene coprolites from southern New Zealand provide new insights into the diet and ecology of the extinct little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis). Quaternary Science Reviews, 263, 106992-1-106992-12. Scopus8 WoS8 |
| 2020 | Burge, O. R., Bellingham, P. J., Arnst, E. A., Bonner, K. I., Burrows, L. E., Richardson, S. J., . . . Wilmshurst, J. M. (2020). Integrating permanent plot and palaeoecological data to determine subalpine post-fire succession, recovery and convergence over 128 years. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(5), 755-767. Scopus2 WoS3 |
| 2020 | Dopheide, A., Makiola, A., Orwin, K. H., Holdaway, R. J., Wood, J. R., & Dickie, I. A. (2020). Rarity is a more reliable indicator of land-use impacts on soil invertebrate communities than other diversity metrics. eLife, 9, 1-41. Scopus27 WoS27 Europe PMC16 |
| 2020 | Wood, J. R., Richardson, S. J., McGlone, M. S., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2020). The diets of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes). New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 44(1), 21 pages. Scopus30 WoS29 |
| 2020 | Latham, A. D. M., Latham, M. C., Wilmshurst, J. M., Forsyth, D. M., Gormley, A. M., Pech, R. P., . . . Wood, J. R. (2020). A refined model of body mass and population density in flightless birds reconciles extreme bimodal population estimates for extinct moa. Ecography, 43(3), 353-364. Scopus14 WoS12 |
| 2019 | Peltzer, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Dickie, I. A., Houliston, G., Hulme, P. E., Lyver, P. O. B., . . . Wood, J. (2019). Scale and complexity implications of making New Zealand predator-free by 2050. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 49(3), 412-439. Scopus46 WoS46 |
| 2019 | Makiola, A., Dickie, I. A., Holdaway, R. J., Wood, J. R., Orwin, K. H., Lee, C. K., & Glare, T. R. (2019). Biases in the metabarcoding of plant pathogens using rust fungi as a model system. MicrobiologyOpen, 8(7), 11 pages. Scopus17 WoS17 Europe PMC12 |
| 2019 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2019). Comparing the effects of asynchronous herbivores on New Zealand montane vegetation communities. PLoS ONE, 14(4), 16 pages. Scopus6 WoS7 Europe PMC3 |
| 2019 | Díaz, F. P., Latorre, C., Carrasco-Puga, G., Wood, J. R., Wilmshurst, J. M., Soto, D. C., . . . Gutiérrez, R. A. (2019). Multiscale climate change impacts on plant diversity in the Atacama Desert. Global Change Biology, 25(5), 1733-1745. Scopus65 WoS53 Europe PMC30 |
| 2019 | Watts, C., Dopheide, A., Holdaway, R., Davis, C., Wood, J., Thornburrow, D., & Dickie, I. A. (2019). DNA metabarcoding as a tool for invertebrate community monitoring: a case study comparison with conventional techniques. Austral Entomology, 58(3), 675-686. Scopus58 WoS57 |
| 2019 | Cole, T. L., Ksepka, D. T., Mitchell, K. J., Tennyson, A. J. D., Thomas, D. B., Pan, H., . . . Waters, J. M. (2019). Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(4), 784-797. Scopus38 WoS39 Europe PMC28 |
| 2019 | McGlone, M. S., Wilmshurst, J. M., Richardson, S. J., Turney, C. S. M., & Wood, J. R. (2019). Temperature,wind, cloud, and the postglacial tree line history of sub-antarctic Campbell Island. Forests, 10(11), 19 pages. Scopus13 WoS12 |
| 2019 | Wood, J. R., Díaz, F. P., Latorre, C., Wilmshurst, J. M., Burge, O. R., González, F., & Gutiérrez, R. A. (2019). Ancient parasite DNA from late Quaternary Atacama Desert rodent middens. Quaternary Science Reviews, 226, 12 pages. Scopus16 WoS15 |
| 2019 | Makiola, A., Dickie, I. A., Holdaway, R. J., Wood, J. R., Orwin, K. H., & Glare, T. R. (2019). Land use is a determinant of plant pathogen alpha- but not beta-diversity. Molecular Ecology, 28(16), 3786-3798. Scopus55 WoS52 Europe PMC32 |
| 2019 | McGlone, M. S., & Wood, J. R. (2019). Early holocene plant remains from the Cromwell Gorge, Central Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 43(1), 8 pages. Scopus5 WoS5 |
| 2019 | McKeown, M. M., Wilmshurst, J. M., Duckert, C., Wood, J. R., & Mitchell, E. A. D. (2019). Assessing the ecological value of small testate amoebae (<45 μm) in New Zealand peatlands. European Journal of Protistology, 68, 1-16. Scopus17 WoS16 Europe PMC7 |
| 2019 | Gaynor, M., Sawyer, A., Jenkins, S., & Wood, J. (2019). Variable agreement between wearable heart rate monitors during exercise in cystic fibrosis. ERJ Open Research, 5(4), 00006-2019. Scopus7 |
| 2019 | Lian, R., Cavalheri, V., Wood, J., Jenkins, S., Straker, L. M., & Hill, K. (2019). Higher levels of education are associated with full-time work in adults with cystic fibrosis. Respiratory Care, 64(9), 1116-1122. Scopus8 Europe PMC4 |
| 2019 | Campbell, D. G. (2019). Dickens, Cholera and Big Data. Dickens Quarterly, 36(3), 224-240. WoS1 |
| 2018 | Lear, G., Dickie, I., Banks, J., Boyer, S., Buckley, H. L., Buckley, T. R., . . . Holdaway, R. (2018). Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of dna from environmental samples. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 42(1), 51 pages. Scopus173 WoS150 |
| 2018 | Wood, J. R., Díaz, F. P., Latorre, C., Wilmshurst, J. M., Burge, O. R., & Gutiérrez, R. A. (2018). Plant pathogen responses to Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change in the central Atacama Desert, Chile. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 8 pages. Scopus15 WoS12 Europe PMC6 |
| 2018 | Cole, T. L., Waters, J. M., Shepherd, L. D., Rawlence, N. J., Joseph, L., & Wood, J. R. (2018). Ancient DNA reveals that the 'extinct' Hunter Island penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is not a distinct taxon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 182(2), 459-464. Scopus11 WoS11 |
| 2018 | Carpenter, J. K., Wood, J. R., Wilmshurst, J. M., & Kelly, D. (2018). An avian seed dispersal paradox: New zealand’s extinct megafaunal birds did not disperse large seeds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1877), 10 pages. Scopus13 WoS13 Europe PMC5 |
| 2018 | Wood, J. R. (2018). DNA barcoding of ancient parasites. Parasitology, 145(5), 646-655. Scopus19 WoS18 Europe PMC10 |
| 2018 | Orwin, K. H., Dickie, I. A., Holdaway, R., & Wood, J. R. (2018). A comparison of the ability of PLFA and 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding to resolve soil community change and predict ecosystem functions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 117, 27-35. Scopus138 WoS132 Europe PMC48 |
| 2018 | Heenan, P. B., Wood, J. R., & Cole, T. L. (2018). A partial cpDNA trnL sequence from the extinct legume Streblorrhiza speciosa confirms its placement in the tribe Coluteae (Fabaceae). Phytotaxa, 374(1), 87-91. Scopus3 WoS2 |
| 2018 | Wood, J. R., Wilmshurst, J. M., & McGlone, M. S. (2018). Two new holocene vegetation records from the margins of the canterbury plains, south island, new zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 42(2), 240-247. Scopus3 WoS2 |
| 2018 | Minoshima, Y. N., Seidel, M., Wood, J. R., Leschen, R. A. B., Gunter, N. L., & Fikáček, M. (2018). Morphology and biology of the flower-visiting water scavenger beetle genus Rygmodus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Entomological Science, 21(4), 363-384. Scopus18 WoS18 |
| 2018 | Méndez, V., Wood, J. R., & Butler, S. J. (2018). Resource diversity and provenance underpin spatial patterns in functional diversity across native and exotic species. Ecology and Evolution, 8(9), 4409-4421. Scopus2 WoS2 |
| 2018 | Zale, R., Huang, Y. T., Bigler, C., Wood, J. R., Dalén, L., Wang, X. R., . . . Klaminder, J. (2018). Growth of plants on the Late Weichselian ice-sheet during Greenland interstadial-1?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 185, 222-229. Scopus15 WoS13 |
| 2018 | Cole, T. L., & Wood, J. R. (2018). The ancient DNA revolution: the latest era in unearthing New Zealand’s faunal history. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 45(2), 91-120. Scopus10 WoS10 |
| 2018 | Boast, A., Weyrich, L., Wood, J., Metcalf, J., Knight, R., & Cooper, A. (2018). Coprolites reveal ecological interactions lost with the extinction of New Zealand birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(7), 1546-1551. Scopus60 WoS55 Europe PMC34 |
| 2018 | Cole, T. L., Rawlence, N. J., Dussex, N., Ellenberg, U., Houston, D. M., Mattern, T., . . . Waters, J. M. (2018). Ancient DNA of crested penguins: Testing for temporal genetic shifts in the world's most diverse penguin clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 131, 72-79. Scopus11 WoS11 Europe PMC7 |
| 2017 | Holdaway, R. J., Wood, J. R., Dickie, I. A., Orwin, K. H., Bellingham, P. J., Richardson, S. J., . . . Buckley, T. R. (2017). Using DNA metabarcoding to assess New Zealand’s terrestrial biodiversity. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 41(2), 251-262. Scopus34 WoS33 |
| 2017 | Turney, C. S. M., Wilmshurst, J. M., Jones, R. T., Wood, J. R., Palmer, J. G., Hogg, A. G., . . . Thomas, Z. (2017). Reconstructing atmospheric circulation over southern New Zealand: Establishment of modern westerly airflow 5500 years ago and implications for Southern Hemisphere Holocene climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews, 159, 77-87. Scopus24 WoS23 |
| 2017 | Wood, J. R., Holdaway, R. J., Orwin, K. H., Morse, C., Bonner, K. I., Davis, C., . . . Dickie, I. A. (2017). No single driver of biodiversity: Divergent responses of multiple taxa across land use types. Ecosphere, 8(11), 17 pages. Scopus35 WoS30 |
| 2017 | Wood, J. R., Perry, G. L. W., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2017). Using palaeoecology to determine baseline ecological requirements and interaction networks for de-extinction candidate species. Functional Ecology, 31(5), 1012-1020. Scopus19 WoS19 Europe PMC7 |
| 2017 | Wood, J. R., Alcover, J. A., Blackburn, T. M., Bover, P., Duncan, R. P., Hume, J. P., . . . Wilmshurst, J. M. (2017). Island extinctions: Processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration. Environmental Conservation, 44(4), 348-358. Scopus151 WoS140 |
| 2017 | Parducci, L., Bennett, K. D., Ficetola, G. F., Alsos, I. G., Suyama, Y., Wood, J. R., & Pedersen, M. W. (2017). Ancient plant DNA in lake sediments. New Phytologist, 214(3), 924-942. Scopus231 WoS201 Europe PMC106 |
| 2017 | Wood, J. R., Paul Scofield, R., Hamel, J., Lalas, C., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2017). Short communication: Bone stable isotopes indicate a high trophic position for new zealand’s extinct south island adzebill (Aptornis defossor) (Gruiformes: Aptornithidae). New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 41(2), 240-244. Scopus13 |
| 2017 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2017). Changes in New Zealand forest plant communities following the prehistoric extinction of avian megaherbivores. Journal of Vegetation Science, 28(1), 160-171. Scopus11 WoS10 Europe PMC3 |
| 2017 | Wood, J., Mitchell, K., Scofield, R., De Pietri, V., Rawlence, N., & Cooper, A. (2017). Phylogenetic relationships and terrestrial adaptations of the extinct laughing owl, Sceloglaux albifacies (Aves: Strigidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 179(4), 907-918. Scopus21 WoS20 |
| 2017 | Scofield, R. P., Mitchell, K. J., Wood, J. R., De Pietri, V. L., Jarvie, S., Llamas, B., & Cooper, A. (2017). The origin and phylogenetic relationships of the New Zealand ravens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 106, 136-143. Scopus22 WoS21 Europe PMC11 |
| 2017 | Wood, J. R., Scofield, R. P., Hamel, J., Lalas, C., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2017). Bone stable isotopes indicate a high trophic position for New Zealand's extinct South Island adzebill (Aptornis defossor) (Gruiformes: Aptornithidae). NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 41(2), 240-244. WoS12 |
| 2017 | Koenig, E., Singh, B., & Wood, J. (2017). Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation for an individual with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and a lower respiratory infection. Respirology Case Reports, 5(2), e00210. Scopus5 |
| 2017 | Wood, J., Jenkins, S., Mulrennan, S., & Hill, K. (2017). The impact of cystic fibrosis on work attendance and performance in adults living in rural and remote Western Australia. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 16(2), e1-e2. Scopus4 Europe PMC2 |
| 2016 | Huang, Y., Lowe, D., Zhang, H., Cursons, R., Young, J., Churchman, G., . . . Cooper, A. (2016). A new method to extract and purify DNA from allophanic soils and paleosols, and potential for paleoenvironmental reconstruction and other applications. Geoderma, 274, 114-125. Scopus17 WoS14 |
| 2016 | Mitchell, K., Wood, J., Llamas, B., McLenachan, P., Kardailsky, O., Scofield, R., . . . Cooper, A. (2016). Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary history of New Zealand's enigmatic acanthisittid wrens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 102, 295-304. Scopus28 WoS27 Europe PMC17 |
| 2016 | Wood, J., Herrera, M., Scofield, R., & Wilmshurst, J. (2016). Origin and timing of New Zealand’s earliest domestic chickens: Polynesian commensals or European introductions?. Royal Society Open Science, 3(8), 160258-1-160258-11. Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC3 |
| 2016 | Wood, J. R., Lawrence, H. A., Scofield, R. P., Taylor, G. A., Lyver, P. O. B., & Gleeson, D. M. (2016). Morphological, behavioural, and genetic evidence supports reinstatement of full species status for the grey-faced petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 179(1), 201-216. Scopus19 WoS16 |
| 2016 | Rawlence, N. J., Wood, J. R., Bocherens, H., & Rogers, K. M. (2016). Dietary interpretations for extinct megafauna using coprolites, intestinal contents and stable isotopes: Complimentary or contradictory?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 142, 173-178. Scopus22 WoS23 |
| 2016 | Wood, J. R., Crown, A., Cole, T. L., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2016). Microscopic and ancient DNA profiling of Polynesian dog (kurī) coprolites from northern New Zealand. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6, 496-505. Scopus27 WoS25 |
| 2016 | Wood, J. R., Wilmshurst, J. M., Turney, C. S. M., & Fogwill, C. J. (2016). Palaeoecological signatures of vegetation change induced by herbivory regime shifts on subantarctic Enderby Island. Quaternary Science Reviews, 134, 51-58. Scopus9 WoS9 |
| 2016 | Orwin, K. H., Dickie, I. A., Wood, J. R., Bonner, K. I., & Holdaway, R. J. (2016). Soil microbial community structure explains the resistance of respiration to a dry–rewet cycle, but not soil functioning under static conditions. Functional Ecology, 30(8), 1430-1439. Scopus70 WoS64 |
| 2016 | Wood, J. R. (2016). Spatial distribution of late Holocene bird bones in the Mason Bay dune system, Stewart Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 46(2), 103-116. Scopus4 WoS5 |
| 2016 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2016). A protocol for subsampling Late Quaternary coprolites for multi-proxy analysis. Quaternary Science Reviews, 138, 1-5. Scopus41 WoS38 |
| 2015 | Wood, J. R., Dickie, I. A., Moeller, H. V., Peltzer, D. A., Bonner, K. I., Rattray, G., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2015). Novel interactions between non-native mammals and fungi facilitate establishment of invasive pines. Journal of Ecology, 103(1), 121-129. Scopus74 WoS73 Europe PMC26 |
| 2015 | Wood, J. R., & De Pietri, V. L. (2015). Next-generation paleornithology: Technological and methodological advances allow new insights into the evolutionary and ecological histories of living birds. Auk, 132(2), 486-506. Scopus14 WoS14 |
| 2015 | Rogers, G. N. D., Bonner, K. I., Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2015). The rail-cutter: a simple, cheap and compact system for opening sediment cores in the lab and field. Journal of Paleolimnology, 53(4), 433-436. Scopus2 WoS2 |
| 2015 | Lyver, P. O. B., Wilmshurst, J. M., Wood, J. R., Jones, C. J., Fromont, M., Bellingham, P. J., . . . Moller, H. (2015). Looking back for the future: Local knowledge and palaeoecology inform biocultural restoration of coastal ecosystems in New Zealand. Human Ecology, 43(5), 681-695. Scopus22 WoS21 |
| 2014 | McWethy, D. B., Wilmshurst, J. M., Whitlock, C., Wood, J. R., & McGlone, M. S. (2014). A High-resolution chronology of rapid forest transitions following Polynesian arrival in New Zealand. Plos One, 9(11), 9 pages. Scopus77 WoS79 Europe PMC20 |
| 2014 | Perry, G. L. W., Wheeler, A. B., Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2014). A high-precision chronology for the rapid extinction of New Zealand moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes). Quaternary Science Reviews, 105, 126-135. Scopus92 WoS82 |
| 2014 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2014). Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrate coprolites from New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews, 98, 33-44. Scopus26 WoS25 |
| 2014 | Thomson, V., Lebrasseur, O., Austin, J., Hunt, T., Burney, D., Denham, T., . . . Cooper, A. (2014). Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(13), 4826-4831. Scopus116 WoS105 Europe PMC57 |
| 2014 | Mitchell, K., Llamas, B., Soubrier, J., Rawlence, N., Worthy, T., Wood, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2014). Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution. Science, 344(6186), 898-900. Scopus232 WoS215 Europe PMC137 |
| 2014 | Wood, J., Mitchell, K., Scofield, R., Tennyson, A., Fidler, A., Wilmshurst, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2014). An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 172(1), 185-199. Scopus19 WoS19 |
| 2014 | Thomson, V. A., Lebrasseur, O., Austin, J. J., Hunt, T. L., Burney, D. A., Denham, T., . . . Cooper, A. (2014). Reply to Beavan, Bryant, and Storey and Matisoo-Smith: Ancestral polynesian "d" haplotypes reflect authentic pacific chicken lineages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(35), E3585-E3586. Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC2 |
| 2014 | Rawlence, N. J., Lowe, D. J., Wood, J. R., Young, J. M., Churchman, G. J., Huang, Y. T., & Cooper, A. (2014). Using palaeoenvironmental DNA to reconstruct past environments: progress and prospects. Journal of Quaternary Science, 29(7), 610-626. Scopus103 WoS87 |
| 2014 | Mitchell, K., Wood, J., Scofield, R., Llamas, B., & Cooper, A. (2014). Ancient mitochondrial genome reveals unsuspected taxonomic affinity of the extinct Chatham duck (Pachyanas chathamica) and resolves divergence times for New Zealand and sub-Antarctic brown teals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 70(1), 420-428. Scopus47 WoS48 Europe PMC28 |
| 2014 | Tennyson, A. J. D., Easton, L. J., & Wood, J. R. (2014). Kea (Nestor notabilis) - Another North Island human-caused extinction. Notornis, 61(3), 174-176. Scopus8 |
| 2014 | Wilmshurst, J. M., Moar, N. T., Wood, J. R., Bellingham, P. J., Findlater, A. M., Robinson, J. J., & Stone, C. (2014). Use of Pollen and Ancient DNA as Conservation Baselines for Offshore Islands in New Zealand. Conservation Biology, 28(1), 202-212. Scopus76 WoS71 Europe PMC27 |
| 2013 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2013). Age of North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) bones found on the forest floor in the Ruahine Range. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 43(4), 250-255. |
| 2013 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2013). Accumulation rates or percentages? How to quantify Sporormiella and other coprophilous fungal spores to detect late Quaternary megafaunal extinction events. Quaternary Science Reviews, 77, 1-3. Scopus44 WoS41 |
| 2013 | Rawlence, N., Wood, J., Scofield, R., Fraser, C., & Tennyson, A. (2013). Soft-tissue specimens from pre-European extinct birds of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 43(3), 154-181. Scopus7 WoS6 |
| 2013 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2013). Pollen analysis of coprolites reveals dietary details of heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) and coastal moa (Euryapteryx curtus) from central Otago. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 37(1), 151-155. Scopus13 WoS12 |
| 2013 | Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., Richardson, S., Rawlence, N., Wagstaff, S., Worthy, T., & Cooper, A. (2013). Resolving lost herbivore community structure using coprolites of four sympatric moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(42), 16910-16915. Scopus68 WoS62 Europe PMC27 |
| 2013 | Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., Rawlence, N., Bonner, K., Worthy, T., Kinsella, J., & Cooper, A. (2013). A megafauna's microfauna: gastrointestinal parasites of New Zealand's extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes). PLoS One, 8(2), 1-9. Scopus76 WoS72 Europe PMC38 |
| 2012 | Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., Worthy, T., Holzapfel, A., & Cooper, A. (2012). A lost link between a flightless parrot and a parasitic plant and the potential role of coprolites in conservation paleobiology. Conservation Biology, 26(6), 1091-1099. Scopus39 WoS38 Europe PMC16 |
| 2012 | Rawlence, N., Metcalf, J., Wood, J., Worthy, T., Austin, J., & Cooper, A. (2012). The effect of climate and environmental change on the megafaunal moa of New Zealand in the absence of humans. Quaternary Science Reviews, 50, 141-153. Scopus53 WoS53 |
| 2012 | Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., Wagstaff, S., Worthy, T., Rawlence, N., & Cooper, A. (2012). High-resolution coproecology: using coprolites to reconstruct the habits and habitats of New Zealand's extinct upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus). PLoS One, 7(6), 1-13. Scopus82 WoS79 Europe PMC28 |
| 2012 | Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., Worthy, T., & Cooper, A. (2012). First coprolite evidence for the diet of Anomalopteryx didiformis, an extinct forest ratite from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 36(2), 164-170. Scopus23 WoS22 |
| 2012 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2012). Wetland soil moisture complicates the use of Sporormiella to trace past herbivore populations. Journal of Quaternary Science, 27(3), 254-259. Scopus53 WoS49 |
| 2011 | Rawlence, N., Scofield, R., Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., Moar, N., & Worthy, T. (2011). New palaeontological data from the excavation of the Late Glacial Glencrieff miring bone deposit, North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 41(3), 217-236. Scopus14 WoS15 |
| 2011 | Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., Worthy, T., & Cooper, A. (2011). Sporormiella as a proxy for non-mammalian herbivores in island ecosystems. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(7-8), 915-920. Scopus51 WoS47 |
| 2011 | Wood, J. R., Wilmshurst, J. M., & Rawlence, N. J. (2011). Radiocarbon-dated faunal remains correlate very large rock avalanche deposit with prehistoric Alpine Fault rupture. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 54(4), 431-434. Scopus11 WoS8 |
| 2010 | Wood, J. R., & Garden, C. J. (2010). Seasonal variation in duck populations on the Waihopai River, Invercargill, New Zealand. Notornis, 57(2), 57-62. |
| 2010 | Lee, W. G., Wood, J. R., & Rogers, G. M. (2010). Legacy of avian-dominated plant-herbivore systems in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 34(1), 28-47. Scopus84 WoS73 |
| 2009 | Wood, J. R. (2009). Two late quaternary avifaunal assemblages from the Dunback district, eastern Otago, South Island, New Zealand. Notornis, 56(3), 154-157. Scopus4 |
| 2009 | Rawlence, N., Wood, J., Armstrong, K., & Cooper, A. (2009). DNA content and distribution in ancient feathers and potential to reconstruct the plumage of extinct avian taxa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 276(1672), 3395-3402. Scopus46 WoS40 Europe PMC20 |
| 2008 | Wood, J., Rawlence, N., Rogers, G., Austin, J., Worthy, T., & Cooper, A. (2008). Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes). Quaternary Science Reviews, 27(27-28 Sp Iss), 2593-2602. Scopus98 WoS92 |
| 2008 | Wood, J. R., & Walker, S. (2008). Macrofossil evidence for pre-settlement vegetation of Central Otago's basin floors and gorges. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 46(2), 239-255. Scopus18 WoS19 |
| 2008 | Wood, J. R. (2008). Moa (aves: Dinornithiformes) nesting material from rockshelters in the semi‐arid interior of south island, new zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 38(3), 115-129. Scopus21 WoS20 |
| 2008 | Wood, J. R., & Briden, S. (2008). South Georgian diving petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus) bones from a Maori midden on Otago Peninsula, New Zealand. Notornis, 55(1), 46-47. Scopus11 |
| 2006 | Wood, J. R. (2006). Subfossil kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) remains from near Gibraltar Rock, Cromwell Gorge, Central Otago, New Zealand. Notornis, 53(1), 191-193. Scopus12 |
| 2004 | Wood, J. (2004). Annual and monthly patterns in recoveries of beach-wrecked Procellariiformes from Southland, New Zealand 1990-2000. Notornis, 51(2), 103-112. Scopus1 |
| - | Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Rabitsch, W., Burns, K. C., Foufopoulos, J., Hulme, P. E., . . . Lenzner, B. (2026). Dark extinctions warrant recognition in Red Lists. Nature Reviews Biodiversity. |
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| 2019 | Parducci, L., Nota, K., & Wood, J. (2019). Reconstructing past vegetation communities using ancient dna from lake sediments. In C. Lindqvist, & O. Rajora (Eds.), Paleogenomics: Genome-Scale Analysis of Ancient DNA. Springer. |
| 2017 | Wood, J., Wilmshurst, J., Newnham, R., & McGlone, M. (2017). Evolution and Ecological Change During the New Zealand Quaternary. In J. Shulmeister (Ed.), LANDSCAPE AND QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN NEW ZEALAND (Vol. 3, pp. 235-291). ATLANTIS PRESS. DOI WoS31 |
| 2012 | McGlone, M., Wood, J., & Bartlein, P. J. (2012). Environmental change in the temperate forested regions. In Sage Handbook of Environmental Change Volume 2 (pp. 188-214). SAGE Publications Ltd. DOI Scopus5 |
| 2009 | Walker, S., Cieraad, E., Monks, A., Burrows, L., Wood, J., Price, R., . . . Lee, B. (2009). Long-term dynamics and rehabilitaion of woody ecosystems in dryland South Island, New Zealand. In R. Hobbs, & K. Suding (Eds.), New models for ecosystem dynamics and restoration. Island Press. |
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| 2023 | Tomlinson, S., Lomolino, M., Haythorne, S., Anderson, A., Austin, J., Brown, S., . . . Fordham, D. (2023). Reconstructing colonization dynamics to establish how human activities transformed island biodiversity. DOI |
| 2026-29 | ARC Discovery Project | Deeptime History of Climate & Humans in Earth's Most Diverse Ecosystem | CI |
| 2025-28 | Hermon Slade Foundation | A fragile window into the past: informing conservation of cave biodiversity with ancient invertebrate DNA. | CI |
| 2025-26 | Cwth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water | Evaluation of ecosystem responses and local knowledge to improve future CLLMM landscape revegetation | CI |
| 2024-27 | ARC Linkage Project | Preventing extinctions of threatened mammals with DNA in sediment archives | CI |
| 2021-23 | New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund | Past ecology of culturally significant rock art sites at Opihi, Canterbury | AI |
| 2020-23 | Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund | New Zealand’s truffle-like fungi: ghosts of mutualisms past? | CI |
| 2017-20 | Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund | Using ancient dung to reconstruct the transformation of prehistoric island ecosystems by invasive rats | AI |
| 2016-18 | New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment Smart Ideas Fund | WAAM: Wetland DNA Assessment and Monitoring tool | CI |
| 2014-16 | New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment Smart Ideas Fund | Next-Generation DNA Biodiversity Assessment: Phase 2 | CI |
| 2013-14 | New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment Smart Ideas Fund | Next-Generation DNA Biodiversity Assessment: Phase 1 | AI |
| 2013 | National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration grant | Using coprolites to reconstruct the ecology of extinct birds on New Zealand's North Island | CI |
| 2013 | New Zealand Department of Conservation Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System Fund | Quaternary Vegetation of New Zealand database | CI |
| 2012-15 | Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund | Investigating the prehistoric Moriori settlement on Rēkohu (Chatham Islands) | AI |
| 2009-12 | Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund | New Zealand's megaherbivores: resolving their ecological role and the impact of their extinction on the flora | CI |
| BIOLOGY IB: Evolution and Diversity of Organisms | Evolution, Animal Biology |
| PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RESEARCH (ADVANCED) 2 | Ecology, Environment and Evolution Discipline Coordinator |
| EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 2 | Palaeobiology |
| MOLECULAR METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 3 | Environmental DNA |
| EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 3 THEORY | Human arrival, Module 3 workshops |
| EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 3 PRACTICAL | Course Coordinator, Plant evolution and Climate Change |
| PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RESEARCH (ADVANCED) 3 | Ecology, Environment and Evolution Discipline Coordinator |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Preventing extinctions of threatened mammals with DNA in bulk bone deposits | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Sarah Lia Vauvert |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Preventing the extirpation and extinction of endangered Australian mammals using sedaDNA and bulk bone archives | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Luke Samuel Jackman |
| 2025 | Principal Supervisor | Diet and ecology of mammal species on the Nullarbor Plain using ancient and historic scats. | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Miss Demelza Elizabeth Metha |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Cave Rights for Troglobites: Sequencing the Past to Secure the Future with modern DNA Technologies | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Andrew James Stempel |
| 2025 | External Supervisor | Shelter plants as foci for broad-scale wildlife detection and monitoring using eDNA | Master of Research (Environmental Science) | Master | Part Time | Miss Jess Klatt |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Preventing the extirpation and extinction of endangered Australian mammals using sedaDNA and bulk bone archives | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Luke Samuel Jackman |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Cave Rights for Troglobites: Sequencing the Past to Secure the Future with modern DNA Technologies | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Andrew James Stempel |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Preventing extinctions of threatened mammals with DNA in bulk bone deposits | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Sarah Lia Vauvert |
| 2025 | Principal Supervisor | Diet and ecology of mammal species on the Nullarbor Plain using ancient and historic scats. | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Miss Demelza Elizabeth Metha |
| 2024 | Principal Supervisor | Reconstructing pre-European mammalian and plant diversity in central and western NSW to inform conservation management | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Mr Thomas Robert Harvey |
| 2024 | Principal Supervisor | Reconstructing pre-European mammalian and plant diversity in central and western NSW to inform conservation management | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Mr Thomas Robert Harvey |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | Using sedimentary DNA from caves to reconstruct past plant and animal communities in Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Siobhan Esther Evans |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | Using sedimentary DNA from caves to reconstruct past plant and animal communities in Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Siobhan Esther Evans |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 - 2016 | External Supervisor | Ancient DNA of New Zealand's extinct avifauna: Using next-generation sequencing (NGS) to research the paleoecology of the megaherbivore moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) and the phylogenetics of the enigmatic gruiform Aptornis (Aves: Aptornithidae) | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Mr Alexander Peter Boast |
| Date | Role | Board name | Institution name | Country |
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| 2020 - ongoing | Advisory Board Member | Advisory Board | Sedimentary Ancient DNA Scientific Society | Australia |
| Date | Role | Editorial Board Name | Institution | Country |
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| 2020 - ongoing | Associate Editor | New Zealand Journal of Ecology | New Zealand Ecological Society | New Zealand |
| Date | Office Name | Institution | Country |
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| 2024 - ongoing | Associate Investigator | ARC Centre for Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures | Australia |
| 2022 - 2024 | Associate Investigator | ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage | Australia |
| Date | Title | Type | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 - ongoing | College of Assessors | Grant Assessment | Ministry of Business, Innovation and Education | New Zealand |
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