Dr Jamie Wood
Senior Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
I am a terrestrial ecologist, specialising in the fields of molecular ecology and palaeoecology. I apply evolutionary and environmental genomics approaches in combination with complimentary analyses (e.g. palynology, macrofossils, radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analyses) to study the composition and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems over the past 50,000 years.
My specific research interests are:
• Climate and environmental change
• Ecological impacts associated with initial human settlement
• Systematics, phylogenetic relationships and ecology of threatened and extinct animal species
• Ecological consequences of lost or broken interactions between species
• Application of ancient eDNA to vegetation restoration and conservation management
• Development of eDNA-based tools for biodiversity surveys and monitoring
One of my key research contributions has been pioneering the use of coprolites (ancient dung) to study the ecology of extinct and threatened animal species. This work has drawn heavily upon eDNA approaches for identifying depositing species, and for reconstructing the diets and parasite faunas of these species. Current research projects include the metagenomic and dietary metabarcoding analyses of prehistoric Pacific rat coprolites from New Zealand, and metagenomic analysis of ancient Adélie penguin guano deposits from the Victoria Land coast, Antarctica.
HONOURS:
I am available to supervise Bachelor of Science (Honours) research projects in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, in areas including ancient DNA and environmental DNA. Please email me to discuss. Some potential current project ideas include:
- Effect of conservation management on parasite faunas of the greater bilby
- Using eDNA to reconstruct microbial communities and function in restored wetlands
- Using soil eDNA from beneath shelter plants to monitor small animal diversity
- Testing the suitability of long-term soil archives for monitoring biodiversity change using eDNA
- Reconstructing past genetic diversity of Adelie penguins in the Ross Sea using ancient guano eDNA
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - ongoing | Senior lecturer (Environmental genomics) | University of Adelaide |
| 2009 - 2022 | Senior scientist | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research |
| 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. 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. Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 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. Scopus1 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. Scopus3 WoS3 |
| 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. |
| 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, 9 pages. |
| 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. |
| 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. Scopus7 WoS3 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. Scopus2 WoS3 |
| 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. Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC4 |
| 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. Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC2 |
| 2023 | Wood, J. (2023). Post-settlement extinction rates for the New Zealand avifauna. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 47(1), 4 pages. Scopus6 WoS5 |
| 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. Scopus9 WoS9 |
| 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. Scopus18 WoS18 Europe PMC6 |
| 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. Scopus35 WoS32 Europe PMC28 |
| 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. Scopus24 WoS22 Europe PMC9 |
| 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 WoS9 |
| 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. Scopus5 |
| 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. Scopus3 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. Scopus1 WoS2 |
| 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. Scopus14 WoS14 |
| 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. Scopus8 Europe PMC3 |
| 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. Scopus25 WoS25 Europe PMC14 |
| 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. Scopus27 WoS26 |
| 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. Scopus42 WoS43 |
| 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. Scopus60 WoS51 Europe PMC25 |
| 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. Scopus55 WoS55 |
| 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 PMC26 |
| 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. Scopus11 WoS9 |
| 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. Scopus12 WoS12 |
| 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. Scopus50 WoS47 Europe PMC29 |
| 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. Scopus16 WoS15 Europe PMC6 |
| 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. Scopus6 |
| 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. Scopus165 WoS143 |
| 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 WoS13 Europe PMC5 |
| 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. Scopus10 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. Scopus17 WoS17 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. Scopus132 WoS127 Europe PMC43 |
| 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. Scopus2 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. Scopus17 WoS17 |
| 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. Scopus14 WoS12 |
| 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. Scopus9 WoS9 |
| 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. Scopus59 WoS54 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. Scopus10 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. Scopus33 WoS31 |
| 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. Scopus22 WoS22 |
| 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. Scopus33 WoS28 |
| 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. Scopus18 WoS17 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. Scopus142 WoS130 |
| 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. Scopus221 WoS195 Europe PMC99 |
| 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. Scopus12 |
| 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. Scopus10 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. Scopus20 WoS20 Europe PMC9 |
| 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. Scopus15 WoS13 |
| 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. Scopus26 WoS26 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 WoS14 |
| 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. Scopus20 WoS22 |
| 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. Scopus25 WoS24 |
| 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. Scopus66 WoS62 |
| 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. Scopus38 WoS37 |
| 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. Scopus72 WoS71 Europe PMC24 |
| 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. Scopus75 WoS77 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. Scopus89 WoS80 |
| 2014 | Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2014). Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrate coprolites from New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews, 98, 33-44. Scopus25 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. Scopus112 WoS104 Europe PMC55 |
| 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. Scopus224 WoS209 Europe PMC130 |
| 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. Scopus18 WoS18 |
| 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. Scopus7 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. Scopus101 WoS86 |
| 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 WoS47 Europe PMC25 |
| 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. Scopus41 WoS39 |
| 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. Scopus67 WoS62 Europe PMC26 |
| 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. Scopus75 WoS71 Europe PMC36 |
| 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 WoS37 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. Scopus47 WoS50 |
| 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. Scopus80 WoS79 Europe PMC26 |
| 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. Scopus52 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. Scopus12 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. Scopus49 WoS46 |
| 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. Scopus82 WoS72 |
| 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. Scopus3 |
| 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. Scopus45 WoS39 Europe PMC19 |
| 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. Scopus97 WoS91 |
| 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. Scopus20 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. Scopus11 |
| 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 |
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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. |
| 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 |
- 2023-2026, Preventing extinctions of threatened mammals with DNA in sediment archives. ARC Linkage Project (CI).
- 2020-23, New Zealand’s truffle-like fungi: ghosts of mutualisms past? Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund (PI).
- 2021-23, Past ecology of culturally significant rock art sites at Opihi, Canterbury. New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund (AI).
- 2017-20, Using ancient dung to reconstruct the transformation of prehistoric island ecosystems by invasive rats. Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund (AI).
- 2016-18, WAAM: Wetland DNA Assessment and Monitoring tool. New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment Smart Ideas Fund (PI).
- 2014-16, Next-Generation DNA Biodiversity Assessment: Phase 2. New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment Smart Ideas Fund: (PI).
- 2013-14, Next-Generation DNA Biodiversity Assessment: Phase 1. New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment Smart Ideas Fund (AI).
- 2013, National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration grant (PI).
- 2013, Quaternary Vegetation of New Zealand database. New Zealand Department of Conservation Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System Fund (PI).
- 2012-15, Investigating the prehistoric Moriori settlement on Rēkohu (Chatham Islands). Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund (AI).
- 2009-12, New Zealand's megaherbivores: resolving their ecological role and the impact of their extinction on the flora. Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund (PI).
BIOLOGY I (Organisms); Lecturing (evolution and animal biology), designing and running workshops (2022, 2023, 2024).
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RESEARCH II: Discipline coordination, project supervision, teaching, report and presentation assessment (2023, 2024).
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RESEARCH III: Discipline coordination, project supervision, report assessment (2024).
MOLECULAR METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION III: Lecturing (environmental DNA), designing and running workshops and practicals, report assessment (2024)
| 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 | - | - | Master | Full 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 - ongoing | Advisory Board Member | Advisory Board | Sedimentary Ancient DNA Scientific Society | Australia |
| Date | Role | Editorial Board Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 - ongoing | Associate Editor | New Zealand Journal of Ecology | New Zealand Ecological Society | New Zealand |
| Date | Office Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - ongoing | Associate Investigator | ARC Centre for Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures | Australia |
| 2022 - ongoing | 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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