Dr Jamie Wood

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2022 - ongoing	Senior lecturer (Environmental genomics)	University of Adelaide
  2009 - 2022	Senior scientist	Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2008	University of Otago	New Zealand	PhD
  2004	University of Otago	New Zealand	BSc Hons (Geology)

• Research Interests

  Conservation and Biodiversity Ecology Palaeoecology

• Journals

  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. DOI
  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. DOI 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. DOI
  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, 19 pages. DOI
  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. DOI
  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. DOI
  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. DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC1
  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. DOI Scopus5 Europe PMC2
  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. DOI Scopus1
  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 & Evolution, 8(8), 1472-1481. DOI Scopus3 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. DOI Scopus1 Europe PMC1
  2023	Wood, J. (2023). Post-settlement extinction rates for the New Zealand avifauna. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 47(1), 4 pages. DOI Scopus5
  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. DOI Scopus6
  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), 905-917. DOI Scopus5
  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. DOI Scopus16 WoS1 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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus30 WoS8 Europe PMC22
  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. DOI
  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. DOI
  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. DOI Scopus18 WoS7 Europe PMC6
  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. DOI Scopus11 WoS6
  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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus3 WoS1 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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus14 WoS9
  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. DOI Scopus7 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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus7 Europe PMC2
  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. DOI Scopus8 WoS3
  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. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
  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. DOI Scopus23 WoS12 Europe PMC12
  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. DOI Scopus27 WoS16
  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. DOI Scopus14 WoS6
  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. DOI Scopus41 WoS28
  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. DOI Scopus17 WoS12 Europe PMC10
  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. DOI Scopus6 WoS4 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. DOI Scopus57 WoS23 Europe PMC21
  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. DOI Scopus51 WoS32
  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. DOI Scopus35 WoS35 Europe PMC23
  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. DOI Scopus9 WoS6
  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. DOI Scopus11 WoS5
  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. DOI Scopus45 WoS35 Europe PMC20
  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. DOI Scopus5 WoS3
  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 (&lt;45 μm) in New Zealand peatlands. European Journal of Protistology, 68, 1-16. DOI Scopus15 WoS10 Europe PMC4
  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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus8 Europe PMC3
  2019	Campbell, D. G. (2019). Dickens, Cholera and Big Data. DICKENS QUARTERLY, 36(3), 224-240. DOI 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. DOI Scopus153 WoS97
  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. DOI Scopus15 WoS8 Europe PMC3
  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. DOI Scopus9 WoS9
  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. DOI Scopus12 WoS11 Europe PMC5
  2018	Wood, J. R. (2018). DNA barcoding of ancient parasites. Parasitology, 145(5), 646-655. DOI Scopus15 WoS11 Europe PMC8
  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. DOI Scopus124 WoS89 Europe PMC18
  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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus2
  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. DOI Scopus16 WoS13
  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. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  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. DOI Scopus13 WoS8
  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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus55 WoS39 Europe PMC27
  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. DOI Scopus8 WoS5 Europe PMC5
  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. DOI Scopus30 WoS17
  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. DOI Scopus21 WoS18
  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. DOI Scopus32 WoS20
  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. DOI Scopus16 WoS15 Europe PMC5
  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. DOI Scopus130 WoS87
  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. DOI Scopus211 WoS138 Europe PMC85
  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. DOI Scopus11
  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. DOI Scopus10 WoS9 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. DOI Scopus20 WoS18
  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. DOI Scopus18 WoS18 Europe PMC8
  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. DOI WoS10
  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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC1
  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. DOI Scopus15 WoS11
  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. DOI Scopus26 WoS22 Europe PMC16
  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. DOI Scopus6 WoS4 Europe PMC1
  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. DOI Scopus19 WoS12
  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. DOI Scopus20 WoS18
  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. DOI Scopus24 WoS21
  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. DOI Scopus8 WoS7
  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. DOI Scopus63 WoS52
  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. DOI Scopus4 WoS3
  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. DOI Scopus38 WoS32
  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. DOI Scopus71 WoS65 Europe PMC18
  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. DOI Scopus13 WoS11
  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. DOI Scopus1
  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. DOI Scopus22 WoS18
  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. DOI Scopus71 WoS67 Europe PMC17
  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. DOI Scopus89 WoS62
  2014	Wood, J. R., & Wilmshurst, J. M. (2014). Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrate coprolites from New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews, 98, 33-44. DOI Scopus24 WoS21
  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. DOI Scopus107 WoS94 Europe PMC47
  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. DOI Scopus217 WoS189 Europe PMC119
  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. DOI Scopus18 WoS17
  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. DOI 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. DOI Scopus97 WoS71
  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. DOI Scopus46 WoS41 Europe PMC23
  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. DOI Scopus74 WoS63 Europe PMC19
  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. DOI
  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. DOI Scopus37 WoS33
  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. DOI 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 WoS11
  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. DOI Scopus67 WoS55 Europe PMC24
  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. DOI Scopus73 WoS59 Europe PMC29
  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. DOI Scopus38 WoS30 Europe PMC12
  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. DOI Scopus47 WoS44
  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. DOI Scopus79 WoS73 Europe PMC22
  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. Scopus22 WoS20
  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. DOI Scopus49 WoS43
  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. DOI Scopus12 WoS12
  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. DOI Scopus48 WoS45
  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. DOI 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. Scopus81 WoS68
  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. DOI Scopus45 WoS36 Europe PMC18
  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. DOI Scopus96 WoS86
  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. DOI Scopus18 WoS18
  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. DOI 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

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  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.

• Preprint

  Year	Citation
  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

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)

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  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

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  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

• Board Memberships

  Date	Role	Board name	Institution name	Country
  2020 - ongoing	Advisory Board Member	Advisory Board	Sedimentary Ancient DNA Scientific Society	Australia

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2020 - ongoing	Associate Editor	New Zealand Journal of Ecology	New Zealand Ecological Society	New Zealand

• Offices Held

  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

• Review, Assessment, Editorial and Advice

  Date	Title	Type	Institution	Country
  2021 - ongoing	College of Assessors	Grant Assessment	Ministry of Business, Innovation and Education	New Zealand

• Position: Senior lecturer
• Phone: 83133952
• Email: jamie.wood@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Darling, floor Second Floor
• Room: 212B
• Org Unit: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology