Dr Kathryn Hill

Research Associate

School of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Sciences

I research plant ecophysiology; the relationship between plant anatomy and function and plant environment. Ecophysiology is a wonderful science as we can work on plants form anywhere growing at any time. I have researched plant function 65 million years ago in environments that are now extinct from Earth and the same species across a range of environments in present day.

This work enables me to think about what climatic pressures were forcing plants to function in a specific way in the past and present, thus I can use these data to create paleo-climate proxies. This information is also valuable for modelling species survival with future climate change projections.

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Education

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

Date Title Institution Country
— Research Fellow The University of Adelaide Australia
Research Interests

Plant Biology & Botany Statistics

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

Date	Title	Institution	Country
—	Research Fellow	The University of Adelaide	Australia

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Journals

Year	Citation
2020	Hill, R. S., Whang, S. S., Korasidis, V., Bianco, B., Hill, K. E., Paull, R., & Guerin, G. R. (2020). Fossil evidence for the evolution of the Casuarinaceae in response to low soil nutrients and a drying climate in Cenozoic Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 68(3), 179-194. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2020	Cheesman, A. W., Duff, H., Hill, K., Cernusak, L. A., & McInerney, F. A. (2020). Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: a modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia. American Journal of Botany, 107(8), 1165-1176. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2019	Hill, K., Hill, R., & Watling, J. (2019). Pinnule and stomatal size and stomatal density of living and fossil Bowenia and Eobowenia specimens give insight into physiology during Cretaceous and Eocene paleoclimates. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180(4), 323-336. DOI Scopus2
2019	Hill, K., Barr, C., Tibby, J., Hill, R., & Watling, J. (2019). A comparison of stomatal traits between contemporary and fossil leaves of Melaleuca quinquenervia: Do they reflect climate variation?. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 271, 104109-1-104109-8. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2018	Hill, R. S., Tarran, M. A., Hill, K. E., & Beer, Y. K. (2018). The vegetation history of South Australia. Swainsona, 30(1), 9-16.
2018	Baruch, Z., Jones, A., Hill, K. E., McInerney, F., Blyth, C., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Breed, M. (2018). Functional acclimation across microgeographic scales in Dodonaea viscosa. AoB Plants, 10(3), ply029-1-ply029-15. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2018	Hill, R. S., Hill, K. E., Carpenter, R. J., & Jordan, G. (2018). New macrofossils of the Australian cycad Bowenia and their significance in reconstructing the past morphological range of the genus. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180(2), 128-140. DOI Scopus4 WoS2
2017	Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M., Guerin, G., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J., . . . Lowe, A. (2017). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae). Austral Ecology, 42(5), 553-561. DOI Scopus14 WoS12 Europe PMC2
2016	Hill, R., Beer, Y., Hill, K., Maciunas, E., Tarran, M., & Wainman, C. (2016). Evolution of the eucalypts - an interpretation from the macrofossil record. Australian Journal of Botany, 64(8), 600-608. DOI Scopus19 WoS21 Europe PMC3
2015	Hill, K. E., Guerin, G. R., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2015). Temperature influences stomatal density and maximum potential water loss through stomata of Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima along a latitude gradient in southern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 62(8), 657-665. DOI Scopus29 WoS27 Europe PMC6
2014	Hill, K., Hill, R., & Watling, J. (2014). Do CO2, temperature, rainfall and elevation influence stomatal traits and leaf width in Melaleuca lanceolata across southern Australia?. Australian Journal of Botany, 62(8), 666-673. DOI Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC1

Datasets

Year	Citation
2016	Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M. F., Guerin, G. R., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2016). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae) Part 1: Latitude. DOI
2016	Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M. F., Guerin, G. R., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J. T., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2016). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae) Part 2: Elevation. DOI

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Other Supervision Activities

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

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Offices Held

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

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

Position: Research Associate
Phone: 83130051
Email: kathryn.hill@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 8313 6222
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Benham Laboratories, floor B
Room: B 12d
Org Unit: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Dr Kathryn Hill

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