Dr Kathryn Hill

Research Associate

School of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

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

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

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

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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

Journals

Year	Citation
2024	Kraehe, A. A., Weisbecker, V., Hill, R. R., & Hill, K. E. (2024). Threatened stick-nest rats preferentially eat invasive boxthorn rather than native vegetation on Australia's Reevesby Island. Wildlife Research, 51(8), WR23140-1-WR23140-11. DOI Scopus1
2024	Atkins, R. A., Hill, R. S., Hill, K. E., Munroe, S. E. M., & Reed, E. H. (2024). Quaternary plant macrofossils from Robertson Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia: vegetative remains. Alcheringa, 48(4), 778-794. DOI
2023	Whang, S. S., Hill, K. E., & Hill, R. S. (2023). A new species of Gymnostoma (Casuarinaceae) present during the Neogene aridification of Southern Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 312, 104873. DOI Scopus2
2023	Hill, K. E., Brown, S. C., Jones, A., Fordham, D., & Hill, R. S. (2023). Modelling Climate Using Leaves of Nothofagus cunninghamii—Overcoming Confounding Factors. Sustainability, 15(9), 7603. DOI
2023	Atkins, R., Hill, R., Hill, K., Munroe, S., & Reed, E. (2023). Quaternary plant macrofossils from Robertson Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia: reproductive structures. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 47(3), 348-366. DOI Scopus1
2022	Atkins, R. A., Hill, R. S., Hill, K. E., Munroe, S. E. M., & Reed, E. H. (2022). Preservation quality of plant macrofossils through a Quaternary cave sediment sequence at Naracoorte, South Australia: Implications for vegetation reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 299, 104607-1-104607-12. DOI Scopus9 WoS7
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 Scopus7 WoS6
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 Scopus10 WoS6 Europe PMC6
2019	Hill, K. E., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2019). Pinnule and stomatal size and stomatal density of living and fossil Bowenia and Eobowenia specimens give insight into physiology during Cretaceous and Eocene paleoclimates. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180(4), 323-336. DOI Scopus7 WoS4
2019	Hill, K. E., Barr, C., Tibby, J., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2019). A comparison of stomatal traits between contemporary and fossil leaves of Melaleuca quinquenervia: Do they reflect climate variation?. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 271, 104109-1-104109-8. 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 Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC3
2018	Hill, R. S., Hill, K. E., Carpenter, R. J., & Jordan, G. J. (2018). New macrofossils of the Australian cycad Bowenia and their significance in reconstructing the past morphological range of the genus. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180(2), 128-140. DOI Scopus11 WoS8
2017	Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M., Guerin, G., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J., . . . Lowe, A. (2017). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae). Austral Ecology, 42(5), 553-561. DOI Scopus20 WoS17 Europe PMC3
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 Scopus31 WoS26 Europe PMC5
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 Scopus62 WoS39 Europe PMC12
2014	Hill, K. E., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2014). Do CO2, temperature, rainfall and elevation influence stomatal traits and leaf width in Melaleuca lanceolata across southern Australia?. Australian Journal of Botany, 62(8), 666-673. DOI Scopus11 WoS7 Europe PMC2

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2023	Sharifi, E., Mehdipour, A., Hill, K., Hayter, J., Soebarto, V., Arakawa Martins, L., . . . Hawken, S. (2023). A Multi-criteria Framework for Climate Change Resilient Street Trees. In P. Rajagopalan, V. Soebarto, & H. Akbari (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands : Holistic approaches to address urban heat islands (UHI, 2023) Vol. 1 (pp. 324-333). Melbourne, Australia: International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands. DOI

Year

Citation

2023

Sharifi, E., Mehdipour, A., Hill, K., Hayter, J., Soebarto, V., Arakawa Martins, L., . . . Hawken, S. (2023). A Multi-criteria Framework for Climate Change Resilient Street Trees. In P. Rajagopalan, V. Soebarto, & H. Akbari (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands : Holistic approaches to address urban heat islands (UHI, 2023) Vol. 1 (pp. 324-333). Melbourne, Australia: International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands.
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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

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2022 - 2025	Co-Supervisor	The taphonomy and reconstruction of palaeovegetation and palaeoecosystems around Robertson Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Rachel Amber Atkins

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

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: 83136222
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Benham, floor B
Org Unit: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Dr Kathryn Hill

Education

Postgraduate Training

Research Interests

Journals

Conference Papers

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Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Other Supervision Activities

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