Stuart Brown

School of Biological Sciences

College of Science


Date Position Institution name
2016 - ongoing ARC Research Associate University of Adelaide
2016 - 2017 Lecturer (GIS) Federation University
2015 - 2016 Wetland Ecologist Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources
2014 - 2015 Project Officer Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre
2013 - 2013 Lecturer (Geology) University of Ballarat

Date Institution name Country Title
Deakin University, Melbourne Australia PhD
Deakin University, Melbourne Australia Bachelor of Science (Honours)

Year Citation
2025 Mellin, C., Brown, S., Heron, S. F., & Fordham, D. A. (2025). CoralBleachRisk—Global Projections of Coral Bleaching Risk in the 21st Century. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(2), e13955-1-e13955-15.
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2025 Freymueller, N. A., Lorenzen, E. D., Brown, S. C., Rahbek, C., & Fordham, D. A. (2025). 21st Century Sea Ice Loss Will Upend 11,700 Years of Stable Habitat for Bowhead Whales. Ecology and Evolution, 15(5), e71377-1-e71377-9.
DOI Europe PMC1
2025 Canteri, E., Brown, S. C., Post, E., Schmidt, N. M., Nogues-Bravo, D., & Fordham, D. A. (2025). Mismatch in reindeer resilience to past and future warming signals ongoing declines. Science Advances, 11(33), eadu0175-1-eadu0175-12.
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2025 Tomlinson, S., Brown, S. C., Haythorne, S., & Fordham, D. A. (2025). Reconstructing Fox Invasion of Australia: A Process-Based Approach Using Historical Sightings. Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 31(10), 1-14.
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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.
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2024 Fordham, D. A., Brown, S. C., Canteri, E., Austin, J. J., Lomolino, M. V., Haythorne, S., . . . Lorenzen, E. D. (2024). 52,000 years of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 121(24), e2316419121.
DOI Scopus13 WoS10 Europe PMC8
2024 Mellin, C., Brown, S., Cantin, N., Klein-Salas, E., Mouillot, D., Heron, S. F., & Fordham, D. A. (2024). Cumulative risk of future bleaching for the world’s coral reefs. Science Advances, 10(26), eadn9660-1-eadn9660-9.
DOI Scopus33 WoS29 Europe PMC22
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.
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2023 Tomlinson, S., Lomolino, M., Woinarski, J., Murphy, B., Reed, E., Johnson, C., . . . Fordham, D. (2023). Reconstructing mechanisms of extinctions to guide mammal
conservation biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 50(7), 1199-1212.

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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.
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2023 Tomlinson, S., Lomolino, M., Wood, J., Anderson, A., Brown, S., Haythorne, S., . . . Fordham, D. (2023). Ecological dynamics of moa extinctions reveal convergent refugia that today harbor flightless birds..
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2023 Westbury, M. V., Brown, S. C., Lorenzen, J., O'Neill, S., Scott, M. B., McCuaig, J., . . . Lorenzen, E. D. (2023). Impact of Holocene environmental change on the evolutionary ecology of an Arctic top predator. Science advances, 9(45), 1-12.
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2023 Pilowsky, J. A., Brown, S. C., Llamas, B., van Loenen, A. L., Kowalczyk, R., Hofman-Kamińska, E., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2023). Millennial processes of population decline, range contraction and near extinction of the European bison.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2013), 11 pages.
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2022 Fordham, D. A., Brown, S. C., Akçakaya, H. R., Brook, B. W., Haythorne, S., Manica, A., . . . Nogues‐Bravo, D. (2022). Cover Image. Ecology Letters, 25(1).
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2022 Brown, S. C., Mellin, C., García Molinos, J., Lorenzen, E. D., & Fordham, D. A. (2022). Faster ocean warming threatens richest areas of marine biodiversity. Global Change Biology, 28(19), 5849-5858.
DOI Scopus19 WoS18 Europe PMC13
2022 Canteri, E., Brown, S. C., Schmidt, N. M., Heller, R., Nogues‐Bravo, D., & Fordham, D. A. (2022). Spatiotemporal influences of climate and humans on muskox range dynamics over multiple millennia. Global Change Biology, 28(22), 6602-6617.
DOI Scopus21 WoS19 Europe PMC10
2022 Pilowsky, J. A., Manica, A., Brown, S., Rahbek, C., & Fordham, D. A. (2022). Simulations of human migration into North America are more sensitive to demography than choice of palaeoclimate model. Ecological Modelling, 473, 110115-1-110115-6.
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2022 Pilowsky, J. A., Haythorne, S., Brown, S. C., Krapp, M., Armstrong, E., Brook, B. W., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2022). Range and extinction dynamics of the steppe bison in Siberia: A pattern‐oriented modelling approach. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(12), 2483-2497.
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2021 Fordham, D. A., Haythorne, S., Brown, S. C., Buettel, J. C., & Brook, B. W. (2021). poems: R package for simulating species' range dynamics using pattern-oriented validation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(12), 2364-2371.
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2021 Fordham, D. A., Brown, S. C., Akçakaya, H. R., Brook, B. W., Haythorne, S., Manica, A., . . . Nogues‐Bravo, D. (2021). Process‐explicit models reveal pathway to extinction for woolly mammoth using pattern‐oriented validation. Ecology Letters, 25(1), 125-137.
DOI Scopus36 WoS33 Europe PMC26
2020 Brown, S. C., Wigley, T. M. L., Otto-Bliesner, B., Rahbek, C., & Fordham, D. A. (2020). Persistent Quaternary climate refugia are hospices for biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Nature Climate Change, 10(3), 244-248.
DOI Scopus87 WoS79
2020 Brown, S., Wells, K., Roy-Dufresne, E., Campbell, S., Cook, B., Cox, T., & Fordham, D. (2020). Models of spatiotemporal variation in rabbit abundance reveal management hotspots for an invasive species. Ecological Applications, 30(4), e02083-1-e02083-16.
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2020 Theodoridis, S., Fordham, D. A., Brown, S. C., Li, S., Rahbek, C., & Nogues-Bravo, D. (2020). Evolutionary history and past climate change shape the distribution of genetic diversity in terrestrial mammals. Nature Communications, 11(1), 2557-1-2557-11.
DOI Scopus84 WoS78 Europe PMC52
2020 Fordham, D. A., Jackson, S. T., Brown, S. C., Huntley, B., Brook, B. W., Dahl-Jensen, D., . . . Nogues-Bravo, D. (2020). Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change. Science, 369(6507), 5654-[1]-5654[10].
DOI Scopus149 WoS138 Europe PMC53
2020 Jones, A. R., Jessop, T. S., Ariefiandy, A., Brook, B. W., Brown, S. C., Ciofi, C., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2020). Identifying island safe havens to prevent the extinction of the World’s largest lizard from global warming. Ecology and Evolution, 10(19), 10492-10507.
DOI Scopus20 WoS12 Europe PMC4
2020 Brown, S. C., Wigley, T. M. L., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., & Fordham, D. A. (2020). StableClim, continuous projections of climate stability from 21000 BP to 2100 CE at multiple spatial scales. Scientific Data, 7(1), 1-13.
DOI Scopus21 WoS21 Europe PMC9
2019 Meek, P. D., Brown, S. C., Wishart, J., Milne, H., Aylett, P., Humphrys, S., . . . Fleming, P. (2019). Efficacy of lethal-trap devices to improve the welfare of trapped wild dogs. Wildlife Research, 46(1), 89-95.
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2019 Mellin, C., Matthews, S., Anthony, K. R. N., Brown, S. C., Caley, M. J., Johns, K. A., . . . MacNeil, M. A. (2019). Spatial resilience of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative disturbance impacts. Global Change Biology, 25(7), 2431-2445.
DOI Scopus114 WoS115 Europe PMC47
2019 Roy-Dufresne, E., Lurgi, M., Brown, S. C., Wells, K., Cooke, B., Mutze, G., . . . Fordham, D. A. (2019). The Australian National Rabbit Database: 50 yr of population monitoring of an invasive species. Ecology, 100(7), 1 page.
DOI Scopus14 WoS13 Europe PMC7
2019 Fordham, D. A., Brown, S. C., Wigley, T. M. L., & Rahbek, C. (2019). Cradles of diversity are unlikely relics of regional climate stability. Current Biology, 29(10), R356-R357.
DOI Scopus14 WoS13 Europe PMC6
2019 Murphy, B. P., Woolley, L. A., Geyle, H. M., Legge, S. M., Palmer, R., Dickman, C. R., . . . Woinarski, J. C. Z. (2019). Introduced cats (Felis catus) eating a continental fauna: the number of mammals killed in Australia. Biological Conservation, 237, 28-40.
DOI Scopus105 WoS105 Europe PMC1
2018 Fordham, D., Saltré, F., Brown, S., Mellin, C., & Wigley, T. (2018). Why decadal to century timescale paleoclimate data is needed to explain present-day patterns of biological diversity and change. Global Change Biology, 24(3), 1371-1381.
DOI Scopus31 WoS25 Europe PMC14
2018 Fordham, D., Bertelsmeier, C., Brook, B., Early, R., Neto, D., Brown, S., . . . Araújo, M. (2018). How complex should models be? Comparing correlative and mechanistic range dynamics models. Global Change Biology, 24(3), 1357-1370.
DOI Scopus91 WoS87 Europe PMC35
2017 Meek, P., & Brown, S. (2017). It's a dog eat dog world: observations of dingo (Canis familiaris) cannibalism. Australian Mammalogy, 39(1), 92-94.
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2015 Brown, S., Versace, V., Lester, R., & Todd Walter, M. (2015). Assessing the impact of drought and forestry on streamflows in south-eastern Australia using a physically based hydrological model. Environmental Earth Sciences, 74(7), 6047-6063.
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2014 Lester, R., Close, P., Barton, J., Pope, A., & Brown, S. (2014). Predicting the likely response of data-poor ecosystems to climate change using space-for-time substitution across domains. Global Change Biology, 20(11), 3471-3481.
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2014 Brown, S., Lester, R., Versace, V., Fawcett, J., & Laurenson, L. (2014). Hydrologic landscape regionalisation using deductive classification and random forests. PLoS ONE, 9(11), e112856-1-e112856-20.
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2012 Brown, S., Versace, V., Laurenson, L., Ierodiaconou, D., Fawcett, J., & Salzman, S. (2012). Assessment of spatiotemporal varying relationships between rainfall, land cover and surface water area using geographically weighted regression. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 17(3), 241-254.
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2012 Laurenson, L., French, R., Jones, P., Ierodiaconou, D., Gray, S., Versace, V., . . . Monk, J. (2012). Aspects of the biology of Galaxias maculatus. Journal of Fish Biology, 81(3), 1085-1100.
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Year Citation
- Brown, S. C., Wigley, T. M. L., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., & Fordham, D. (n.d.). StableClim.
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- Fordham, D., & Brown, S. C. (n.d.). Appendix 1 - 3 for Process-explicit models reveal pathway to extinction for woolly mammoth using pattern-oriented validation.
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- Jones, A. (n.d.). Annual projections of habitat suitability for Komodo dragons: 2010 to 2050..
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- Buettel, J. C., Fordham, D., Haythorne, S., Brown, S. C., & Brook, B. (n.d.). Thylacine Location Records.
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Year Citation
2025 Freymueller, N., Lorenzen, E., Brown, S., Rahbek, C., & Fordham, D. (2025). 21st century sea ice loss will upend 11,700 years of suitable habitat for bowhead whales.
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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.
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Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 - 2025 External Supervisor Unravelling the resilience of Arctic marine mammals to future climate change using palaeo-archives Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Nicholas Freymueller

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