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PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Publications

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Austroplebeia essingtoni. Sean Tomlinson physiology
Zaspilothynnus nigripes. Sean Tomlinson physiology
Xylotrupes gideon. Sean Tomlinson physiology
Missulena spp. Sean Tomlinson physiology
Tarsipes rostratus. Sean Tomlinson physiology

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60)      Tudor, E.P.; Lewandrowski, W. and Tomlinson, S. (2023). Integrating animal physiology into the adaptive management of restored landscapes. Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01800-5

59)      Tomlinson, S.; Lomolino, M.V.; Woinarski, J.C.Z.; Murphy, B.P.; Reed, E.; Johnson, C.N.; Legge, S.; Helgen, K.M.; Brown, S.C. and Fordham, D.A. (2022). Reconstructing mechanisms of extinctions to guide mammal conservation biogeography. Journal of Biogeography. http://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14616

58)      Cross, S.L.; Tomlinson, S.; Craig, M.D. and Bateman, P.W. (2022) Build it and some may come: early-stage habitat restoration may initially favour herbivore return. Pacific Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC22001

57)      Bradley, H.S.; Craig, M.D.; Bamford, M.; Cross, A.T.; Tomlinson, S. and Bateman, P.W. (2022). Predators in a mining landscape: threats to a behaviourally unique, endangered lizard. Austral Ecology. 47: 1077-1090

56)      Bradley, H.S.; Craig, M.D.; Cross, A.T.; Tomlinson, S.; Bamford, M. and Bateman, P.W. (2022). Revealing microhabitat requirements of an endangered specialist lizard with LiDAR.  Scientific Reports. 12: 1-10

55)      Rajapakshe, S.; Cross, A.; Turner, S. and Tomlinson, S. (2022). Understanding the interplay of temperature and moisture on the germination niche to improve management of threatened species impacted by mining Restoration Ecology. e13708.

54)      Warrant, E.J., Whitehouse, M.E.A., Green, K.P., Wallace, J.R.A., Caley, P., Tomlinson, S. and Umbers, K., 2021. Agrotis infusa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

53)      Tomlinson, S.; Tudor, E.P.; Turner, S.R.; Cross, S.; Riviera, F.; Stevens, J.; Valliere, J.; Lewandrowski, W. (2021). Leveraging the value of conservation physiology for ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology. e13616

52)      Turner, S.R.; Dixon, K.; Just, M.; Newton, V.; Pedrini, S.; Riviera, F.; Stevens, J.; Tomlinson, S.; Cross, A.T. (2021). Restoration seedbanks for more effective mined land restoration. Restoration Ecology. e13667

51)      Prendergast, K.; Menz, M.H.M.; Tomlinson, S.; Dixon, K.W.; Bateman, P.W. (2021). Urban native vegetation remnants support more diverse native bee communities than residential gardens in Australia’s southwest biodiversity hotspot. Biological Conservation. 265: 109408

50)      Valliere, J.M.; Alvarez, J.A.; Cross, A.T.; Lewandrowski, W.; Riviera, F.; Stevens, J.C.; Tomlinson, S.; Tudor, E.P.; Wong, W.S.; Yong, J.W.H.; Veneklaas, E.J. (2021). Restoration ecophysiology: An ecophysiological approach to improve strategies and outcomes for restoration of severely disturbed landscapes. Restoration Ecology. e13571

49)      Cross, S.L.; Bradley, H.S.; Tudor, E.P.; Craig, M.D.; Tomlinson, S.; Bamford, M.J.; Bateman, P.W.; Cross, A.T. (2021). A life of mine approach to fauna monitoring is critical for recovering functional ecosystems to restored landscapes. Restoration Ecology. e13540

48)      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:  e53416

47)      Adam, A.S.; Garcia, R.A.; Galaiduk, R.; Tomlinson, S.; Radford, B.; Thomas, L.; Richards, Z.T. (2021). Diminishing potential for tropical reefs to function as coral diversity strongholds under climate change conditions. Diversity and Distributions. 27: 2245-2261

46)      Tomlinson, S.; Smit, F; Bateman, P.W. (2021) The ecology of a translocated population of a medium-sized marsupial in an urban vegetation remnant. Pacific Conservation Biology. 28: 184-191

45)      Freestone, M.W.; Swarts, N.D.; Reiter, R.; Tomlinson, S.; Sussmilch, F.C.; Wright, M.M.; Holmes, G.D.; Phillips, R.D.; Linde, C.C. (2021) Continental scale distribution and diversity of Ceratobasidium orchid mycorrhizal fungi in Australia. Annals of Botany. 128: 329-343

44)      Cross, S.L.; Cross, A.T.; Tomlinson, S.; Clark-Ioannou, S.M.; Nevill, P.G. and Bateman, P.W. (2021) Mitigation and management plans should consider all anthropogenic disturbances to fauna. Global Ecology and Conservation. 26: e01500

43)      Cooke, S.; Bergman, J.; Madliger, C.; Cramp, R.; Beardall, J.; Burness, G.; Clark, T.; Dantzer, B.; de la Barrera, E.; Fangue, N.; Franklin, C.; Fuller, A.; Hawkes, L.; Hultine, K.; Hunt, K.; Love, O.; MacMillan, H.; Mandelman, J.; Mark, F.; Martin, L.; Newman, A.; Nicotra, A.; Raby, G.; Robinson, S.; Ropert-Coudert, Y.; Rummer, J.; Seebacher, F.; Todgham, A.; Tomlinson, S. and Chown, S. (2021) One hundred research questions in conservation physiology for generating actionable evidence to inform conservation policy and practice. Conservation Physiology. 9: coab009

42)      Tomlinson, S. (2021) Where and when to look: conservation physiology can optimize monitoring surveys Conservation Physiology. 9: coab005

41)          Bradley, H.S.; Tomlinson, S.; Craig, M.D.; Cross, A.T. and Bateman, P.W. (2020). Mitigation translocation as a management tool. Conservation Biology. 36: p.e13667

40)      Cross, S.L.; Tomlinson, S.; Craig, M.D. and Bateman, P.W. (2020) Using monitors to monitor ecological restoration: presence may not indicate persistence. Austral Ecology. 45: 921-932

39)      Scaccabarozzi, D.; Dixon, K.; Tomlinson, S.; Milne, L.; Bohman, B.; Phillips, R. and Cozzolino, S. (2020). Pea plants in the southwestern Australia biodiversity hotspot: pronounced differences in potential pollinators between co-occurring species. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

38)      Rajapakshe, S.; Tomlinson, S.; Cross, A. and Turner, S. (2020). Hydrothermal responses of seeds from four sympatric Mediterranean tree species from south west Western Australia.  Conservation Physiology

37)      Tomlinson, S. (2020). The construction of small-scale, quasi-mechanistic spatial models of insect pollinator energetics in habitat restoration: The management potential of beetle pollination in Western Australia.  Diversity and Distributions

 

36)      White, L.; Catterall, C.; Tomlinson, S. and Taffs, K. (2020). Rare or overlooked? The distribution of Hairy Jointgrass (Arthraxon hispidus, Poaceae) in North Coast NSW, Australia, and implications for threatened species conservation. Journal for Nature Conservation

35)      Tomlinson, S.; Lewandrowski, W.; Elliott, C.P; Miller, B.P. and Turner, S.R. (2019). High resolution distribution modelling of a threatened short-range endemic plant informed by edaphic factors. Ecology and Evolution

34)      Cross, S.L.; Craig, M.D.; Tomlinson, S. and Bateman, P.W. (2019) I don’t like crickets, I love them; Invertebrates are an important prey source for varanid lizards. Journal of Zoology London.

33)      Phillips, R.D.; Böhman, B., Brown, G.R.; Tomlinson, S. and Peakall, R. (2019). A specialised pollination system using nectar-seeking thynnine wasps in Caladenia nobilis (Orchidaceae). Plant Biology.

32)      Cross, S.L.; Tomlinson, S.; Craig, M.D.; and Bateman, P.W. (2019). The Time Local Convex Hull (T-LoCoH) method as a tool for predicting responses of fauna to habitat change: a case study using the perentie (Varanus giganteus: Reptilia: Varanidae). Australian Journal of Zoology.

31)      Tomlinson, S. (2019). Starvation and stress and no place to call home: the role of stress responses in wildlife conservation. Conservation Physiology

30)      Tomlinson, S. (2019). The mathematics of thermal sub-optimality: Nonlinear regression approaches to thermal performance in reptile metabolic rates. Journal of Thermal Biology 81: 49-58.

29)      Cross, S.L., Tomlinson, S., Craig, M.D., Dixon, K.W. and Bateman, P.W. (2019). The use of fauna in assessments of mine site restoration success: a global review. Pacific Conservation Biology

28)      Saatkamp, A., Cochrane, A., Commander, L., Guja, L., Jimenez-Alfaro, B., Larson, J., Nicotra, A., Poschlod, P., Silveira, F.A.O., Cross, A., Dalziell, E., Dickie, J., Erickson, T., Fidelis, A., Fuchs, A., Golos, P., Hope, M., Lewandrowski, W., Merritt, D., Miller, B., Miller, R., Offord, C., Ooi, M., Satyanti, A., Sommerville, K., Tangney, R., Tomlinson, S., Turner, S., and Walck, J. (2019). A research agenda for seed-trait functional ecology. New Phytologist 221: 1764-1775.

27)      Tomlinson, S. (2018). Some seriously fishy research puts holes in movement barriers. Conservation Physiology 6: p.coy017.

26)      Tomlinson, S.; Rummer, J.L; Hultine, K.W.; Cooke, S.J. (2018). Crossing boundaries in conservation physiology: Invited editorial. Conservation Physiology. 6: coy015.

25)      Tomlinson, S.; Dalziell, E.L.; Lewandrowski, W.; Merrit, D.J.; Dixon, K.W. and Withers, P.C. (2018). Real-time measurement of metabolic rates in a fluorescence-based closed-system respirometer. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221: p.jeb172874.

24)      Tarszisz, E.; Tomlinson, S.; Harrison, M.E.; Morrough-Bernard, H.C. and Munn, A.J. (2018). An ecophysiologically-informed model of seed dispersal by orangutans: linking animal movement with gut passage across time and space. Conservation Physiology. 6: coy015

 

23)      Tarszisz, E.; Harrison, M.E.; Tomlinson, S.; Morrough-Bernard, H.C. and Munn, A.J. (2017). Gardeners of the forest? The influence of seed handling and ingestion by orangutans on germination success. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123: 125-134.

22)      Dalziell, E.L. and Tomlinson, S. (2017). Reduced metabolic rate indicates declining viability in seed accessions: an experimental proof-of-concept. Conservation Physiology 5: cox058.

21)      Tomlinson, S., Webber, B.; Bradshaw, S.D.; Dixon, K.W. and Renton, M. (2017). Incorporating biophysical ecology into high-resolution ecological restoration targets: thermo-energetic habitat suitability models of Hymenopteran pollinators.  Restoration Ecology 26: 338-347.

20)      Tomlinson, S. (2017). Down the rabbit hole: How complex do eco-physiological models need to be? Conservation Physiology cox015.

 

19)      Tomlinson, S.; Dixon, K.W.; Didham, R.K. and Bradshaw, S.D. (2017).

Landscape context alters cost of living in honeybee metabolism and feeding. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20162676.

18)      Nevill, P.G.; Tomlinson, S.; Elliott, C.P.; Espeland, E.K.; Dixon, K.W. and Merritt,

D.J. (2016). Seed production areas for the global restoration challenge. Ecology and Evolution 6: 7490-7497.

17.       Ayton, S.; Tomlinson, S.; Phillips, R.D.; Dixon, K.D. and Withers, P.C. (2016). Phenophysiological variation of a bee that regulates hive humidity, but not hive temperature. Journal of Experimental Biology 219: 1552-1562

16.       Tomlinson, S. (2016) Novel approaches to the calculation and comparison of thermoregulatory parameters: Nonlinear regression of metabolic rate and evaporative water loss in Australian rodents. Journal of Thermal Biology 57: 54–65

15.       Tomlinson, S. and Menz, M.H.M. (2015) Does metabolic rate and evaporative water loss reflect differences in migratory strategy in sexually dimorphic hoverflies? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 190: 61-67.

14.       Tomlinson, S., Bradshaw, S.D.; Didham, R.K. and Dixon, K.W. (2015). Physiological plasticity of metabolic rates in invasive and endemic Australian bee species. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 8: 835-844.

13.       Tomlinson, S. and Phillips, R.D. (2015) Sexual dimorphism in temperature dependent metabolic rate and EWL in thynnine wasps. Journal of Insect Physiology 78: 62–68

12.       Tomlinson, S.; Arnall, S.; Bradshaw, S.D.; Maloney, S.K.; Munn, A.; Didham, R.K. and Dixon, K.W. (2014). Applications and implications of ecological energetics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29: 280-290

11.       Tomlinson, S.; Withers, P.C. and Maloney, S.K. (2014). Huddling Behaviour and Energetics of Sminthopsis spp. (Marsupialia, Dasyruidae) in Response to Environmental Challenge. Physiology and Behavior 128: 9-15

10.       Nevill, P.; Bradbury, D.; Williams, A.; Tomlinson, S. and Krauss, S. (2014). Genetic and palaeo-climatic evidence for widespread persistence of the coastal tree species Eucalyptus gomphocephala (Myrtaceae) during the Last Glacial Maximum. Annals of Botany 113: 55–67

9.         Tomlinson, S.; Mathialagan, P.D. and Maloney, S.K. (2013). Special K: Testing the potassium link between radioactive rubidium (86Rb) turnover and metabolic rate. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 1040-1045.

8.         Tomlinson, S.; Maloney, S.K.; Withers, P.C.; Voigt, C.G. and Cruz-Neto, A.P. (2013). From doubly labelled water to half-life; validating radio-isotopic rubidium turnover to measure metabolism in small vertebrates. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4: 619–628

7.         Tomlinson, S.; Withers, P.C. and Maloney, S.K. (2012) Comparative thermoregulatory physiology of two dunnarts, Sminthopsis macroura and Sminthopsis ooldea (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 60: 54–63

6.         Mason, L.D.; Tomlinson, S.; Withers, P.C. and Main, B.Y. (2012) Thermal and hygric physiology of Australian burrowing mygalomorph spiders (Aganippe spp.). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183: 71-82.

5.         Tomlinson, S.; Withers, P.C. and Maloney, S.K. (2012) Flexibility in thermoregulatory physiology of two dunnarts, Sminthopsis macroura and Sminthopsis ooldea (Marsupialia; Dasyuridae). Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 2236-2246.

4.         Tomlinson, S. and Phillips, R.D. (2012) Metabolic rate, evaporative water loss and field activity in response to temperature in an ichneumonid wasp. Journal of Zoology 287: 81–90.

3.         Tomlinson, S. and Withers, P.C. (2009) Biogeographical effects on body mass of native Australian and introduced mice, Pseudomys hermannsburgensis and Mus domesticus: an inquiry into Bergmann’s Rule. Australian Journal of Zoology 56: 423–430.

2.         Tomlinson, S.; Withers, P.C. and Cooper, C. (2007). Hypothermia versus torpor in response to cold stress in the native Australian mouse Pseudomys hermannsburgensis and the introduced house mouse Mus musculus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 148: 645-650.

1.         Bradshaw, S.D.; Phillips, R.D.; Tomlinson, S.; Holley, B.J.; Jennings, S. and Bradshaw, F.J. (2007). Ecology of the Honey possum, Tarsipes rostratus, in Scott National Park, Western Australia. Australian Mammalogy 29: 25-38.

 

2021: University of Otago Invited Lecture on Ecology: Conservation physiology sensu lato: It’s all about relationships.

2017: Deakin University Invited Lecture in Animal Biology: Conservation physiology in a changing world.

2016: Curtin University Invited Lecture in Rare Species Conservation: Comparative physiology, ecological energetics and conservation biology.

2015: Trinity College Dublin Invited Lecture in in Spatial Ecology: Comparative physiology, ecological energetics and conservation biology.

2015: Combined Biological Sciences Meeting (CBSM), Perth 2015. Future-proofing ecological restoration: an exploration of the spatial energetics of insect pollination.

Invited Presentations, Keynotes and Plenaries

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