Janet Wilmshurst
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Janet Wilmshurst's Degrees
- PhD Palaeoecology University of Auckland
- Masters Botany University of Auckland
- Bachelors Botany University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Janet Mary Wilmshurst is a New Zealand palaeoecologist who works on reconstructing the ecological past. Wilmshurst has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 2015. She was president of the New Zealand Ecological Society, and currently works as principal scientist in long-term ecology at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research focusing on recent fossil records to reconstruct and trace past ecosystem changes in response to natural disturbance.
Janet Wilmshurst's Published Works
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Published Works
- Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data (2008) (625)
- Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene (2017) (495)
- Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat (2008) (487)
- High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia (2010) (453)
- Dating initial Maori environmental impact in New Zealand (1999) (257)
- Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement (2010) (238)
- Forest disturbance in the central North Island, New Zealand, following the 1850 BP Taupo eruption (1996) (168)
- New Zealand island restoration: seabirds, predators, and the importance of history (2010) (167)
- A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes (2013) (138)
- Origin of pollen and spores in surface lake sediments: Comparison of modern palynomorph assemblages in moss cushions, surface soils and surface lake sediments (2005) (133)
- Ecology and long-term history of fire in New Zealand. (2014) (130)
- A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) (121)
- The impact of human settlement on vegetation and soil stability in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand (1997) (118)
- Rapid deforestation of South Island, New Zealand, by early Polynesian fires (2009) (114)
- Divergent trends in land and ocean temperature in the Southern Ocean over the past 18,000 years (2010) (112)
- Late Holocene forest disturbance in Gisborne, New Zealand: A comparison of terrestrial and marine pollen records (1999) (109)
- The Kaharoa Tephra as a Critical Datum for Earliest Human Impact in Northern New Zealand (1998) (97)
- An ecological and historical review of bracken (Pteridium esculentum) in New Zealand, and its cultural significance (2005) (92)
- Asynchronous climate change between New Zealand and the North Atlantic during the last deglaciation (2003) (92)
- Detecting the initial impact of humans and introduced species on island environments in Remote Oceania using palaeoecology (2009) (89)
- A pre‐deforestation pollen‐climate calibration model for New Zealand and quantitative temperature reconstructions for the past 18 000 years BP (2007) (87)
- The vegetation cover of New Zealand at the Last Glacial Maximum (2013) (86)
- A late Holocene history of natural disturbance in lowland podocarp/hardwood forest, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand (1997) (85)
- Impacts of introduced deer and extinct moa on New Zealand ecosystems (2010) (79)
- High-Resolution Coproecology: Using Coprolites to Reconstruct the Habits and Habitats of New Zealand’s Extinct Upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus) (2012) (77)
- Climatic variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20–10 kyr BP) (2006) (77)
- Explaining fire‐driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of New Zealand's prehistory (2012) (75)
- Use of Pollen and Ancient DNA as Conservation Baselines for Offshore Islands in New Zealand (2014) (74)
- Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration (2017) (74)
- Reconstructing Holocene water tables in New Zealand using testate amoebae: differential preservation of tests and implications for the use of transfer functions (2003) (74)
- Contribution of floodplain sequestration to the sediment budget of the Waipaoa River, New Zealand (1999) (73)
- A Holocene record of climate, vegetation change and peat bog development, east Otago, South Island, New Zealand (1999) (72)
- Novel interactions between non‐native mammals and fungi facilitate establishment of invasive pines (2015) (71)
- Late-glacial and Holocene vegetation and climatic history of the Cass Basin, central South Island, New Zealand (2004) (71)
- A high-precision chronology for the rapid extinction of New Zealand moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes) (2014) (71)
- A High-Resolution Chronology of Rapid Forest Transitions following Polynesian Arrival in New Zealand (2014) (69)
- Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change (2020) (68)
- Holocene vegetation and climate change in southern New Zealand: linkages between forest composition and quantitative surface moisture reconstructions from an ombrogenous bog (2002) (68)
- A Megafauna’s Microfauna: Gastrointestinal Parasites of New Zealand’s Extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) (2013) (66)
- Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965 (2018) (61)
- Corroded Pollen and Spores as Indicators of Changing Lake Sediment Sources and Catchment Disturbance (2005) (60)
- Island biodiversity conservation needs palaeoecology (2017) (59)
- Resolving lost herbivore community structure using coprolites of four sympatric moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes) (2013) (56)
- Does the bipolar seesaw extend to the terrestrial southern mid-latitudes? (2012) (55)
- Reconstructing spatial vulnerability to forest loss by fire in pre‐historic New Zealand (2012) (54)
- The 13th century polynesian colonization of Hawai'i Island (2011) (51)
- Sporormiella as a proxy for non-mammalian herbivores in island ecosystems (2011) (48)
- Wetland soil moisture complicates the use of Sporormiella to trace past herbivore populations (2012) (47)
- The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands (2021) (45)
- Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation and climatic change on Auckland Island, Subantarctic New Zealand (2000) (43)
- Causes of tree line stability: stem growth, recruitment and mortality rates over 15 years at New Zealand Nothofagus tree lines (2012) (43)
- Lake sediment fecal and biomass burning biomarkers provide direct evidence for prehistoric human-lit fires in New Zealand (2018) (42)
- Accumulation rates or percentages? How to quantify Sporormiella and other coprophilous fungal spores to detect late Quaternary megafaunal extinction events (2013) (40)
- A Lost Link between a Flightless Parrot and a Parasitic Plant and the Potential Role of Coprolites in Conservation Paleobiology (2012) (38)
- Redating the advance of the New Zealand Franz Josef Glacier during the Last Termination: evidence for asynchronous climate change (2007) (38)
- Mitogenomes Uncover Extinct Penguin Taxa and Reveal Island Formation as a Key Driver of Speciation. (2019) (37)
- A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago (2021) (37)
- Early Maori settlement impacts in northern coastal Taranaki, New Zealand (2004) (36)
- Seasonal variations in aridity and temperature characterize changing climate during the last deglaciation in New Zealand (2013) (36)
- Exotic Mammals and Invasive Plants Alter Fire-Related Thresholds in Southern Temperate Forested Landscapes (2015) (35)
- A protocol for subsampling Late Quaternary coprolites for multi-proxy analysis (2016) (35)
- Exploring fire adaptation in a land with little fire: serotiny in Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae) (2017) (32)
- Past and Present Vulnerability of Closed-Canopy Temperate Forests to Altered Fire Regimes: A Comparison of the Pacific Northwest, New Zealand, and Patagonia (2015) (31)
- Seasonality in the early Holocene: Extending fossil-based estimates with a forest ecosystem process model (2011) (31)
- Functional and environmental determinants of bark thickness in fire-free temperate rain forest communities. (2015) (28)
- Multiscale climate change impacts on plant diversity in the Atacama Desert (2019) (27)
- Small wetlands are critical for safeguarding rare and threatened plant species (2015) (26)
- Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction (2016) (25)
- Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) (23)
- Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrate coprolites from New Zealand (2014) (23)
- Microscopic and ancient DNA profiling of Polynesian dog (kurī) coprolites from northern New Zealand (2016) (22)
- Recent spread of Dracophyllum scrub on subantarctic Campbell Island, New Zealand: climatic or anthropogenic origins? (2004) (22)
- Pollen–climate reconstruction from northern South Island, New Zealand (41°S), reveals varying high‐ and low‐latitude teleconnections over the last 16 000 years (2015) (21)
- Looking Back for the Future: Local Knowledge and Palaeoecology Inform Biocultural Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems in New Zealand (2015) (21)
- Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) (21)
- First coprolite evidence for the diet of Anomalopteryx didiformis, an extinct forest ratite from New Zealand (2012) (21)
- Experimental Simulation: Using Generative Modeling and Palaeoecological Data to Understand Human-Environment Interactions (2016) (20)
- A key to the pollen of New Zealand Cyperaceae (2003) (20)
- Climate, fire, farming and the recent vegetation history of subantarctic Campbell Island (2007) (20)
- Last Glacial pollen–climate reconstructions from Northland, New Zealand (2017) (18)
- Reconstructing atmospheric circulation over southern New Zealand: Establishment of modern westerly airflow 5500 years ago and implications for Southern Hemisphere Holocene climate change (2017) (17)
- Palynology and the Ecology of the New Zealand Conifers (2017) (17)
- An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand (2014) (17)
- The diets of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) (2020) (17)
- Using palaeoecology to determine baseline ecological requirements and interaction networks for de‐extinction candidate species (2017) (17)
- Intensification of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds 2000–1000 years ago: evidence from the subantarctic Campbell and Auckland Islands (52–50°S) (2016) (17)
- Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial (2020) (15)
- Holocene temperature, humidity and seasonality in northern New Zealand linked to Southern Hemisphere summer insolation (2018) (15)
- Population age structure and recent Dracophyllum spread on subantarctic Campbell Island (2005) (14)
- The forgotten fauna: Native vertebrate seed predators on islands (2020) (14)
- Pollen-based temperature and precipitation records of the past 14,600 years in northern New Zealand (37°S) and their linkages with the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation (2017) (14)
- Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands (2019) (14)
- Long-term ecology resolves the timing, region of origin and process of establishment for a disputed alien tree (2015) (13)
- Winter Climate Limits Subantarctic Low Forest Growth and Establishment (2014) (12)
- New Zealand forest dynamics: a review of past and present vegetation responses to disturbance, and development of conceptual forest models (2018) (12)
- Evolution and Ecological Change During the New Zealand Quaternary (2017) (11)
- Reply to Mulrooney et al.: Accepting lower precision radiocarbon dates results in longer colonization chronologies for East Polynesia (2011) (11)
- SHORT COMMUNICATION Pollen analysis of coprolites reveals dietary details of heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) and coastal moa (Euryapteryx curtus) from Central Otago (2013) (11)
- Evolution and Ecological Change During the New Zealand Quaternary (2017) (11)
- Changes in New Zealand forest plant communities following the prehistoric extinction of avian megaherbivores (2017) (10)
- Plant pathogen responses to Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change in the central Atacama Desert, Chile (2018) (10)
- A 2000 year history of vegetation and landscape change in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand (1995) (10)
- An avian seed dispersal paradox: New Zealand's extinct megafaunal birds did not disperse large seeds (2018) (10)
- Interspecies interference and monitoring duration affect detection rates in chew cards (2017) (9)
- Assessing the ecological value of small testate amoebae (<45 μm) in New Zealand peatlands. (2019) (9)
- Palaeoecological signatures of vegetation change induced by herbivory regime shifts on subantarctic Enderby Island (2016) (8)
- Multidecadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14C: Evidence against a Southern Ocean sink at the end of the Little Ice Age CO2 anomaly (2016) (8)
- Temperature, Wind, Cloud, and the Postglacial Tree Line History of Sub-Antarctic Campbell Island (2019) (8)
- Paleolimnology of Slapton Ley, Devon, UK (1991) (8)
- A refined model of body mass and population density in flightless birds reconciles extreme bimodal population estimates for extinct moa (2020) (7)
- Bone stable isotopes indicate a high trophic position for New Zealand’s extinct South Island adzebill (Aptornis defossor) (Gruiformes: Aptornithidae) (2017) (7)
- Ancient parasite DNA from late Quaternary Atacama Desert rodent middens (2019) (6)
- Does heating stimulate germination in Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka; Myrtaceae)? (2017) (6)
- Multi-decadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14 C : Evidence against a Southern Ocean sink at the end of the Little Ice Age CO 2 anomaly (2016) (6)
- Mid-Holocene coprolites from southern New Zealand provide new insights into the diet and ecology of the extinct little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) (2021) (5)
- Climate change and cultural evolution across the world (2016) (5)
- Rodent detection and monitoring for conservation on islands: gnawed seeds provide reliable indicator of rodent presence (2020) (5)
- A Last Interglacial pollen-temperature reconstruction, central North Island, New Zealand (2017) (5)
- Author Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) (5)
- Origin and timing of New Zealand's earliest domestic chickens: Polynesian commensals or European introductions? (2016) (4)
- Comparing the effects of asynchronous herbivores on New Zealand montane vegetation communities (2019) (4)
- Growth response of an invasive alien species to climate variations on subantarctic Campbell Island (2018) (4)
- The testate amoebae of New Zealand: A checklist, identification key and assessment of biogeographic patterns. (2021) (4)
- Superficially described and ignored for 92 years, rediscovered and emended: Apodera angatakere (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Hyalospheniformes) is a new flagship testate amoeba taxon from Aotearoa (New Zealand) (2021) (3)
- Establishing long-term changes in takahë winter feeding grounds in Fiordland using pollen analysis (2003) (3)
- Vertical distribution of prokaryotes communities and predicted metabolic pathways in New Zealand wetlands, and potential for environmental DNA indicators of wetland condition. (2021) (2)
- Multidecadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14 C: Evidence against a Southern Ocean sink at the end of the Little Ice Age CO 2 anomaly Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2016) (2)
- Response to Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago” (2021) (2)
- Geographic and ecological segregation in an extinct guild of flightless birds: New Zealand’s moa (2021) (2)
- Data from: Interspecies interference and monitoring duration affect detection rates in chew cards (2017) (1)
- Relationships between spectral reflectance and biophysical characteristics of degraded shrublands (2004) (1)
- Integrating permanent plot and palaeoecological data to determine subalpine post‐fire succession, recovery and convergence over 128 years (2020) (1)
- Functional and environmental determinants of bark thickness in fi re-free temperate rain forest (2015) (1)
- Reconstructing ecological functions provided by extinct fauna using allometrically informed simulation models: An in silico framework for ‘movement palaeoecology’ (2021) (1)
- Data for: Holocene temperature, effective precipitation and seasonality in northern New Zealand linked to Southern Hemisphere summer insolation (2018) (1)
- Duelling narratives of chironomids and pollen explain climate enigmas during The Last Glacial-Interglacial transition in North Island New Zealand (2021) (1)
- Exotic Mammals and Invasive Plants Alter Fire-Related Thresholds in Southern Temperate Forested Landscapes (2015) (1)
- A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) (1)
- Author Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) (0)
- Reconstructing colonization dynamics to establish how human activities transformed island biodiversity (2023) (0)
- Neville Taylor Moar BSc, MSc, PhD (Cant.), 31 July 1926–1 June 2016 (2016) (0)
- Plant pathogen responses to Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change in the central Atacama Desert, Chile (2018) (0)
- Long-term trajectories of non-native vegetation on islands globally. (2023) (0)
- Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965 (2018) (0)
- A guide to assess distance from ecological baselines and change over time in palaeoecological records (2023) (0)
- Tipping cascades in polar regions drove global change during early Last Interglacial warming (2019) (0)
- Lake sediment fecal and biomass burning biomarkers provide direct evidence for prehistoric human-lit fires in New Zealand (2018) (0)
- Growth rates and ages of some key tree species from subantarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands (2022) (0)
- The role of paleoecology in understanding landscape-level ecosystem dynamics (2021) (0)
- Using ancient dung to reconstruct the transformation of prehistoric island ecosystems by invasive rats (2016) (0)
- A History of Open Weather in New Zealand (HOWNZ): an open access 1-km resolution monthly 1910–2019 time-series of interpolated temperature and rainfall grids with associated uncertainty (2021) (0)
- The ODA approach to rail mass transit (1990) (0)
- Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) (0)
- Two new Holocene vegetation records from the margins of the Canterbury Plains, South Island, New Zealand (2018) (0)
- The rail-cutter: a simple, cheap and compact system for opening sediment cores in the lab and field (2015) (0)
- A tribute to Neville Taylor Moar (31 July 1926 - 1 June 2016) (2016) (0)
- Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) (0)
- Clivar looks to the future at conference marking 20 th anniversary (2017) (0)
- Response to Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago” (2021) (0)
- HOTRUNZ: an open-access 1 km resolution monthly 1910–2019 time series of interpolated temperature and rainfall grids with associated uncertainty for New Zealand (2022) (0)
- Palaeoecological and historical observations of an endemic New Zealand bird (Strigops habroptila, kākāpō) reveal shifting drivers of decline during 800 years of human settlement (2023) (0)
- Experimental simulation: using generative modelling and palaeoecological (2020) (0)
- Looking Back for the Future: Local Knowledge and Palaeoecology Inform Biocultural Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems in New Zealand (2015) (0)
- Proposal for a Symposium ISLAND AT THE CROSSROADS : CONSERVATION DILEMMAS UNDER GLOBAL CHANGES (2015) (0)
- Ancient and modern scats record broken ecological interactions and a decline in dietary breadth of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot (Strigops habroptilus) (2023) (0)
- Changing position of Southern Ocean Westerlies decouples Holocene land and sea (2009) (0)
- Increased Climate Variability in the Southern Ocean During the Late Twentieth Century (2015) (0)
- PAPER Reconstructing spatial vulnerability to forest loss by fire in pre-historic (2012) (0)
- 140-year subantarctic tree-ring temperature reconstruction reveals tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability (2017) (0)
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