Journal articles

Palaeoecology: A tool to improve the management of Australian estuaries (with Krystyna M. Saunders), Journal of Environmental Management (2009)

Addressing environmental problems in estuaries is a worldwide problem. Establishing benchmarks and targets for management...

 

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A diatom-based Holocene record of human impact from a coastal environment: Tuckean Swamp, eastern Australia (with Luc J. Farago, Hendrick Heijnis, and Geraldine Jacobsen), Journal of Paleolimnology (2008)

Diatom-based paleolimnological studies are being increasingly used to track anthropogenic change in estuaries. Little is...

 

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Using palaeobotanical techniques to guide peatland restoration. A case study from Byron Bay, Australia (with Jeffrey F. Parr and Keith G. Bolton), Ecological Management and Restoration (2006)
 

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The distribution and abundance of marine debris on isolated beaches of northern New South Wales, Australia (with Murray C. Cullen), Australasian Journal of Environmental Management (2005)
Beach debris items were collected and categorized during surveys of five isolated beaches on the...
 
A microwave digestion technique for the extraction of fossil diatoms from coastal lake and swamp sediments (with Jeffrey F. Parr and Christopher M. Lane), Journal of Paleolimnology (2004)
This study provides an introduction to a microwave digestion technique for the extraction of fossil...
 
A comparison of diatom community structure on natural and artificial substrata (with Christopher M. Lane and Jamie L. Corfield), Hydrobiologia (2003)
Artificial substrata have been used in diatom studies for almost 100 years. However, concern still...
 

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The LOG corer: a new device for obtaining short cores in soft lacustrine sediments (with Christopher M. Lane), Journal of Paleolimnology (2002)
A wide variety of scientific disciplines require representative samples of benthic sediment. As a result,...
 

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Diatoms as indicators of wetland salinity in the Upper South East of South Australia, The Holocene (2001)
Wetland degradation in the Upper South East of South Australia is an urgent management concern....
 

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Sampling of land types by protected areas: three measures of effectiveness applied to western New South Wales (with R L. Pressey), Biological Conservation (2001)
At the end of 1997, the Western Division of New South Wales had 22 reserves...
 

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Scheduling priority conservation action in production landscapes: priority areas in western New South Wales defined by irreplaceability and vulnerability to vegetation loss (with R L. Pressey), Biological Conservation (2001)
Scheduling conservation action is necessary when the available resources for conservation are insufficient to adequately...
 

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The role of surface water drainage in environmental change: a case example of the Upper South East of South Australia; an historical review, Australian Geographical Studies (2001)
The role of surface water drainage in environmental change in Australia is rarely appreciated. Drains...
 

Books

Mapping the environment: a professional development manual (with William E. Boyd), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2004)
This book provides a basis for developing skills in the most fundamental techniques used, and...
 

Book chapters

Fires impact on an acidic peatland in northeastern NSW: implications for the interpretation of fire histories, pyrite formation and loss of organic carbon (with Jeffrey F. Parr, Geoffrey Kerr, and J Arthur), Interdisciplinary nuances in phytolith and other microfossil studies (2008)
 
The last 200 years: a European history of the CERRA properties, The natural history of the central eastern rainforests of Australia (2008)
 

Conference publications

Reconstructing fire histories: methods, interpretation and common on-ground across fire history research in Australia (with Jeffrey F. Parr, Geoffrey Kerr, J Arthur, Keith G. Bolton, and Geraldine Jacobson), Australasian Archaeometry Conference (2005)
 
Chronology and palaeoecology of an acidic wetland peat in northeastern NSW (with Jeffrey F. Parr and Keith G. Bolton), ESA ecology 2003 conference (2003)
 
Fires and their implications for acidic peatlands, northeastern NSW (with Jeffrey F. Parr, Geoffrey Kerr, and J Arthur), ESA ecology 2003 conference : abstracts, University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W., Australia, 8-10 December (2003)
 
Environmental history of the Wetlands of the Upper South East of South Australia, Conference proceedings of the Australian Quaternary Association (2001)
 
Impact of settlement upon the hydrological regime of the Upper South East of South Australia, Conference proceedings of the Australian Quaternary Association (1994)
 

Consultancies

West Byron wetland vegetation history report. Unpublished. (with Jeffrey F. Parr), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2002)