Ecosystem Process Staff - Peter Bellingham

Peter Bellingham

Peter Bellingham

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Landcare Research
P.O. Box 40
Lincoln 7640

DDI: 03 321 9611
Phone: 03 321 9999

Fax: 03 321 9998
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Qualifications

BSc Botany, Auckland University
BFS Forest Ecology, Canterbury University
PhD Plant Sciences, Cambridge University UK

Areas of interest

Temperate and tropical forest ecology

Special interests: consequences of disturbance and biological invasions to plant community dynamics and ecosystem function.

 

Recent publications

Dalling J.W., Barkan, P., Bellingham, P.J., Healey, J.R., Tanner, E.V.J. & Toro Murillo, J.  2010.  Ecology and distribution of Neotropical Podocarpaceae.  In: Turner, B.L. & Cernusak, L. (eds.) Ecology of tropical podocarps, pp. xxx–xxx.  Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., in press.

Bellingham, P.J., Wiser, S.K., Wright, A.E., Cameron, E.K. & Forester, L.J.  2010.  Disperser communities and legacies of goat grazing determine forest succession on the remote Three Kings Islands, New Zealand.  Biological Conservation, in press.

Grant-Hoffman, M.N., Mulder, C.P.H. & Bellingham, P.J.  2010.  Effects of invasive rats and burrowing seabirds on seeds and seedlings on New Zealand islands.  Oecologia, in press.

Grant-Hoffman, M.N., Mulder, C.P.H. & Bellingham, P.J.  2010.  Invasive rats alter woody seedling composition on seabird-dominated islands in New Zealand.  Oecologia, in press.

Bellingham, P.J., Towns, D.R., Cameron, E.K., Davis, J.J., Wardle, D.A., Wilmshurst, J.M. & Mulder, C.P.H.  2010.  New Zealand island restoration: seabirds, predators, and the importance of history.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 34, 115–136.

Richardson, S.J., Peltzer, D.A., Hurst, J.M., Allen, R.B., Bellingham, P.J., Carswell, F.E., Clinton, P.W., Griffiths, A.D., Wiser, S.K. & Wright, E.F.  2009.  Deadwood in New Zealand's indigenous forests.  Forest Ecology and Management, 258, 2456–2466.

Richardson, S.J., Smale, M.C., Hurst, J.M., Fitzgerald, N.B., Peltzer, D.A., Allen, R.B., Bellingham, P.J. & McKelvey, P.J.  2009.  Large-tree growth and mortality rates in forests of the central North Island, New Zealand.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 33, 208–215.

Mulder, C.P.H., Grant-Hoffman, M.N., Towns, D.R., Bellingham, P.J., Wardle, D.A., Durrett, M.S., Fukami, T. & Bonner, K.I.  2009.  Direct and indirect effects of rats: does rat eradication restore ecosystem functioning of New Zealand seabird islands?  Biological Invasions, 11, 1671–1688.

Peltzer, D.A., Bellingham, P.J., Kurokawa, H., Walker, L.R., Wardle, D.A. & Yeates, G.W.  2009.  Punching above their weight: low-biomass non-native plant species alter soil properties during primary succession.  Oikos, 118, 1001–1014.

Lusk, C.H., Duncan, R.P. & Bellingham, P.J.  2009.  Light environments occupied by conifer and angiosperm seedlings in a New Zealand broadleaf–podocarp forest.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 33, 83–89.

Bellingham, P.J. & Sparrow, A.D.  2009.  Multi-stemmed trees in montane rain forests: their frequency and demography in relation to elevation, soil nutrients, and disturbance.  Journal of Ecology, 97, 472–483.

Towns, D.R., Wardle, D.A., Mulder, C.P.H., Yeates, G.W., Fitzgerald, B.M., Parrish, G.R., Bellingham, P.J. & Bonner, K.I.  2009.  Predation of seabirds by invasive rats: multiple indirect consequences for invertebrate communities.  Oikos, 118, 420–430.

Wardle, D.A., Bellingham, P.J., Bonner, K.I. & Mulder, C.P.H.  2009.  Indirect effects of invasive predators on plant litter quality, decomposition and nutrient resorption on seabird-dominated islands.  Ecology, 90, 452–464.

Bellingham, P.J.  2008.  Cyclone effects on Australian rain forests: an overview.  Austral Ecology, 33, 580–584.

Dickie, I.A., Thomas, M.M. & Bellingham, P.J.  2007.  On the perils of mycorrhizal status lists: the case of Buddleja davidii.  Mycorrhiza, 17, 687–688.

Wardle, D.A., Bellingham, P.J., Fukami, T. & Mulder, C.P.H.  2007.  Promotion of ecosystem carbon sequestration by invasive predators.  Biology Letters, 3, 479–482.

Fukami, T., Wardle, D.A., Bellingham, P.J., Mulder, C.P.H., Towns, D.R., Yeates, G.W., Bonner, K.I., Durrett, M.S., Grant-Hoffman, M.N. & Williamson, W.M.  2006.  Above- and below-ground impacts of introduced predators in seabird dominated ecosystems.  Ecology Letters, 9, 1299–1307.

Tanner, E.V.J. & Bellingham, P.J.  2006.  Less diverse forest is more resistant to hurricane damage: evidence from montane rain forests in Jamaica.  Journal of Ecology, 94, 1003–1010.

Walker, L.R., Bellingham, P.J. & Peltzer, D.A.  2006.  Plant characteristics are poor predictors of microsite colonization during the first two years of primary succession.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 17, 397–406.

Bellingham, P.J. & Richardson, S.J.  2006.  Tree seedling growth and survival over 6 years across different microsites in a temperate rain forest.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 36, 910–918.

Bellingham, P.J. & Lee, W.G.  2006.  Distinguishing natural processes from impacts of invasive mammalian herbivores.  In: Allen, R.B. & Lee, W.G. (eds.) Biological invasions in New Zealand, pp. 323–336.  Springer, Berlin, Germany.


Research areas

Biodiversity & global change Conservation and Carbon Forest ecosystem processes Indigenous Forestry Invasion Ecology Prehistoric Settlement Impacts Seabird Ecology Vegetation data information systems