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Sarah Richardson

Senior Researcher
Ecosystems & Conservation
Sarah Richardson
Location
Lincoln
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Research interests

Role at Landcare Research

Scientist (Ecology)

Research interests

  • Ecosystem responses to changing environments
  • Developing and interpreting biodiversity indicators
  • Managing natural forests for timber production

Professional affiliations

2009–present:  Editorial Board, New Zealand Journal of Ecology

1996–present:  Member of the British Ecological Society (1996 to present)

2002–present:  Member of the New Zealand Ecological Society (2002 to present)

Publications

2013

  • Richardson SJ, Boot KI, Bickford CP. 2013. Cold tolerance of photosynthesis as a determinant of tree species regeneration patterns in an evergreen temperate forest. Plant Ecology 214: 787-798. doi: 10.1007/s11258-013-0208-8.
  • Richardson SJ, Allen RB, Buxton RP, Easdale TA, Hurst JM, et al. (2013) Intraspecific Relationships among Wood Density, Leaf Structural Traits and Environment in Four Co-Occurring Species of Nothofagus in New Zealand. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58878. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058878
  • Richardson SJ, Williams PA, Mason NWH, Buxton RP, Courtney SP, Rance BD, Clarkson BR, Hoare RJB, StJohn MG, Wiser SK. 2012. Rare species drive local trait diversity in two geographically disjunct examples of a naturally-rare alpine ecosystem in New Zealand. Journal of Vegetation Science 23: 626-639. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01396.x
  • Dickie IA, Martínez-García LB, Koele N, Richardson SJ, Tylianakis J, Peltzer DP, Grelet G-A. 2013. Mycorrhizas and mycorrhizal fungal communities throughout ecosystem development. Plant and Soil 367: 11–39. doi: 10.1007/s11104-013-1609-0

2012

  • Koele N, Dickie IA, Oleksyn J, Richardson SJ, Reich RB. 2012. No globally consistent effect of ectomycorrhizal status on foliar traits. New Phytologist 196: 845–852. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04297.x.
  • Smale MC, Richardson SJ, Fitzgerald NB. 2011. Resilience to fire of Dracophyllum subulatum (Ericaceae) frost flat heathland, a rare ecosystem in central North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 49: 231–241.
  • Carswell FE, Doherty JE, Allen RB, Brignall-Theyer ME, Richardson SJ, Wiser SK. 2012. Quantification of the effects of aboveground and belowground competition on growth of seedlings in a conifer-angiosperm forest. Forest Ecology and Management 269: 188–196. doi: org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.12.027
  • Smissen RD, Morse CW, Prada D, Ramón-Laca A, Richardson SJ. 2012. Characterisation of seven polymorphic microsatellites for Nothofagus subgenus Fuscospora from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 50: 227–231. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2012.662903
  • Allen RB, Mason NWH, Richardson SJ, Platt KH. 2012. Synchronicity, periodicity, and bimodality in inter-annual seed production of tree populations along an elevation gradient. OIKOS 121: 367–376. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19306.x
  • Mason NWH, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, de Bello F, Wardle DA, Allen RB. 2012. Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity. Journal of Ecology 100: 678–689. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01965.x
  • Ramsey DSL, Forsyth DM, Veltman CJ, Nichol SJ, Todd CR, Allen RB, Allen WJ, Bellingham PJ, Richardson SJ, Jacobson CL, Barker RJ. 2012. An approximate Bayesian algorithm for training fuzzy cognitive map models of forest responses to deer control in a New Zealand adaptive management experiment. Ecological Modelling 240: 93–104. doi: org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.04.022.

2011

  • Freschet GT, Dias ATC, Ackerly DD, Aerts R, van Bodegom PM, Cornwell WK, Dong M, Kurokawa H, Liu G, Onipchenko VG, Ordoñez JC, Peltzer DA, Richardson SJ, Shidakov II, Soudzilovskaia NA, Tao J, Cornelissen JHC. 2011. Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 755–765.
  • Mason NWH, Carswell FE, Richardson SJ, Burrows LE. 2011. Leaf palatability and decomposability increase during a 200 year old post-cultural woody succession in New Zealand. Journal of Vegetation Science 22: 6–17.
  • Richardson SJ, Hurst JM, Easdale TA, Wiser SK, Griffiths AD, Allen RB. 2011. Diameter growth rates of beech (Nothofagus) trees around New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Forestry 56: 3–11.
  • Holdaway RJ, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Coomes DA. 2011 Species and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120,000 year soil chronosequence. Journal of Ecology 99: 954–963.
  • Menge DNL, Baisden WT, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Barbour MM. 2011. Declining foliar and litter δ15N diverge from soil, epiphyte, and input δ15N along a 120,000 year temperate rainforest chronosequence. New Phytologist 190: 941–952.

2010

  • Mason NWH, Peltzer DP, Richardson SJ, Bellingham PJ, Allen RB. 2010. Stand development moderates effects of ungulate exclusion on foliar traits in the forests of New Zealand. Journal of Ecology 98: 1422–1433.
  • Wiser SK, Buxton RP, Clarkson BR, Richardson SJ, Rogers GM, Smale MC, Williams PA 2010. Climate, landscape, and microenvironments interact to determine plant composition in naturally discrete gravel beach communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 21: 657–671.
  • McGlone MS, Richardson SJ, Jordan GJ. 2010. Trees in New Zealand: heights, species richness and range size. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 33: 137–151.
  • Peltzer DA, Wardle DA, Allison VJ, Baisden, WT, Bardgett RD, Chadwick OA, Condron LM, Parfitt RL, Porder S, Richardson SJ, Turner BL, Vitousek PM, Walker J, Walker LR. 2010. Understanding ecosystem retrogression. Ecological Monographs 80: 509–529.
  • Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Allen RB, McGlone MS. 2010. Declining soil fertility does not increase leaf lifespan within species: evidence from the Franz Josef chronosequence, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 34: 306–310

2009

  • Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Hurst JM, Allen RB, Bellingham PJ, Carswell FE, Clinton PW, Griffiths AD, Wiser SK, Wright EF. 2009. Deadwood in New Zealand’s indigenous forests. Forest Ecology and Management 258: 2456–2466.
  • Richardson SJ, Smale MC, Hurst JM, Fitzgerald NB, Peltzer DP, Bellingham PJ, Allen RB, McKelvey PJ. 2009. Large-tree growth and mortality rates in forests of the central North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 33: 208–215.
  • Dickie IA, Richardson SJ, Wiser SK 2009. Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and soil chemistry in harvested and unharvested temperate Nothofagus rainforests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 1069–1079.

2008

  • Carswell FE, Richardson SJ, Doherty JE, Allen RB, Wiser SK 2007. Where do conifers regenerate after selective harvest? A case study from a New Zealand conifer-angiosperm forest. Forest Ecology and Management 253: 138-147.
  • Richardson SJ, Allen RB, Doherty EJ. 2008. Shifts in leaf N:P ratio during resorption reflect soil P in temperate rainforest. Functional Ecology 22: 738–745.

2007 and earlier

  • Allison VJ, Condron LM, Peltzer DA, Richardson SJ, Turner BL 2007. Changes in enzyme activities and soil microbial community composition along carbon and nutrient gradients at the Franz Josef chronosequence, New Zealand. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39: 1770–1781.
  • Turner BL, Condron LM, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Allison VJ 2007. Soil organic phosphorus transformations during pedogenesis. Ecosystems 10: 1166–1181.
  • Bellingham PJ, Richardson SJ 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.
  • Parfitt RL, Ross DJ, Coomes DA, Richardson SJ, Dahlgren RA 2005. N and P in New Zealand soil chronosequences and relationships with foliar N and P. Biogeochemistry 75: 305–328.
  • Richardson SJ, Allen RB, Whitehead D, Carswell FE, Ruscoe WA, Platt KH 2005. Climate and net carbon availability determine temporal patterns of seed production by Nothofagus. Ecology 86: 972–981.
  • Turnbull MH, Tissue DT, Griffin KL, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Whitehead D. 2005. Respiration characteristics in temperate rainforest tree species differ along a long-term soil-development chronosequence. Oecologia 143: 271–279.
  • Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Allen RB, McGlone MS 2005. Resorption proficiency along a chronosequence: responses among communities and within species. Ecology 86: 20–25.
  • Forsyth DM, Richardson SJ, Menchenton K 2005. Leaf chemistry predicts the diet preferences of invasive red deer (Cervus elaphus) in a temperate New Zealand forest. Functional Ecology 19: 495–504.
  • Whitehead D, Boelman N, Turnbull MH, Griffin KL, Tissue DT, Barbour MM, Hunt J, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DP 2005. Photosynthesis and reflectance indices for rainforest species in ecosystems undergoing progression and retrogression along a soil fertility chronosequence in New Zealand. Oecologia 144: 233–244.
  • Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Allen RB, McGlone MS, Parfitt RL. 2004. Rapid development of phosphorus limitation in temperate rainforest along the Franz Josef soil chronosequence. Oecologia 139: 267−276.
  • Ruscoe WA, Wilson DJ, McElrea L, McElrea G, Richardson SJ. 2004. A house mouse (Mus musculus) population eruption in response to rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) seedfall in southern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 28: 259–265.
  • van Wijk MT, Clemmensen K, Shaver GR, Williams M, Callaghan TV, Chapin FS III, Cornelissen JHC, Gough L, Hobbie SE, Jonasson S, Lee JA, Michelsen A, Press MC, Richardson SJ, Rueth H (2004) Long-term ecosystem level experiments at Toolik Lake, Alaska, and at Abisko, Northern Sweden: generalisations and differences in ecosystem and plant type responses to global change. Global Change Biology 10: 105−123.
  • Richardson SJ, Press MC, Parsons AN, Hartley SE 2002. Impacts of nutrients and warming on sub-Arctic dwarf shrubs and their insect herbivores. Journal of Ecology 90: 554-556.
  • Richardson SJ, Hartley SE, Press MC 2000. Climate warming experiments: are chambers a “barrier” to interpretation? Ecological Entomology 25: 367-370.

Qualifications

Sheffield
PhD
2000

Publications

Vanderhoorn JMM, Wilmshurst JM, Richardson SJ, Etherington TR, Perry GLW 2024. Revealing the palaeoecology of silent taxa: selecting proxy species from associations in modern vegetation data. Journal of Biogeography. WOS:001176279000001 https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14826

Richardson SJ, McCarthy JK, Tanentzap AJ, Houliston GJ, Ausseil AG, Wilton AD, Clearwater MJ, Burge OR, Perry GLW, McGlone MS 2023. Gender dimorphic species flower earlier than cosexuals. Journal of Ecology. WOS:001061078600001 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14188

Mason NWH, Burrows LE, Holdaway RJ, Carswell FE, Richardson SJ 2023. Pioneers of post-agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal. Journal of Vegetation Science 34(5). WOS:001065239200001 https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13205

Forbes AS, Richardson SJ, Carswell FE, Mason NWH, Burrows LE 2023. Knowing when native regeneration is for you, and what you should do about it. The Aotearoa New Zealand context. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 47(1). WOS:000993113900001 https://doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.47.3524

Burge OR, Richardson SJ, Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM 2023. A guide to assess distance from ecological baselines and change over time in palaeoecological records. Holocene. WOS:000978433500001 https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231169986

Palmer JG, Turney CSM, Thomas ZA, Fenwick P, Richardson SJ, Wilmshurst JM, McGlone MS 2023. Growth rates and ages of some key tree species from subantarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 47(1). WOS:000933626000010 https://doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.47.3509

Prebble JG, Dunbar G, van den Bos V, Li X, Vandergoes M, Richardson S, Horgan H, Holt KA, Howarth J, Levy R 2022. Toward a novel multi-century archive of tree mast using pollen from lake sediments. Holocene. WOS:000835458900001 https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221114292

McGlone MS, Bellingham PJ, Richardson SJ 2022. Science, policy, and sustainable indigenous forestry in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 52. WOS:000777433400001 https://doi.org/10.33494/nzjfs522022x182x

Jo I, Bellingham PJ, McCarthy JK, Easdale TA, Padamsee M, Wiser SK, Richardson SJ 2022. Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand's natural forests. Journal of Vegetation Science 33(1). WOS:000760961300011 https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13106

Heenan PB, McCarthy JK, Richardson SJ, McGlone MS 2022. Phylogenetic diversity and clustering in modern vegetation communities reflects habitat formation and age during the late Cenozoic in New Zealand. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 198(3): 241-258. WOS:000756889100001 https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boab062

Lambers H, Wright IJ, Pereira CG, Bellingham PJ, Bentley LP, Boonman A, Cernusak LA, Foulds W, Gleason SM, Gray EF, Hayesf PE, Kooyman RM, Malhi Y, Richardson SJ, Shane MW, Staudinger C, Stock WD, Swarts ND, Turner BL, Turner J, Veneklaas EJ, Wasaki J, Westoby M, Xu YG 2021. Leaf manganese concentrations as a tool to assess belowground plant functioning in phosphorus-impoverished environments. Plant and Soil 461(1-2): 43-61. WOS:000567748300001 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04690-2

Clearwater MJ, Noe ST, Manley-Harris M, Truman GL, Gardyne S, Murray J, Obeng-Darko SA, Richardson SJ 2021. Nectary photosynthesis contributes to the production of manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) floral nectar. New Phytologist 232(4): 1703-1717. WOS:000687709500001 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17632

Walker S, Bellingham PJ, Kaine G, Richardson S, Greenhalgh S, Simcock R, Brovvn MA, Stephens T, Lee WG 2021. What effects must be avoided, remediated or mitigated to maintain indigenous biodiversity? New Zealand Journal of Ecology 45(2). WOS:000684942600007 https://doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.45.26

McCarthy JK, Leathwick JR, Roudier P, Barringer JRF, Etherington TR, Morgan FJ, Odgers NP, Price RH, Wiser SK, Richardson SJ 2021. New Zealand Environmental Data Stack (NZEnvDS): A standardised collection of spatial layers for environmental modelling and site characterisation. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 45(2). WOS:000684942600002 https://doi.org/10.20422/nzjecol.45.31

Lyver POB, Timoti P, Richardson SJ, Gormley AM 2021. Alignment of ordinal and quantitative species abundance and size indices for the detection of shifting baseline syndrome. Ecological Applications 31(4). WOS:000647225600001 https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2301

Brandt AJ, Bellingham PJ, Duncan RP, Etherington TR, Fridley JD, Howell CJ, Hulme PE, Jo I, McGlone MS, Richardson SJ, Sullivan JJ, Williams PA, Peltzer DA 2021. Naturalised plants transform the composition and function of the New Zealand flora. Biological Invasions 23(2): 351-366. WOS:000584996200002 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02393-4

McCarthy JK, Wiser SK, Bellingham PJ, Beresford RM, Campbell RE, Turner R, Richardson SJ 2021. Using spatial models to identify refugia and guide restoration in response to an invasive plant pathogen. Journal of Applied Ecology 58(1): 192-201. WOS:000575091400001 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13756

Dickie IA, Wakelin A, Richardson SJ 2020. Rare species of wood-inhabiting fungi are not local. Ecological Applications 30(7). WOS:000536983900001 https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2156

McGlone MS, McNutt K, Richardson SJ, Bellingham PJ, Wright EF 2020. Biodiversity monitoring, ecological integrity, and the design of the New Zealand Biodiversity Assessment Framework. New Zealand journal of ecology 44: 3411. https://doi.org/

https://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.44.17

Roudier P, Burge OR, Richardson SJ, McCarthy JK, Grealish GJ, Ausseil AG 2020. National Scale 3D Mapping of Soil pH Using a Data Augmentation Approach. Remote Sensing 12(18). WOS:000580080400001 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12182872

Yletyinen J, Brown P, Pech R, Hodges D, Hulme PE, Malcolm TF, Maseyk FJF, Peltzer DA, Perry GLW, Richardson SJ, Smaill SJ, Stanley MC, Todd JH, Walsh PJ, Wright W, Tylianakis JM 2019. Understanding and Managing Social-Ecological Tipping Points in Primary Industries. Bioscience 69(5): 335-347. WOS:000469493500008 https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz031

Lyver POB, Timoti P, Jones CJ, Richardson SJ, Tahi BL, Greenhalgh S 2017. An indigenous community-based monitoring system for assessing forest health in New Zealand. Biodiversity and Conservation 26(13): 3183–3212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1142-6

Holdaway RJ, Easdale TA, Carswell FE, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Mason NWH, Brandon AM, Coomes DA 2017. Nationally representative plot network reveals contrasting drivers of net biomass change in secondary and old-growth forests. Ecosystems 20(5): 944–959. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-0084-x

Simpson AH, Richardson SJ, Laughlin DC 2016. Soil–climate interactions explain variation in foliar, stem, root and reproductive traits across temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25(8): 964–978. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12457

McGlone MS, Buitenwerf R, Richardson SJ 2016. The formation of the oceanic temperate forests of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 54(2): 128–155. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2016.1158196

Turner BL, Condron LM, France CAM, Lehmann J, Solomon D, Peltzer DA, Richardson SJ 2016. Sulfur dynamics during long-term ecosystem development. Biogeochemistry 128(3): 281–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-016-0208-6

Mason NWH, Frazao C, Buxton RP, Richardson SJ 2016. Fire form and function: evidence for exaptive flammability in the New Zealand flora. Plant Ecology 217(6): 645–659. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-016-0618-5

Kramer-Walter KR, Bellingham PJ, Millar TR, Smissen RD, Richardson SJ, Laughlin DC 2016. Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum. Journal of Ecology 104(5): 1299–1310. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12562

Hoare RJB, Millar IR, Richardson SJ 2016. The insect fauna of granite sand plains: a naturally rare ecosystem in New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 39(1): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00779962.2015.1108159

Bellingham PJ, Richardson SJ, Mason NWH, Veltman CJ, Allen RB, Allen WJ, Barker RJ, Forsyth DM, Nicol SJ, Ramsey DSL 2016. Introduced deer at low densities do not inhibit the regeneration of a dominant tree. Forest Ecology and Management 364: 70–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.12.013

Richardson SJ, Clayton R, Rance BD, Broadbent H, McGlone MS, Wilmshurst JM 2015. Small wetlands are critical for safeguarding rare and threatened plant species. Applied Vegetation Science 18(2): 230–241. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12144

Laughlin DC, Richardson SJ, Wright EF, Bellingham PJ 2015. Environmental filtering and positive plant litter feedback simultaneously explain correlations between leaf traits and soil fertility. Ecosystems 18(7): 1269–1280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-015-9899-0

Richardson SJ, Laughlin DC, Lawes MJ, Holdaway RJ, Wilmshurst JM, Wright M, Curran TJ, Bellingham PJ, McGlone MS 2015. Functional and environmental determinants of bark thickness in fire-free temperate rain forest communities. American Journal of Botany 102(10): 1590–1598. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1500157

Siefert A, Violle C, Chalmandrier L, Albert CH, Taudiere A, Fajardo A, Aarssen LW, Baraloto C, Carlucci MB, Cianciaruso MV, Dantas VdL, de Bello F, Duarte LDS, Fonseca CR, Freschet GT, Gaucherand S, Gross N, Hikosaka K, Jackson B, Jung V, Kamiyama C, Katabuchi M, Kembel SW, Kichenin E, Kraft NJB, Lagerström A, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Li Y, Mason N, Messier J, Nakashizuka T, Overton JM, Peltzer DA, Pérez-Ramos IM, Pillar VD, Prentice HC, Richardson S, Sasaki T, Schamp BS, Schöb C, Shipley B, Sundqvist M, Sykes MT, Vandewalle M, Wardle DA 2015. A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. Ecology Letters 18(12): 1406–1419. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12508

Martinez-Garcia LB, Richardson SJ, Tylianakis JM, Peltzer DA, Dickie IA 2015. Host identity is a dominant driver of mycorrhizal fungal community composition during ecosystem development. New Phytologist 205(4): 1565–1576. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13226

Smissen RD, Richardson SJ, Morse CW, Heenan PB 2014. Relationships, gene flow and species boundaries among New Zealand Fuscospora (Nothofagaceae: southern beech). New Zealand Journal of Botany 52(4): 389–406. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2014.960946

Richardson S 2014. Tiger stripes and leopard spots: a coastal shrubland in lowland Canterbury before and after fire. Trilepidea: Newsletter of the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network 125: 5–7.

Richardson SJ, Holdaway RJ, Carswell FE 2014. Evidence for arrested successional processes after fire in the Waikare River catchment, Te Urewera. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 38(2): 221–229.

Lawes MJ, Richardson SJ, Clarke PJ, Midgley JJ, McGlone MS, Bellingham PJ 2014. Bark thickness does not explain the different susceptibility of Australian and New Zealand temperate rain forests to anthropogenic fire. Journal of Biogeography 41(8): 1467–1477. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12292

Turner S, Schippers A, Meyer-Stüve S, Guggenberger G, Gentsch N, Dohrmann R, Condron LM, Eger A, Almond PC, Peltzer DA, Richardson SJ, Mikutta R 2014. Mineralogical impact on long-term patterns of soil nitrogen and phosphorus enzyme activities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 68: 31–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.09.016

Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM, Richardson SJ, Rawlence NJ, Wagstaff SJ, Worthy TH, Cooper A 2013. Resolving lost herbivore community structure using coprolites of four sympatric moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(42): 16910–16915. ISI:000325634200051 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1307700110

Dickie IA, Martínez-García LB, Koele N, Grelet G-A, Tylianakis JM, Peltzer DA, Richardson SJ 2013. Mycorrhizas and mycorrhizal fungal communities throughout ecosystem development. Plant and soil 367(1-2): 11-39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-013-1609-0

Richardson SJ, Bonner KI, Bickford CP 2013. Cold tolerance of photosynthesis as a determinant of tree species regeneration patterns in an evergreen temperate forest. Plant ecology 214(5): 787-798. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-013-0208-8

Richardson SJ, Allen RB, Buxton RP, Easdale TA, Hurst JM, Morse CW, Smissen RD, Peltzer DA 2013. Intraspecific relationships among wood density, leaf structural traits and environment in four co-occurring species of Nothofagus in New Zealand. PLOS One 8(3): e58878. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058878

Koele N, Dickie IA, Oleksyn J, Richardson SJ, Reich PB 2012. No globally consistent effect of ectomycorrhizal status on foliar traits. New phytologist 196(3): 845-852. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04297.x

Smissen RD, Morse CW, Prada D, Ramón-Laca A, Richardson SJ 2012. Characterisation of seven polymorphic microsatellites for Nothofagus subgenus Fuscospora from New Zealand. New Zealand journal of botany 50(2): 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825x.2012.662903

Mason NWH, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, de Bello F, Wardle DA, Allen RB 2012. Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity. Journal of ecology 100(3): 678-689. WOS:000302623200010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01965.x

Allen RB, Mason NWH, Richardson SJ, Platt KH 2012. Synchronicity, periodicity and bimodality in inter-annual tree seed production along an elevation gradient. Oikos 121(3): 367-376. WOS:000300877100006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19306.x

Richardson SJ, Williams PA, Mason NWH, Buxton RP, Courtney SP, Rance BD, Clarkson BR, Hoare RJB, St. John MG, Wiser SK 2012. Rare species drive local trait diversity in two geographically disjunct examples of a naturally rare alpine ecosystem in New Zealand. Journal of Vegetation Science 23(4): 626-639. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01396.x

Carswell FE, Doherty JE, Allen RB, Brignall-Theyer ME, Richardson SJ, Wiser SK 2012. Quantification of the effects of aboveground and belowground competition on growth of seedlings in a conifer–angiosperm forest. Forest ecology and management 269: 188–196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.12.027

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Memberships

  • New Zealand Journal of Ecology, New Zealand Journal of Ecology