Jamie Wood

Research Interests
Research Interests
ancient DNA, environmental DNA, extinctions, molecular ecology, palaeoecology, palynology, phylogenetics
ancient DNA, environmental DNA, extinctions, molecular ecology, palaeoecology, palynology, phylogenetics
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2018
Minoshima YN, Seidel M, Wood JR,
Leschen RAB, Gunter NL, Fikáček M (In press) Morphology and biology of the flower-visiting water
scavenger beetle genus Rygmodus
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae).
Entomological Science.
Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM, McGlone MS (In
press) Two new Holocene vegetation records
from the margins of the Canterbury Plains, South Island, New Zealand. New
Zealand Journal of Ecology 42.
Parducci L, Nota K, Wood JR (2018) Reconstructing
past vegetation communities using ancient DNA from lake sediments. In: Population Genomics. Springer, Cham.
Wood JR (2018) DNA barcoding of ancient parasites. Parasitology
145: 646-655.
Mendez V, Wood JR, Butler SJ (2018) Resource diversity and provenance underpin spatial patterns
in functional diversity across native and exotic species. Ecology
and Evolution 8: 4409-4421.
Carpenter J, Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM,
Kelly D (2018) An avian seed dispersal paradox: New
Zealand’s extinct megafaunal birds did not disperse large seeds. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20180352.
Cole TL, Wood JR. (2018) The ancient DNA revolution: the latest era in unearthing New
Zealand’s faunal history.
New Zealand Journal of Zoology 45:
91-120.
Boast AP, Weyrich LS, Wood JR, Metcalf
JL, Knight R, Cooper A (2018) Coprolites reveal ecological
interactions lost with the extinction of New Zealand birds. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115: 1546-1551.
Zale R, Huang Y-T, Bigler C, Wood JR,
Dalén L, Wang X-R, Segerström U, Klaminder J (2018) Growth of Plants on the Late Weichselian Ice-sheet During
Greenland Interstadial-1?
Quaternary Science Reviews 185:
222-229.
Cole TL, Waters JM, Shepherd L,
Rawlence NJ, Joseph L, Wood JR (2018) Ancient DNA reveals that the ‘extinct’ Hunter Island penguin
(Tasidyptes hunteri) is not a
distinct taxon.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
182: 459-464.
Lear G, Dickie I, Banks J, Boyer S,
Buckley HL, Buckley TR, Cruickshank R, Dopheide A, Handley KM, Hermans S, Kamke
J, Lee CK, MacDiarmid R, Morales SE, Orlovich DA, Smissen R, Wood JR, Holdaway
RJ (2018) Methods for the extraction, storage,
amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples. New
Zealand Journal of Ecology 42: 10-50A.
Orwin KH, Dickie IA, Holdaway RJ, Wood
JR (2018) A comparison of the ability of PLFA and
16S rRNA gene metabarcoding to resolve soil community change and predict
ecosystem functions.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry 117:
27-35.
2017
Cole TL, Wood JR (2017) Hybridisation in the last remaining
individuals of the extinct Fiordland population of brown teal (Anas chlorotis).
Records of the Canterbury Museum 31: 159-165.
Wood JR, Holdaway RJ, Orwin KH, Morse
C, Bonner KI, Davis C, Bolstridge N, Dickie IA (2017) No single driver of biodiversity: divergent responses of
multiple taxa across land use types. Ecosphere 8:
e01997.
Wood JR, Alcover JA, Blackburn TM,
Bover P, Duncan RP, Hume JP, Louys J, Meijer HJM, Rando JC, Wilmshurst JM (2017)
Island extinctions: patterns,
processes, and potential for ecosystem restoration. Environmental
Conservation 44: 348-358.
Holdaway RJ, Wood JR, Dickie IA, Orwin
KH, Bellingham PJ, Richardson SJ, Lyver P O’B, Timoti P, Buckley TR (2017) Using DNA metabarcoding to assess New Zealand’s terrestrial
biodiversity.
New Zealand Journal of Ecology 41:
251-262.
Wood JR, Scofield RP, Wilmshurst JM (2017)
Bone stable isotopes indicate a high trophic position for
New Zealand’s extinct South Island adzebill (Aptornis defossor) (Gruiformes: Aptornithidae). New
Zealand Journal of Ecology 41: 240-244.
Parducci L, Bennett KD, Ficetola GF,
Greve IA, Suyama Y, Wood JR, Pedersen MW (2017) Ancient plant DNA from lake sediments. New
Phytologist 214: 924-942.
Wood JR, Perry GLW, Wilmshurst JM (2017)
Using palaeoecology to determine
baseline ecological requirements and interaction networks for de-extinction
candidate species.
Functional Ecology 31: 1012-1020.
Wood JR, Mitchell KJ, Scofield RP, de
Pietri, V.L., Rawlence NJ, Cooper A (2017) Phylogenetic relationships and terrestrial adaptations of
the extinct laughing owl (Sceloglaux
albifacies).
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
179: 907-918.
Wood JR, Lawrence HA, Scofield RP,
Taylor GA, Lyver PO’B, Gleeson DM (2017) Morphological, behavioural and genetic evidence supports
reinstatement of full-species status for grey-faced petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi
(Procellariiformes: Procellariidae). Zoological Journal
of the Linnean Society 179: 201-216.
Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM (2017) Changes in New Zealand forest plant communities following
the prehistoric extinction of avian megaherbivores. Journal
of Vegetation Science 28: 160-171.
Turney CSM, Wilmshurst JM, Jones RT, Wood
JR, Palmer J, Hogg A, Fenwick P, Crowley SF, Privat K, Thomas Z (2017) Reconstructing atmospheric circulation
over southern New Zealand: Establishment of modern westerly airflow 5500 years
ago and implications for Southern Hemisphere Holocene climate change. Quaternary
Science Reviews 159: 77-87.
Scofield RP, Mitchell KJ, Wood JR,
Jarvie S, Llamas B, Cooper A (2017) Origin and phylogenetic relationships of the New Zealand
ravens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
106: 136-143.
2016
Wood JR, Herrera MJB, Scofield RP,
Wilmshurst JM (2016) Origin and timing of the earliest
domestic chickens in New Zealand: Polynesian commensals or European
introductions?
Royal Society Open Science 3: 160258.
Orwin KH, Dickie IA, Wood JR, Bonner
KI, Holdaway RJ (2016) Soil microbial community structure explains the resistance
of respiration to a dry-rewet cycle, but not soil functions, under static
conditions. Functional Ecology 30: 1430-1439.
Wood JR (2016) Spatial distribution of late Holocene bird bones in the
Mason Bay dune system, Stewart Island, New Zealand. Journal
of the Royal Society of New Zealand 46: 103-116.
Mitchell KJ, Wood JR, Llamas B,
McLenachan PA, Kardailsky O, Scofield RP, Worthy TH, Cooper A (2016) Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary
history of New Zealand's enigmatic acanthisittid wrens. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 102: 295-304.
Rawlence NJ, Wood JR, Bocherens H,
Rogers K (2016) Dietary interpretations for the extinct
moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) using coprolites and stable isotopes:
complimentary or contradictory? Quaternary Science
Reviews 142: 173-178.
Huang Y, Lowe DJ, Heng
Z, Cursons R, Young JM, Churchman J, Schipper LA, Rawlence NJ, Wood JR, Cooper
A (2016) A new method to extract and purify DNA
from allophanic soils and paleosols, and potential for paleoenvironmental
reconstruction and other applications. Geoderma
274: 114-125.
Wood JR, Crown A, Cole
TL, Wilmshurst JM (2016) Microscopic and ancient DNA profiling of Polynesian dog
(kurī) coprolites from northern New Zealand. Journal
of Archaeological Science Reports 6: 496-505.
Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM
(2016) A protocol for subsampling Late
Quaternary coprolites for multi-proxy analysis. Quaternary Science Reviews 138: 1-5.
Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM, Turney CSM,
Fogwill CJ (2016) Palaeoecological signatures of
vegetation change induced by herbivory regime shifts on subantarctic Enderby
Island. Quaternary Science Reviews 134: 51-58.
Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM, Newnham R, McGlone
MS (2016) Evolution and ecological change during the New Zealand Quaternary. In:
J. Shulmeister (ed.), Landscape
and Quaternary Environmental Change in New Zealand, Atlantis Advances in Quaternary
Science 3, pp. 235-291.
2015
Lyver PO’B, Wilmshurst JM, Wood JR,
Jones CJ, Fromont M, Bellingham PJ, Stone C, Sheehan M, Moller H (2015) Looking back for the future: Local knowledge and
palaeoecology inform bicultural restoration of New Zealand coastal ecosystems. Human
Ecology 43: 681-695.
Wood JR, De Pietri VL (2015) Next-generation paleornithology: technological and
methodological advances allow new insights into the evolutionary and ecological
histories of living birds.
The Auk 132: 486-506.
Rogers GND, Bonner KI, Wood JR,
Wilmshurst JM (2015) The rail-cutter: a simple, cheap and compact system for
opening sediment cores in the lab and field. Journal of
Paleolimnology 53: 433-436.
Wood JR, Dickie IA, Moeller HV, Peltzer
DA, Bonner KI, Rattray G, Wilmshurst JM (2015) Novel interactions between non-native mammals and fungi
facilitate establishment of invasive pines. Journal of Ecology 103: 121-129.
2014
McWethy DB, Wilmshurst JM, Whitlock C, Wood
JR, McGlone MS (2014) A high-resolution chronology of rapid forest transitions
following Polynesian arrival in New Zealand. PLoS ONE 9: e111328.
Perry GL, Wheeler A, Wood JR,
Wilmshurst JM (2014) A high-precision chronology for the
rapid extinction of New Zealand moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes). Quaternary
Science Reviews 105: 126-135.
Rawlence NJ, Lowe D, Wood JR, Young J,
Churchman GJ, Huang Y, Cooper A (2014) Using palaeoenvironmental DNA to reconstruct past
environments: progress and prospects. Journal of
Quaternary Science 29: 610-626.
Thomson VA, Lebrasseur O, Austin JJ,
Hunt TL, Burney DA, Denham T, Rawlence NJ, Wood JR, Gongora J, Girland Flink L,
Linderholm A, Dobney K, Larson G, Cooper A (2014) Reply to Beavan, Bryant, and Matisoo-Smith and Storey:
Ancestral Polynesian ‘D’ haplotypes reflect Pacific chicken lineages. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: E3585-E3586.
Tennyson AJD, Easton L, Wood JR (2014) Kea (Nestor notabilis) - another North Island post-settlement extinction. Notornis
61: 174-176.
Wood JR, Mitchell KJ, Scofield RP,
Tennyson AJD, Fidler AE, Wilmshurst JM, Llamas B, Cooper A (2014) An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae)
from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Zoological Journal
of the Linnean Society 172: 185-199.
Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM (2014) Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrate
coprolites from New Zealand.
Quaternary Science Reviews 98: 33-44.
Mitchell KJ, Llamas B, Soubrier J,
Rawlence NJ, Worthy TH, Wood JR, Lee MSY, Cooper A (2014) Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa
and clarifies ratite bird evolution. Science 344:
898-900.
Thomson VA, Lebrasseur O, Austin JJ,
Hunt TL, Burney DA, Denham T, Rawlence NJ, Wood JR, Gongora J, Girland Flink L,
Linderholm A, Dobney K, Larson G, Cooper A (2014) Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of
ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 4826-4831.
Wilmshurst JM, Moar NT, Wood JR,
Bellingham P, Findlater A, Robinson J, Stone C (2014) Pollen and ancient DNA provide conservation baselines for
offshore islands in New Zealand. Conservation Biology
28: 202-212.
Mitchell KJ, Wood JR, Scofield RP,
Llamas B, Cooper A (2014) Ancient mitochondrial genome reveals unsuspected taxonomic
affinity of the extinct Chatham duck (Pachyanas
chathamica) and resolves divergence times for New Zealand and sub-Antarctic
brown teals.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70:
420-428.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Otago
PhD Palaeoecology
2007 - Otago
BSc (Hons) Geology
2002
Skills
Skills
- Palaeoecology
- Palaeobotany
- Molecular Biology
- Geology
- Ornithology