By Associate Professor Scott David Mooney

Book Chapters

Connor S; Herries A; Mooney S, 2018, 'Palaeoecology of the middle Tundzha Plain', in Ross S; Sobotkova A; Tzvetkova J; Nekhrizov ; Connor S (ed.), The Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project Surface Survey, Palaeoecology, and Associated Studies in Central and Southeast Bulgaria, 2009-2015 Final Report, Oxbow Books Limited, pp. 134 - 145

Mooney SD; Sniderman K; Kershaw AP; Haberle SG; Roe J, 2017, 'Quaternary Vegetation in Australia', in Keith D (ed.), Australian Vegetation, Cambridge University Press, pp. 63 - 88

Mooney SD; Martin HA, 2009, 'Environmental Conditions of the Past in the Blue Mountains', in Blue Mountains Dreaming The Aboriginal Heritage, pp. 23 - 40

Mooney SD, 1999, 'Earth`s biosphere', in Geographica:the complete illustrated reference to Australia and the World, Random House, Sydney, pp. 36 - 37

Mooney SD, 1999, 'Plants and animals', in Geographica:the complete illustrated reference to Australia and the World, Random House, Sydney, pp. 34 - 35

Journal articles

Sayedi SS; Abbott BW; Vannière B; Leys B; Colombaroli D; Romera GG; Słowiński M; Aleman JC; Blarquez O; Feurdean A; Brown K; Aakala T; Alenius T; Allen K; Andric M; Bergeron Y; Biagioni S; Bradshaw R; Bremond L; Brisset E; Brooks J; Brugger SO; Brussel T; Cadd H; Cagliero E; Carcaillet C; Carter V; Catry FX; Champreux A; Chaste E; Chavardès RD; Chipman M; Conedera M; Connor S; Constantine M; Courtney Mustaphi C; Dabengwa AN; Daniels W; De Boer E; Dietze E; Estrany J; Fernandes P; Finsinger W; Flantua SGA; Fox-Hughes P; Gaboriau DM; M.Gayo E; Girardin MP; Glenn J; Glückler R; González-Arango C; Groves M; Hamilton DS; Hamilton RJ; Hantson S; Hapsari KA; Hardiman M; Hawthorne D; Hoffman K; Inoue J; Karp AT; Krebs P; Kulkarni C; Kuosmanen N; Lacourse T; Ledru MP; Lestienne M; Long C; López-Sáez JA; Loughlin N; Niklasson M; Madrigal J; Maezumi SY; Marcisz K; Mariani M; McWethy D; Meyer G; Molinari C; Montoya E; Mooney S; Morales-Molino C; Morris J; Moss P; Oliveras I; Pereira JM; Pezzatti GB; Pickarski N; Pini R; Rehn E; Remy CC; Revelles J; Rius D; Robin V; Ruan Y; Rudaya N; Russell-Smith J; Seppä H; Shumilovskikh L; T.Sommers W; Tavşanoğlu Ç, 2024, 'Assessing changes in global fire regimes', Fire Ecology, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9

Cadd H; Williams AN; Saktura WM; Cohen TJ; Mooney SD; He C; Otto‐Bliesner B; Turney CSM, 2024, 'Last Glacial Maximum cooling induced positive moisture balance and maintained stable human populations in Australia', Communications Earth and Environment, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01204-1

Mariani M; Wills A; Herbert A; Adeleye M; Florin SA; Cadd H; Connor S; Kershaw P; Theuerkauf M; Stevenson J; Fletcher MS; Mooney S; Bowman D; Haberle S, 2024, 'Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia', Science (New York, N.Y.), 386, pp. 567 - 573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adn8668

Ryan R; Thomas Z; Simkovic I; Dlapa P; Worthy M; Wasson R; Bradstock R; Mooney S; Haynes K; Dosseto A, 2024, 'Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy', International Journal of Wildland Fire, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF24064

Hamilton R; Gillespie J; Penny D; Ingrey S; Mooney S, 2024, 'Re-imagining Sydney’s freshwater wetlands through historical ecology', Landscape Research, 49, pp. 268 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2023.2271421

Constantine M; Zhu X; Cadd H; Mooney S, 2023, 'The transition from an Indigenous to a European influenced fire regime at Lake Werri Berri, south-east Australia', Holocene, 33, pp. 505 - 517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836231151827

Constantine M; Williams AN; Francke A; Cadd H; Forbes M; Cohen TJ; Zhu X; Mooney SD, 2023, 'Exploration of the Burning Question: A Long History of Fire in Eastern Australia with and without People', Fire, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire6040152

Constantine IV M; Zhu X; Cadd H; Mooney S, 2023, 'Investigating the Effect of Oxidants on the Quantification and Characterization of Charcoal in Two Southeast Australian Sedimentary Records', Fire, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire6020054

Constantine M; Mooney S, 2022, 'Widely used charcoal analysis method in paleo studies involving NaOCl results in loss of charcoal formed below 400°C', Holocene, 32, pp. 1358 - 1362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836211041740

Francke A; Dosseto A; Forbes M; Cadd H; Short J; Sherborne-Higgins B; Constantine M; Tyler J; Tibby J; Marx SK; Dodson J; Mooney S; Cohen TJ, 2022, 'Catchment vegetation and erosion controlled soil carbon cycling in south-eastern Australia during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles', Global and Planetary Change, 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103922

Thomas ZA; Mooney S; Cadd H; Baker A; Turney C; Schneider L; Hogg A; Haberle S; Green K; Weyrich LS; Perez V; Moore NE; Zawadzki A; Kelloway SJ; Khan SJ, 2022, 'Corrigendum to “Late Holocene climate anomaly concurrent with fire activity and ecosystem shifts in the eastern Australian Highlands” [Sci. Total Environ. 802 (2021)149542](S0048969721046167)(10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149542)', Science of the Total Environment, 811, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152367

Thomas ZA; Mooney S; Cadd H; Baker A; Turney C; Schneider L; Hogg A; Haberle S; Green K; Weyrich LS; Pérez V; Moore NE; Zawadzki A; Kelloway SJ; Khan SJ, 2022, 'Late Holocene climate anomaly concurrent with fire activity and ecosystem shifts in the eastern Australian Highlands', Science of the Total Environment, 802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149542

Mooney S; Martin L; Goff J; Young ARM, 2021, 'Sedimentation and organic content in the mires and other sites of sediment accumulation in the Sydney region, eastern Australia, in the period after the Last Glacial Maximum', Quaternary Science Reviews, 272, pp. 107216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107216

Constantine M; Mooney S; Hibbert B; Marjo C; Bird M; Cohen T; Forbes M; McBeath A; Rich A; Stride J, 2021, 'Using charcoal, ATR FTIR and chemometrics to model the intensity of pyrolysis: Exploratory steps towards characterising fire events', Science of the Total Environment, 783, pp. 147052, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147052

Morrison KD; Hammer E; Boles O; Madella M; Whitehouse N; Gaillard MJ; Bates J; Linden MV; Merlo S; Yao A; Popova L; Hill AC; Antolin F; Bauer A; Biagetti S; Bishop RR; Buckland P; Cruz P; Dreslerová D; Dusseldorp G; Ellis E; Filipovic D; Foster T; Hannaford MJ; Harrison SP; Hazarika M; Herold H; Hilpert J; Kaplan JO; Kay A; Goldewijk KK; Kolár J; Kyazike E; Laabs J; Lancelotti C; Lane P; Lawrence D; Lewis K; Lombardo U; Lucarini G; Arroyo-Kalin M; Marchant R; Mayle F; McClatchie M; McLeester M; Mooney S; Moskal-Del Hoyo M; Navarrete V; Ndiema E; Neves EG; Nowak M; Out WA; Petrie C; Phelps LN; Pinke Z; Rostain S; Russell T; Sluyter A; Styring AK; Tamanaha E; Thomas E; Veerasamy S; Welton L; Zanon M, 2021, 'Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization', PLoS ONE, 16, pp. e0246662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662

Forbes M; Cohen T; Jacobs Z; Marx S; Barber E; Dodson J; Zamora A; Cadd H; Francke A; Constantine M; Mooney S; Short J; Tibby J; Parker A; Cendón D; Peterson M; Tyler J; Swallow E; Haines H; Gadd P; Woodward C, 2021, 'Comparing interglacials in eastern Australia: A multi-proxy investigation of a new sedimentary record', Quaternary Science Reviews, 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106750

Barry L; Graham IT; Mooney SD; Toms PS; Wood JC; Williams AN, 2021, 'Tracking an exotic raw material: Aboriginal movement through the Blue Mountains, Sydney, NSW during the Terminal Pleistocene', Australian Archaeology, 87, pp. 63 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2020.1823086

Mooney SD; Hope G; Horne D; Kamminga J; Williams AN, 2020, 'Fire, humans and climate as drivers of environmental change on Broughton Island, New South Wales, Australia', Holocene, 30, pp. 1528 - 1539, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683620941067

Green J; Mooney S; Hemmings F, 2020, 'Reconstruction of the pre-European vegetation of Wolgan Valley, western Blue Mountains, NSW', Cunninghamia, 20, pp. 139 - 152, https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/getmedia/9be7a8a9-6390-413c-812b-5a4cb3008356/BGD0588_Cunninghamia-2020-GREEN-Wolgan-Valley.pdf.aspx

Zheng X; Harper J; Hope G; Mooney SD, 2019, 'A new preparation method for testate amoebae in minerogenic sediments', Mires and Peat, 24, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2018.OMB.380

McGlynn G; Lejju J; Dalton C; Mooney SD; Rose NL; Tompkins AM; Bannister W; Tan ZD; Zheng X; Rühland KM; Taylor D, 2019, 'Aquatic ecosystem changes in a global biodiversity hotspot: Evidence from the Albertine Rift, central Africa', Journal of Biogeography, 46, pp. 2098 - 2114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13643

Hope G; Mooney S; Allen K; Baker P; Keaney B; Kemp J; Martin L; Pearson S; Stevenson J; Zheng X, 2019, 'Science Through Time: Understanding the Archive at Rennix Gap Bog, a Sub-alpine Peatland in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, Australia', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 141, pp. 25 - 47, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/LIN/article/view/13433

Martin L; Goff J; Jacobsen G; Mooney S, 2019, 'The radiocarbon ages of different organic components in the mires of Eastern Australia', Radiocarbon, 61, pp. 173 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2018.118

Zissimos AM; Christoforou IC; Cohen DR; Mooney SD; Rutherford NF, 2019, 'Spatial distribution and controls on organic and inorganic carbon in the soils of Cyprus', Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 196, pp. 95 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2018.10.005

Zheng X; Amesbury MJ; Hope G; Martin LF; Mooney SD, 2019, 'Testate amoebae as a hydrological proxy for reconstructing water-table depth in the mires of south-eastern Australia', Ecological Indicators, 96, pp. 701 - 710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.09.019

Thomas Z; Jones R; Fogwill C; Hatton J; Williams A; Hogg A; Mooney S; Jones P; Lister D; Mayewski P; Turney C, 2018, 'Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene', Climate of the Past, 14, pp. 1727 - 1738, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1727-2018

Ackerley D; Reeves J; Barr C; Bostock H; Fitzsimmons K; Fletcher M-S; Gouramanis C; McGregor H; Mooney S; Phipps SJ; Tibby J; Tyler J, 2017, 'Evaluation of PMIP2 and PMIP3 simulations of mid-Holocene climate in the Indo-Pacific, Australasian and Southern Ocean regions', Climate of the Past, 13, pp. 1661 - 1684, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1661-2017

Tibby J; Barr C; Marshall JC; McGregor GB; Moss PT; Arnold LJ; Page TJ; Questiaux D; Olley J; Kemp J; Spooner N; Petherick L; Penny D; Mooney S; Moss E, 2017, 'Persistence of wetlands on North Stradbroke Island (south-east Queensland, Australia) during the last glacial cycle: implications for Quaternary science and biogeography', Journal of Quaternary Science, 32, pp. 770 - 781, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2981

Sharples JJ; Cary GJ; Fox-Hughes P; Mooney S; Evans JP; Fletcher MS; Fromm M; Grierson PF; McRae R; Baker P, 2016, 'Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire', Climatic Change, 139, pp. 85 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1811-1

Mooney SD; Martin L, 2016, 'The unique and surprising environments of Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) in the Blue Mountains, NSW', Australasian Plant Conservation

Turney CSM; Jones RT; Fogwill C; Hatton J; Williams AN; Hogg A; Thomas ZA; Palmer J; Mooney S; Reimer RW, 2016, 'A 250-year periodicity in Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the last 2600 years', Climate of the Past, 12, pp. 189 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-189-2016

Williams AN; Mooney SD; Sisson SA; Marlon J, 2015, 'Exploring the relationship between Aboriginal population indices and fire in Australia over the last 20,000years', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 432, pp. 49 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.04.030

Turney C; Jones R; Fogwill C; Hatton J; Williams AN; Hogg A; Thomas Z; Palmer J; Mooney S, 2015, 'A 250 year periodicity in Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the last 2600 years', Climate of the Past Discussions, 11, pp. 2159 - 2180, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-11-2159-2015

Bostock HC; Lowe DJ; Gillespie R; Priestley R; Newham RM; Mooney SD, 2015, 'The advent of the Anthropocene in Australasia', Quaternary Australasia, 32, pp. 7 - 16

Martin L; Mooney S; Goff J, 2014, 'Coastal wetlands reveal a non-synchronous island response to sea-level change and a palaeostorm record from 5.5 kyr to present', Holocene, 24, pp. 569 - 580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683614522306

Long T; Qin J; Atahan P; Mooney S; Taylor D, 2014, 'Rising waters: New geoarchaeological evidence of inundation and early agriculture from former settlement sites on the southern Yangtze Delta, China', Holocene, 24, pp. 546 - 558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683614522309

Wroe S; Field JH; Archer M; Grayson DK; Price GJ; Louys J; Faith JT; Webb GE; Davidson I; Mooney SD, 2013, 'Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1310440110

Petherick L; Bostock H; Cohen TJ; Fitzsimmons K; Tibby J; Fletcher MS; Moss P; Reeves J; Mooney S; Barrows T; Kemp J; Jansen J; Nanson G; Dosseto A, 2013, 'Climatic records over the past 30ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup', Quaternary Science Reviews, 74, pp. 58 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.12.012

Wroe S; Field JH; Archer M; Grayson DK; Price GJ; Louys J; Faith JT; Webb GE; Davidson I; Mooney SD, 2013, 'Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene australia-new guinea)', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, pp. 8777 - 8781, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302698110

Reeves J; Barrows T; Cohen TJ; Kiem A; Bostock H; Fitzsimmons K; Jansen J; Kemp J; Krause C; Krause L; Phipps SJ; Oz-intimate M, 2013, 'Climate variability over the last 35,000 years recorded in marine and terrestrial archives in the Australian region: an OZ-INTIMATE compilation', Quaternary Science Reviews, 74, pp. 21 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.001

Mcglynn G; Mooney SD; Taylor D, 2013, 'Palaeoecological evidence for Holocene environmental change from the Virunga volcanoes in the Albertine Rift, central Africa', Quaternary Science Reviews, 61, pp. 32 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.008

Mooney S, 2012, 'Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia', Quaternary International, 279-280, pp. 334 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.969

Chague-Goff C; Goff J; Nichol SL; Dudley W; Zawadzki A; Bennett JW; Mooney SD; Fierro D; Heijnis H; Dominey-Howes D; Courtney C, 2012, 'Multi-proxy evidence for trans-Pacific tsunamis in the Hawai'ian Islands', Marine Geology, 299-302, pp. 77 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2011.12.010

Mooney SD; Harrison SP; Bartlein PJ; Daniau AL; Stevenson J; Brownlie KC; Buckman S; Cupper ML; Luly JG; Black M; Colhoun E; D''costa DM; Dodson J; Haberle S; Hope GS; Kershaw PA; Kenyon C; Mckenzie M; Williams N, 2011, 'Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia', Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, pp. 28 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.010

Mooney SD, 2011, 'The analysis of charcoal in peat and organic sediments', Mires and Peat, 7, pp. 1 - 18, http://www.mires-and-peat.net/map07/map_07_09.pdf

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