Select Publications
Journal articles
2010, 'Poisson point process models solve the “pseudo-absence problem" for presence-only data in ecology', Annals of Applied Statistics, 4, pp. 1383 - 1402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS331
,2009, 'Global patterns in plant height', Journal of Ecology, 97, pp. 923 - 932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01526.x
,2008, 'Penalized normal likelihood and ridge regularization of correlation and covariance matrices', Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, pp. 340 - 349
,2008, 'Raw data graphing: an informative but under-utilized tool for the analysis of multivariate abundances', Austral Ecology, 33, pp. 290 - 300
,2008, 'Which Wald statistic? Choosing a parameterization of the Wald statistic to maximize power in k-sample generalized estimating equations', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, pp. 3269 - 3282
,2007, 'A metacommunity-scale comparison of species-abundance distribution models for plant communities of eastern Australia', Ecography, 30, pp. 449 - 458
,2007, 'Global meta-analysis shows that relationships of leaf mass per area with species shade tolerance depend on leaf habit and ontogeny', New Phytologist, 176, pp. 764 - 774
,2007, 'How many words do you know? An integrated assesment task for introductory statistics students', Journal of Statistics Education, 15
,2007, 'Robustness to failure of assumptions of tests for a common slope amongst several allometric lines a simulation study', Biometrical Journal, 49, pp. 286 - 299
,2006, 'Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry', Biological Reviews, 81, pp. 259 - 291
,2006, 'Evidence at hand: Diversity, functional implications, and locomotor prediction in intrinsic hand proportions of Doprotodtian marsupials', Journal of Morphology, 267, pp. 1469 - 1485
,2005, 'Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships', New Phytologist, 166, pp. 485 - 496
,2005, 'Many zeros does not mean zero inflation: comparing the goodness-of-fit of parametric models to multivariate abundance data', Environmetrics, 16, pp. 275 - 289
,2005, 'Modelling of wildlife fatality hotspots along the Snowy Mountain Highway in New South Wales, Australia', Biological Conservation, 126, pp. 474 - 490
,2005, 'Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14, pp. 411 - 421
,2004, 'A manova statistic is just as powerful as distance-based statistics,for multivariate abundances', Ecology, 85, pp. 858 - 874
,2004, 'Does a latitudinal gradient in seedling survival favour larger seeds inthe tropics?', Ecology Letters, 7, pp. 911 - 914
,2004, 'Sprouting by semi-arid plants: testing a dichotomy and predictive traits', Oikos, 107, pp. 72 - 89
,2003, 'Do small-seeded species have higher survival through seed predation than large-seeded species?', Ecology, 84, pp. 3148 - 3161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/02-0662
,2003, 'Seed size and survival in the soil in arid Australia', Austral Ecology, 28, pp. 575 - 585
,2003, 'Site-to-site variation in the demography of a fire-affected perennial, Acacia suaveolens, at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales, Australia', Austral Ecology, 28, pp. 38 - 47
,2002, 'Common slope tests for bivariate errors-in-variables models', Biometrical Journal, 44, pp. 161 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1521-4036(200203)44:2<161::AID-BIMJ161>3.0.CO;2-N
,2000, 'The Time Value of Leaf Area.', Am Nat, 155, pp. 649 - 656, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/303346
,1997, 'The fungicides terrazole and terraclor and the nematicide fenamiphos have little effect on root colonisation by Glomus mosseae and growth of cotton seedlings', Mycorrhiza, 7, pp. 155 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s005720050175
,Conference Papers
2022, 'Three-dimensional architecture and diffusion properties of the medial gastrocnemius muscle in human infants in vivo', in ISMRM Annual Meeting, ISMRM, presented at Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB ISMRT 31st Annual Meeting, 07 May 2022 - 12 May 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.58530/2022/3094
,2002, 'HYPOTHESIS TESTING OF MULTIVARIATE ABUNDANCE DATA', in Advances in Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, pp. 349 - 360, presented at Proceedings of the Wollongong Conference, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812776372_0031
,Preprints
2024, How many sites? Methods to assist design decisions when collecting multivariate data in ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.170669637.74281860/v1
,2024, Novel community data in ecology -- properties and prospects, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2401.10860
,2024, Yes, they’re all individuals: Hierarchical models from repeat measurement data improve estimates of tree growth and size, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.27.609830
,2022, How many sites? Methods to assist design decisions when collecting multivariate data in ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2206.09524
,2020, Generalized Matrix Factorization: efficient algorithms for fitting generalized linear latent variable models to large data arrays, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2010.02469
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