By Professor Stephen Patrick Bonser

Book Chapters

Kuru A; Oldfield P; Bonser S; Fiorito F, 2021, 'Biomimetic adaptive building skins: design and performance', in Rethinking Building Skins Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories, pp. 181 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822477-9.00018-8

Enquist BJ; Norberg J; Bonser SP; Violle C; Webb CT; Henderson A; Sloat LL; Savage VM, 2015, 'Chapter Nine Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories', in Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function, Elsevier, pp. 249 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.02.001

Journal articles

Bonser SP; Gabriel V; Zeng K; Moles AT, 2025, 'The biocontrol paradox', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 40, pp. 586 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.012

Xirocostas ZA; Ollerton J; Peco B; Slavich E; Bonser SP; Pärtel M; Raghu S; Moles AT, 2024, 'Introduced species shed friends as well as enemies', Scientific Reports, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61788-8

Wang J; Liu K; Bonser SP; Liu Z; Jiang X; Cui H; Li Z; Chen J; Wang Y; Song H; Yang Z; An L; Xiao S; Chen S, 2024, 'Nitrogen addition reduces the positive effect of Ligularia virgaurea on seed germination of alpine species on the Tibetan Plateau', Plant and Soil, 501, pp. 307 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06517-w

Li T; Bonser SP; Liu Y; Lai C; Wang Q, 2024, 'Live biomass carbon density is related with species demographics in eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau forests', Ecological Indicators, 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112159

Wan JSH; Bonser SP; Pang CK; Fazlioglu F; Rutherford S, 2024, 'Adaptive responses to living in stressful habitats: Do invasive and native plant populations use different strategies?', Ecology Letters, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14419

Crowther C; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE, 2024, 'Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change', Evolution Letters, 8, pp. 64 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrad035

Xirocostas ZA; Ollerton J; Tamme R; Peco B; Lesieur V; Slavich E; Junker RR; Pärtel M; Raghu S; Uesugi A; Bonser SP; Chiarenza GM; Hovenden MJ; Moles AT, 2023, 'The great escape: patterns of enemy release are not explained by time, space or climate', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1022

Wang J; Bonser SP; Liu K; Liu Z; Gao H; Cui H; Chen J; Wang Y; Song H; Meng L; Yang X; Wang X; An L; Xiao S; Chen S, 2023, 'Warming affects herbaceous germination, early survival, and growth by shifting plant-soil microbe interactions in an alpine ecosystem', Plant and Soil, 487, pp. 249 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-05921-y

Zhang H; Chen SC; Bonser SP; Hitchcock T; Moles AT, 2023, 'Factors that shape large-scale gradients in clonality', Journal of Biogeography, 50, pp. 827 - 837, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14577

Flores-Moreno H; Dalrymple RL; Cornwell WK; Popovic G; Nakagawa S; Atkinson J; Cooke J; Laffan SW; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE; Crean AJ; Eldridge DJ; Garratt M; Brooks RC; Vergés A; Poore AGB; Cohen DR; Clark GF; Sen Gupta A; Reich PB; Cornelissen JHC; Craine JM; Hemmings FA; Kattge J; Niinemets Ü; Peñuelas J; Moles AT, 2023, 'Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1073842

Moles AT; Dalrymple RL; Raghu S; Bonser SP; Ollerton J, 2022, 'Advancing the missed mutualist hypothesis, the under-appreciated twin of the enemy release hypothesis', Biology Letters, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0220

Atkinson J; Simpson-Young C; Fifield G; Schneemann B; Bonser SP; Moles AT, 2022, 'Species and functional diversity of direct-seeded vegetation declines over 25 years', Ecological Management and Restoration, 23, pp. 252 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emr.12570

Atkinson J; Brudvig LA; Mallen-Cooper M; Nakagawa S; Moles AT; Bonser SP, 2022, 'Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta-analysis', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 1725 - 1737, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14025

Qi S; Wang J; Wan L; Dai Z; da Silva Matos DM; Du D; Egan S; Bonser SP; Thomas T; Moles AT, 2022, 'Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Contribute to Phosphorous Uptake and Allocation Strategies of Solidago canadensis in a Phosphorous-Deficient Environment', Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.831654

Santangelo JS; Ness RW; Cohan B; Fitzpatrick CR; Innes SG; Koch S; Miles LS; Munim S; Peres-Neto PR; Prashad C; Tong AT; Aguirre WE; Akinwole PO; Alberti M; Álvarez J; Anderson JT; Anderson JJ; Ando Y; Andrew NR; Angeoletto F; Anstett DN; Anstett J; Aoki-Gonçalves F; Andis Arietta AZ; Arroyo MTK; Austen EJ; Baena-Díaz F; Barker CA; Baylis HA; Beliz JM; Benitez-Mora A; Bickford D; Biedebach G; Blackburn GS; Boehm MMA; Bonser SP; Bonte D; Bragger JR; Branquinho C; Brans KI; Bresciano JC; Brom PD; Bucharova A; Burt B; Cahill JF; Campbell KD; Carlen EJ; Carmona D; Castellanos MC; Centenaro G; Chalen I; Chaves JA; Chávez-Pesqueira M; Chen XY; Chilton AM; Chomiak KM; Cisneros-Heredia DF; Cisse IK; Classen AT; Comerford MS; Fradinger CC; Corney H; Crawford AJ; Crawford KM; Dahirel M; David S; De Haan R; Deacon NJ; Dean C; del-Val E; Deligiannis EK; Denney D; Dettlaff MA; DiLeo MF; Ding YY; Domínguez-López ME; Dominoni DM; Draud SL; Dyson K; Ellers J; Espinosa CI; Essi L; Falahati-Anbaran M; Falcão JCF; Fargo HT; Fellowes MDE; Fitzpatrick RM; Flaherty LE; Flood PJ; Flores MF; Fornoni J; Foster AG; Frost CJ; Fuentes TL; Fulkerson JR; Gagnon E; Garbsch F; Garroway CJ; Gerstein AC; Giasson MM, 2022, 'Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover', Science, 375, pp. 1275 - 1281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0989

Al-Namazi AA; Bonser SP, 2022, 'Island biogeography, competition, and abiotic filtering together control species richness in habitat islands formed by nurse tree canopies in an arid environment', Communicative and Integrative Biology, 15, pp. 232 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2022.2139471

Atkinson J; Freudenberger D; Dwyer JM; Standish RJ; Moles AT; Bonser SP, 2022, 'Plant size and neighbourhood characteristics influence survival and growth in a restored ex-agricultural ecosystem', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12131

Bonser SP, 2021, 'Misinterpreting the adaptive value of phenotypic plasticity in studies on plant adaptation to new and variable environments', Plant Biology, 23, pp. 683 - 685, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/plb.13282

Kuru A; Oldfield P; Bonser S; Fiorito F, 2021, 'Performance prediction of biomimetic adaptive building skins: Integrating multifunctionality through a novel simulation framework', Solar Energy, 224, pp. 253 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.06.012

Al-Namazi A; Fazlioglu F; Bonser SP, 2021, 'Is plant reproductive efficiency expressed on a continuum of facilitation and competition?', Journal of Vegetation Science, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13043

Thomas E; Jansen M; Chiriboga-Arroyo F; Wadt LHO; Corvera-Gomringer R; Atkinson RJ; Bonser SP; Velasquez-Ramirez MG; Ladd B, 2021, 'Habitat Quality Differentiation and Consequences for Ecosystem Service Provision of an Amazonian Hyperdominant Tree Species', Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.621064

Atkinson J; Bonser SP, 2020, '“Active” and “passive” ecological restoration strategies in meta-analysis', Restoration Ecology, 28, pp. 1032 - 1035, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.13229

Kuru A; Oldfield P; Bonser S; Fiorito F, 2020, 'A framework to achieve multifunctionality in biomimetic adaptive building skins', Buildings, 10, pp. 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/BUILDINGS10070114

Chan JY; Bonser SP; Powell JR; Cornwell WK, 2020, 'Environmental cues for dispersal in a filamentous fungus in simulated islands', Oikos, 129, pp. 1084 - 1092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.07000

Qi SS; Liu YJ; Dai ZC; Wan LY; Du DL; Ju RT; Wan JSH; Bonser SP, 2020, 'Allelopathy confers an invasive Wedelia higher resistance to generalist herbivore and pathogen enemies over its native congener', Oecologia, 192, pp. 415 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04581-z

Simpson-Young C; Bonser SP, 2020, 'Do plants adaptively respond to future competition?', Acta Oecologica, 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103530

Al-Namazi AA; Bonser SP, 2020, 'Plant strategies in extremely stressful environments: are the effects of nurse plants positive on all understory species?', Journal of Plant Interactions, 15, pp. 233 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2020.1788183

Bonser SP, 2020, 'Size and phenology control plant reproduction and agricultural production. A commentary on: 'How plant allometry influences bud phenology and fruit yield in two Vaccinium species'', Annals of Botany, 126, pp. VI - VII, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/AOB/MCAA157

Kuru A; Oldfield P; Bonser S; Fiorito F, 2019, 'Biomimetic adaptive building skins: Energy and environmental regulation in buildings', Energy and Buildings, 205, pp. 109544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109544

Wan JSH; Rutherford S; Bonser SP, 2019, 'The invasion triangle in the range dynamics of invasive species following successful establishment', Evolutionary Ecology, 33, pp. 299 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-019-09986-z

Yeasmin R; Bonser SP; Motoki S; Nishihara E, 2019, 'Arbuscular mycorrhiza influences growth and nutrient uptake of asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) under heat stress', Hortscience, 54, pp. 846 - 850, http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI13587-18

Chan JY; Bonser SP; Powell JR; Cornwell WK, 2019, 'When to cut your losses: Dispersal allocation in an asexual filamentous fungus in response to competition', Ecology and Evolution, 9, pp. 4129 - 4137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5041

Duarte-Guardia S; Peri PL; Amelung W; Sheil D; Laffan SW; Borchard N; Bird MI; Dieleman W; Pepper DA; Zutta B; Jobbagy E; Silva LCR; Bonser SP; Berhongaray G; Piñeiro G; Martinez MJ; Cowie AL; Ladd B, 2019, 'Better estimates of soil carbon from geographical data: a revised global approach', Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 24, pp. 355 - 372, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11027-018-9815-y

Wan JSH; Fazlioglu F; Bonser S, 2019, 'Competitiveness of generalist plant populations at a mine site', Turkish Journal of Botany, http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/bot-1805-68

Wan JSH; Fazlioglu F; Bonser SP, 2018, 'Loss of plasticity in life-history strategy associated with secondary invasion into stressful environments in invasive narrowleaf plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.)', Austral Ecology, 43, pp. 752 - 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12599

Rutherford S; Rossetto M; Bragg JG; McPherson H; Benson D; Bonser SP; Wilson PG, 2018, 'Speciation in the presence of gene flow: Population genomics of closely related and diverging Eucalyptus species', Heredity, 121, pp. 126 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0073-2

Flores-Alvarez JL; Ladd B; Velez-Azañero A; De Mola UL; Bonser S, 2018, 'Using knowledge of plant persistence traits to optimize strategies for post-mine ecological restoration on the peruvian altiplano', Mountain Research and Development, 38, pp. 135 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-17-00088.1

Zhang H; Bonser SP; Chen SC; Hitchcock T; Moles AT, 2018, 'Is the proportion of clonal species higher at higher latitudes in Australia?', Austral Ecology, 43, pp. 69 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12536

Fazlioğlu F; Wan JSH; Bonser SP, 2018, 'Phenotypic plasticity and specialization along an altitudinal gradient in trifolium repens', Turkish Journal of Botany, 42, pp. 440 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/bot-1711-21

Archer M; Poore AGB; Horn AM; Bates H; Bonser S; Hunt M; Russell J; Archer NP; Bye DJ; Kehoe EJ, 2018, 'Thirty two years of continuous assessment reveal first year university biology students in Australia are rapidly abandoning beliefs in theistic involvement in human origins', Evolution Education and Outreach, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12052-018-0083-9

Li L; Bonser SP; Lan Z; Xu L; Chen J; Song Z, 2017, 'Water depth affects reproductive allocation and reproductive allometry in the submerged macrophyte Vallisneria natans', Scientific Reports, 7, pp. 16842, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16719-1

Sams MA; Lai HR; Bonser SP; Vesk PA; Kooyman RM; Metcalfe DJ; Morgan JW; Mayfield MM, 2017, 'Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26, pp. 1165 - 1176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12627

Wan JSH; Pang CK; Bonser SP, 2017, 'Does the Cost of Adaptation to Extremely Stressful Environments Diminish Over Time? A Literature Synthesis on How Plants Adapt to Heavy Metals and Pesticides', Evolutionary Biology, 44, pp. 411 - 426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-017-9419-6

Al-Namazi AA; El-Bana MI; Bonser SP, 2017, 'Competition and facilitation structure plant communities under nurse tree canopies in extremely stressful environments', Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 2747 - 2755, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2690

Fazlioglu F; Wan JSH; Bonser SP, 2017, 'Testing specialization hypothesis on a stress gradient', Austral Ecology, 42, pp. 40 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12399

Tabassum S; Bonser SP, 2017, 'Allometry in the terminal velocity - Dispersal architecture relationship explains variation in dispersal and offspring provisioning strategies in wind dispersed Asteraceae species', Australian Journal of Botany, 65, pp. 149 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/BT16180

Rutherford S; Bonser SP; Wilson PG; Rossetto M, 2017, 'Seedling response to environmental variability: The relationship between phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary history in closely related Eucalyptus species', American Journal of Botany, 104, pp. 840 - 857, http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1600439

Forster MA; Dalrymple RL; Bonser SP, 2016, 'A low watering treatment alters biomass allocation and growth rate but not heteroblastic development in an Acacia species', Trees Structure and Function, 30, pp. 2051 - 2059, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00468-016-1432-3

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