Jill Lancaster

From Insects to Frogs, Egg–Juvenile Recruitment Can have Persistent Effects on Population Sizes

Barbara J Downes, Barbara L Peckarsky, Jill Lancaster, William D Bovill, Maria Alp

Journal article  |  2021  |  Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Understanding what regulates population sizes of organisms with complex life cycles is challenging because limits on population si..

Hydrological controls on oviposition habitat are associated with egg-laying phenology of some caddisflies

Jill Lancaster, Stephen P Rice, Louise Slater, Rebecca E Lester, Barbara J Downes

Journal article  |  2021  |  Freshwater Biology

Abstract 1. Seasonal variation in resource availability can have strong effects on life histories and population densities. Emerge..

Using fractals to describe ecologically-relevant patterns in distributions of large rocks in streams

Georgia K Dwyer, Courtney Cummings, Stephen P Rice, Jill Lancaster, Barbara J Downes, Louise Slater, Rebecca E Lester

Journal article  |  2021  |  Water Resources Research

Measuring the physical complexity of habitats or ecological resources is often achieved using 27 system-specific methods that make..

Multi-year resource enrichment creates persistently higher species diversity in a landscape-scale field experiment

Jill Lancaster, Barbara J Downes

Journal article  |  2021  |  Ecology

Short-term resource enrichment can increase species diversity in communities, but prolonged resource enrichment may result in eith..

Coexistence of predatory caddisfly species may be facilitated by variations in the morphology of feeding apparatus and diet

Jill Lancaster

Journal article  |  2020  |  FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

1. The hypothesis of community‐wide character displacement (CWCD) predicts that coexisting species in the same guild should differ..

Capturing geomorphologial patterns in ecological resources: fractal dimensions describe fluvial rock distributions

Georgia K Dwyer, Stephen P Rice, Jill Lancaster, Barbara J Downes, Louise Slater, Rebecca E Lester

Presentation  |  2020

Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia in December 2020

Explaining species diversity in a fractal world

Rebecca E Lester, Georgia K Dwyer, Jill Lancaster, Stephen P Rice, Courtney R Cummings, Barbara J Downes

Presentation  |  2020

Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia, Dec 2020

Just add water: rapid assembly of new communities in previously dry riverbeds, and limited long-distance effects on existing communities

Andrew J Brooks, Jill Lancaster, Barbara J Downes, Benjamin Wolfenden

Journal article  |  2020  |  OECOLOGIA

Barriers preventing species from dispersing to a location can have a major influence on how communities assemble. Dispersal succes..

Avoidance and aggregation create consistent egg distribution patterns of congeneric caddisflies across spatially variable oviposition landscapes.

Jill Lancaster, Barbara J Downes, Rebecca E Lester, Stephen P Rice

Journal article  |  2020  |  Oecologia

Amongst oviparous animals, the spatial distribution of individuals is often set initially by where females lay eggs, with potentia..

Terrestrial-aquatic transitions: Local abundances and movements of mature female caddisflies are related to oviposition habits but not flight capability

Jill Lancaster, Barbara J Downes, Georgia K Dwyer

Journal article  |  2020  |  Freshwater Biology

1. Movement behaviours of adult aquatic insects can produce distinct spatial distribution patterns. Studies of adult abundance wit..