James Camac

Survival and growth of a high-mountain daisy transplanted outside its local range, and implications for climate-induced distribution shifts.

Emma E Sumner, John W Morgan, Susanna E Venn, James S Camac

Journal article  |  2022  |  AoB Plants

Field transplant experiments can improve our understanding of the effects of climate on distributions of plants versus a milieu of..

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

Daniel Falster, Rachael Gallagher, Elizabeth H Wenk, Ian J Wright, Dony Indiarto, Samuel C Andrew, Caitlan Baxter, James Lawson, Stuart Allen, Anne Fuchs, Anna Monro, Fonti Kar, Mark A Adams, Collin W Ahrens, Matthew Alfonzetti, Tara Angevin, Deborah MG Apgaua, Stefan Arndt, Owen K Atkin, Joe Atkinson, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENTIFIC DATA

We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTrait..

Predicting species and community responses to global change using structured expert judgement: An Australian mountain ecosystems case study

James S Camac, Kate DL Umbers, John W Morgan, Sonya R Geange, Anca Hanea, Rachel A Slatyer, Keith L McDougall, Susanna E Venn, Peter A Vesk, Ary A Hoffmann, Adrienne B Nicotra

Journal article  |  2021  |  GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Conservation managers are under increasing pressure to make decisions about the allocation of finite resources to protect biodiver..

Health and economic costs of early and delayed suppression and the unmitigated spread of COVID-19: The case of Australia

Tom Kompas, R Quentin Grafton, Tuong Nhu Che, Long Chu, James Camac

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS ONE

We compare the health and economic costs of early and delayed mandated suppression and the unmitigated spread of 'first-wave' COVI..

Efficient effort allocation in line-transect distance sampling of high-density species: When to walk further, measure less-often and gain precision

Kathryn Knights, Michael A McCarthy, James Camac, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

Journal article  |  2021  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Line-transect distance sampling is widely used to estimate population densities using distances of observed targets from transect ..

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

Jens Kattge, Gerhard Boenisch, Sandra Diaz, Sandra Lavorel, Iain Colin Prentice, Paul Leadley, Susanne Tautenhahn, Gijsbert DA Werner, Tuomas Aakala, Mehdi Abedi, Alicia TR Acosta, George C Adamidis, Kairi Adamson, Masahiro Aiba, Cecile H Albert, Julio M Alcantara, Carolina C Alcazar, Izabela Aleixo, Hamada Ali, Bernard Amiaud, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant traits-the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants-determine how pl..

Climate change threatens the most biodiverse regions of Mexico

Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, Linda J Beaumont, Jonathan Lenoir, John B Baumgartner, Jennifer McGowan, Alexander Correa-Metrio, James S Camac

Journal article  |  2019  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Climate change threatens Earth's biodiversity, although its impacts are variable and depend on the capacity of species and ecosyst..

Climate change: Alpine shrubs as ecosystem engineers

Susanna Venn, Isla Myers-Smith, James Camac, Adrienne Nicotra

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

Natalie J Briscoe, Jane Elith, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort, James S Camac, Katherine M Giljohann, Matthew H Holden, Bronwyn A Hradsky, Michael R Kearney, Sean M McMahon, Ben L Phillips, Tracey J Regan, Jonathan R Rhodes, Peter A Vesk, Brendan A Wintle, Jian DL Yen, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

Journal article  |  2019  |  ECOLOGY LETTERS

Knowing where species occur is fundamental to many ecological and environmental applications. Species distribution models (SDMs) a..

Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: Some emerging Australian examples

Ary A Hoffmann, Paul D Rymer, Margaret Byrne, Katinka X Ruthrof, Jennie Whinam, Melodie McGeoch, Dana M Bergstrom, Greg R Guerin, Ben Sparrow, Leo Joseph, Sarah J Hill, Nigel R Andrew, James Camac, Nicholas Bell, Markus Riegler, Janet L Gardner, Stephen E Williams

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The effects of anthropogenic climate change on biodiversity are well known for some high‐profile Australian marine systems, includ..