Emeritus Professor Roderick Dewar
ANU College of Science
Areas of expertise
- Other Physical Sciences 0299
- Environmental Management 050205
- Biological Mathematics 010202
- Plant Developmental And Reproductive Biology 060703
- Mathematical Physics 0105
- Thermodynamics And Statistical Physics 020304
- Plant Physiology 060705
- Ecological Applications 0501
- Global Change Biology 069902
Publications
- Dewar, R, Mauranen, A, Makela, A et al 2018, 'New insights into the covariation of stomatal, mesophyll and hydraulic conductances from optimization models incorporating nonstomatal limitations to photosynthesis', New Phytologist, vol. 217, no. 2, pp. 571-585pp.
- Bertram, J & Dewar, R 2015, 'Combining mechanism and drift in community ecology: a novel statistical mechanics approach', Theoretical Ecology, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 419-435pp.
- Meir, P, Mencuccini, M & Dewar, R 2015, 'Drought-related tree mortality: Addressing the gaps in understanding and prediction', New Phytologist, vol. 207, no. 1, pp. 28-33.
- Dewar, R, Lineweaver, C, Niven, R et al 2014, 'Beyond the second law: an overview', in Dewar, R.C., Lineweaver, C.H., Niven, R.K., Regenauer-Lieb, K. (ed.), Beyond the second law, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 3-27.
- Dewar, R 2014, 'A general maximum entropy framework for thermodynamic variational principles', 33rd International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2013), ed. Robert K. Niven , Brendon Brewer , David Paull , Kamran Shafi and Barrie Stoke, AIP Publishing LLC, online, pp. AIP Conf. Proc. 1636, 137.
- Dewar, R, Lineweaver, C, Niven, R et al, eds, 2014, Beyond the Second Law - Entropy Production and Non-equilibrium Systems, Springer, Heidelberg.
- Dewar, R & Maritan, A 2014, 'A Theoretical Basis for Maximum Entropy Production', in Dewar, R.C., Lineweaver, C.H., Niven, R.K., Regenauer-Lieb, K. (ed.), Beyond the second law, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 49-72.
- McMurtrie, R & Dewar, R 2013, 'New insights into carbon allocation by trees from the hypothesis that annual wood production is maximized', New Phytologist, vol. 199, no. 4, pp. 981-990.
- Bertram, J & Dewar, R 2013, 'Statistical patterns in tropical tree cover explained by the different water demand of individual trees and grasses', Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, vol. 94, no. 10, pp. 2138-2144.
- Franklin, O, Johansson, J, Dewar, R et al 2012, 'Modeling carbon allocation in trees: a search for principles', Tree Physiology, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 648-666.
- Dewar, R, Tarvanien, L, Parker, K et al 2012, 'Why does leaf nitrogen decline within tree canopies less rapidly than light? An explanation from optimization subject to a lower bound on leaf mass per area', Tree Physiology, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 520-534.
- McMurtrie, R, Iversen, C, Dewar, R et al 2012, 'Plant root distributions and nitrogen uptake predicted by a hypothesis of optimal root foraging', Ecology and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 1235-1250.
- McMurtrie, R & Dewar, R 2011, 'Leaf-trait variation explained by the hypothesis that plants maximize their canopy carbon export over the lifespan of leaves', Tree Physiology, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1007-1023.
- Dewar, R, Sherwin, W, Thomas, E et al 2011, 'Predictions of single-nucleotide polymorphism differentiation between two populations in terms of mutual information', Molecular Ecology, vol. 20, no. 15, pp. 3156 -3166.
- Dewar, R 2010, 'Maximum entropy production and plant optimization theories', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, vol. 365, no. 1545, pp. 1429-1435.
- Dewar, R 2009, 'Maximum Entropy Production as an Inference Algorithm that Translates Physical Assumptions into Macroscopic Predictions: Don't Shoot the Messenger', Entropy, vol. 11, pp. 931-944.
- Dewar, R, Franklin, O, Makela, A et al 2009, 'Optimal function explains forest responses to global change', BioScience, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 127-139.
- Ogee, J, Barbour, M, Wingate, L et al 2009, 'A single-substrate model to interpret intra-annual stable isotope signals in tree-ring cellulose', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1071-1090.
- Magnani, F, Dewar, R & Borghetti, M 2009, 'Leakage and spillover effects of forest management on carbon storage: theoretical insights from a simple model', Tellus Series B- Chemical and Physical Meteorology, vol. 61B, pp. 385-393.
- Dewar, R & Porte, A 2008, 'Statistical mechanics unifies different ecological patterns', Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 251, no. 3, pp. 389-403.
- McMurtrie, R, Norby, R, Medlyn, B et al 2008, 'Why is plant-growth response to elevated CO2 amplified when water is limiting, but reduced when nitrogen is limiting? A growth-optimisation hypothesis', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 521-534.
- Dewar, R, Juretic, D & Zupanovic, P 2006, 'The functional design of the rotary enzyme ATP synthase is consistent with maximum entropy production', Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 430, no. 1, pp. 177-182.
- Dewar, R 2005, 'Maximum entropy production and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics', in Axel Kleidon and Ralph D. Lorenz (ed.), Understanding Complex Systems: Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 41-55.
- Dewar, R 2005, 'Maximum entropy production and the fluctuation theorem', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 38, no. 21, pp. L371-L381.
- Dewar, R 2003, 'Information theory explanation of the fluctuation theorem, maximum entropy production and self-organized criticality in non-equilibrium stationary states', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 36, pp. 631-641.
