Dr Jennifer Pierson
B.Sc. Honours, Wildlife Science, Oregon State University, USA M.Sc. Wildlife Biology, University of Montana, USA Ph.D. Wildlife Biology, Unviersity of Montana, USA
Research Fellow
ANU College of Science
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Areas of expertise
- Population Ecology 060207
- Population, Ecological And Evolutionary Genetics 060411
- Conservation And Biodiversity 050202
- Environmental Monitoring 050206
- Ecological Applications 0501
- Invasive Species Ecology 050103
- Wildlife And Habitat Management 050211
- Evolutionary Impacts Of Climate Change 060306
- Biogeography And Phylogeography 060302
Publications
- Westgate, M, Tulloch, A, Barton, P et al 2016, 'Optimal taxonomic groups for biodiversity assessment: a meta-analytic approach', Ecography, 40, 539-548.
- Godfree, R, Vivian, L & Pierson, J 2016, 'The Impacts of Extreme Climatic Events on Wild Plant Populations', in Edwards, D., Batley, J. (ed.), Plant Genomics and Climate Change, Springer, Germany, pp. 15-47.
- Scheele, B, Hunter, D, Banks, S et al. 2016, 'High adult mortality in disease-challenged frog populations increases vulnerability to drought', Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 85, no. 6, pp. 1453-1460.
- Pierson, J, Coates, D, Oostermeijer, J et al 2016, 'Genetic factors in threatened species recovery plans on three continents', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 433-440.
- Hunter, M, Westgate, M, Barton, P et al 2016, 'Two roles for ecological surrogacy: Indicator surrogates and management surrogates', Ecological Indicators, 63, 121-125.
- Lindenmayer, D.B., Candy, S.G., Banks, S.C., Westgate, M., Ikin, K., Pierson, J., Tulloch, A. & Barton, P. (2016). Do temporal changes in vegetation structure predict changes in bird occurrence additional to time since fire? Ecological Applications, 26, 2267-2279
- Pierson, J, Beissinger, S, Bragg, J et al 2015, 'Incorporating evolutionary processes into population viability models', Conservation Biology, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 755-764.
- Banks, S, Lorin, T, Shaw, R et al 2015, 'Fine-scale refuges can buffer demographic and genetic processes against short-term climatic variation and disturbance: A 22-year case study of an arboreal marsupial', Molecular Ecology, vol. 24, no. 15, pp. 3831-3845.
- Lynch, A, Thackway, R, Specht, A et al 2015, 'Transdisciplinary synthesis for ecosystem science, policy and management: The Australian experience', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 534, pp. 173-184.
- Lindenmayer, D, Pierson, J, Barton, P et al. 2015, 'A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 538, pp. 1029-1038.
- Lindenmayer, D, Barton, P & Pierson, J, eds, 2015, Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia.
- Lindenmayer, D, Barton, P, Westgate, M et al 2015, 'Biodiversity surrogates', in Lindenmayer, D., Barton, P., Pierson, J. (ed.), Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia, pp. 15-24.
- Lindenmayer, D, Pierson, J & Barton, P 2015, 'Introduction - disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives on ecological indicators and surrogates', in Lindenmayer, D., Barton, P., Pierson, J. (ed.), Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia, pp. 1-4.
- Lindenmayer, D, Pierson, J, Barton, P et al 2015, 'A diversity of approaches to ecological surrogates and key knowledge gaps', in Lindenmayer, D., Barton, P., Pierson, J. (ed.), Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia, pp. 189-194.
- Pierson, J, Luikart, G & Schwartz, M 2015, 'The application of genetic indicators in wild populations: potential and pitfalls for genetic monitoring', in Lindenmayer, D., Barton, P., Pierson, J. (ed.), Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia, pp. 149-159.
- Barton, P, Pierson, J, Westgate, M et al. 2015. Learning from clinical medicine to improve the use of surrogates in ecology. Oikos, 124(4), 391-398.
- Pierson, J, Barton, P, Lane, P et al. 2015. Can habitat surrogates predict the response of target species to landscape change? Biological Conservation, 184, 1-10.
- Pierson, J, Mortelliti, A, Barton, P et al. 2016. Evaluating the effectiveness of overstory cover as a surrogate for bird community diversity and population trends. Ecological Indicators, 61, 790-798.
- Westgate, M, Barton, P, Pierson, J et al. 2015. Text analysis tools for identification of emerging topics and research gaps in conservation science. Conservation Biology, 29, 1606-1614.
- Pierson, J, Allendorf, F, Drapeau, P et al 2013, 'Breed Locally, Disperse Globally: Fine-Scale Genetic Structure Despite Landscape-Scale Panmixia in a Fire-Specialist', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 8, no. 6, pp. e67248-e67248.
- Pierson, J, Swain, S, and Young, A, 2013, 'Incest versus abstinence: Reproductive trade-offs between mate limitation and progeny fitness in a self-incompatible invasive plant', Ecology and Evolution, vol. 3, no. 15, pp. 5066-5075.
- Pierson, J, Allendorf, F, Saab, V et al 2010, 'Do male and female black-backed woodpeckers respond differently to gaps in habitat?', Evolutionary Applications, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 263-278.
- Farris, K, Converse, S, Zack, S et al 2010, 'Short-term effects of fire and fire-surrogate treatments on avian nest survival: a national-scale analysis', Open Environmental Sciences, vol. 4, no. SPEC. ISSUE, pp. 53-62.
- Pierson, J, Mills, L & Christian, D 2010, 'Foraging patterns of cavity-nesting birds in fire-suppressed and prescribe-burned ponderosa pine forests in Montana', Open Environmental Sciences, vol. 4, no. SPEC. ISSUE, pp. 41-52.
- Farris, K, Zack, S, Amacher, A et al 2010, 'Microhabitat selection of bark foraging birds in response to fire and fire surrogate treatments', Forest Science, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 100-111.
- Whiteley, A, Pierson, J, Kennedy, K et al 2007, 'Classroom mark-recapture with crickets', American Biology Teacher, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 292-297.
