Pollock Lab
Selected Publications
Listed in reverse chronological order.
L.J. Pollock in bold · current & former lab members in bronze
In Revision
2026
- A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators Nature Reviews Biodiversity.
- The utility of herbarium collections for genetic monitoring BioScience.
2025
- The Untapped Potential of Food Webs in Systematic Conservation Planning. Conservation Letters.
- Harnessing AI to fill global biodiversity shortfalls. Nature Reviews Biodiversity.
- Five recommendations to fill the blank space in indicators at local and short-term scales. Biological Conservation.
- Bridging biodiversity and ecosystem services through useful plant species. Plants, People, Planet.
- Integrating food webs in species distribution models improves ecological niche estimation and predictions. Ecography.
2024
- Advancing EDGE Zones: spatial priorities for the conservation of tetrapod evolutionary history. Nature Communications. Dataset: doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25736703
- Herbarium collections remain essential in the age of community science. Nature Communications 15:7586.
- Vulnerability of terrestrial vertebrate food webs to anthropogenic threats in Europe. Global Change Biology.
- Trophic interaction models predict interactions across space, not food webs. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
- Linking biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (NCP): a macroecological energy flux perspective. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
- Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios. Ecography. e07085
- Tempo and mode of diversification of the red devil spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) of the Canary Islands. Zoologica Scripta.
- Novel community data in ecology — properties and prospects. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.017
- Transnational conservation to anticipate future plant shifts in Europe. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02287-3
2023
- 30×30 biodiversity gains rely on national coordination. Nature Communications. 14:7113.
- A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 7:1947–1952.
- Conserving avian evolutionary history can effectively safeguard future benefits for people. Science Advances. 9:eadh4686.
- Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species’ distributions under climate change. Ecography 11:e06731.
- From mallees to mountain ash, specific leaf area is coordinated with eucalypt tree stature, resprouting, stem construction, and fruit size. Australian Journal of Botany. doi.org/10.1071/BT23028
- Indicators to monitor the status of the tree of life. Conservation Biology. doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14138
- Safeguarding eucalypt diversity through conservation-focused tree planting. Journal of Applied Ecology 60:519.
2022
- Data rescue: saving environmental data from extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289:20220938.
- The diversity of biotic interactions complements functional and phylogenetic facets of biodiversity. Current Biology. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.009
- Predicting metawebs: transfer of graph embeddings can help alleviate spatial data deficiencies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
- Addressing the Eltonian shortfall with trait-based interaction models. Ecology Letters. doi.org/10.1111/ele.13966
2021
- Balancing conservation priorities for nature and for people in Europe. Science 372:856. Abstract · Reprint · Full text
- A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376:20210063.
- AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Scientific Data 8:254.
- Combining expert-based and computational approaches to design protected river networks under climate change. Diversity and Distributions 27:2428.
2020
- Protecting biodiversity (in all its complexity): new models and methods. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
- Transferability of trait-based species distribution models. Ecography.
- Do’s and don’ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:1212.
- Unveiling the food webs of tetrapods across Europe through the prism of the Eltonian niche. Journal of Biogeography 47:44.
2019
- Spatial analyses of multi-trophic terrestrial vertebrate assemblages in Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
- Productivity begets less phylogenetic diversity but higher uniqueness than expected. Journal of Biogeography.
2018
- Combining functional traits, the environment, and multiple surveys to understand semi-arid tree distributions. Journal of Vegetation Science.
- Multifaceted biodiversity modelling at macroecological scales using Gaussian processes. Diversity and Distributions. doi:10.1111/ddi.12781
- Functional traits modulate the response of alien plants along abiotic and biotic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi:10.1111/geb.12775
- Do joint species distribution models reliably detect interspecific interactions from co-occurrence data in homogenous environments? Ecography. doi:10.1111/ecog.03315
- Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic and tactical approaches for predictive inference. Ecological Monographs. doi:10.1002/ecm.1309
- Integrating correlation between traits improves spatial predictions of plant functional composition. Oikos. 127:472–481.
2017
- Phylogenetically informed spatial planning is required to conserve the mammalian tree of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284(1865):20170627.
- Large conservation gains possible for global biodiversity facets. Nature. 546:141.
- The role of plant functional traits in woody plant distribution in alpine frost hollows. Journal of Vegetation Science. 28(3):585–594.
2016
- Phylogenetic approaches uncover biodiversity threats under climate change. Nature Climate Change. 6:1110.
- Conserving phylogenetic diversity, with reference to Victorian eucalypts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 128:7–11.
2015
- From species distributions to meta-communities. Ecology Letters 18(12):1321–1328.
- The roles of ecological and evolutionary processes in plant community assembly: the environment, hybridization and introgression influence co-occurrence of Eucalyptus. The American Naturalist 185(6):784–796.
- Phylogenetic diversity meets conservation policy: small areas are key to preserving eucalypt lineages. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370(1662):20140007.
2014
- Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM). Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5:397.
2013
- Phylogenetic diversity and the sustainable use of biodiversity. In: Applied Ecology and Human Dimensions in Biological Conservation (eds. MC Lyra-Jorge, LM Verdade), Springer.
- Eucalypts face increasing climate stress. Ecology and Evolution 3:2011.
2012
- Chloroplast DNA diversity associated with protected slopes and valleys for hybridizing Eucalyptus species on isolated ranges in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02766.x · PDF
- The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed by a hierarchical model. Ecography 35:716–725. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07085.x
Pre-2012
- Projecting fine resolution land-cover dynamics for a rapidly changing terrestrial-aquatic transition in Terrebonne Basin, LA, USA. Journal of Coastal Research 24(6):1545–1554. PDF
- Assessing vegetation change in coastal wetland-upland transition zones along the northern Gulf of Mexico using National Wetlands Inventory Data. Wetlands 26(4):1057–1070. PDF
- Influence of herbivory on regrowth of riparian shrubs following wildland fire. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 42(1):201–212.
- Recovery of riparian shrubs following wildland fire: influence of herbivory. In: Proceedings: AWRA’s 2004 Summer Specialty Conference “Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers: Multi-scale Structure, Function, and Management,” American Water Resources Association, Middleburg, Virginia, TPS-04-2.