Andrew K. Krockenberger

TL;DR: It is concluded that ectotherms sharing vulnerability traits seem concentrated in lowland tropical forests and their vulnerability may be exacerbated by negative biotic interactions, as genetic and selective data are scant.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified the 10 major terrestrial and marine ecosystems in Australia most vulnerable to tipping points, in which modest environmental changes can cause disproportionately large changes in ecosystem properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks along an altitudinal gradient spanning a 3000m altitude difference and sampled soils in anthropogenic grasslands in proximity to forests at different altitudes to provide information on effects of land use change.

TL;DR: This work describes a novel thermoregulatory strategy in an arboreal mammal, the koala Phascolarctos cinereus, and shows that this behaviour greatly reduces the amount of heat that must be lost via evaporative cooling, potentially increasing koala survival during extreme heat events.

TL;DR: The ability to withstand disturbance and the ability to recover biomass following disturbance in Australian wet tropical rainforest tree species were investigated in this paper, where they found a positive correlation between the proportion of trees experiencing minor damage only and wood density, supporting the hypothesized association between resistance and mechanical strength.