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Stephen E. Williams
Researcher at James Cook University
Publications - 135
Citations - 29572
Stephen E. Williams is an academic researcher from James Cook University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 126 publications receiving 25868 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen E. Williams include International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources & Cooperative Research Centre.
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Elevational distribution of flightless ground beetles in the tropical rainforests of north-eastern Australia
TL;DR: This study is in agreement with the hypothesis that upland refugia provided stable climatic conditions since the last glacial maximum, and supported a diverse fauna of flightless beetle species, and are important for conservation management as upland habitats become increasingly threatened by climate change.
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Arboreality drives heat tolerance while elevation drives cold tolerance in tropical rainforest ants.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared thermal traits of rainforest ants to microclimate conditions from ground to canopy along an elevation gradient (mesogeographic scale) and calculate warming tolerance to assess climate change vulnerability in the Australian Wet Tropics Bioregion.
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Substantial reduction in thermo-suitable microhabitat for a rainforest marsupial under climate change
Jessica Meade,Jeremy VanDerWal,Collin Storlie,Stephen E. Williams,Arnaud Gourret,Andrew K. Krockenberger,Justin A. Welbergen,Justin A. Welbergen +7 more
TL;DR: The potential applicability of the approach for generating spatio-temporally explicit predictions of the vulnerability of species to extreme temperature events is demonstrated, providing a focus for efficient and targeted conservation and habitat restoration management.
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Recent speciation and limited phylogeographic structure in Mixophyes frogs from the Australian Wet Tropics.
TL;DR: A clade of myobatrachid frogs, Mixophyes, a genus of large, stream-breeding but terrestrial frogs, three species of which are endemic to rainforests of the AWT are investigated, suggesting that species dependent on multiple habitat types could be especially vulnerable to climate change.
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Survey of the vertebrate fauna of the Dotswood area, North Queensland
TL;DR: The results of a survey of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish of the Dotswood area west of Townsville are presented in this paper, where a total of 297 species of vertebrates were observed using a variety of survey techniques including live trapping, pit trapping, observational transects, mist netting and spotlighting.