Publications — palaeo-ecology

  1. Llewelyn, J, JA Long, R Cloutier, AM Clement, G Strona, F Saltré, MSY Lee, B Choo, K Trinajstic, O Vanhaesebroucke, A Fitzpatrick, CJA Bradshaw. 2025. Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 679: 113294. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113294
  2. Bird, MI, M Brand, R Comley, X Hadeen, Z Jacobs, C Rowe, F Saltré, CM Wurster, C Zwart,
    CJA Bradshaw. 2025. A 150,000-year lacustrine record of the Indo-Australian monsoon from northern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 366: 109504. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109504
  3. Llewelyn, J, C Mudge, F Saltré, AE Reside, V Weisbecker, CR Dickman, CJA Bradshaw. 2025. Trophic and taxonomic restructuring of Sahul’s large-bodied animal community since the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary Australasia 42: 16-24
  4. Bradshaw, CJA, F Saltré, SA Crabtree, C Reepmeyer, T Moutsiou. 2024. Small populations of palaeolithic humans in Cyprus hunted endemic megafauna to extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20240967. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.0967
  5. Clement, AM, R Cloutier, MSY Lee, B King, O Vanhaesebroucke, CJA Bradshaw, H Dutel, K Trinajstic, JA Long. 2024. A Late Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics. Nature Communications 15: 7529. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51238-4
  6. Champreux, A, F Saltré, W Traylor, T Hickler, CJA Bradshaw. 2024. How to map biomes: quantitative comparison and review of biome-mapping methods. Ecological Monographs 94: e1615. doi:10.1002/ecm.1615
  7. Saltré, F, J Chadœuf, T Higham, M Ochoki, S Block, E Bunney, B Llamas, CJA Bradshaw. 2024. Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans. Nature Communications 15: 4364. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-48762-8
  8. Bradshaw, CJA, C Reepmeyer, F Saltré, A Agapiou, V Kassianidou, S Demesticha, Z Zomeni, M Polidorou, T Moutsiou. 2024. Demographic models predict end-Pleistocene arrival and rapid expansion of pre-agropastoralist humans in Cyprus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 121: e2318293121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2318293121
  9. Bird, MI, M Brand, R Comley, X Fu, X Hadeen, Z Jacobs, C Rowe, CM Wurster, C Zwart, CJA Bradshaw. 2024. Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs. Nature Geoscience 17: 233-240. doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01388-3
  10. Norman, K, CJA Bradshaw, F Saltré, C Clarkson, TJ Cohen, P Hiscock, T Jones, F Boesl. 2024. Sea level rise drowned a vast habitable area of north-western Australia driving long-term cultural change. Quaternary Science Reviews 324: 108418. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108418
  11. Hamilton, R, N Amano, CJA Bradshaw, F Saltré, R Patalano, D Penny, J Stevenson, J Wolfhagen, P Roberts. 2024. Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 121: e2311280120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2311280120
  12. Strona, G, CJA Bradshaw, P Cardoso, NJ Gotelli, F Guillaume, F Manca, V Mustonen, L Zaman. 2023. Time-travelling pathogens and their risk to ecological communities. PLoS Computational Biology 19: e1011268. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011268
  13. Llewelyn, J, G Strona, CR Dickman, AC Greenville, GM Wardle, MSY Lee, S Doherty, F Shabani, F Saltré, CJA Bradshaw. 2023. Predicting predator-prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest. Ecography 2023: e06619. doi:10.1111/ecog.06619
  14. Bradshaw, CJA, SA Crabtree, DA White, S Ulm, MI Bird, AN Williams, F Saltré. 2023. Directionally supervised cellular automaton for the initial peopling of Sahul. Quaternary Science Reviews 303: 107971. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107971
  15. Llewelyn, J, G Strona, MC McDowell, CN Johnson, KJ Peters, DB Stouffer, SN de Visser, F Saltré, CJA Bradshaw. 2022. Sahul’s megafauna species were vulnerable to plant-community changes due to their position in the trophic network. Ecography 2002: e06089. doi:10.1111/ecog.06089 [PDF]
  16. Bradshaw, CJA, CN Johnson, J Llewelyn, V Weisbecker, G Strona, F Saltré. 2021. Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul’s megafauna. eLife 10: e63870. doi:10.7554/eLife.63870 [PDF] (highlighted in Nature Index)
  17. Crabtree, SA, DA White, CJA Bradshaw, F Saltré, AN Williams, RJ Beaman, MI Bird, S Ulm. 2021. Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul. Nature Human Behaviour doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01106-8 (covered in Science)
  18. Bradshaw, CJA, K Norman, S Ulm, AN Williams, C Clarkson, J Chadœuf, SC Lin, Z Jacobs, RG Roberts, MI Bird, LS Weyrich, S Haberle, S O’Connor, B Llamas, TJ Cohen, T Friedrich, P Veth, M Leavesley, F Saltré. 2021. Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul. Nature Communications 12: 2440. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21551-3 [PDF] (highlighted in Nature Briefing)
  19. Thomas, ZA, RT Jones, CSM Turney, N Golledge, C Fogwill, CJA Bradshaw, L Menviel, NP McKay, MI Bird, J Palmer, P Kershaw, J Wilmshurst, R Muscheler. 2020. Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews 233: 106222. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106222 [PDF]
  20. Saltré, F, J Chadoeuf, KJ Peters, MC McDowell, T Friedrich, A Timmermann, S Ulm, CJA Bradshaw. 2019. Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna-extinction patterns. Nature Communications 10: 5311. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13277-0 [PDF] (highlighted in Nature Index)
  21. Peters, KJ, F Saltré, T Friedrich, Z Jacobs, R Wood, MC McDowell, S Ulm, CJA Bradshaw. 2019. FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul. Scientific Data 6:272. doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0267-3 [PDF]
  22. Shabani, F, M Ahmadi, KJ Peters, S Haberle, A Champreux, F Saltré, CJA Bradshaw. 2019. Climate-driven shifts in the distribution of koala browse species from the Last Interglacial to the near future. Ecography 42: 1587-1599. doi:10.1111/ecog.04530 [PDF]
  23. Bradshaw, CJA, S Ulm, AN Williams, MI Bird, RG Roberts, Z Jacobs, F Laviano, LS Weyrich, T Friedrich, K Norman, F Saltré. 2019. Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3: 1057-1063. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0902-6 [PDF]
  24. Bird, MI, SA Condie, S O’Connor, D O’Grady, C Reepmeyer, S Ulm, M Zega, F Saltré, CJA Bradshaw. 2019. Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident. Scientific Reports 9: 8220. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-42946-9 [PDF]
  25. White, LC, F Saltré, CJA Bradshaw, JJ Austin. 2018. High-quality fossil dates support a synchronous, Late Holocene extinction of devils and thylacines in mainland Australia. Biology Letters 14: 20170642. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0642 [PDF]
  26. Coutts, FC, CJA Bradshaw, D García-Bellido, JG Gehling. 2018. Evidence of sensory-driven behaviour in the Ediacaran organism Parvancorina: implications and autecological interpretations. Gondwana Research 55: 21-29. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.10.009 [PDF]
  27. Rodríguez-Rey, M, S Herrando-Pérez, …, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates. Scientific Data 3:160053. doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.53 [PDF]
  28. Metcalf, JL, CSM Turney, R Barnett, F Martin, S Bray, JT Vilstrup, L Orlando, R Salas-Gismondi, D Loponte, M Medina, M De Nigris, T Civalero, P Marcelo Fernandez, A Gasco, V Duran, KL Seymour, C Otaola, A Gil, R Paunero, FJ Prevost, CJA Bradshaw, … 2016. Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation. Science Advances 2: e1501682. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501682 [PDF]
  29. Block, S, F Saltré, M Rodríguez-Rey, DA Fordham, I Unkel, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. Where to dig for fossils: combining climate-envelope, taphonomy and discovery models. PLoS One 11: e0151090. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151090 [PDF]
  30. Johnson, CN, …, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20152399. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2399 [PDF]
  31. Saltré, F, Rodríguez-Rey, M, …, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. Climate change not to blame for Late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia. Nature Communications 7: 10511. doi:10.1038/ncomms10511 [PDF]
  32. Turney, CSM, Z Thomas, D Hutchinson, CJA Bradshaw, … 2015. Obliquity-driven expansion of North Atlantic sea ice during the last glacial. Geophysical Research Letters 42: 10382-10390. doi:10.1002/2015GL066344 [PDF]
  33. Rodríguez-Rey, M, S Herrando-Pérez, …, CJA Bradshaw. 2015. Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages. Quaternary Geochronology 30: 69-79. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2015.08.002 [PDF]
  34. Cooper, A, CSM Turney, BW Brook, G McDonald, KA Hughen, CJA Bradshaw. 2015. Abrupt warmings drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover. Science 349: 602-606. doi:10.1126/science.aac4315 [PDF]
  35. Saltré, F, …, CJA Bradshaw. 2015. Uncertainties in dating constrain model choice for inferring extinction time from fossil records. Quaternary Science Reviews 112: 128-137. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.022 [PDF]
  36. Johnson, CN, CJA Bradshaw, … 2013. Rapid megafaunal extinction following human arrival throughout the New World. Quaternary International 308/309: 273-277. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.06.022 [PDF]
  37. Brook, BW, CJA Bradshaw, … 2013. Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 110: E3368. doi:10.1073/pnas.1309226110 [PDF]
  38. Adler, CJ, K Dobney, LS Weyrich, J Kaidonis, AW Walker, W Haak, CJA Bradshaw, … 2013. Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions. Nature Genetics 45: 450-455. doi:10.1038/ng.2536 (highlighted in Science; recommended in F1000) [PDF]
  39. Prowse, TAA, CN Johnson, RC Lacy, CJA Bradshaw, JP Pollak, MJ Watts, BW Brook. 2013. No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multi-species metamodels. Journal of Animal Ecology 82: 355-364. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12029 [PDF]
  40. Bradshaw, CJA, et al. 2012. Robust estimates of extinction time in the geological record. Quaternary Science Reviews 33: 14-19. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.11.021 [PDF]