Publications

Vázquez-Ramírez J, Venn SE (2023) 'Snow, fire and drought: How alpine and treeline soil seed banks are affected by simulated climate change', Annals of Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad184

García Criado MC, Myers-Smith I, Bjorkman A, Normand S, Blach-Overgaard A, Thomas H, Eskelinen H, Happonen K, Alatalo J, Anadon-Rosell A, Aubin I, te Beest M, Betway-May K, Blok D, Buras A,  Cerabolini B, Christie K, Cornelissen JHC, Forbes B, Frei E, Grogan P, Hermanutz L, Hollister R, Hudson J, Garcia MI, Kaarlejärvi E, Kleyer M, Lamarque L, Lembrechts J, Lévesque E, Luoto M,  Macek P, May J, Prevéy J, Schaepman-Strub G, Sheremetiev S, Siegwart Collier L,  Soudzilovskaia N, Trant A, Venn SE and Virkkala A-M (2023) 'Plant traits poorly predict winner and loser shrub species in a warming tundra biome', Nature Communications, 14(1):3837, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39573-4

Grover SP, Warren C, Tate J, Venn SE (2023) 'Nitrogen dynamics in alpine soils of south-eastern Australia', Soil Research, https://doi.org/10.1071/SR22251
 

Sumner EE and Venn SE (2022) 'Thermal tolerance and growth responses to in situ soil water reductions among alpine plants', Plant Ecology & Diversity, 15:5-6, 297-308, https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2022.2160674

Sumner EE, Williamson VG, Gleadow RM, Wevill T, Venn SE (2022) 'Acclimation to water stress improves tolerance to heat and freezing in a common alpine grass', Oecologica, 199: 831-843, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05245-1

Thompson ER, Driscoll DA, Venn SE, Geary WL, Ritchie EG (2022) 'Interspecific variation in the diet of a native apex predator and invasive mesopredator in an alpine ecosystem', Austral Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13214

Steinbauer K, Lamprecht A, Winkler M, Di Cecco V, Fasching V, Ghosn D,Maringer A, Remoundou I, Suen M, Stanisci A, Venn S, Pauli H (2022) 'Recent changes in high-mountain plant community functional composition in contrasting climate regimes. Science of The Total Environment, 829: 154541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154541.

Rixen C, Høye T, Macek P, Aerts R, Alatalo J, Andeson J, Arnold P, Barrio I, Bjerke J, Björkman M, Blok D, Blume-Werry G, Boike J, Bokhorst S, Carbognani M, Christiansen C, Convey P, Cooper E, Cornelissen H, Coulson S, Dorrepaal E, Elberling B, Elmendorf S, Elphinstone C, Forte T, Frei E, Geange S, Gehrmann F, Gibson C, Grogan P, Rechsteiner A, Harte J, Henry G, Inouye D, Irwin R, Jespersen G, Jónsdóttir I, Jung J, Klinges D, Kudo G, Lämsä G, Lee H, Lembrechts J, Lett S, Lynn J, Mann H, Mastepanov M, Morse J, Myers-Smith I, Olofsson J, Paavola R, Petraglia A, Phoenix G, Semenchuk P, Siewert M, Slatyer R, Spasojevic M, Suding K, Sullivan P, Thompson K, Väisänen M, Vandvik V, Venn S, Walz J, Way R, Welker J, Wipf S, and Zong S (2022) 'Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems', Arctic Science (Accepted 25 February 2022) https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2020-0058 

Rixen C, Wipf S, Rumpf S, Giejsztowt J, Millen J, Morgan J, Nicotra A, Venn S, Zong S, Dickinson K, Freschet G, Kurzböck C, Li J, Pan H, Pfund B, Quaglia E, Su X, Wang W, Wang X, Yin H and Deslippe J (2022) 'Intraspecific trait variation in alpine plants relates to their elevational distribution', Journal of Ecology, 110:4, 860-875, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13848

Sumner EE, Camac J, Venn SE and Morgan JW (2021) 'Survival and growth of a high mountain daisy transplanted outside its local range, and implications for climate-induced distribution shifts', AoB PLANTS, plac014, https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plac014
 

Lembrechts JJ, van den Hoogen J et al. including Venn SE (2021) 'Global maps of soil temperature', Global Change Biology, (accepted 29th October 2021), https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060

Sumner EE, and Venn SE (2021) 'Plant responses to changing water supply and availability in high elevation ecosystems: A quantitative systematic review and meta-analysis', Land, 10(1150), https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111150

Falster D, Gallagher R, Wenk E, Wright I, Indiarto, D, Andrew S, Baxter C, …Venn S,… & Schulze ED (2021). 'AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora', Scientific Data, 8(1) 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6

Gurung LJ, Miller KK, Venn S and Bryan BA (2021) 'Contributions of non-timber forest products to people in mountain ecosystems and impacts of recent climate change', Ecosystems and People, 17(1):447-463, https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.1957021

Kwon TO, Shibata H, Kepfer-Rojas S, Schmidt IK, Larsen KS, Beier C, Berg B, Verheyen K, Lamarquw J-F, Hagedorn F, Eisenhauer N, Djukic I and Tea Composition Network (including Venn SE) (2021) 'Effects of climate and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on early to mid-term stage litter decomposition across biomes', Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.678480

Gurung LJ, Miller KK, Venn S, Bryan BA (2021) 'Climate change adaptation for managing non-timber forest products in the Nepalese Himalaya', Science of the Total Environment, 796: 148853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148853

Camac J, Umbers K, Morgan J, Geange S, Hanea, A, Slatyer R, McDougall K, Venn S, Vesk P, Hoffmann A and Nicotra A (2021) 'Predicting species and community responses to global change in Australian mountain ecosystems using structured expert judgement', Global Change Biology, 27(18): 4420–4434, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15750

O’Leary B, Burd M, Venn SE and Gleadow R (2021) 'Bird community recovery following invasive tree removal', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2(2) e12080, https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12080

Vázquez-Ramíerez J and Venn SE (2021) 'Seeds and Seedlings in a Changing World: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis from High Altitude and High Latitude Ecosystems', Plants, 10(4) 768, https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10040768

Venn SE, Gallagher RV and Nicotra AB (2021) 'Germination at Extreme Temperatures: Implications for Alpine Shrub Encroachment. Plants 10, 327. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020327

Venn S and Thomas H (2021) 'Earlier snowmelt increases litter decomposition in an alpine snowbed', Ecosphere, 12(3):e03393. 10.1002/ecs2.3393, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3393

Geange S, Arnold P, Catling A, Coast O, Cook A, Gowland K, Leigh A, Notarnicola R, Posch B, Venn S, Zhu L and Nicotra A (2021) 'Plant thermal tolerance: a global synthesis for future research', New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18977
 

Fernández-Pascual E, Carta A, Mondoni A, Cavieres L, Rosbakh S, Venn S, Satyanti A, Guja L, Briceño VF, Vandelook F, Mattana E, Saatkamp A,  Bu H, Sommerville K, Poschlod P, Liu K, Nicotra A and Jiménez-Alfaro B (2020) 'The seed germination spectrum of alpine plants: a global meta-analysis', New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17086

Gurung LJ, Miller KK, Venn S and Bryan BA (2020) 'Dataset of non-timber forest product use and impacts of recent climate change in the Upper Madi Watershed, Nepal', Data in Brief,  33:106404, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106404

Naccarella A, Morgan J, Cutler S and Venn S (2020) 'Alpine treeline ecotone stasis in the face of recent climate change and disturbance by fire', PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0231339, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231339

Thomas HJD, Bjorkman AD, Myers-Smith IH, Elmendorf SC, Kattge J, Diaz S, … including Venn SE and Henry GHR (2020) 'Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome', Nature Communications, 11(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15014-4
 

Good M, Morgan J, Venn SE and Green P (2019) 'Timing of snowmelt affects species composition via plant strategy filtering', Basic and Applied Ecology, 35:54-62, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2019.01.004

Driscoll DA, Worboys GL, Allan H, Banks SC, Beeton NJ, Cherubin RC, Doherty TS, Finlayson CM, Green K, Hartley R, Hope G, Johnson CN, Lintermans M, Mackey B, Paull DJ, Pittock J, Porfirio LL, Ritchie EG, Sato CF, Scheele BC, Slattery DA, Venn S, Watson D, Watson M and Williams RM (2019) 'Impacts of feral horses in the Australian Alps and evidence-based solutions', Ecological Management and Restoration, 20:63-72, https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12357

Cherubin R, Driscoll D, Doherty T, Venn S and Ritchie E (2019) 'Feral horse impacts on threatened plants and animals in sub-alpine and montane environments in Victoria, Australia', Ecological Management and Restoration, 20:47-56, https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12352

Prevéy JS et al. including Venn SE (2018) 'Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities', Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6
 

Bjorkman A, Myers-Smith IH, +130 authors including Venn SE (2018) 'Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome', Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7 

Bjorkman A. et. al. including Venn SE (2018) 'Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome', Global Ecology and Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12821

Thomas HJD, Myers-Smith IH, Bjorkman A, including Venn SE (2018) 'Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12783

Henry HA, Abedi M, Alados CL, Beard KH, Fraser LH, Jentsch A, Kreyling J, Kulmatiski A, Lamb EG, Sun W, Lreyling J, Kulmatiski A, Lamb E, Sun W, Vankoughnett MR, Venn SE, Werner C, Beil I, Blindow I, Dahlke S, Dubbert M, Effinger A, Garris HW, Gartzia M, Gebauer T, Arfin Khan MAS, Malyshev AV, Morgan JW, Nock C, Paulson JP, Pueyo Y, Stover HJ, Yang X (2018) 'Increased Soil Frost Versus Summer Drought as Drivers of Plant Biomass Responses to Reduced Precipitation: Results from a Globally Coordinated Field Experiment', Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0231-7

Venn SE and Green K (2018) 'Evergreen alpine shrubs have high freezing resistance in spring, irrespective of snowmelt timing and exposure to frost: an investigation from the Snowy Mountains, Australia', Plant Ecology, 219:209-216, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-017-0789-8

O’Leary B, Burd M, Venn SE and Gleadow R (2018) 'Integrating the Passenger-Driver Hypothesis and plant community functional traits to the restoration of lands degraded by invasive trees', Forest Ecology and Management, 408:112-120,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.10.043
 

Dashiell CD, Shannon L, Green PT, Venn SE and Morgan JW (2017) 'Insect herbivory on Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora, Myrtaceae) saplings near the alpine treeline: influence of local- and landscape-scale processes', Australian Journal of Botany, 65:582-592, https://doi.org/10.1071/BT17129

Lindenmayer DB, +68 co-authors including Venn SE (2017) 'Save Australia’s ecological research', Science, Vol. 357:557, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao4228

Morgan JW and Venn SE (2017) 'Alpine plant species have limited capacity for long-distance seed dispersal', Plant Ecology,  218:813-819, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-017-0731-0
 

Venn SE, Pickering CM, Butler SA, Letten A (2016) 'Using a model based fourth-corner analysis to explain vegetation change following an extraordinary fire disturbance', Oecologica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3700-8

Mark AF, Korsten AC , Guevara DU, Dickinson KJM, Humar-Maegli T, Pascale M, Halloy SRP, Lord J, Venn SE, Morgan JW, Whigham PA and Nielsen JA (2015) 'Ecological responses after 52 years to an experimental snow fence in high-alpine cushionfield, Old Man Range, south-central New Zealand', Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 47:751-772, https://doi.org/10.1657/AAAR0014-098

Williams RJ, Wahren CH, Stott KAJ, Camac JS, White M, Burns E, Harris S, Nash M, Morgan JW, Venn SE, Papst WA and Hoffmann AA (2015) 'An International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List ecosystems risk assessment for alpine snow patch herbfields', South‐Eastern Australia Austral Ecology, 40:433-443, https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.12266

Pickering CM,  Barros AA, Green K and Venn SE (2014) 'A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones', Alpine Botany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0

Kirkpatrick JB, Green K, Bridle KL, Venn SE (2014) 'Patterns of variation in Australian alpine soils and their relationships to parent material, vegetation formation, climate and topography', Catena, 121:186-194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.05.005

Venn SE, Pickering CM and Green K (2014) 'Spatial and temporal functional change in alpine summit vegetation is driven by increases in shrubs and graminoids', AoB PLANTS, 6: plu008; https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plu008

Hoyle GL, Venn SE, Steadman KJ, Good RB, McAuliffe EJ, Williams ER and Nicotra AB (2013) 'Soil warming increases diversity but decreases germination from an alpine soil seed bank', Global Change Biology, 19:1549-1561, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12135

Venn SE, Morgan JW and Lord JM (2013) 'Foliar freezing resistance of Australian alpine species over the growing season', Austral Ecology, 38:152-161, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2012.02387.x

Venn SE, Pickering CM and Green K (2012) 'Short-term variation in species richness across an altitudinal gradient of alpine summits,' Biodiversity and Conservation, 21:3157-3186, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2012.02387.x

Green K and Venn SE (2012) 'Tree-limit ribbons in the Snowy Mountains, Australia: Characterization and recent seedling establishment', Antarctic and Alpine Research, 44:180-187, https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-44.2.180

Myers-Smith I, Forbes, BC, Wilmking M, Hallinger M, Lantz T, Blok D, Tape KD, Macias-Fauria M, Sass-Klaassen U, Léversque E, Bourdreau S, Ropars P, Hermanutz L, Trant A, Siegwart Collier L, Weijers S, Rozema J, Rayback SA, Martin Schmidt NM, Schaepman-Strub G, Wipf S, Rixen C, Ménard CM, Venn SE, Goetz S, Andreu-Hayles L, Elmendorf S, Ravolainen V, WelJ, Grogan P, Epstein HE and Hik DS (2011) 'Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: Dynamics, impacts and research priorities', Environmental Research Letters, 6:045509, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045509

Venn SE, Green K, Pickering CM and Morgan JW (2011) 'Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches', Plant Ecology, 212:1491-1499, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-011-9923-1

Venn SE and Morgan JW (2010) 'Soil seedbank composition and dynamics across alpine summits in south-eastern Australia', Australian Journal of Botany, 58:349-362, https://doi.org/10.1071/BT10058

Venn SE, Morgan, JW and Green PT (2009) 'Do facilitative interactions with neighboring plants assist the growth of seedlings at high altitudes in alpine Australia?', Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 41:381-387, https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-41.3.381

Venn SE and Morgan JW (2009) 'Germination characteristics of Mountain Celery Aciphylla glacialis (F. Muell.) Benth. (Apiaceae)', The Victorian Naturalist, 126:4-12, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.658365441270135

Venn SE and Morgan JW (2009) 'Patterns in alpine seedling emergence and establishment across a stress gradient of mountain summits in south-eastern Australia', Plant Ecology and Diversity, 2:5–16, https://doi.org/10.1080/17550870802691356

Venn SE and Morgan JW (2007) 'Phytomass and phenology of three alpine snowpatch species across a natural snowmelt gradient', Australian Journal of Botany, 55:450–456, https://doi.org/10.1071/BT06003

Morgan J, Venn S, Wearne L, Bartley M and McMillan S (2003) 'Small-scale patterns of occurrence of Snow Pratia Pratia gelida at Hospice Plain, Mount Buffalo National Park', The Victorian Naturalist, 120:4-9