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Overview

John Tibby is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans various subfields, including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Water Science and Technology.

The research topics covered by John Tibby reflect a focus on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Geological formations and processes, and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology.

Recent publications demonstrate contributions to multiple leading scientific journals:

  • Insights into subtropical Australian aridity from Welsby Lagoon, north Stradbroke Island, over the past 80,000 years (2020), Quaternary Science Reviews
  • A bacterial index to estimate lake trophic level: National scale validation (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Comparing interglacials in eastern Australia: A multi-proxy investigation of a new sedimentary record (2020), Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Comparison of two commonly used methods for identifying water quality thresholds in freshwater ecosystems using field and synthetic data (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments (2021), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

John Tibby's frequent co-authors include Cameron Barr, Jonathan Tyler, Haidee Cadd, Jonathan C. Marshall, and Glenn B. McGregor. The collaboration frequency suggests continued work on interdisciplinary projects within their domains of study.

The main venues for Tibby's research publications are:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

This profile delineates the scientific contributions of John Tibby through extensive research across environmental and earth sciences, with a specific focus on ecological and geological processes and their environmental implications.

Best Publications

  • Holocene environmental change in southwest Turkey: a palaeoecological record of lake and catchment-related changes

    W.J. Eastwood;N. Roberts;H.F. Lamb;J.C. Tibby

  • Late Quaternary palaeoecology, palynology and palaeolimnology of a tropical lowland swamp: Rawa Danau, West-Java, Indonesia

    Sander van der Kaars;Daniel Penny;John C Tibby;John C Tibby;Jennie Fluin;Jennie Fluin

  • Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup

    Lynda Petherick;Lynda Petherick;Helen Bostock;Tim J Cohen;Kathryn Fitzsimmons

  • Sediment mixing at Nonda Rock: investigations of stratigraphic integrity at an early archaeological site in northern Australia and implications for the human colonisation of the continent

    Bruno David;R G Roberts;John W Magee;Jerome Mialanes

  • Accessing limnological change and variability using fossil diatom assemblages, south‐east Australia

    Peter A Gell;John Tibby;Jennie Fluin;Paul Joseph Leahy

  • Late Quaternary vegetation history of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, eastern Australia

    Patrick T. Moss;John Tibby;Lynda Petherick;Hamish McGowan

  • Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation

    C. Barr;J. Tibby;M. J. Leng;M. J. Leng;J. J. Tyler

  • Palaeolimnological evidence for the independent evolution of neighbouring terminal lakes, the Murray Darling Basin, Australia

    Jennie Fluin;Peter Gell;Deborah Haynes;John Tibby

  • Anthropogenic acceleration of sediment accretion in lowland floodplain wetlands, Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

    Peter Gell;Jennie Fluin;John Tibby;Gary Hancock

  • The environmental impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera): statistical analysis of palaeoecological data from Golhisar, southwest Turkey

    W. J. Eastwood;J. Tibby;N. Roberts;Harry John Betteley Birks

  • Local knowledge and environmental management: a cautionary tale from Lake Ainsworth, New South Wales, Australia

    John Tibby;Marcus B. Lane;Peter A. Gell

  • Development of a diatom-based model for inferring total phosphorus in southeastern Australian water storages

    John Tibby

  • Climatic variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20–10 kyr BP)

    Christian S M Turney;Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;J J Lowe;Sander van der Kaars

  • The impact of regulation and salinisation on floodplain lakes: the lower River Murray, Australia

    Peter Gell;John Tibby;Fiona Little;David Baldwin

  • Long‐term dynamics of algal and invertebrate communities in a small, fluctuating tropical soda lake

    Dirk Verschuren;Christine Cocquyt;John Tibby;C. Neil Roberts

  • Assessing long-term pH change in an Australian river catchment using monitoring and palaeolimnological data.

    John Tibby;Michael A Reid;Jennie Fluin;Barry T Hart

  • A model for inferring past conductivity in low salinity waters derived from Murray River (Australia) diatom plankton

    John Tibby;Michael A. Reid

  • Climate–water quality relationships in three Western Victorian (Australia) lakes 1984–2000

    J. Tibby;D. Tiller

  • The impact of European settlement on Bolin Billabong, a Yarra River floodplain lake, Melbourne, Australia

    Paul J. Leahy;John Tibby;A. Peter Kershaw;Henk Heijnis

  • Climate variability in south-eastern Australia over the last 1500 years inferred from the high-resolution diatom records of two crater lakes

    Cameron Barr;John Tibby;Peter Gell;Jonathan Tyler;Jonathan Tyler

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Gell
Peter Gell Federation University Australia
Patrick Moss
Patrick Moss University of Queensland
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Gary Hancock
Gary Hancock Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lee J. Arnold
Lee J. Arnold University of Adelaide
Geraldine Jacobsen
Geraldine Jacobsen Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Dirk Verschuren
Dirk Verschuren Ghent University
Neil Roberts
Neil Roberts Plymouth University
Simon G. Haberle
Simon G. Haberle Australian National University
A. Peter Kershaw
A. Peter Kershaw Monash University

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