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Jonathan K. Webb is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with specific contributions across multiple subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The topics frequently addressed in their research encompass Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fire effects on ecosystems, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan K. Webb include:

  • "Biodiversity impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian megafires" (2024) published in Nature
  • "Community perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices linked to urban tree plantings" (2023) published in Urban forestry & urban greening
  • "Shifts in thermal tolerance of the invasive Asian house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus) across native and introduced ranges" (2021) published in Biological Invasions
  • "Trophic cascade driven by behavioral fine-tuning as naïve prey rapidly adjust to a novel predator" (2021) published in Ecology
  • "Effects of incubation temperatures on learning abilities of hatchling velvet geckos" (2020) published in Animal Cognition

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jonathan K. Webb include Chris J. Jolly, Mike Letnic, Brad R. Murray, Ben L. Phillips, and Yingyod Lapwong.

The scientist has published notably in venues such as Fire, Journal of Thermal Biology, Scientific Reports, Austral Ecology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with each venue representing multiple publications over time.

Best Publications

  • Invasion and the evolution of speed in toads

    Benjamin L. Phillips;Gregory P. Brown;Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • Rapid expansion of the cane toad (Bufo marinus) invasion front in tropical Australia

    Benjamin L. Phillips;Gregory P. Brown;Matthew Greenlees;Jonathan K. Webb

  • Toad on the road: use of roads as dispersal corridors by cane toads (Bufo marinus) at an invasion front in tropical Australia.

    Gregory P. Brown;Benjamin L. Phillips;Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • Invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) cause mass mortality of freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) in tropical Australia

    Mike Letnic;Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • CANOPY STRUCTURE, MICROCLIMATE, AND HABITAT SELECTION BY A NOCTURNAL SNAKE, HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES

    Robert M. Pringle;Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • Using thermal ecology to predict retreat-site selection by an endangered snake species

    Jonathan K Webb;Richard Shine

  • Paving the way for habitat restoration: can artificial rocks restore degraded habitats of endangered reptiles?

    Jonathan K Webb;Richard Shine

  • A field study of spatial ecology and movements of a threatened snake species, Hoplocephalus bungaroides

    Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • Conditioned taste aversion enhances the survival of an endangered predator imperilled by a toxic invader

    Stephanie O’Donnell;Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • Why don't small snakes bask? Juvenile broad-headed snakes trade thermal benefits for safety

    Jonathan K. Webb;Martin J. Whiting

  • What makes a species vulnerable to extinction? Comparative life‐history traits of two sympatric snakes

    Jonathan K. Webb;Barry W. Brook;Richard Shine

  • Successful surf-riding on size spectra: the secret of survival in the sea

    J. G. Pope;John Graham Shepherd;J. Webb

  • Removing forest canopy cover restores a reptile assemblage.

    David A. Pike;Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • A native dasyurid predator (common planigale, Planigale maculata) rapidly learns to avoid a toxic invader.

    Jonathan K. Webb;Gregory P. Brown;Travis Child;Matthew J. Greenlees

  • Canopy removal restores habitat quality for an endangered snake in a fire suppressed landscape

    Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine;Robert M. Pringle

  • Out on a limb: Conservation implications of tree-hollow use by a threatened snake species (Hoplocephalus bungaroides: Serpentes, Elapidae)

    Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • Excluding access to invasion hubs can contain the spread of an invasive vertebrate

    Daniel Florance;Jonathan K. Webb;Tim Dempster;Michael R. Kearney

  • Thermoregulation by a Nocturnal Elapid Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides) in Southeastern Australia

    Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine

  • THE ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF REPTILIAN VIVIPARITY IN THE TROPICS: TESTING THE MATERNAL MANIPULATION HYPOTHESIS

    Jonathan K. Webb;Jonathan K. Webb;Richard Shine;Keith A. Christian

  • The impact of bush-rock removal on an endangered snake species, Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Serpentes : Elapidae)

    Richard Shine;Jonathan K. Webb;Mark Fitzgerald;Joanna Sumner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Ben L. Phillips
Ben L. Phillips University of Melbourne
Mike Letnic
Mike Letnic University of New South Wales
Gregory P. Brown
Gregory P. Brown Macquarie University
Tim Dempster
Tim Dempster University of Melbourne
Tim S. Jessop
Tim S. Jessop Deakin University
Mathew S. Crowther
Mathew S. Crowther University of Sydney
Graeme Gillespie
Graeme Gillespie Government of the Northern Territory
Martin J. Whiting
Martin J. Whiting Macquarie University
Keith A. Christian
Keith A. Christian Charles Darwin University

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