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7191
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National Ranking
546

Overview

Luke P. Shoo is a researcher affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia, specializing in Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on ecological dynamics, conservation, and ecosystem management. Shoo's research spans several interconnected subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science.

Their recent scientific contributions address a range of topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, fire effects on ecosystems, land use and ecosystem services, bat biology and ecology studies, avian ecology and behavior, and forest management and policy.

Frequent publication venues for Shoo's research include BMC Biology, Forest Ecology and Management, Ecological Applications, Ecological Solutions and Evidence, and Ecological Management & Restoration.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Shoo are:

  • "Extreme mobility of the world's largest flying mammals creates key challenges for management and conservation," 2020, BMC Biology
  • "Enhancing bird-mediated seed dispersal to increase rainforest regeneration in disused pasture - A restoration experiment," 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • "Smart allocation of restoration funds over space and time," 2021, Ecological Applications
  • "Better left alone: Trying to control pasture grasses in untended rainforest plantings incurs multiple costs and delivers few benefits," 2021, Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • "Prickly Skink (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae) use of supplemental coarse woody debris in rainforest restoration sites," 2021, Ecological Management & Restoration

Luke P. Shoo collaborates frequently with co-authors Amanda N. D. Freeman, Carla P. Catterall, Michael Duncan, Tim Robson, and Darren Roche across multiple projects and publications.

Best Publications

  • Towards an Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Species to Climate Change

    Stephen E Williams;Luke P Shoo;Joanne L Isaac;Ary A Hoffmann

  • Selecting pseudo-absence data for presence-only distribution modeling: How far should you stray from what you know?

    Jeremy VanDerWal;Luke P. Shoo;Catherine Graham;Stephen E. Williams

  • Abundance and the environmental niche: Environmental suitability estimated from niche models predicts the upper limit of local abundance

    Jeremy VanDerWal;Luke P. Shoo;Christopher N. Johnson;Stephen E. Williams

  • Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss

    R. Warren;J. VanDerWal;J. Price;J. A. Welbergen

  • Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Luke P. Shoo;Sebastian K. Herzog

  • Detecting climate change induced range shifts: where and how should we be looking?

    Luke P. Shoo;Luke P. Shoo;Stephen E. Williams;Stephen E. Williams;Jean-Marc Hero

  • Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change

    Luke P. Shoo;Deanna H. Olson;Sarah K. McMenamin;Kris A. Murray

  • Integrating plant- and animal-based perspectives for more effective restoration of biodiversity

    Clive McAlpine;Carla P Catterall;Ralph Mac Nally;David Lindenmayer

  • A meta-analytical global comparison of aboveground biomass accumulation between tropical secondary forests and monoculture plantations

    Mark T.L. Bonner;Susanne Schmidt;Luke P. Shoo

  • Climate warming and the rainforest birds of the Australian Wet Tropics : Using abundance data as a sensitive predictor of change in total population size

    Luke P. Shoo;Luke P. Shoo;Stephen E. Williams;Stephen E. Williams;Jean Marc Hero

  • Slow recovery of tropical old-field rainforest regrowth and the value and limitations of active restoration

    Luke P. Shoo;Kylie Freebody;John Kanowski;John Kanowski;Carla P. Catterall

  • Ecological specialization and population size in a biodiversity hotspot: How rare species avoid extinction

    Stephen Williams;Yvette M. Williams;Jeremy VanDerWal;Joanne L. Isaac

  • New approaches to understanding late Quaternary climate fluctuations and refugial dynamics in Australian wet tropical rain forests

    Jeremy VanDerWal;Luke P. Shoo;Stephen E. Williams

  • Evidence of constrained phenotypic evolution in a cryptic species complex of agamid lizards

    Katie L. Smith;Katie L. Smith;Luke J. Harmon;Luke P. Shoo;Jane Melville

  • Making decisions to conserve species under climate change

    Luke P. Shoo;Luke P. Shoo;Ary A. Hoffmann;Stephen Garnett;Robert L. Pressey

  • Thermal Buffering of Microhabitats is a Critical Factor Mediating Warming Vulnerability of Frogs in the Philippine Biodiversity Hotspot

    Brett R. Scheffers;Brett R. Scheffers;Rebecca M. Brunner;Sara D. Ramirez;Luke P. Shoo

  • Targeted protection and restoration to conserve tropical biodiversity in a warming world

    Luke P. Shoo;Collin Storlie;Jeremy Vanderwal;Jeremy Little

  • Stimulating Natural Regeneration of Tropical Forest on Degraded Land: Approaches, Outcomes, and Information Gaps

    Luke P. Shoo;Carla P. Catterall

  • Patterns of rain forest plant endemism in subtropical Australia relate to stable mesic refugia and species dispersal limitations

    Lui C. Weber;Jeremy VanDerWal;Susanne Schmidt;William J. F. McDonald

  • Potential decoupling of trends in distribution area and population size of species with climate change

    Luke P. Shoo;Luke P. Shoo;Stephen E. Williams;Stephen E. Williams;Jean-Marc Hero

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen E. Williams
Stephen E. Williams James Cook University
Jeremy VanDerWal
Jeremy VanDerWal James Cook University
Carla Catterall
Carla Catterall Griffith University
Susanne Schmidt
Susanne Schmidt University of Bonn
Jean-Marc Hero
Jean-Marc Hero University of the Sunshine Coast
Kerrie A. Wilson
Kerrie A. Wilson Queensland University of Technology
Jane Melville
Jane Melville Museums Victoria
Brett R. Scheffers
Brett R. Scheffers University of Florida
Andy Jarvis
Andy Jarvis Bezos Earth Fund
Julian Ramirez-Villegas
Julian Ramirez-Villegas Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical

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