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Overview

Peter H. Thrall is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of agriculture and environmental science with a particular emphasis on plant science, ecology, genetics, and evolutionary studies.

The scientist has published extensively in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their subfields include Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered in their work are Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Plant Pathogens and Resistance, Research Data Management Practices, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Ecology Letters
  • Pedobiologia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • Annual Review of Phytopathology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter H. Thrall include:

  • Models of Plant Resistance Deployment, 2021, Annual Review of Phytopathology
  • Phylogenetic signals and predictability in plant-soil feedbacks, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Availability of soil mutualists may not limit non-native Acacia invasion but could increase their impact on native soil communities, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • The socio-economic challenges of managing pathogen evolution in agriculture, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Genetic analysis reveals long-standing population differentiation and high diversity in the rust pathogen Melampsora lini, 2020, PLoS Pathogens

Frequent coauthors who have contributed to multiple publications with Peter H. Thrall are:

  • Luke G. Barrett
  • Julien Papaïx
  • Loup Rimbaud
  • Benoît Moury
  • Elizabeth M. Wandrag

Best Publications

  • Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies

    Sonia Altizer;Charles L. Nunn;Peter H. Thrall;John L. Gittleman

  • Coevolution of symbiotic mutualists and parasites in a community context.

    Peter H. Thrall;Michael E. Hochberg;Jeremy J. Burdon;James D. Bever

  • Evolution of virulence in a plant host-pathogen metapopulation.

    Peter H. Thrall;Jeremy J. Burdon

  • Life history determines genetic structure and evolutionary potential of host–parasite interactions

    Luke G. Barrett;Peter H. Thrall;Jeremy J. Burdon;Celeste C. Linde

  • A conceptual framework for the evolution of ecological specialisation

    Timothée Poisot;James D. Bever;Adnane Nemri;Peter H. Thrall

  • How plant life-history and ecological traits relate to species rarity and commonness at varying spatial scales

    Brad R. Murray;Peter H. Thrall;A. Malcolm Gill;Adrienne B. Nicotra

  • Sexually transmitted diseases in animals: ecological and evolutionary implications.

    Ann B. Lockhart;Peter H. Thrall;Janis Antonovics

  • Microbial community responses to anthropogenically induced environmental change: towards a systems approach

    Andrew Bissett;Mark V. Brown;Steven D. Siciliano;Peter H. Thrall

  • The Current and Future Dynamics of Disease in Plant Communities

    Jeremy J. Burdon;Peter H. Thrall;Lars Ericson

  • Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Coevolving Plant and Pathogen Associations

    J. J. Burdon;P. H. Thrall

  • Plants versus pathogens: an evolutionary arms race

    Jonathan P. Anderson;Cynthia A. Gleason;Rhonda C. Foley;Peter H. Thrall

  • The Cost of Resistance and the Maintenance of Genetic Polymorphism in Host-Pathogen Systems

    Janis Antonovics;Peter H. Thrall

  • Long-term land use effects on soil microbial community structure and function

    Andrew Bissett;Alan E. Richardson;Geoff Baker;Peter H. Thrall

  • Rapid genetic change underpins antagonistic coevolution in a natural host‐pathogen metapopulation

    Peter H. Thrall;Anna-Liisa Laine;Anna-Liisa Laine;Michael Ravensdale;Michael Ravensdale;Adnane Nemri

  • Evolution in agriculture: the application of evolutionary approaches to the management of biotic interactions in agro-ecosystems.

    Peter H. Thrall;John G. Oakeshott;Gary Fitt;Simon Southerton

  • LOCAL ADAPTATION IN THE LINUM MARGINALE—MELAMPSORA LINI HOST‐PATHOGEN INTERACTION

    Peter H. Thrall;J. J. Burdon;James D. Bever

  • The emerging science of linked plant-fungal invasions.

    Ian A. Dickie;Ian A. Dickie;Jennifer L. Bufford;Richard C. Cobb;Marie‐Laure Desprez‐Loustau

  • Playing on a pathogen's weakness: using evolution to guide sustainable plant disease control strategies.

    Jiasui Zhan;Peter H. Thrall;Julien Papaïx;Lianhui Xie

  • Sexually transmitted diseases in polygynous mating systems: prevalence and impact on reproductive success

    Peter H. Thrall;Janis Antonovics;Andrew P. Dobson

  • Genetic erosion, inbreeding and reduced fitness in fragmented populations of the endangered tetraploid pea Swainsona recta

    Lejla Buza;Andrew Young;Peter Thrall

  • Coevolution of plants and their pathogens in natural habitats.

    Jeremy J. Burdon;Peter H. Thrall

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy J. Burdon
Jeremy J. Burdon CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Janis Antonovics
Janis Antonovics University of Virginia
Alan Richardson
Alan Richardson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Anna-Liisa Laine
Anna-Liisa Laine University of Helsinki
Andrew G. Young
Andrew G. Young Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
James D. Bever
James D. Bever University of Kansas
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Peter N. Dodds
Peter N. Dodds Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Michelle R. Leishman
Michelle R. Leishman Macquarie University
Lars Ericson
Lars Ericson Umeå University

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