Professor Neal Enright

Room: PhSc/3.038

Research Interests:

Professor Neal Enright is a plant ecologist with particular interests in the ecology and management of fire-prone ecosystems and in the restoration of plant communities to post-mined landscapes. His present research focuses on the high biodiversity shrublands of the northern sandplains of SW Australia, and the effects of fire and climate change on this important ecosystem, and spans a range of areas of investigation in co-operation with collaborating scientists, including ecophysiology, molecular ecology and simulation modeling. He has also published extensively on the population ecology of conifers and palms.

Recent publications:

Books

Esplin, B., Gill, A.M. & Enright, N.J. 2003. Report of the Inquiry into the 2002-2003 Victorian Bushfires. State Government of Victoria. McLaren Press. Melbourne. 334p. ISBN 0731114884

Enright, N.J,. & Hill, R.S. 1995. (eds) Ecology of the Southern Conifers. University of Melbourne Press/Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 342p.

Chapters in Books

Enright, N.J. Fire and Ecosystem Function. 2009. Chapter E1. In: Millington, D. Blumler, M. MacDonald, G. & Schickhoff, U. (eds) Handbook of Biogeography. Sage Publications. London. in press

Refereed journal papers

Tianhua He, Byron B. Lamont, Siegfried L. Krauss, Neal J. Enright, Ben P. Miller & Aaron Gove. 2008. Ants cannot account for interpopulation dispersal of the arillate pea Daviesia triflora. New Phytologist pages 1-13, on-line: Doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.0286.x

S.L. Krauss, T. He, L.G. Barrett, B.B. Lamont, N.J. Enright, B.P. Miller & M.E. Hanley. 2008. Contrasting impacts of pollen and seed dispersal on spatial genetic structure in Banksia hookeriana (Proteaceae). Heredity pages 1-12, doi:10.1038/hdy.2008.1 18 nov

Perry, G.L.W., Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P. and Lamont, B.B. 2008. Nearest-neighbour interactions in species-rich shrublands: the roles of abundance, spatial patterns and resources Oikos in press. doi: 10.1111/j.2008.0030-1299.16947.x

Groeneveld, J., Enright, N.J. & Lamont B. B. 2008. Simulating the effects of different spatio-temporal fire regimes on plant metapopulation persistence in a Mediterranean-type region. Journal of Applied Ecology 45, 1477-85.

Enright, N.J. and Thomas, I. 2008. Pre-European fire regimes in Australian ecosystems. Geography-Compass 2, 979-1011.

Tianhua He, Byron B. Lamont, Siegfried L. Krauss, Neal J. Enright, Ben P. Miller. 2008. Covariation between intraspecific genetic diversity and species diversity within a plant functional group. Journal of Ecology 96, 956-61.

Esther A, Groeneveld J, Enright N. J., Miller . P., Lamont B. B., Perry G. L.W., Schurr F.M. & Jeltsch F. 2008. Assessing the importance of seed immigration on coexistence of plant functional types in a species-rich ecosystem. Ecological Modelling 213, 402-16.

Perry, G.L.W., Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P. and Lamont, B.B. 2008. Spatial patterns in species-rich Mediterranean-type shrublands of southwestern Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 19, 705-16.

Meers, T.L., Bell, T.L., Enright, N.J. & Kasel, S. 2008. The role of plant functional traits in determining the vegetation composition of abandoned grazing land in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 19, 515-24.

Enright, N.J., Mosner, E., Miller, B.P., Johnson, N. & Lamont, B.B. 2007. Soil versus canopy seed storage and plant species coexistence in species-rich shrublands of southwestern Australia. Ecology 88, 2292-2304.

Perry, G.L.W. & Enright, N.J. 2007. Contrasting Outcomes of Spatially Implicit and Spatially Explicit Models of Vegetation Dynamics in a Forest-Shrubland Mosaic. Ecological Modelling (in press) Ms. No. ECOMOD1113R1

Ben P. Miller, Neal J. Enright & Byron B. Lamont. 2007. Range contraction, real and imagined, in Banksia hookeriana, a restricted endemic shrub of south-western Australia. Diversity & Distributions 13, 406-17.

Enright, N.J. & Miller, B.P. 2007. Grazing and browsing impacts on the desert vegetation of Khirthar National Park, Sindh, Pakistan. Journal of Rangeland Ecology and Management (in press)

Ladd, P.G., Enright, N.J. & Crosti, R. 2007. A variable sense of place as exemplified in an iconic urban reserve in Western Australia. In: Stewart, G. et al. (eds) Globalisation and Landscape Architecture: issues for education and practice. St. Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy and Lincoln University. pages 120-123. St Petersburg State Polytechnic University Publishing House. (ISBN 5-7422-1535-5)

Miller B.P., Walshe T, Enright N.J., and Lamont B.B. 2007. Error in the inference of fire history from grasstrees. Austral Ecology 32, 908-16.

Lamont, B.B., Enright, N.J., Witkowski, E.T.F. and Groeneveld, J. 2007. Conservation biology of banksias: insights from natural history to interactive modelling. Australian Journal of Botany 55, 1-13.

Enright, N.J., Lamont, B.B. and Miller, B.P. 2006. Commentary: Anomalies in grasstree fire history reconstructions for southwestern Australian vegetation. Reply from Enright, N.J., Lamont, B.B. and Miller, B.P. Austral Ecology 31, 792-3

Siegfried L. Krauss, Tianhua He, Byron B. Lamont, Ben P. Miller, Neal J. Enright. 2006. Late Quaternary climate change and spatial genetic structure in the shrub Banksia hookeriana. Molecular Ecology 15, 1125-37

Perry G.L.W., Miller, B.P. & Enright, N.J. 2006. A Comparison of Methods for the Statistical Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns in plant ecology. Plant Ecology 187, 59-82

George L W Perry & Neal J Enright. 2006. Spatially explicit landscape ecological models: a review of methods and applications. Progress in Physical Geography 30, 47-72

Enright, N.J., Lamont, B.B. and Miller, B.P. 2005. Anomalies in grasstree fire history reconstructions for southwestern Australian vegetation. Austral Ecology 30, 668-73

Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P. and Akhter, R. 2005. Desert vegetation and vegetation-environment relationships in Khirthar National Park, Sindh, Pakistan. J. Arid Envts 61, 397-418

Enright, N.J., Groeneveld, J., Lamont, B.B. and Miller, B.P. 2005. Grasstree reconstructions of pre-European fire regimes and models of Banksia (Proteaceae) species co-existence in the northern sandplain shrublands of SW Australia: are they compatible? In: Walshe, T.V. and Williams, J.E. (Eds). Variability in fire interval. How important is it and how do we manage it?  Proceedings of a Workshop held 26 September 2003, Albany, Western Australia. pp. 11-21. University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia (ISBN 1 74052 120 X)

Comino, E., Miller, B.P. & Enright N.J. 2004. Restoration of ecological process (soil seedbank) in a box-ironbark forest mine-site revegetation program at Stawell, western Victoria (SE Australia). Pacific Conservation Biology 10, 9-20

He, T, Krauss, S.L., Lamont, B.B., Miller, B.P. & Enright, N.J. 2004. Long distance seed dispersal in a metapopulation of Banksia hookeriana inferred from a population allocation analysis of AFLP data. Molecular Ecology 13, 1099-1109

Enright, N.J., He, T, Krauss, S.L., Lamont, B.B. & Miller, B.P. 2003. Genetic variation and biogeographic history in the restricted southwestern Australian shrub, Banksia hookeriana. Physical Geography 24, 358-77

Perry, G.L.W. & Enright, N.J. 2003. Spatial Modelling of 'Alternative' Future Landscapes Under Climate Change and Fire Suppression, Mont Do, New Caledonia. Pacific Conservation Biology 9, 248-64

Enright , N.J., Miller, B.P. & Perry, G.L.W. 2003. Demography of the long-lived conifer Agathis ovata (Araucariaceae) in maquis and rainforest, New Caledonian. Journal of Vegetation Science 14, 625-36

Byron B. Lamont, Tianhua He, Neal J. Enright, Siegfried L. Krauss & Ben P. Miller. 2003. Anthropogenic disturbance promotes hybridization between Banksia species by altering their biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 551-7

Brown, J., Enright, N.J. and Miller, B.P. 2003. Seed production and germination in two rare and three common, co-occurring Acacia species from SE Australia. Austral Ecology 28, 271-80

Chiarucci, A., Enright, N.J., Perry, G.L.W., Miller, B.P. and Lamont, B.B. 2003. Performance of non parametric species richness estimators in high diversity plant communities. Diversity and Distributions 9, 283-95

Rigg, L.S., Enright, N.J., Perry, G.W. & Miller, B.P. 2002. The role of cloud-combing in the succession from maquis to rainforest in New Caledonia. Biotropica 34, 199-210

Groeneveld, J., Enright, N.J., Lamont, B.B. & Wissel, C. 2002. A spatial model of coexistence among three Banksia species along a habitat gradient in fire-prone shrublands. Journal of Ecology 90, 762-74

Perry, G.L.W. & Enright, N.J. 2002. Humans, fire and landscape pattern: understanding a maquis-forest complex, Mont Do, New Caledonia using a spatial state-and -transition model. Journal of Biogeography 29, 1143-58

Perry, G.L.W. & Enright, N.J. 2002. Spatial Modelling of Landscape Composition and Pattern in a Maquis-Forest Complex, Mont Do, New Caledonia. Ecological Modelling 152, 279-302

Enright, N.J. 2001. Nutrient accessions in a mixed conifer-angiosperm forest in northern New Zealand. Austral Ecology 26, 618-29

Lamont, B.B., Marsula, R., Enright, N.J. & Witkowski, E.T.F. 2001. Conservation requirements of an exploited wildflower: modelling the effects of growing conditions, plant age and picking intensity. Biological Conservation 99, 157-168

Enright, N.J. & Kintrup, A. 2001. The effects of smoke, heat and charred wood on the germination of dormant soil-stored seeds from a Eucalyptus baxteri heathy woodland in Victoria, SE Australia. Austral Ecology 26, 132-141

Thomas, I., Enright, N.J. & Kenyon, C. 2001. The Holocene history of Mediterranean type plant communities, Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia. Holocene 11, 691-7

Enright, N.J., Rigg, L. & Jaffré, T. 2001. Environmental controls on species composition along a maquis (shrubland) to forest gradient at Mt. Do, New Caledonia. S. African J. Sci. 97, 573-80

Perry, G., Enright, N.J. & Jaffré, T. 2001. Spatial Modelling of Landscape-Scale Vegetation Dynamics, Mont Do, New Caledonia. S. African J. Sci. 97, 501-09

Conference proceedings

J Groeneveld, A Esther, N Enright, B Miller, B Lamont, G Perry and F Jeltsch. 2007. Investigating the impact of plant traits on community structure in fire-prone woody vegetation using a model of 288 plant functional types. In "Proceedings of the MEDECOS XI 2007 Conference, 2-5 September, Perth, Australia". Eds. D Rokich, G Wardell-Johnson, C Yates, J Stevens, K Dixon, R McLellan and G Moss. pp 103-104. Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth, Australia.

Enright, N.J., Miller, B.P., Johnson, N., Lamont, B.B. & Perry, G.L.W. 2004. Soil seed banks in three contrasting species-rich shrublands in southwestern Australia. Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Mediterranean climate Ecosystems. Rhodes. (CD-rom)

Lamont, B.B., Enright, N.J. & Groeneveld, J. 2004. Coping with fire in species-rich heathlands - is there an optimum fire interval for management? Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Mediterranean climate Ecosystems. Rhodes. (Cd-rom)

Groeneveld, J. & Enright, N.J. 2004. A metapopulation model analysis for the fire-killed shrub, Banksia hookeriana, in southwestern Australia. 2004. Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Mediterranean climate Ecosystems. Rhodes. (CD-rom)

Krauss, S.L., He, T., Barrett, L., Lamont, B.B., Miller, B.P. & Enright, N.J. 2004. Short- and long-distance dispersal in a metapopulation of Banksia hookeriana (Proteaceae). Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Mediterranean climate Ecosystems. Rhodes. (CD-rom)

Comino E., Enright N.J. & Miller B.P. 2003.Topsoil seed bank determination for on-site capping. Proceedings of the Ninth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium 6-10 October. Sardinia. Italy.

Major Consultancy reports

Enright, N.J. (editor) Khirthar National Park Baseline Environmental Study. 2001. University of Melbourne. Unpublished report to Sindh Wildlife Department, Karachi, and Premier Exploration Pakistan Ltd, Islamabad, Pakistan. 2 Volumes, 950p.