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  1. A quarter century of annual Cape Parrot censuses: Current population trends and conservation imperatives

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, November 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  2. Integrating hotspot dynamics and centers of diversity: a review of Indo-Australian Archipelago biogeographic evolution and conservation

    Article • Marine Life Science & Technology, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  3. An improved method of capture and immobilisation for medium to large-size macropods

    Article • Wildlife Research, January 2025, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  4. Michael (Mike) Richard Perrin

    Article • African Zoology, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  5. Nestbox use indicates declining arboreal mammals in an Australian savanna may be limited by tree hollow availability

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  6. Hope for limestone langurs’ conservation

    Article • Science, May 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  7. Professor Michael (MIKE) Richard Perrin 28 December 1946–28 December 2023

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  8. Maternal parity influences the birth sex ratio and birth interval of captive Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  9. The Filtering Effect of Oil Palm Plantations on Potential Insect Pollinator Assemblages from Remnant Forest Patches

    Article • Land, June 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  10. Reforestation success can be enhanced by improving tree planting methods

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, June 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  11. Influence of Landscape Characteristics on Wind Dispersal Efficiency of Calotropis procera

    Article • Land, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  12. The effects of the invasive species, Lantana camara, on regeneration of an African rainforest

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, February 2023, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  13. Coastal Forest in Eastern Southern Africa has Savanna Bush-clump Origins

    Article • Ecosystems, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  14. Mitigating crop raiding by forest elephants and baboons at Kibale National Park

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, December 2022, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  15. Solutions to fire and shade: resprouting, growing tall and the origin of Eurasian temperate broadleaved forest

    Article • Biological Reviews, November 2022, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  16. Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vladimír Šebeň, Professor Han Y.H. Chen, Dr. Simone Vieira, Professor Michael John Lawes, Dr Michael R Ngugi

  17. The future of sub-Saharan Africa’s biodiversity in the face of climate and societal change

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, August 2022, Frontiers

    Dr. Addisu Mekonnen, Professor Michael John Lawes

  18. Variation in eucalypt bark allometry across Australia

    Article • Australian Journal of Botany, May 2022, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  19. Appraising widespread resprouting but variable levels of postfire seeding in Australian ecosystems: the effect of phylogeny, fire regime and productivity

    Article • Australian Journal of Botany, February 2022, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  20. Can I afford to publish? A dilemma for African scholars

    Article • Ecology Letters, December 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Addisu Mekonnen, Professor Michael John Lawes

  21. A 40-year evaluation of drivers of African rainforest change

    Article • Forest Ecosystems, October 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  22. Cats are a key threatening factor to the survival of local populations of native small mammals in Australia’s tropical savannas: evidence from translocation trials with

    Article • Wildlife Research, July 2021, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  23. Bark functional ecology and its influence on the distribution of Australian half‐butt eucalypts

    Article • Austral Ecology, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  24. Quantifying carbon in tree bark: The importance of bark morphology and tree size

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  25. Author response for "Quantifying carbon in tree bark the importance of bark morphology and tree size"

    Article • September 2020, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  26. The global abundance of tree palms

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, July 2020, Wiley

    Professor Serge Wich, Dr Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Professor Michael John Lawes

  27. Does rapid utilization of elevated nutrient availability allow eucalypts to dominate in the tropical savannas of Australia?

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, April 2020, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  28. THE ROLE OF FOREST FRAGMENTS IN SMALL MAMMAL CONSERVATION IN AN OIL PALM PLANTATION IN NORTHERN SARAWAK, BORNEO

    Article • Journal of Oil Palm Research, September 2019, Malaysian Palm Oil Board

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  29. THE DIVERSITY OF UNDERSTOREY BIRDS IN FOREST FRAGMENTS AND OIL PALM PLANTATION, SARAWAK, BORNEO

    Article • Journal of Oil Palm Research, August 2019, Malaysian Palm Oil Board

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  30. Understanding the reproductive biology of Terminalia ferdinandiana for improved fruit yields

    Article • Australian Journal of Botany, January 2019, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  31. Seed set in Sorghum stipoideum , and not fire, determines the timing of breeding by Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae )

    Article • Austral Ecology, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  32. Regional scientific research benefits threatened-species conservation

    Article • National Science Review, July 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Carlos A. Peres, Professor Michael John Lawes

  33. Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Simone Vieira, Dr Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Professor Serge Wich, Professor Michael John Lawes

  34. Hierarchical integration of individual tree and area-based approaches for savanna biomass uncertainty estimation from airborne LiDAR

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  35. Restoration Provides Hope for Primate Recover

    Article • Tropical Conservation Science, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Colin Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  36. Compilation and traits of Australian bird species killed by cats

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  37. A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery

    Article • Biological Conservation, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  38. How many birds are killed by cats in Australia?

    Article • Biological Conservation, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  39. Recovery of mammal diversity in tropical forests: a functional approach to measuring restoration

    Article • Restoration Ecology, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  40. Ants as ecological indicators of rainforest restoration: Community convergence and the development of an Ant Forest Indicator Index in the Australian wet tropics

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  41. Small fire refugia in the grassy matrix and the persistence of Afrotemperate forest in the Drakensberg mountains

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2017, Nature

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  42. National carbon model not sensitive to species, families and site characteristics in a young tropical reforestation project

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  43. Disturbance-dependent invasion of the woody weed, Calotropis procera, in Australian rangelands

    Article • The Rangeland Journal, January 2017, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  44. Frequent fires reduce the nutritional quality of Sorghum stipoideum seed, a keystone food resource for the Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)

    Article • The Rangeland Journal, January 2017, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  45. Recovery of tree and mammal communities during large‐scale forest regeneration in Kibale National Park, Uganda

    Article • Biotropica, November 2016, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  46. Density-dependent reproduction and pollen limitation in an invasive milkweed,Calotropis procera(Ait.) R. Br. (Apocynaceae)

    Article • Austral Ecology, September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  47. Seed-dispersal ecology of tropical montane forests

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  48. Advances in understanding the influence of fire on the ecology and evolution of plants: a tribute to Peter J. Clarke

    Article • Plant Ecology, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  49. Behavioural responses of migratory shorebirds to disturbance at a high-tide roost

    Article • Emu - Austral Ornithology, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  50. Evidence for bark thickness as a fire-resistance trait from desert to savanna in fire-prone inland Australia

    Article • Plant Ecology, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  51. Light availability drives tree seedling success in a subtropical coastal dune forest in South Africa

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  52. Changes over 46 years in plant community structure in a cleared brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) forest

    Article • Austral Ecology, April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  53. Human-Imposed, Fine-Grained Patch Burning Explains the Population Stability of a Fire-Sensitive Conifer in a Frequently Burnt Northern Australia Savanna

    Article • Ecosystems, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  54. Relative bark thickness: towards standardised measurement and analysis

    Article • Plant Ecology, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  55. Fruit Ripening Signals and Cues in a Madagascan Dry Forest: Haptic Indicators Reliably Indicate Fruit Ripeness to Dichromatic Lemurs

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  56. Recently but infrequently burnt breeding sites are favoured by threatened Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae)

    Article • International Journal of Wildland Fire, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  57. Seed-germination responses of Calotropis procera (Asclepiadaceae) to temperature and water stress in northern Australia

    Article • Australian Journal of Botany, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  58. The potential distribution of the woody weed Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton (Asclepiadaceae) in Australia

    Article • The Rangeland Journal, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  59. Pattern, prediction and parsimony in continental‐scale synthesis of pyromes: a reply to Gosper et al.

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  60. Deriving Multiple Benefits from Carbon Market-Based Savanna Fire Management: An Australian Example

    Article • PLOS One, December 2015, PLOS

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  61. Both fire size and frequency matter—A response to Griffiths et al.

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  62. Portrayal of sustainability principles in the mission statements and on home pages of the world's largest organizations

    Article • Conservation Biology, November 2015, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  63. A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  64. Functional and environmental determinants of bark thickness in fire‐free temperate rain forest communities

    Article • American Journal of Botany, October 2015, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  65. Fire regime, soil fertility and growth form interact to shape fire and growth traits in two co-occurring Banksia species

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  66. Modelling the growth of young rainforest trees for biomass estimates and carbon sequestration accounting

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  67. Correction for Slik et al., An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Serge Wich, Dr. Simone Vieira, Professor Michael John Lawes

  68. Correlates of Recent Declines of Rodents in Northern and Southern Australia: Habitat Structure Is Critical

    Article • PLOS One, June 2015, PLOS

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  69. An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Mr Bruno G Luize, Professor Serge Wich, Dr. Simone Vieira, Professor Michael John Lawes

  70. Testing the Shifting Persistence Niche Concept: Plant Resprouting along Gradients of Disturbance

    Article • The American Naturalist, June 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  71. The Role of Habitat Heterogeneity in Structuring Mangrove Bird Assemblages

    Article • Diversity, April 2015, MDPI AG

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  72. Small mammals decline with increasing fire extent in northern Australia: evidence from long-term monitoring in Kakadu National Park

    Article • International Journal of Wildland Fire, January 2015, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  73. The effects of a moratorium on land-clearing in the Douglas-Daly region, Northern Territory, Australia

    Article • The Rangeland Journal, January 2015, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  74. Response to commentary by Woinarski (Critical-weight-range marsupials in northern Australia are declining: a commentary on Fisheret al. (2014) ‘The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: is history repeating?’)

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, November 2014, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  75. Changes in Elephant Abundance Affect Forest Composition or Regeneration?

    Article • Biotropica, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  76. Experimental evidence that feral cats cause local extirpation of small mammals in Australia's tropical savannas

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, September 2014, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  77. Resource Partitioning by Mangrove Bird Communities in North Australia

    Article • Biotropica, April 2014, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  78. Resource allocation and storage relative to resprouting ability in wind disturbed coastal forest trees

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  79. Comparing bark thickness: testing methods with bark-stem data from two South African fire-prone biomes

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Gareth P. Hempson, Professor Michael John Lawes

  80. Bark thickness does not explain the different susceptibility of Australian and New Zealand temperate rain forests to anthropogenic fire

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  81. Pervasive, long-lasting impact of historical logging on composition, diversity and above ground carbon stocks in Afrotemperate forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  82. Responses of small vertebrates to linear clearings in a South Australian woodland

    Article • Ecological Research, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  83. Fire regimes and woody biomass dynamics in Australian savannas

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2013, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  84. Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, June 2013, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird, Professor Michael John Lawes

  85. The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: is history repeating?

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2013, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  86. Brave new green world – Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Professor Michael John Lawes, Professor Corey J. A. Bradshaw

  87. Corrigendum to “The ten Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points” [Biol. Conserv. 144 (2011) 1472–1480]

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Karen J Vella, Professor Michael I Bird, Professor Michael John Lawes

  88. Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: a savanna/forest contrast

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  89. A trade-off in stand size effects in the reproductive biology of a declining tropical conifer Callitris intratropica

    Article • Plant Ecology, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  90. Planting methods matter for cost‐effective rainforest restoration

    Article • Ecological Management & Restoration, December 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  91. Avian species-assemblage structure and indicator bird species of mangroves in the Australian monsoon tropics

    Article • Emu - Austral Ornithology, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  92. Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

    Article • New Phytologist, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  93. Impact of Culm Harvest on Seed Production in a Monocarpic Bamboo

    Article • Biotropica, February 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  94. Comparing above-ground biomass among forest types in the Wet Tropics: Small stems and plantation types matter in carbon accounting

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  95. Ecology of plant resprouting: populations to community responses in fire-prone ecosystems

    Article • Plant Ecology, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  96. Costs of resprouting are traded off against reproduction in subtropical coastal dune forest trees

    Article • Plant Ecology, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  97. The effect of the surrounding landscape matrix on mangrove bird community assembly in north Australia

    Article • Biological Conservation, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  98. Bark thickness determines fire resistance of selected tree species from fire-prone tropical savanna in north Australia

    Article • Plant Ecology, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  99. The heat is on: frequent high intensity fire in bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) drives mortality of the sprouting tree Protea caffra in temperate grasslands

    Article • Plant Ecology, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  100. Density Effects of a Dominant Understory Herb,Isoglossa woodii(Acanthaceae), on Tree Seedlings of a Subtropical Coastal Dune Forest

    Article • Biotropica, May 2011, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  101. The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Karen J Vella, Professor Michael I Bird, Professor Michael John Lawes

  102. How do small savanna trees avoid stem mortality by fire? The roles of stem diameter, height and bark thickness

    Article • Ecosphere, April 2011, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  103. Predator satiation and recruitment in a mast fruiting monocarpic forest herb

    Article • Annals of Botany, January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  104. Podocarps in Africa: Temperate Zone Relicts or Rainforest Survivors?

    Article • Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, January 2011, Smithsonian Institution

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  105. Are the eucalypt and non-eucalypt components of Australian tropical savannas independent?

    Article • Oecologia, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  106. History of the East Point Monsoon Forest

    Article • Northern Territory Naturalist, November 2010, Biodiversity Heritage Library

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  107. Regeneration niches and functional traits of three common species in subtropical dune forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  108. Resprouting responses of trees in a fire‐prone tropical savanna following severe tornado damage

    Article • Austral Ecology, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  109. Ecological filtering by a dominant herb selects for shade tolerance in the tree seedling community of coastal dune forest

    Article • Oecologia, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  110. Causes of arrested succession in coastal dune forest

    Article • Plant Ecology, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  111. Pollination ecology of Isoglossa woodii, a long‐lived, synchronously monocarpic herb from coastal forests in South Africa

    Article • Plant Biology, April 2010, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  112. Tropical tree community shifts: Implications for wildlife conservation

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  113. Savanna woody plant dynamics: the role of fire and herbivory, separately and synergistically

    Article • Australian Journal of Botany, January 2010, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  114. Soil nutrients are not responsible for arrested succession in disturbed coastal dune forest

    Article • Plant Ecology, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  115. Explaining conifer dominance in Afrotemperate forests: Shade tolerance favours Podocarpus latifolius over angiosperm species

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  116. Pollinators, “mustard oil” volatiles, and fruit production in flowers of the dioecious tree Drypetes natalensis (Putranjivaceae)

    Article • American Journal of Botany, November 2009, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  117. Sharing Ecological Knowledge: Opportunities and Barriers to Uptake

    Article • Biotropica, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  118. Synthesis: Sharing Ecological Knowledge—The Way Forward

    Article • Biotropica, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  119. Role reversal in the stand dynamics of an angiosperm–conifer forest: Colonising angiosperms precede a shade-tolerant conifer in Afrotemperate forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, June 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  120. Burning following tree fall causes local elimination of annual sorghum

    Article • Northern Territory Naturalist, September 2008, Biodiversity Heritage Library

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  121. Environmental indicator potential of the dominant litter decomposer,Talitriator africana(Crustacea, Amphipoda) in Afrotemperate forests

    Article • Austral Ecology, August 2008, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  122. Sprouting by remobilization of above‐ground resources ensures persistence after disturbance of coastal dune forest trees

    Article • Functional Ecology, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  123. A 10-year evaluation of the functional basis for regeneration habitat preference of trees in an African evergreen forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  124. Tree spacing and area of competitive influence do not scale with tree size in an African rain forest

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  125. Density- and distance-dependent seedling survival in a ballistically dispersed subtropical tree speciesPhilenoptera sutherlandii

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, January 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  126. The effect of the spatial scale of recruitment on tree diversity in Afromontane forest fragments

    Article • Biological Conservation, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  127. Colonial logging and recent subsistence harvesting affect the composition and physiognomy of a podocarp dominated Afrotemperate forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, August 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  128. Resilient forest faunal communities in South Africa: a legacy of palaeoclimatic change and extinction filtering?

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, July 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  129. Resprouting enhances seedling persistence in a subtropical coastal dune forest

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, June 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  130. Population Declines of Colobus in Western Uganda and Conservation Value of Forest Fragments

    Article • International Journal of Primatology, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  131. Resprouting versus turning up of leaning trees in a subtropical coastal dune forest in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, April 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  132. Viability of ecological processes in small Afromontane forest patches in South Africa

    Article • Austral Ecology, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  133. The Effect of Herbaceous Understory Cover on Fruit Removal and Seedling Survival in Coastal Dune Forest Trees in South Africa

    Article • Biotropica, February 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  134. Colony size and nest density predict the likelihood of parasitism in the colonial Southern Red BishopEuplectes orix– Diderick CuckooChrysococcyx capriussystem

    Article • Ibis, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  135. Multi-stemmed trees in subtropical coastal dune forest: Survival strategy in response to chronic disturbance

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  136. Biogeographic, environmental, and phylogenetic influences on reproductive traits in subtropical forest trees, South Africa

    Article • Ecography, August 2006, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  137. Understorey gaps influence regeneration dynamics in subtropical coastal dune forest

    Article • Plant Ecology, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  138. What hope for African primate diversity?

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, June 2006, Wiley

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  139. Lack of disturbance as an explanation for the additive basal area phenomenon in a stratified Afrotemperate forest

    Article • Austral Ecology, June 2006, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  140. Scarification and maternal plant effects on seedling emergence in Ziziphus mucronata (Rhamnaceae)

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, May 2006, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  141. Do food availability, parasitism, and stress have synergistic effects on red colobus populations living in forest fragments?

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2006, Wiley

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes

  142. Does the herb Acanthus pubescens and/or elephants suppress tree regeneration in disturbed Afrotropical forest?

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  143. Gamebird vulnerability to forest fragmentation: patch occupancy of the crested guineafowl (Guttera edouardi) in Afromontane forests

    Article • Animal Conservation, December 2005, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  144. Small understorey gaps created by subsistence harvesters do not adversely affect the maintenance of tree diversity in a sub-tropical forest

    Article • Biological Conservation, November 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  145. Subsistence harvesting of pole-size understorey species from Ongoye Forest Reserve, South Africa: Species preference, harvest intensity, and social correlates

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  146. Nestedness of bird assemblages in fragmented Afromontane forest: the effect of plantation forestry in the matrix

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  147. User perceptions of conservation and participatory management of iGxalingenwa forest, South Africa

    Article • Environmental Conservation, March 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  148. Epigaeic Invertebrates as Potential Ecological Indicators of Afromontane Forest Condition in South Africa1

    Article • Biotropica, February 2005, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  149. Area- but no edge-effect on woody seedling abundance and species richness in old Afromontane forest fragments

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, January 2005, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  150. Forest landscape pattern in the KwaZulu–Natal midlands, South Africa: 50 years of change or stasis?

    Article • Austral Ecology, December 2004, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  151. Chance versus determinism in canopy gap regeneration in coastal scarp forest in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2004, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  152. Predicting folivorous primate abundance: Validation of a nutritional model

    Article • American Journal of Primatology, February 2004, Wiley

    Dr Colin A Chapman, Professor Michael John Lawes, Colin Chapman

  153. A simple rule for the costs of vigilance: empirical evidence from a social forager

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2004, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  154. FEMALE NEST DISPERSION AND BREEDING BIOLOGY OF POLYGYNOUS RED-COLLARED WIDOWBIRDS (EUPLECTES ARDENS)

    Article • Ornithology, January 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  155. Matrix effects on bird assemblages in fragmented Afromontane forests in South Africa

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  156. Fatal Attack on an Adult Female Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus: Implications for Female Dispersal in Female-Bonded Societies

    Article • International Journal of Primatology, December 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  157. When will rejection of parasite nestlings by hosts of nonevicting avian brood parasites be favored? A misimprinting-equilibrium model

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, November 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  158. Using the spatial grain of regeneration to select harvestable tree species in subtropical forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, October 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  159. Canopy gaps in subtropical forest in South Africa: size of the species pool and not the number of available niches limits species richness

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, September 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  160. Competition and the Exchange of Grooming Among Female Samango Monkeys (Cercopithecus Mitis Erythrarchus)

    Article • Behaviour, January 2003, De Gruyter

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  161. Attitudes of coastal-forest users in Eastern Cape Province to management options arising from new South African forest policies

    Article • Environmental Conservation, December 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  162. Multiple Receivers, Multiple Ornaments, and a Trade‐off between Agonistic and Epigamic Signaling in a Widowbird

    Article • The American Naturalist, November 2002, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  163. Male nest building but not display behaviour directly influences mating success in the polygynous Red Bishop,Euplectes orix

    Article • Ostrich, September 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  164. The dynamics and sustainable use of high-value tree species of the coastal Pondoland forests of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, August 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  165. Agonistic carotenoid signalling in male red-collared widowbirds: aggression related to the colour signal of both the territory owner and model intruder

    Article • Animal Behaviour, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  166. Priority areas for the conservation of subtropical indigenous forest in southern Africa: a case study from KwaZulu-Natal

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, August 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  167. SEXUAL SELECTION OF MULTIPLE HANDICAPS IN THE RED-COLLARED WIDOWBIRD: FEMALE CHOICE OF TAIL LENGTH BUT NOT CAROTENOID DISPLAY

    Article • Evolution, July 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  168. Are local patterns of anthropoid primate diversity related to patterns of diversity at a larger scale?

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, November 2000, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  169. Digestive strategy of the south-east African lesser bushbaby, Galago moholi

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, September 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  170. Patch Occupancy and Potential Metapopulation Dynamics of Three Forest Mammals in Fragmented Afromontane Forest in South Africa

    Article • Conservation Biology, August 2000, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  171. Anatomical and Nutritional Adaptations of the Speckled Mousebird (Colius striatus)

    Article • Ornithology, July 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  172. The relationship between local and regional diversity of indigenous forest fauna in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, May 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  173. Anatomical and Nutritional Adaptations of the Speckled Mousebird (Colius striatus)

    Article • Ornithology, January 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  174. Confirmation of pleisiomorphic daily torpor in mammals: the round-eared elephant shrew Macroscelides proboscideus (Macroscelidea)

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, October 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  175. Diet choice and capture success of wild dog (Lycaon pictus) in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Zoology, August 1999, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  176. The influence of climate change on the distribution of indigenous forest in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, May 1999, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  177. Edge effects at an induced forest-grassland boundary: forest birds in the Ongoye Forest Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal

    Article • South African Journal of Zoology, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  178. The effect of habitat patch connectivity on samango monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) metapopulation persistence

    Article • Ecological Modelling, December 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  179. Egg recognition and interspecific brood parasitism rates in red bishops (Aves: Ploceidae)

    Article • Animal Behaviour, September 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  180. Short Notes

    Article • Ostrich, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  181. Risk-sensitive foraging behaviour of the round-eared elephant shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, July 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  182. Inter-group encounters in blue monkeys: how territorial must a territorial species be?

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  183. Gastrointestinal parasites of the Samango monkey, Cercopithecus mitis, in Natal, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Medical Primatology, January 1994, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  184. A mathematical model to investigate the demographic viability of low-density samango monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) populations in Natal, South Africa

    Article • Ecological Modelling, December 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  185. The density, habitat use and social organisation of Dorcas Gazelles (Gazella dorcas) in Makhtesh Ramon, Negev Desert, Israel

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, March 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  186. Vegetation‐environment relationships in a Negev Desert erosion cirque

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 1993, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  187. Activity Patterns in Free-Ranging Samango Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus Peters, 1852) at the Southern Range Limit

    Article • Folia Primatologica, February 1992, Brill

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  188. Estimates of population density and correlates of the status of the samango monkey Cercopithecus mitis in Natal, South Africa

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  189. Diet of samango monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus) in the Cape Vidal dune forest, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Zoology, May 1991, Wiley

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  190. The Distribution of the Samango Monkey (Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus Peters, 1852 and Cercopithecus mitis labiatus I. Geoffroy, 1843) and Forest History in Southern Africa

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, November 1990, JSTOR

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  191. Diet and Feeding Behaviour of Samango Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis labiatus) in Ngoye Forest, South Africa

    Article • Folia Primatologica, January 1990, Brill

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  192. Strategic responses of male samango monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) to a decline in the number of receptive females

    Article • International Journal of Primatology, October 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael John Lawes

  193. Breeding Season Influxes and the Behaviour of Adult Male Samango Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis albogularis)

    Article • Folia Primatologica, January 1987, Brill

    Professor Michael John Lawes