Assoc. Professor Stephen Hartley
Victoria University of Wellington
Lecturer, Biological Sciences
New Zealand
My co-authors include
Cang Hui
Professor Phil Lester
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
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My Publications
Uncovering the ecosystem service legacies of wetland loss using high‐resolution models
Ecosphere
October 2019
Ecosystem services provided by contemporary landscapes are different from those of the past, and in our case study this change is a legacy of policies that incentivized wetland drainage without con...
Responses of New Zealand forest birds to management of introduced mammals
Conservation Biology
March 2020
Large-bodied, deeply endemic forest birds benefit most from control of introduced predatory mammals. The management history of New Zealand's forests over the past 50 years, with varied levels of m...
Activity of free-roaming domestic cats in an urban reserve and public perception of pet...
Urban Ecosystems
August 2019
The objectives of this case study were two-fold. Firstly, to investigate activity patterns of domestic cats inside a 75 ha urban reserve; and secondly, to survey the human community neighbouring th...
Citizens, Scientists, and Enablers: A Tripartite Model for Citizen Science Projects
Diversity
July 2021
In this paper, we focus on different roles in citizen science projects, and their respective relationships. We propose a tripartite model that recognises not only citizens and scientists, but also ...
Distribution, density and habitat association of the Cook Strait click beetle (<i>Amych...
New Zealand Journal of Zoology
May 2022
Public willingness to engage in backyard conservation in New Zealand: Exploring motivat...
People and Nature
July 2021
Effects of mammal exclusion on invertebrate communities in New Zealand
Austral Ecology
April 2021
Multiple methods confirm wetland restoration improves ecosystem services
Ecosystems and People
January 2021
Bioacoustic monitoring of lower North Island bird communities before and after aerial a...
New Zealand Journal of Ecology
January 2021
The effects of squid-baiting pitfall traps for sampling wētā (Orthoptera) and other gro...
New Zealand Entomologist
August 2020
Reviewing the past, present and potential lizard faunas of New Zealand cities
Landscape and Urban Planning
December 2019
Modelled incubation conditions indicate wider potential distributions based on thermal ...
Journal of Biogeography
June 2018
A method for efficient sampling of avian acoustic recordings
Avian Conservation and Ecology
January 2018
Evaluation of remote cameras for monitoring multiple invasive mammals in New Zealand
January 2018
The balancing act of nest survival: survival of a small endemic bird in the face of shi...
Avian Conservation and Ecology
January 2018
Monitoring the mammalian fauna of urban areas using remote cameras and citizen science
Journal of Urban Ecology
January 2018
Geostatistical interpolation can reliably extend coverage of a very high-resolution mod...
Journal of Biogeography
December 2017
Population dynamics and spatial distribution of mosquitoes in northern New Zealand
Bulletin of Entomological Research
August 2017
Trends in lizard translocations in New Zealand between 1988 and 2013
New Zealand Journal of Zoology
April 2016
Better food-based baits and lures for rats and possums
Journal of Pest Science
August 2015
The stinging response of the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris): plasticity and variation i...
Insectes Sociaux
July 2015
Patterns of niche filling and expansion across the invaded ranges of an Australian lizard
Ecography
May 2015
What cues do parasitoids use to find host caterpillars on host plants?
New Zealand Journal of Zoology
April 2015
Nest-based information transfer and foraging activation in the common wasp (Vespula vul...
Insectes Sociaux
March 2015
The Influence of the Physiological Stage of Lucilia Caesar (L.) (Diptera: Calliphoridae...
Journal of Insect Behavior
March 2015
How does patch density affect visitation rates of foraging animals - a multiscale analysis
Oecologia
October 2014
Salinity tolerance of ice plants (Disphyma and Carpobrotus)
New Zealand Journal of Botany
July 2014
Online trading tools as a method of estimating propagule pressure via the pet-release p...
Biological Invasions
June 2012
The widespread collapse of an invasive species: Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) in ...
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
November 2011
Corrigendum
Journal of Ecology
September 2011
Trophic-level responses differ at plant, plot, and fragment levels in urban native fore...
Ecological Entomology
March 2011
Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the p...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
December 2010
Is rapid evolution common in introduced plant species?
Journal of Ecology
November 2010
Minimizing false-negatives when predicting the potential distribution of an invasive sp...
Animal Conservation
November 2010
Integrating physiology, population dynamics and climate to make multi-scale predictions...
Ecography
February 2010
Global patterns in fruiting seasons
Global Ecology and Biogeography
September 2008
Quantifying uncertainty in the potential distribution of an invasive species: climate a...
Ecology Letters
August 2006
Ecological correlates of range structure in rare and scarce British plants
Journal of Ecology
March 2006
Uses and abuses of fractal methodology in ecology
Ecology Letters
February 2004
Coherence and discontinuity in the scaling of specie's distribution patterns
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
January 2004
Scale Dependency of Rarity, Extinction Risk, and Conservation Priority
Conservation Biology
December 2003
Exponents of scaling: from within the organism to ecosystem structure
Journal of Biogeography
July 2002
A general framework for the aggregation model of coexistence
Journal of Animal Ecology
July 2002
Fractal species distributions do not produce power-law species-area relationships
Oikos
June 2002
Comparative growth of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes (Hebeloma spp.) on organic and ino...
Journal of Basic Microbiology
December 2000
Comparative growth of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes (Hebeloma spp.) on organic and ino...
Journal of Basic Microbiology
December 2000
Scaling Down: On the Challenge of Estimating Abundance from Occurrence Patterns
The American Naturalist
November 2000
Scaling down: On the Challenge of Estimating Abundance from Occurrence Patterns
The American Naturalist
January 2000
A positive relationship between local abundance and regional occupancy is almost inevit...
Journal of Animal Ecology
November 1998
Species distribution patterns, diversity scaling and testing for fractals in southern A...