Dr Luke Shoo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
Wilson Conservation Ecology Lab
Journal Articles
Shoo, Luke P., Catterall, Carla P., Beyer, Hawthorne L., Cockbain, Paul, Duncan, Michael, Robson, Tim, Roche, Darren, Taylor, Howard, White, Zoe and Wilson, Kerrie (2021). Smart allocation of restoration funds over space and time. Ecological Applications, 31 (8) e02448, e02448. doi: 10.1002/eap.2448
Freeman, Amanda N. D., Freeman, Alastair B. and Shoo, Luke P. (2021). Prickly Skink (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae) use of supplemental coarse woody debris in rainforest restoration sites. Ecological Management and Restoration, 22 (3) emr.12500, 288-289. doi: 10.1111/emr.12500
Radford‐Smith, Julian, Shoo, Luke P. and Dwyer, John M. (2021). Better left alone: trying to control pasture grasses in untended rainforest plantings incurs multiple costs and delivers few benefits. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2 (2). doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12062
Freeman, Amanda N.D., Freebody, Kylie, Montenero, Michael, Moran, Catherine, Shoo, Luke P. and Catterall, Carla P. (2021). Enhancing bird-mediated seed dispersal to increase rainforest regeneration in disused pasture – A restoration experiment. Forest Ecology and Management, 479 118536, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118536
Welbergen, Justin A., Meade, Jessica, Field, Hume E., Edson, Daniel, McMichael, Lee, Shoo, Luke P., Praszczalek, Jenny, Smith, Craig and Martin, John M. (2020). Extreme mobility of the world’s largest flying mammals creates key challenges for management and conservation. BMC Biology, 18 (1) 101, 101. doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-00829-w
Stone, Marisa J., Shoo, Luke, Stork, Nigel E., Sheldon, Fran and Catterall, Carla P. (2020). Recovery of decomposition rates and decomposer invertebrates during rain forest restoration on disused pasture. Biotropica, 52 (2) btp.12682, 230-241. doi: 10.1111/btp.12682
Bonner, Mark T. L., Herbohn, John, Gregorio, Nestor, Pasa, Arturo, Avela, Mayet S., Solano, Crisanto, Moreno, Maria Opelia Maranguit, Almendras-Ferraren, Angela, Wills, Jarrah, Shoo, Luke P. and Schmidt, Susanne (2019). Soil organic carbon recovery in tropical tree plantations may depend on restoration of soil microbial composition and function. Geoderma, 353, 70-80. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.06.017
Gardiner, Ronald, Shoo, Luke P. and Dwyer, John M. (2019). Look to seedling heights, rather than functional traits, to explain survival during extreme heat stress in the early stages of subtropical rainforest restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56 (12) 1365-2664.13505, 2687-2697. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13505
Bonner, Mark T. L., Allen, Diane E., Brackin, Richard, Smith, Tim E., Lewis, Tom, Shoo, Luke P. and Schmidt, Susanne (2019). Tropical rainforest restoration plantations are slow to restore the soil biological and organic carbon characteristics of old growth rainforest. Microbial Ecology, 79 (2), 432-442. doi: 10.1007/s00248-019-01414-7
Hagger, Valerie, Dwyer, John, Shoo, Luke and Wilson, Kerrie (2018). Use of seasonal forecasting to manage weather risk in ecological restoration. Ecological Applications, 28 (7), 1797-1807. doi: 10.1002/eap.1769
Babweteera, Fred, Plumptre, Andrew J., Adamescu, Gabriela S., Shoo, Luke P., Beale, Colin M., Reynolds, Vernon, Nyeko, Philip and Muhanguzi, Geoffrey (2018). The ecology of tree reproduction in an African medium altitude rain forest. Biotropica, 50 (3), 405-417. doi: 10.1111/btp.12563
Adamescu, Gabriela S., Plumptre, Andrew J., Abernethy, Katharine A., Polansky, Leo, Bush, Emma R., Chapman, Colin A., Shoo, Luke P., Fayolle, Adeline, Janmaat, Karline R. L., Robbins, Martha M., Ndangalasi, Henry J., Cordeiro, Norbert J., Gilby, Ian C., Wittig, Roman M., Breuer, Thomas, Hockemba, Mireille Breuer-Ndoundou, Sanz, Crickette M., Morgan, David B., Pusey, Anne E., Mugerwa, Badru, Gilagiza, Baraka, Tutin, Caroline, Ewango, Corneille E. N., Sheil, Douglas, Dimoto, Edmond, Baya, Fidele, Bujo, Flort, Ssali, Fredrick, Dikangadissi, Jean-Thoussaint ... Beale, Colin M. (2018). Annual cycles are the most common reproductive strategy in African tropical tree communities. Biotropica, 50 (3), 418-430. doi: 10.1111/btp.12561
Bonner, Mark T.L., Shoo, Luke P., Brackin, Richard and Schmidt, Susanne (2017). Relationship between microbial composition and substrate use efficiency in a tropical soil. Geoderma, 315, 96-103. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.11.026
Williams, Brooke A., Shoo, Luke P., Wilson, Kerrie A. and Beyer, Hawthorne L. (2017). Optimising the spatial planning of prescribed burns to achieve multiple objectives in a fire-dependent ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54 (6), 1699-1709. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12920
Guerrero, Angela M., Shoo, Luke, Iacona, Gwenllian, Standish, Rachel J., Catterall, Carla P., Rumpff, Libby, de Bie, Kelly, White, Zoe, Matzek, Virginia and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2017). Using structured decision-making to set restoration objectives when multiple values and preferences exist. Restoration Ecology, 25 (6), 858-865. doi: 10.1111/rec.12591
Shoo, Luke P., Catterall, Carla P., Nicol, Sam, Christian, Rochelle, Rhodes, Jonathan, Atkinson, Penny, Butler, Don, Zhu, Roger and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2017). Navigating complex decisions in restoration investment. Conservation Letters, 10 (6), 748-756. doi: 10.1111/conl.12327
Uebel, Konrad, Wilson, Kerrie A. and Shoo, Luke P. (2017). Assisted natural regeneration accelerates recovery of highly disturbed rainforest. Ecological Management and Restoration, 18 (3), 231-238. doi: 10.1111/emr.12277
Scheffers, Brett R. , Shoo, Luke, Phillips, Ben, Macdonald, Stewart L. , Anderson, Alex, Vanderwal, Jeremy, Storlie, Collin, Gourret, Arnaud and Williams, Stephen E. (2017). Vertical (arboreality) and horizontal (dispersal) movement increase the resilience of vertebrates to climatic instability. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26 (7), 787-798. doi: 10.1111/geb.12585
Doughty, Paul, Kealley, Luke, Shoo, Luke P. and Melville, Jane (2015). Revision of the Western Australian pebble-mimic dragon species-group (Tympanocryptis cephalus: Reptilia: Agamidae). Zootaxa, 4039 (1), 85-117. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.1.3
Anderson, Alexander S., Marques, Tiago A., Shoo, Luke P. and Williams, Stephen E. (2015). Detectability in audio-visual surveys of tropical rainforest birds: the influence of species, weather and habitat characteristics. PLoS ONE, 10 (6) e0128464, 1-24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128464
King, Suzanne, Kildea, Sue, Austin, Marie-Paule, Brunet, Alain, Cobham, Vanessa E., Dawson, Paul A., Harris, Mark, Hurrion, Elizabeth M., Laplante, David P., McDermott, Brett M., McIntyre, H. David, O'Hara, Michael W., Schmitz, Norbert, Stapleton, Helen, Tracy, Sally K., Vaillancourt, Cathy, Dancause, Kelsey N., Kruske, Sue, Reilly, Nicole, Shoo, Laura, Simcock, Gabrielle, Turcotte-Tremblay, Anne-Marie and Ping, Erin Yong (2015). QF2011: a protocol to study the effects of the Queensland flood on pregnant women, their pregnancies, and their children's early development. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 15 (1) 109, 109.2-109.47. doi: 10.1186/s12884-015-0539-7
Shoo, Luke P., Hoffmann, Ary A., Garnett, Stephen, Scott, John K. and Williams, Stephen E. (2015). Quantitative tools and simultaneous actions needed for species conservation under climate change-Reply to Shoo et al. (2013). Climatic Change, 129 (1-2), 9-11. doi: 10.1007/s10584-014-1312-z
Shoo, Luke P., Freebody, Kylie, Kanowski, John and Catterall, Carla P. (2015). Slow recovery of tropical old-field rainforest regrowth and the value and limitations of active restoration. Conservation Biology, 30 (1), 121-132. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12606
Pearce, Elly, Schmidt, Susanne, Franks, Andrew J. and Shoo, Luke P. (2015). Species turnover of corticolous bryophyte assemblages over 15 years in an Australian subtropical cloud forest. Austral Ecology, 40 (8), 877-885. doi: 10.1111/aec.12268
Scheffers, Brett R., Phillips, Ben L. and Shoo, Luke P. (2014). Asplenium bird's nest ferns in rainforest canopies are climate-contingent refuges for frogs. Global Ecology and Conservation, 2, 37-46. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2014.06.004
Gageler, Rose, Bonner, Mark, Kirchhof, Gunnar, Amos, Mark, Robinson, Nicole, Schmidt, Susanne and Shoo, Luke P. (2014). Early response of soil properties and function to riparian rainforest restoration. PLoS One, 9 (8) e104198, e104198.1-e104198.8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104198
Melville, Jane, Smith, Katie, Hobson, Rod, Hunjan, Sumitha and Shoo, Luke (2014). The role of integrative taxonomy in the conservation management of cryptic species: the taxonomic status of endangered earless dragons (agamidae: Tympanocryptis) in the grasslands of Queensland, Australia. PLoS One, 9 (7) e101847, 1-13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101847
Elgar, Amelia T., Freebody, Kylie, Pohlman, Catherine L., Shoo, Luke P. and Catterall, Carla P. (2014). Overcoming barriers to seedling regeneration during forest restoration on tropical pasture land and the potential value of woody weeds. Frontiers in Plant Science, 5 (MAY) 200, 200.1-200.10. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00200
Shoo, Luke P., O’Mara, Julian, Perhans, Karin, Rhodes, Jonathan R., Runting, Rebecca K., Schmidt, Susanne, Traill, Lochran W., Weber, Lui C., Wilson, Kerrie A. and Lovelock, Catherine E. (2014). Moving beyond the conceptual: specificity in regional climate change adaptation actions for biodiversity in South East Queensland, Australia. Regional Environmental Change, 14 (2), 435-447. doi: 10.1007/s10113-012-0385-3
Weber, Lui C., VanDerWal, Jeremy, Schmidt, Susanne, McDonald, William J. F. and Shoo, Luke P. (2014). Patterns of rain forest plant endemism in subtropical Australia relate to stable mesic refugia and species dispersal limitations. Journal of Biogeography, 41 (2), 222-238. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12219
Parsons, Scott A., Congdon, Robert A., Shoo, Luke P., Valdez-Ramirez, Vanessa and Williams, Stephen E. (2014). Spatial variability in litterfall, litter standing crop and litter quality in a tropical rain forest region. Biotropica, 46 (4), 378-386. doi: 10.1111/btp.12113
Shoo, Luke P., Wilson, Rohan, Williams, Yvette M. and Catterall, Carla P. (2014). Putting it back: Woody debris in young restoration plantings to stimulate return of reptiles. Ecological Management and Restoration, 15 (1), 84-87. doi: 10.1111/emr.12079
Monasterio, C., Shoo, L. P., Salvador, A., Iraeta, P. and Diaz, J. A. (2013). High temperature constrains reproductive success in a temperate lizard: implications for distribution range limits and the impacts of climate change. Journal of Zoology, 291 (2), 136-145. doi: 10.1111/jzo.12057
Scheffers, Brett R., Brunner, Rebecca M., Ramirez, Sara D., Shoo, Luke P., Diesmos, Arvin and Williams, Stephen E. (2013). Thermal Buffering of Microhabitats is a Critical Factor Mediating Warming Vulnerability of Frogs in the Philippine Biodiversity Hotspot. Biotropica, 45 (5), 628-635. doi: 10.1111/btp.12042
Anderson, Alexander S., Storlie, Collin J., Shoo, Luke P., Pearson, Richard G. and Williams, Stephen E. (2013). Current Analogues of Future Climate Indicate the Likely Response of a Sensitive Montane Tropical Avifauna to a Warming World. PloS One, 8 (7) e69393, e69393.1-e69393.12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069393
Shoo, Luke P., Scarth, Peter, Schmidt, Susanne and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2013). Reclaiming degraded rainforest: a spatial evaluation of gains and losses in subtropical eastern Australia to inform future investment in restoration. Restoration Ecology, 21 (4), 481-489. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2012.00916.x
Warren, R., VanDerWal, J., Price, J., Welbergen, J. A., Atkinson, I., Ramirez-Villegas, J., Osborn, T. J., Jarvis, A., Shoo, L. P., Williams, S. E. and Lowe, J. (2013). Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss. Nature Climate Change, 3 (7), 678-682. doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1887
Shoo, Luke P., Hoffmann, Ary A., Garnett, Stephen, Pressey, Robert L., Williams, Yvette M., Taylor, Martin, Falconi, Lorena, Yates, Colin J., Scott, John K., Alagador, Diogo and Williams, Stephen E. (2013). Making decisions to conserve species under climate change. Climatic Change, 119 (2), 239-246. doi: 10.1007/s10584-013-0699-2
Bonner, Mark T. L., Schmidt, Susanne and Shoo, Luke P. (2013). A meta-analytical global comparison of aboveground biomass accumulation between tropical secondary forests and monoculture plantations. Forest Ecology and Management, 291, 73-86. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.11.024
Shoo, Luke P. and Catterall, Carla P. (2013). Stimulating natural regeneration of tropical forest on degraded land: Approaches, outcomes, and information gaps. Restoration Ecology, 21 (6), 670-677. doi: 10.1111/rec.12048
Parsons, Scott A., Congdon, Robert A., Storlie, Collin J., Shoo, Luke P. and Williams, Stephen E. (2012). Regional patterns and controls of leaf decomposition in Australian tropical rainforests. Austral Ecology, 37 (7), 845-854. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02347.x
Anderson, Alex S., Reside, April E., Vanderwal, Jeremy J., Shoo, Luke P., Pearson, Richard G. and Williams, Stephen E. (2012). Immigrants and refugees: The importance of dispersal in mediating biotic attrition under climate change. Global Change Biology, 18 (7), 2126-2134. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02683.x
Monasterio, Camila, Shoo, Luke P., Salvador, Alfred, Siliceo, Ignacio and Diaz, Jose A. (2011). Thermal constraints on embryonic development as a proximate cause for elevational range limits in two Mediterranean lacertid lizards. Ecography, 34 (6), 1030-1039. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06905.x
Shoo, Luke P., Olson, Deanna H., Sarah K. McMenamin, Murray, Kris A., Van Sluys, Monique, Donnelly, Maureen A., Stratford, Danial, Terhivuo, Juhani, Andres Merino-Viteri, Herbert, Sarah M., Bishop, Phillip J., Corn, Paul S., Dovey, Liz, Griffiths, Richard A., Lowe, Katrin, Mahony, Michael, McCallum, Hamish, Shuker, Jonathan D., Simpkins, Clay, Skerratt, Lee F., Williams, Stephen E. and Hero, Jean-Marc (2011). Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48 (2), 487-492. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01942.x
Smith, Katie L., Harmon, Luke J., Shoo, Luke P. and Melville, Jane (2011). Evidence of constrained phenotypic evolution in a cryptic species complex of Agamid lizards. Evolution, 65 (4), 976-992. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01211.x
Laurance, William F., Useche, D. Carolina, Shoo, Luke P., Herzog, Sebastian K., Kessler, Michael, Escobar, Federico, Brehm, Gunnar, Axmacher, Jan C., Chen, I-Ching, Gamez, Lucrecia Arellano, Hietz, Peter, Fiedler, Konrad, Pyrcz, Tomasz, Wolf, Jan, Merkord, Christopher L., Cardelus, Catherine, Marshall, Andrew R., Ah-Peng, Claudine, Aplet, Gregory H., Arizmendi, M. del Coro, Baker, William J., Barone, John, Bruhl, Carsten A., Bussmann, Rainer W., Cicuzza, Daniele, Eilu, Gerald, Favila, Mario E., Hemp, Andreas, Hemp, Claudia ... Thomas, Chris D. (2011). Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota. Biological Conservation, 144 (1), 548-557. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.10.010
Shoo, Luke P., Storlie, Collin, Vanderwal, Jeremy, Little, Jeremy and Williams, Stephen E. (2011). Targeted protection and restoration to conserve tropical biodiversity in a warming world. Global Change Biology, 17 (1), 186-193. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02218.x
Williams, Stephen E., Shoo, Luke P., Henriod, Robert and Pearson, Richard G. (2010). Elevational gradients in species abundance, assemblage structure and energy use of rainforest birds in the Australian Wet Tropics bioregion. Austral Ecology, 35 (6), 650-664. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02073.x
Shoo, Luke P., Storlie, Collin, Williams, Yvette M. and Williams, Stephen E. (2010). Potential for mountaintop boulder fields to buffer species against extreme heat stress under climate change. International Journal of Biometeorology, 54 (4), 475-478. doi: 10.1007/s00484-009-0286-4
Williams, S. E., VanDerWal, J., Isaac, J., Shoo, L. P., Storlie, C., Fox, S., Bolitho, E. E., Moritz, C., Hoskin, C. J. and Williams, Y. M. (2010). Distributions, life-history specialization, and phylogeny of the rain forest vertebrates in the Australian Wet Tropics. Ecology, 91 (8), 2493-2493. doi: 10.1890/09-1069.1
Anderson, A., Monasterio, C. and Shoo, L. P. (2010). Breeding behaviour of the poorly known Australian hylid frog Litoria longirostris. Herpetofauna, 40 (1), 9-12.
Parsons, Scott, Shoo, Luke P. and Williams, Stephen E. (2009). Volume measurements for quicker determination of forest litter standing crop. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 25 (6), 665-669. doi: 10.1017/S0266467409990241
Vanderwal, Jeremy, Shoo, Luke P., Johnson, Christopher N. and Williams, Stephen E. (2009). Abundance and the environmental niche: Environmental suitability estimated from niche models predicts the upper limit of local abundance. American Naturalist, 174 (2), 282-291. doi: 10.1086/600087
Vanderwal, Jeremy, Shoo, Luke P., Graham, Catherine and William, Stephen E. (2009). Selecting pseudo-absence data for presence-only distribution modeling: How far should you stray from what you know?. Ecological Modelling, 220 (4), 589-594. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.11.010
Vanderwal, Jeremy, Shoo, Luke P. and Williams, Stephen E. (2009). New approaches to understanding late Quaternary climate fluctuations and refugial dynamics in Australian wet tropical rain forests. Journal of Biogeography, 36 (2), 291-301. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01993.x
Shoo, Luke P., Anderson, Alex and Williams, Stephen E. (2009). On the isolated population of Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii amphochlora) from the McIlwraith Range uplands, Cape York Peninsula, Australia: estimates of population size and distribution. Emu, 109 (4), 288-293. doi: 10.1071/MU08062
Williams, Stephen E., Shoo, Luke P., Isaac, Joanne L., Hoffmann, Ary A. and Langham, Gary (2008). Towards an integrated framework for assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change. PLoS Biology, 6 (12), 2621-2626. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060325
Shoo, L. P., Rose, R., Doughty, P., Austin, J. J. and Melville, J. (2008). Diversification patterns of pebble-mimic dragons are consistent with historical disruption of important habitat corridors in and Australia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48 (2), 528-542. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.022
Shoo, Luke P. and VanDerWal, Jeremy (2008). No simple relationship between above-ground tree growth and fine-litter production in tropical forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 24 (3), 347-350. doi: 10.1017/S0266467408004975
Melville, Jane, Shoo, Luke P. and Doughty, Paul (2008). Phylogenetic relationships of the heath dragons (Rankinia adelaidensis and R. parviceps) from the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot. Australian Journal of Zoology, 56 (3), 159-171. doi: 10.1071/ZO07069
Shoo, Luke P., Williams, Stephen E. and Hero, Jean-Marc (2006). Detecting climate change induced range shifts: Where and how should we be looking?. Austral Ecology, 31 (1), 22-29. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01539.x
Hero, Jean-Marc, Morrison, Clare, Gillespie, Graeme, Roberts, J Dale, Newell, David, Meyer, Ed, McDonald, Keith, Lemckert, Frank, Mahony, Michael, Osborne, Will, Hines, Harry, Richards, Steve, Hoskini, Conrad, Clarke, John, Doak, Naomi and Shoo, Luke (2006). Overview of the conservation status of Australian frogs. Pacific Conservation Biology, 12 (4), 313-320. doi: 10.1071/PC060313
Shoo, Luke P., Williams, Stephen E. and Hero, Jean- Marc (2005). Climate warming and the rainforest birds of the Australian Wet Tropics: Using abundance data as a sensitive predictor of change in total population size. Biological Conservation, 125 (3), 335-343. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.04.003
Shoo, Luke P., Williams, Stephen E. and Hero, Jean-Marc (2005). Potential decoupling of trends in distribution area and population size of species with climate change. Global Change Biology, 11 (9), 1469-1476. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00995.x
Shoo, LP and Williams, Y (2004). Altitudinal distribution and abundance of microhylid frogs (Cophixalus and Austrochaperina) of north-eastern Australia: baseline data for detecting biological responses to future climate change. Australian Journal of Zoology, 52 (6), 667-676. doi: 10.1071/ZO04023
Conference Papers
McAlpine, Clive, Catterall, Carla P., Mac Nally, Ralph, Lindenmayer, David, Reid, J. Leighton, Holl, Karen D., Bennett, Andrew F., Runting, Rebecca K., Wilson, Kerrie, Hobbs, Richard J., Seabrook, Leonie, Cunningham, Shaun, Moilanen, Atte, Maron, Martine, Shoo, Luke, Lunt, Ian, Vesk, Peter, Rumpff, Libby, Martin, Tara G., Thomson, James and Possingham, Hugh (2016). Integrating plant- and animal- based perspectives for more effective restoration of biodiversity. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/16-0108.1
Williams, S. E., Williams, Y. M., VanDerWal, J., Isaac, J. L., Shoo, L. P. and Johnson, C. N. (2009). Ecological specialization and population size in a biodiversity hotspot: How rare species avoid extinction. Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences on Biogeography, Changing Climates and Niche Evolution, Irvine, CA, United States, 11-13 December 2008. Washington, DC, United States: National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0901640106