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Dr Isaac Towers

Dr Isaac Towers

Research Associate
Science
Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX)
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Towers IR; O'Reilly-Nugent A; Sabot MEB; Vesk PA; Falster DS, 2024, 'Optimising height-growth predicts trait responses to water availability and other environmental drivers', Plant Cell and Environment, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.15042
    Journal articles | 2024
    Towers IR; Vesk PA; Wenk E; Gallagher RV; Windecker S; Wright IJ; Falster D, 2024, 'Revisiting the role of mean annual precipitation in shaping functional trait distributions at a continental scale', New Phytologist, 241, pp. 1900 - 1909, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.19478
    Journal articles | 2023
    Atkinson J; Groves AM; Towers IR; Catano CP; Brudvig LA, 2023, 'Trait-mediated community assembly during experimental grassland restoration is altered by planting year rainfall', Journal of Applied Ecology, 60, pp. 1587 - 1596, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14430
    Journal articles | 2023
    Masoudian S; Sharples J; Jovanoski Z; Towers I; Watt S, 2023, 'Incorporating Stochastic Wind Vectors in Wildfire Spread Prediction', Atmosphere, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos14111609
    Journal articles | 2022
    Bowler CH; Shoemaker LG; Weiss-Lehman C; Towers IR; Mayfield MM, 2022, 'Positive effects of exotic species dampened by neighborhood heterogeneity', Ecology, 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3779
    Journal articles | 2022
    Bowler CH; Weiss-Lehman C; Towers IR; Mayfield M; Shoemaker LG, 2022, 'Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 1618 - 1628, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14011
    Journal articles | 2022
    Towers IR; Merritt DJ; Erickson TE; Mayfield MM; Dwyer JM, 2022, 'Variable seed bed microsite conditions and light influence germination in Australian winter annuals', Oecologia, 198, pp. 865 - 875, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05091-7
    Journal articles | 2021
    Towers IR; Dwyer JM, 2021, 'Restoration thinning permits stems to capitalize on high-rainfall years in a regenerating endangered forest ecosystem', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12043
    Journal articles | 2020
    Towers IR; Bowler CH; Mayfield MM; Dwyer JM, 2020, 'Requirements for the spatial storage effect are weakly evident for common species in natural annual plant assemblages', Ecology, 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3185
    Journal articles | 2018
    Towers IR; Dwyer JM, 2018, 'Regional climate and local-scale biotic acceptance explain native–exotic richness relationships in Australian annual plant communities', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1328
  • Preprints | 2024
    Towers I; O’Reilly-Nugent A; Sabot MEB; Vesk P; Falster D, 2024, Explaining plant trait variation in response to soil water availability using an optimal height-growth model, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.23.576942
    Preprints | 2023
    Towers I; Vesk P; Wenk E; Gallagher R; Windecker S; Wright I; Falster D, 2023, Revisiting the role of mean annual precipitation in shaping functional trait distributions at a continental scale, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.29.546983