Luke Shoo

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The University of Queensland, November 2010 – current

and

Adjunct Research Fellow

School of Marine and Tropical Biology

James Cook University

E-mail: l.shoo@uq.edu.au

Phone: +61-7-3365 2709

I have worked on a wide range of fauna from mountaintop birds in tropical cloud forests to pebble-mimic dragons in central Australian deserts. I have a strong interest in topical conservation issues including management of biodiversity under contemporary climate change and emerging market-based instruments to reduce tropical deforestation and restore degraded environments. My current research is concerned with prioritizing conservation investment (protection and restoration of habitat) to maximize retention of rainforest biodiversity under climate change. This work is supported by the South East Queensland Climate Adaptation Research Initiative.

Current Address:

School of Biological Sciences

The University of Queensland

St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

Selected Publications:

(for an updated list of see http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-2715-2009)

In press

  1. Monasterio, C., Shoo, L.P., Salvador, A., Siliceo, I., Diaz, J.A. Thermal constraints on embryonic development as a proximate cause for altitudinal range limits in two Mediterranean lacertid lizards. Ecography, accepted 18 January 2011. [doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06905.x]

2011

  1. Smith, K.L., Harmon, L.J., Shoo, L.P., Melville, J. Evidence that stabilizing selection constrains phenotypic evolution in a cryptic species complex of agamid lizards. Evolution, 65, 976-992. [doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01211.x]
  2. Shoo, L.P., Olson, D.H.,  McMenamin, S.K., Murray, K.A., Van Sluys, M., Donnelly, M.A., Stratford, D., Terhivuo, J., Merino-Viteri, A., Herbert, S.M., Bishop, P.J., Corn, P.S., Dovey, L., Griffiths, R.A., Lowe, K., Mahony, M., McCallum, H., Shuker, J.D., Simpkins, C., Skerratt, L.F., Williams, S.E., Hero, J-M. (2011). Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change. Journal of Applied Ecology 48, 487-492. [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01942.x]
  3. Laurance, W.F., Useche, D.C., Shoo, L.P., Herzog, S.K., Kessler, M., Escobar, F., Brehm, G., Axmacher, J.C., Chen, I.C., Gámez, L.A., Hietz, P., Fiedler, K., Pyrcz, T., Wolf, J., Merkord, C.L., Cardelus, C., Marshall, A.R., Ah-Peng, C., Aplet, G.H., del Coro Arizmendi, M., Baker, W.J., Barone, J., Brühl, C.A., Bussmann, R.W., Cicuzza, D., Eilu, G., Favila, M.E., Hietz, P., Hemp, A., Hemp, C., Homeier, J., Huey, R.B., Hurtado, J., Jankowski, J., Kattán, G., Kluge, J., Krömer, T., Lees, D., Lehnert, M., Longino, J.T., Lovett, J., Martin, P.H., Patterson, B.D., Pearson, R.G., Peh, K.S.-H., Richardson, B., Richardson, M., Samways, M., Senbeta, F., Smith, T.B., Utteridge, T., Watkins, J.E., Wilson, R., Williams, S.E., Thomas, C.D. (2011). Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota. Biological Conservation 144, 548-557. [doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.10.010]
  4. Shoo, L.P., Storlie, C., VanDerWal, J., Little, J., Williams, S.E. (2011). Targeted protection and restoration to conserve tropical biodiversity in a warming world. Global Change Biology 17, 186-193. [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02218.x]

2010

  1. Anderson, A., Monasterio, C., Shoo, L.P. 2010. Breeding behaviour of the poorly known Australian hylid frog Litoria longirostris. Herpetofauna 40, 9-12.
  2. Williams, S.E., Shoo, L.P., Henriod, R., Pearson, R.G. (2010). Elevational gradients in assemblage structure and productivity of rainforest birds in the Australian Wet Tropics bioregion. Austral Ecology 35, 650-664. [doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02073.x]
  3. Shoo, L.P., Storlie, C., Williams, Y.M., Williams, S.E. (2010). Potential for mountaintop boulder fields to buffer species against extreme heat stress under climate change.International Journal of Biometeorology 54, 475-478. [doi: 10.1007/s00484-009-0286-4]
  4. Williams, S.E., VanDerWal, J., Isaac, J., Shoo, L.P., Storlie, C., Fox, S., Bolitho, E.E., Moritz, C., Williams, Y.M., Hoskin, C.J. (2010). Distributional, life history specialization, and phylogeny of the rain forest vertebrates in the Australia Wet Tropics. Ecology 91, 2493. [doi: 10.1890/09-1069.1]

2009

  1. Williams, S.E., Williams, Y.M., VanDerWal, J., Isaac, J.L., Shoo, L.P., Johnson, C.N. (2009). Ecological specialization and population size in a biodiversity hotspot: how rare species avoid extinction. PNAS 106, 19737-19741. [doi: 10.1073/pnas.0901640106]
  2. Shoo, L.P., Anderson, A., Williams, S.E. (2009). On the isolated Lewin’s Honeyeater population (Meliphaga lewinii amphochlora) from the McIlwraith Range uplands, Cape York Peninsula, Australia: estimates of population size and distribution. EMU-Austral Ornithology 109, 288-293. [doi: 10.1071/MU08062]
  3. Parsons, S.A., Shoo, L.P., Williams, S.E. (2009). Volume measurements for quicker determination of forest litter standing crop. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25, 665-669. [doi: 10.1017/S0266467409990241]
  4. VanDerWal, J., Shoo, L.P., Johnson, C.N., Williams, S.E. (2009). Abundance and the environmental niche: environmental suitability estimated from niche models predicts the upper limit of local abundance. American Naturalist 174, 282-291. [doi: 10.1086/600087]
  5. VanDerWal, J., Shoo, L.P., Graham, C., Williams, S.E. (2009). Selecting pseudo-absence data for presence-only distribution modeling: how far should you stray from what you know? Ecological Modelling 220, 589-594. [doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.11.010]
  6. VanDerWal, J., Williams, S., Shoo, L.P. (2009). New approaches to understanding late Quaternary climate fluctuations and refugial dynamics in Australian wet tropical rain forests.Journal of Biogeography 36, 291-301. [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01993.x]

2008

  1. Williams, S.E., Shoo, L.P. (equal contribution), Isaac, J.L., Hoffmann, A.A., Langham, G. (2008). Towards an integrated framework for assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change. PLoS Biology 6(12), e325. [doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060325]
  2. Melville, J., Shoo, L.P., Doughty, P. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships of the heath dragons (Rankinia adelaidensis and R. parviceps) from the southwestern Australian biodiversity hotspot. Australian Journal of Zoology 56, 159-171. [doi: 10.1071/ZO07069]
  3. Shoo, L.P., Rose, R., Doughty, P., Austin, J.J., Melville, J. (2008). Diversification patterns of pebble-mimic dragons are consistent with historical disruption of important habitat corridors in arid Australia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48, 528-542. [doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.022]
  4. Shoo, L.P., VanDerWal, J. (2008). No simple relationship between aboveground tree growth and fine-litter production in tropical forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24, 347-350. [doi: 10.1017/S0266467408004975]

2006

  1. Shoo, L.P., Williams, S.E., Hero, J.-M. (2006). Detecting climate change induced range shifts: where and how should we be looking? Austral Ecology 31, 22-29. [doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01539.x]
  2. Hero, J.-M., Morrison, C., Gillespie, G., Roberts, J.D., Newell, D., Meyer, E., McDonald, K., Lemckert, F., Mahony, M., Osborne, W., Hines, H., Richards, S., Hoskin, C., Clarke, J., Doak, N., Shoo, L.P. (2006). Overview of the conservation status of Australian Frogs. Pacific Conservation Biology 12, 313-320.

2005

  1. Shoo, L.P., Williams, S.E., Hero, J.-M. (2005a). Climate warming and rainforest birds of the Wet Tropics: using abundance data as a sensitive predictor of change in total population size. Biological Conservation 125, 335-343. [doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.04.003]
  2. Shoo, L.P., Williams, S.E., Hero, J.-M. (2005b). Potential decoupling of trends in distribution area and population size of species with climate change. Global Change Biology 11, 1469-1476. [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00995.x]

 2004

  1. Shoo, L.P., 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, 667-676. [doi: 10.1071/ZO04023]

Commentary (Editorial Material and Letters)

  1. Shoo, L.P. (2010). Planning for biodiversity in future climates. Science (Letter) 327, 1452. [doi: 10.1126/science.327.5972.1452-b]
  2. Shoo, L.P., Valdez Ramirez, V. (2010). Global potential net primary production predicted from vegetation class, precipitation, and temperature: comment. Ecology 91, 921-923. [doi:10.1890/08-2018.1]
  3. Shoo, L.P. (2008). A balance between protected lands and population growth: comment on Wittemyer et al. “Accelerated human population growth at protected area edges”.Science (E-Letter) 11 December 2008. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/321/5885/123#11705.

 Book chapters

  1. Williams, S.E., Isaac, J.L., Shoo, L.P. (2008). The impact of climate change on the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of the wet tropics. In: Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape (eds. N. Stork, S. Turton), pp. 282-294. Blackwell Publishing, Australia.
  2. Hero, J-M., Shoo, L.P. (2003). Conservation of amphibians in the old world tropics: defining unique problems associated with a regional fauna. In: Amphibian Conservation (ed. R.D. Semlitsch), pp. 70-84. Smithsonian Books, Washington.

 Other publications

  1. Meyer, E., Hero, J.-M., Shoo, L., Lewis, B. (2006). National Recovery Plan for the Wallum Sedgefrog and other Wallum-dependent Species. Report to Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Canberra. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Brisbane.

Software

  1. VanDerWal, J., Falconi, L., Januchowski, S., Shoo, L., Storlie, C. (2011). SDMTools: Species Distribution Modelling Tools: Tools for processing data associated with species distribution modelling exercises. R package version 1.1-5. (http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SDMTools)

Funded projects

2011-2014: Catterall, C., Shoo, L.P. (joint lead CI) Harnessing natural regeneration for cost-effective rainforest restoration (NERP – $342,000)

2011-2013:  Welbergen, J., Williams, S.E., Shoo, L.P., VanDerWal, J. Global climate change and the impacts of temperature extremes on terrestrial biodiversity (ARC Discovery  - $380,000).

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