Dr Boyd Wright
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Publications
Journal Articles
Wright, Boyd R., Andrew, Damien D., Hewins, Michael, Hewitt, Claire and Fensham, Roderick J. (2025). Spatially variable recruitment response to fire severity in golden-top wattle (Acacia mariae, family: Fabaceae), a thicket-forming shrub of semi-arid forests. Australian Journal of Botany, 73 (1). doi: 10.1071/bt24023
Napangarti, Yukultji, Napangarti, Yalti, Nanagala, Josephine, Napangarti, N. and Wright, Boyd R. (2024). Ethnobotany of Tjinalpa (Triodia pungens, Poaceae): processing techniques and nutritional assay of a rare desert Aboriginal seed food. Economic Botany, 78 (3), 330-338. doi: 10.1007/s12231-024-09604-2
Wright, Boyd R., Nipper, Martin, Nipper, Nathan, Merson, Samuel D. and Guest, Tracey (2023). Mortality rates of desert vegetation during high-intensity drought at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Central Australia. Austral Ecology, 48 (4), 699-718. doi: 10.1111/aec.13290
Wright, Boyd R., Franklin, Donald C. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2022). The ecology, evolution and management of mast reproduction in Australian plants. Australian Journal of Botany, 70 (8), 509-530. doi: 10.1071/bt22043
Wright, Boyd R. (2022). Evidence that predator satiation drives reproductive synchrony in the desert masting grass, soft spinifex (Triodia pungens). Austral Ecology, 47 (2), 380-391. doi: 10.1111/aec.13119
Wright, Boyd R., Laffineur, Boris, Royé, Dominic, Armstrong, Graeme and Fensham, Roderick J. (2021). Rainfall-linked megafires as innate fire regime elements in arid Australian spinifex (Triodia spp.) grasslands. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9 666241. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.666241
Wright, Boyd R., Latz, Peter K., Albrecht, David E. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2021). Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) eradication in arid central Australia enhances native plant diversity and increases seed resources for granivores. Applied Vegetation Science, 24 (1) e12533, 1-9. doi: 10.1111/avsc.12533
Nangala, Josephine, Napangardi, Yalti, Napangardi, Yukultji and Wright, Boyd R. (2019). Ethnobotany of Warrilyu (Eucalyptus pachyphylla F.Muell. [Myrtaceae]): Aboriginal Seed Food of the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. Economic Botany, 73 (3), 416-422. doi: 10.1007/s12231-019-09471-2
Wright, Boyd R., Albrecht, David E., Silcock, Jennifer L., Hunter, John and Fensham, Roderick J. (2019). Mechanisms behind persistence of a fire-sensitive alternative stable state system in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. Oecologia, 191 (1), 165-175. doi: 10.1007/s00442-019-04474-1
Wright, Boyd R. (2018). Evidence that shrublands and hummock grasslands are fire-mediated alternative stable states in the Australian Gibson Desert. Oecologia, 188 (2), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4215-2
Wright, Boyd R. and Clarke, Peter J. (2018). Germination biologies and seedbank dynamics of Acacia shrubs in the Western Desert: implications for fire season impacts on recruitment. Australian Journal of Botany, 66 (3), 278-285. doi: 10.1071/BT18003
Wright, Boyd R and Fensham, Roderick J (2017). Fire timing in relation to masting: an important determinant of post-fire recruitment success for the obligate-seeding arid zone soft spinifex (Triodia pungens). Annals of botany, 121 (1), 119-128. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcx136
Wright, Boyd R. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2017). Fire after a mast year triggers mass recruitment of slender mulga (Acacia aptaneura), a desert shrub with heat-stimulated germination. American Journal of Botany, 104 (10), 1474-1483. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1700008
Wright, Boyd R. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2016). Relationships between fire severity and recruitment in arid grassland dominated by the obligate-seeding soft spinifex (Triodia pungens). International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25 (12), 1264-1272. doi: 10.1071/WF16052
Wright, Boyd R., Latz, Peter K. and Zuur, A. F. (2016). Fire severity mediates seedling recruitment patterns in slender mulga (Acacia aptaneura), a fire-sensitive Australian desert shrub with heat-stimulated germination. Plant Ecology, 217 (6), 789-800. doi: 10.1007/s11258-015-0550-0
Davies, Jocelyn, Race, Digby and Wright, Boyd (2015). Innovation in Australian rangelands. A special issue from the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society. Australian Rangeland Journal, 37 (6), 529-533. doi: 10.1071/RJ15105
Wright, Boyd R., Dorji, Bap Tandin and Mhukia, Prabhat Kumar (2014). The mast seeding plants of Bhutan. Proceedings of the Bhutan Ecological Society, 1 (1), 9-19.
Wright, Boyd R. and Zuur, Alain F. (2014). Seedbank dynamics after masting in mulga (Acacia aptaneura): implications for post-fire regeneration. Journal of Arid Environments, 107, 10-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2014.03.008
Wright, Boyd R., Zuur, Alain F. and Chan, Gary C. K. (2014). Proximate causes and possible adaptive functions of mast seeding and barren flower shows in spinifex grasses (Triodia spp.) in arid regions of Australia. Rangeland Journal, 36 (3), 297-308. doi: 10.1071/RJ13104
Gamage, Harshi K., Mondal, Subrata, Wallis, Lynley A., Memmott, Paul, Martin, Darren, Wright, Boyd R. and Schmidt, Susanne (2012). Indigenous and modern biomaterials derived from Triodia ('spinifex') grasslands in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 60 (2), 114-127. doi: 10.1071/BT11285