The evidence base

Bibliography

The book Same Sky, Different Ground and this whole site rest on published research — 160 sources, grouped by theme below. Every factual claim in the guides is cited, and each citation links straight to its entry here.

Geology, soils & the Cooloola chronosequence

Walker, T.W. & Syers, J.K. (1976). The fate of phosphorus during pedogenesis. Geoderma 15: 1–19.
Thompson, C.H. (1981). Podzol chronosequences on coastal dunes of eastern Australia. Nature 291: 59–61. DOI 10.1038/291059a0.
Walker, J., Thompson, C.H., Fergus, I.F. & Tunstall, B.R. (1981). Plant succession and soil development in coastal sand dunes of subtropical eastern Australia. In: West, Shugart & Botkin (eds), Forest Succession: Concepts and Application, Springer, pp. 107–131.
Peltzer, D.A., Wardle, D.A., Allison, V.J., et al. (2010). Understanding ecosystem retrogression. Ecological Monographs 80(4): 509–529. DOI 10.1890/09-1552.1.
Wardle, D.A., Walker, L.R. & Bardgett, R.D. (2004). Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences. Science 305(5683): 509–513. DOI 10.1126/science.1098778.
Zemunik, G., Turner, B.L., Lambers, H. & Laliberté, E. (2015). Diversity of plant nutrient-acquisition strategies increases during long-term ecosystem development. Nature Plants 1: 15050.
Queensland Herbarium and Biodiversity Science (2025). BioCondition Benchmark Database, version 3.6 (August 2025). Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Brisbane. CC BY 4.0. https://www.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/excel_doc/0023/170285/bioconditon-benchmark-database-table.xlsx.
Chen, C.R. et al. (2015). Soil phosphorus fractionation and nutrient dynamics along the Cooloola coastal dune chronosequence, southern Queensland. Geoderma 257–258: 4–13.
Chadwick, O.A., Derry, L.A., Vitousek, P.M., Huebert, B.J. & Hedin, L.O. (1999). Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development. Nature 397: 491–497. DOI 10.1038/17276.
Ellerton, D., Rittenour, T., Shulmeister, J. et al. (2020). An 800-kyr record of dune emplacement in relationship to high sea-level forcing, Cooloola Sand Mass. Geomorphology 354: 106999.
Cohen, B.E. et al. (2007). ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar constraints on the timing of Oligocene intraplate volcanism, SE Queensland (incl. the Glass House Mountains). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 54(1): 105–125.
Davies, D.R. et al. (2015). Lithospheric controls on magma composition along Earth's longest continental hotspot track. Nature 525: 511–514.
Willmott, W. (2007). Rocks and Landscapes of the Sunshine Coast (2nd ed.). Geological Society of Australia.
Rhodes, E.J. (2011). Optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments over the past 200,000 years. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 39: 461–488.
Walker, J., Lees, B., Olley, J. & Thompson, C. (2018). Dating the Cooloola coastal dunes of South-Eastern Queensland, Australia. Marine Geology 398: 73–85. DOI 10.1016/j.margeo.2017.12.010.
Knesel, K.M., Cohen, B.E., Vasconcelos, P.M. & Thiede, D.S. (2008). Rapid change in drift of the Australian plate records collision with Ontong Java plateau. Nature 454: 754–757. DOI 10.1038/nature07138.
Cohen, B.E., Knesel, K.M., Vasconcelos, P.M. & Schellart, W.P. (2013). Tracking the Australian plate motion through the Cenozoic: constraints from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology. Tectonics 32(5): 1371–1383. DOI 10.1002/tect.20084.
Hansma, J. & Tohver, E. (2020). Southward drift of eastern Australian hotspots in the paleomagnetic reference frame is consistent with global true polar wander estimates. Frontiers in Earth Science 8: 544496. DOI 10.3389/feart.2020.544496.

Hydrology & fire

Dooley, M., Lewis, T. & Schmidt, S. (2023). Fire frequency has a contrasting effect on vegetation and topsoil in subcoastal heathland, woodland and forest ecosystems, south-east Queensland. Austral Ecology 48(8): 1865-1887. DOI 10.1111/aec.13427.
Neumann, M., Adams, M.A. & Lewis, T. (2021). Native forests show resilience to selective timber harvesting in Southeast Queensland, Australia. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4: 750350. DOI 10.3389/ffgc.2021.750350.
Sunshine Coast Council (2021). Mount Ninderry Environment Reserve Management Plan, Vol I. Sunshine Coast Council. https://hdp-au-prod-app-suncst-haveyoursay-files.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/8917/1712/3575/Mt_Ninderry_ER_Vol_I_Management_Plan.PDF.
Lewis, T., Reif, M., Prendergast, E. & Tran, C. (2012). The effect of long-term repeated burning and fire exclusion on above- and below-ground Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis) forest vegetation assemblages. Austral Ecology 37(7): 767–778. DOI 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02337.x.
Hofmann, H., Newborn, D., Cartwright, I., Cendón, D.I. & Raiber, M. (2020). Groundwater mean residence times of a subtropical barrier sand island. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24(3): 1293–1318. DOI 10.5194/hess-24-1293-2020.
Bowman, D.M.J.S. (1998). The impact of Aboriginal landscape burning on the Australian biota. New Phytologist 140: 385–410.
Bradstock, R.A., Williams, J.E. & Gill, A.M. (eds). Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent..
Dyring, M. et al. (2025). A hydrogeochemical approach to coastal groundwater-dependent ecosystem conservation: the case of Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. Science of the Total Environment 958: 177892. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177892.
Junk, W.J., Bayley, P.B. & Sparks, R.E. (1989). The flood-pulse concept in river–floodplain systems. In: Dodge, D.P. (ed.), Proceedings of the International Large River Symposium (LARS). Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 106: 110–127.
Dixon, K.M., Cary, G.J., Worboys, G.L., Seddon, J. & Gibbons, P. (2018). A comparison of fuel hazard in recently burned and long-unburned forests and woodlands. International Journal of Wildland Fire 27(9): 609–622 (article WF18037).
Furlaud, J.M., Prior, L.D., Williamson, G.J. & Bowman, D.M.J.S. (2021). Fire risk and severity decline with stand development in Tasmanian giant Eucalyptus forest. Forest Ecology and Management 502: 119724.
Krishnan, V., Robinson, N., Firn, J., et al. (2019). Without management interventions, endemic wet-sclerophyll forest is transitioning to rainforest in World Heritage listed K'gari (Fraser Island). Ecology and Evolution 9(3): 1378–1393. DOI 10.1002/ece3.4853.
Baker, A.G., Catterall, C., Benkendorff, K. & Fensham, R.J. (2020). Rainforest expansion reduces understorey plant diversity and density in open forest of eastern Australia. Austral Ecology 45(5): 557–571. DOI 10.1111/aec.12871.
Baker, A.G., Catterall, C. & Wiseman, M. (2022). Rainforest persistence and recruitment after Australia's 2019–2020 fires in subtropical, temperate, dry and littoral rainforests. Australian Journal of Botany 70(3): 189–203. DOI 10.1071/BT21091.
Godfree, R.C., Knerr, N., Encinas-Viso, F., et al. (2021). Implications of the 2019–2020 megafires for the biogeography and conservation of Australian vegetation. Nature Communications 12: 1023. DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-21266-5.
Dixon, K.M., Cary, G.J., Worboys, G.L. & Gibbons, P. (2018). The disproportionate importance of long-unburned forests and woodlands for reptiles. Ecology and Evolution 8(22): 10952–10963. DOI 10.1002/ece3.4561.
Bureau of Meteorology (accessed October 2026). Climate statistics for Australian locations: Maleny Tamarind St (station 040121) and Beerburrum Forest Station (040284), mean annual rainfall. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/.
Serrano, O., Lovelock, C.E., Atwood, T.B., Macreadie, P.I. et al. (2019). Australian vegetated coastal ecosystems as global hotspots for climate change mitigation. Nature Communications 10: 4313. DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-12176-8.

Biodiversity & fauna

Gonzalez-Astudillo, V. et al. (2017). 17-year koala mortality, SEQ. Scientific Reports.
Robbins, A. et al. (2018). Koala chlamydial treatment outcomes. PLoS One.
Dissanayake, R.B. et al. (2019). Citizen-science koala monitoring, SEQ. Scientific Reports.
Koala (combined QLD/NSW/ACT population) listed Endangered under the EPBC Act, 12 February 2022 (uplisted from Vulnerable).
Phillips, S., Hanger, J., Grosmaire, J., Mehdi, A., Jelocnik, M., Wong, J. & Timms, P. (2024). Immunisation of koalas against Chlamydia pecorum results in significant protection against chlamydial disease and mortality. npj Vaccines 9(1): 139. DOI 10.1038/s41541-024-00938-5.
University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) (2026). Update on research into chlamydia in koalas. UniSC news, September 2026. https://www.unisc.edu.au/about/unisc-news/news-archive/2026/may/update-on-research-into-chlamydia-in-koalas.
Meyer, E.A., Franklin, C.E. & Cramp, R.L. (2021). Physiological and morphological correlates of extreme acid tolerance in larvae of the acidophilic amphibian Litoria cooloolensis. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 191(1): 159–171. DOI 10.1007/s00360-020-01316-y.
Filer, A., Burchardt, L.S. & van Rensburg, B.J. (2021). Assessing acoustic competition between sibling frog species using rhythm analysis. Ecology and Evolution 11(13): 8814–8830. doi:10.1002/ece3.7713.
Filer, A., Meyer, E. & van Rensburg, B.J. (2022). Distributional overlap and potential competition between a threatened habitat specialist and generalist frog species in coastal wallum habitats of South East Queensland, Australia. Austral Ecology 47(7): 1396–1401. doi:10.1111/aec.13236.
Shuker, J.D., Simpkins, C.A. & Hero, J.-M. (2016). Determining environmental limits of threatened species: the example of the wallum sedgefrog Litoria olongburensis. Ecosphere 7(6): e01384. DOI 10.1002/ecs2.1384.
Meyer, E., Hero, J.-M., Shoo, L. & Lewis, B. (2006). National recovery plan for the wallum sedgefrog and other wallum-dependent frog species. Report to the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Canberra. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service / Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane. https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/wallum-frogs.pdf.
Glossy black-cockatoo: south-eastern subspecies Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami listed Vulnerable under the EPBC Act, effective 10 August 2022; near-obligate Allocasuarina/Casuarina (she-oak) seed feeder and large-hollow nester (SPRAT taxon 67036).
Sands, D. (2008). Conserving the Richmond birdwing butterfly over two decades: where to next? Ecological Management & Restoration 9(1): 4–16.
Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (accessed 2026). Richmond birdwing captive breeding and release project. https://wildlife.org.au/project/captive-breeding-release-project.
Avicennia marina (grey mangrove): dominant SEQ mangrove; cryptoviviparous (cf. truly viviparous Rhizophora).
Moreton Bay Ramsar wetland (designated 22 October 1993, Ramsar Site 631); East Asian–Australasian Flyway.
Lanyon, J.M. (2003). Distribution and abundance of dugongs in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Wildlife Research 30(4): 397–409. DOI 10.1071/WR98082.
Wen, L., Saintilan, N., Reid, J.R.W. & Colloff, M.J. (2016). Changes in distribution of waterbirds following prolonged drought reflect habitat availability in coastal and inland regions. Ecology and Evolution 6(18): 6672–6689. DOI 10.1002/ece3.2091.
Gibbons, P. & Lindenmayer, D. (2002). Tree Hollows and Wildlife Conservation in Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood.
Wormington, K. & Lamb, D. (1999). Tree hollow development in wet and dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest in south-east Queensland, Australia. Australian Forestry 62(4): 336–345.
Booth, D.J., Figueira, W.F., Gregson, M.A., Brown, L. & Beretta, G. (2007). Occurrence of tropical fishes in temperate southeastern Australia: role of the East Australian Current. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 72(1–2): 102–114.
Wallace, C.C., Fellegara, I., Muir, P.R. & Harrison, P.L. (2009). The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high-latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 54(2): 1–118.
Robertson, A.I. & Daniel, P.A. (1989). The influence of crabs on litter processing in high intertidal mangrove forests in tropical Australia. Oecologia 78(2): 191–198. DOI 10.1007/BF00377155.
Bansemer, C.S. & Bennett, M.B. (2009). Reproductive periodicity, localised movements and behavioural segregation of pregnant Carcharias taurus at Wolf Rock, southeast Queensland, Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 374: 215–227. DOI 10.3354/meps07741.
Bansemer, C.S. & Bennett, M.B. (2011). Sex- and maturity-based differences in movement and migration patterns of grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus, along the eastern coast of Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 62(6): 596. DOI 10.1071/MF10152.
Dyer, P.K. (2000). Wedge-tailed shearwaters on Mudjimba Island, Queensland: numbers and breeding success. Corella 24(1/2): 15–18.
Hall, M.J., Martin, J.M., Burns, A.L. & Hochuli, D.F. (2024). The decline, fall, and rise of a large urban colonising bird. Wildlife Research 51(7): WR23156. DOI 10.1071/WR23156.
Australian Brush-turkey (Alectura lathami) species page, Australian Museum (accessed 2026). https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-brush-turkey/.
Claridge, A.W. & May, T.W. (1994). Mycophagy among Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Ecology 19(3): 251–275. DOI 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1994.tb00489.x.
Johnson, C.N. (1996). Interactions between mammals and ectomycorrhizal fungi. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 11(12): 503–507. DOI 10.1016/S0169-5347(96)10053-7.
Fleming, P.A., Anderson, H., Prendergast, A.S., Bretz, M.R., Valentine, L.E. & Hardy, G.E.StJ. (2014). Is the loss of Australian digging mammals contributing to a deterioration in ecosystem function? Mammal Review 44(2): 94–108. DOI 10.1111/mam.12014.
Woinarski, J.C.Z., Burbidge, A.A. & Harrison, P.L. (2015). Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(15): 4531–4540. DOI 10.1073/pnas.1417301112.
Atlas of Living Australia (2026). Occurrence records within 45 km of the Sunshine Coast (centre −26.65, 153.05), queried 2 September 2026 through the biocache API, e.g. https://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/search?q=taxon_name%3A%22Aepyprymnus%20rufescens%22&lat=-26.65&lon=153.05&radius=45.
Welbergen, J.A., Klose, S.M., Markus, N. & Eby, P. (2008). Climate change and the effects of temperature extremes on Australian flying-foxes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275(1633): 419–425. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2007.1385.
Welbergen, J., Booth, C. & Martin, J. (2014). Killer climate: tens of thousands of flying foxes dead in a day. The Conversation, 25 February 2014. https://theconversation.com/killer-climate-tens-of-thousands-of-flying-foxes-dead-in-a-day-23227.
Eby, P. (1991). Seasonal movements of grey-headed flying-foxes, Pteropus poliocephalus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), from two maternity camps in northern New South Wales. Wildlife Research 18(5): 547–559. DOI 10.1071/WR9910547.
DAWE (2021). National Recovery Plan for the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus. Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra, March 2021. ISBN 978-1-76003-368-2. https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/recovery-plan-grey-headed-flying-fox.pdf.
NSW Health (2024). Hendra virus fact sheet. Updated 12 March 2024. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/hendra_virus.aspx.
NSW Health (2025). Rabies and Australian bat lyssavirus infection fact sheet. Updated 27 November 2025. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/rabies-australian-bat-lyssavirus-infection.aspx.
Gill, R.E., Tibbitts, T.L., Douglas, D.C., Handel, C.M., Mulcahy, D.M., Gottschalck, J.C., Warnock, N., McCaffery, B.J., Battley, P.F. & Piersma, T. (2009). Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean: ecological corridor rather than barrier? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276(1656): 447–457. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.1142.
Guinness World Records (2022). Longest non-stop migration by a bird. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/86385-longest-non-stop-migration-by-a-bird.
Studds, C.E., Kendall, B.E., Murray, N.J., Wilson, H.B., Rogers, D.I., Clemens, R.S., Gosbell, K., Hassell, C.J., Jessop, R., Melville, D.S., Milton, D.A., Minton, C.D.T., Possingham, H.P., Riegen, A.C., Straw, P., Woehler, E.J. & Fuller, R.A. (2017). Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites. Nature Communications 8: 14895. DOI 10.1038/ncomms14895.
Department of the Environment (2015). Conservation Advice Numenius madagascariensis eastern curlew. Canberra. https://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/847-conservation-advice.pdf.
Knight, J.T. & Arthington, A.H. (2008). Distribution and habitat associations of the endangered Oxleyan pygmy perch, Nannoperca oxleyana Whitley, in eastern Australia. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 18(7): 1240–1254. DOI 10.1002/aqc.936.
Arthington, A.H. & Marshall, C.J. (1995). Threatened fishes of the world: Pseudomugil mellis Allen & Ivantsoff, 1982 (Pseudomugilidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 43(3): 268. DOI 10.1007/BF00005858.
Semple, G.P. (1991). Reproductive behaviour and early development of the honey blue-eye, Pseudomugil mellis Allen and Ivantsoff 1982 (Pisces: Pseudomugilidae), from the North-east Coast Division, south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 42(3): 277–286. DOI 10.1071/MF9910277.
Meyer, E.A., Cramp, R.L. & Franklin, C.E. (2010). Damage to the gills and integument of Litoria fallax larvae (Amphibia: Anura) associated with ionoregulatory disturbance at low pH. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 155(2): 164–171. DOI 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.10.032.
Laegdsgaard, P. & Johnson, C.R. (2001). Why do juvenile fish utilise mangrove habitats? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 257(2): 229–253. DOI 10.1016/S0022-0981(00)00331-2.
BirdLife International (2024). Numenius madagascariensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024. DOI 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22693199A250045646.en.
McGregor, D.C., Padovan, A., Georges, A., Krockenberger, A., Yoon, H.-J. & Youngentob, K.N. (2020). Genetic evidence supports three previously described species of greater glider, Petauroides volans, P. minor, and P. armillatus. Scientific Reports 10: 19284. DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-76364-z.
DCCEEW (2022). Conservation Advice for Petauroides volans.
Seiffert, E.R. (2007). A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 224. DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-7-224.
Kamrowski, R.L., Limpus, C., Pendoley, K. & Hamann, M. (2015). Influence of industrial light pollution on the sea-finding behaviour of flatback turtle hatchlings. Wildlife Research 41(5): 421–434. DOI 10.1071/WR14155.
Perez, M.A., Limpus, C.J., Hofmeister, K., Shimada, T., Strydom, A., Webster, E. & Hamann, M. (2022). Satellite tagging and flipper tag recoveries reveal migration patterns and foraging distribution of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from eastern Australia. Marine Biology 169: 80. DOI 10.1007/s00227-022-04061-8.

Plants / ethnobotany

Beadle, N.C.W. (1966). Soil phosphate and its role in molding segments of the Australian flora and vegetation, with special reference to xeromorphy and sclerophylly. Ecology 47(6): 992–1007. DOI 10.2307/1935647.
Schmidt, S., Handley, L.L. & Sangtiean, T. (2006). Effects of nitrogen source and ectomycorrhizal association on growth and δ¹⁵N of two subtropical Eucalyptus species from contrasting ecosystems. Functional Plant Biology 33(4): 367–379. DOI 10.1071/FP05260.
Lambers, H., Raven, J.A., Shaver, G.R. & Smith, S.E. (2008). Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23(2): 95–103. DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2007.10.008.
Male, T.D. & Roberts, G.E. (2005). Host associations of the strangler fig Ficus watkinsiana in a subtropical Queensland rain forest. Austral Ecology 30(2): 229–236.
Griffith, S.J. & Rutherford, S. (2020). Flowering of Blandfordia grandiflora (Christmas bells) in response to fire frequency and temperature. Australian Journal of Botany 68(6): 449–457.
Vincent, O., Weißkopf, C., Poppinga, S., et al. (2011). Ultra-fast underwater suction traps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278(1720): 2909–2914. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2010.2292.
Gilding, E.K., Jami, S., Deuis, J.R., et al. (2020). Neurotoxic peptides from the venom of the giant Australian stinging tree. Science Advances 6(38): eabb8828. DOI 10.1126/sciadv.abb8828.
Cooke, P., Ens, E., Clarke, P., Chang, H., Rossetto, M., Crayn, D., Turpin, G. & Ferrier, A. (2024). Not all edible nuts are eaten: evidence for continued Aboriginal cultural use and dispersal of bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii) in southern but not in northern Queensland. Journal of Ethnobiology 44(2): 129–140. DOI 10.1177/02780771241246853.
Fahey, M., Rossetto, M., Ens, E. & Kerkhove, R. (2024). Araucaria bidwillii genomics suggest Indigenous Peoples broadened translocation practices in response to settler colonialism. People and Nature 6(1): 286–300. DOI 10.1002/pan3.10576.
Karst, J., Jones, M.D. & Hoeksema, J.D. (2023). Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7(4): 501–511. DOI 10.1038/s41559-023-01986-1.
Goedderz, S., Clements, M.A., Bent, S.J., Nicholls, J.A., Patel, V.S., Crayn, D.M., Schlüter, P.M. & Nargar, K. (2024). Plastid phylogenomics reveals evolutionary relationships in the mycoheterotrophic orchid genus Dipodium and provides insights into plastid gene degeneration. Frontiers in Plant Science 15: 1388537. DOI 10.3389/fpls.2024.1388537.
Darwell, C.T., al-Beidh, S. & Cook, J.M. (2014). Molecular species delimitation of a symbiotic fig-pollinating wasp species complex reveals extreme deviation from reciprocal partner specificity. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 189. DOI 10.1186/s12862-014-0189-9.
Watson, D.M. & Herring, M. (2012). Mistletoe as a keystone resource: an experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279(1743): 3853–3860. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.0856.
Terry, I., Walter, G.H., Moore, C., Roemer, R. & Hull, C. (2007). Odor-mediated push–pull pollination in cycads. Science 318(5847): 70. DOI 10.1126/science.1145147.
Low, T. (1991). Wild Food Plants of Australia. Angus & Robertson.
Cribb, A.B. & J.W. (1981). Useful Wild Plants in Australia. Collins.
Webb, L.J. (1968). Environmental relationships of the structural types of Australian rain forest vegetation. Ecology 49(2): 296–311. DOI 10.2307/1934459.
Sakai, S. (2002). A review of brood-site pollination mutualism: plants providing breeding sites for their pollinators. Journal of Plant Research 115(3): 161–168. DOI 10.1007/s102650200021.
Kooyman, R.M., Wilf, P., Barreda, V.D., Carpenter, R.J., Jordan, G.J., Sniderman, J.M.K. et al. (2014). Paleo-Antarctic rainforest into the modern Old World tropics: the rich past and threatened future of the 'southern wet forest survivors'. American Journal of Botany 101(12): 2121–2135. DOI 10.3732/ajb.1400340.
Rønsted, N., Weiblen, G.D., Cook, J.M., Salamin, N., Machado, C.A. & Savolainen, V. (2005). 60 million years of co-divergence in the fig–wasp symbiosis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272(1581): 2593–2599. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2005.3249.
Taylor, J.E., Monamy, V. & Fox, B.J. (1998). Flowering of Xanthorrhoea fulva: the effect of fire and clipping. Australian Journal of Botany 46(2): 241–251. DOI 10.1071/BT96100.
McKillup, S.C. & McKillup, R.V. (2014). Fire does not stimulate flowering of the grasstree Xanthorrhoea latifolia subsp. latifolia in central Queensland. Australian Journal of Botany 61(7): 558–565. DOI 10.1071/BT13115.
EUCLID: Eucalypts of Australia (accessed October 2026). CSIRO / Lucidcentral species fact sheets for Eucalyptus grandis, E. pilularis, E. microcorys, E. siderophloia and E. propinqua (lignotuber present or absent). https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/.
PlantNET (accessed October 2026). Flora of New South Wales: Blandfordia grandiflora (flowering late spring to early summer); Banksia spinulosa (follicles opening with fire or spontaneously). Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.

Forest health & dieback

Nolan, R.H., Gauthey, A., Losso, A., et al. (2021). Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die-back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought. New Phytologist 230(4): 1354–1365. DOI 10.1111/nph.17298.
Silver, M.J. & Carnegie, A.J. (2017). An independent review of bell miner associated dieback: report prepared for the Project Steering Committee — Systematic Review of Bell Miner Associated Dieback (BMAD). NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Parramatta. 125 pp.

People, history & restoration

Douglas on behalf of the Kabi Kabi First Nation Traditional Owners Native Title Claim Group v State of Queensland (No 5) [2024] FCA 645 (Collier ACJ, 17 June 2024), Federal Court of Australia, file QUD 20 of 2019 — consent determination under s 87A Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), recognising non-exclusive native title over Part A of the Kabi Kabi claim: 3,450 km² of land plus 202 km² of waters (~365,000 ha). https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2024/2024fca0645.
Kerkhove, R. — commissioned Sunshine Coast Indigenous histories.
Gammage, B. (2011). The Biggest Estate on Earth. Allen & Unwin.
May, D. (2023). Rethinking The Biggest Estate on Earth: a critique of grand unified theories. History Australia 20(1): 154–172.
Steffensen, V. (2020). Fire Country. Hardie Grant Explore.
Bradley, J. (1988). Bringing Back the Bush: The Bradley Method. Lansdowne.
Goosem, S. & Tucker, N.I.J. (1995/2013). Repairing the Rainforest. Wet Tropics Management Authority.
Lindenmayer, D.B. & Fischer, J. (2006). Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change: An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis. CSIRO Publishing.
Blue Heart Sunshine Coast — Maroochy River floodplain (>5,000 ha) flood-storage and tidal-wetland restoration. Partners: Sunshine Coast Council, the Queensland Government's Department of Environment, Unitywater, and the Kabi Kabi Peoples Aboriginal Corporation (KKPAC). DCCEEW Wetlands Australia 33 (2021); Qld Land Restoration Fund case study (blue-carbon potential). Council and Unitywater confirm KKPAC as an official partner (May 2025); program page https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/blueheart.
Cooloola National Park gazetted 1975, following the anti-sand-mining campaign (Kathleen McArthur, Judith Wright and others).
Davis, S. (2019). Hidden women of history: Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen. The Conversation, 31 January 2019. https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-kathleen-mcarthur-the-wildflower-woman-who-took-on-joh-bjelke-petersen-110269.
Centre for the Government of Queensland (2018). Sunshine Coast and Sunshine Coast Regional Council. Queensland Places, University of Queensland. https://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/node/804.
Davis, S. (2024). McArthur, Kathleen Rennie (1915–2000). Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcarthur-kathleen-rennie-33448.
Sunshine Coast Council (2023). Environment Levy land acquisition program (and Environment Levy Annual Report 2022–23). Sunshine Coast Council. https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/environment/environment-levy/land-acquisition-program.
Sunshine Coast Council (accessed 2026). Land for Wildlife. Sunshine Coast Council. https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/environment/get-involved-in-conservation/land-for-wildlife — regional program: Land for Wildlife South East Queensland (LfWSEQ), https://lfwseq.org.au/.
The Nature Conservancy Australia (2022). Noosa River — restoring shellfish reefs (Huon Mundy Reefs). The Nature Conservancy Australia. https://www.natureaustralia.org.au/what-we-do/our-priorities/oceans/ocean-stories/restoring-shellfish-reefs/noosa-river/.
Hrdina, F. & Gordon, G. (2004). The koala and possum trade in Queensland, 1906–1936. Australian Zoologist 32(4): 543–585. DOI 10.7882/AZ.2004.003.
Gillies, C.L., McLeod, I.M., Alleway, H.K., Cook, P., Crawford, C., et al. (2018). Australian shellfish ecosystems: past distribution, current status and future direction. PLOS ONE 13(2): e0190914. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0190914.
Toona ciliata (red cedar) — colonial Australia's most prized rainforest cabinet timber ("red gold").
Traveston Crossing Dam (Mary River): proposed 2006; rejected by the federal Environment Minister (Garrett) on 2 December 2009 under the EPBC Act (referral 2006/3150), on threatened-species grounds (Australian lungfish, Mary River turtle, Mary River cod). Primary source: the Minister's letter of 8 December 2009 to Julia Irwin MP, tabled as a ministerial response to petitions, House of Representatives, 8 February 2010 (https://aphref.aph.gov.au/house/committee/petitions/petitions_42/ministerial/8feb2010/response220.pdf), verified 9 Oct 2026; it replaced a Wikipedia citation in the Ch 17 Notes.
Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee & Commonwealth of Australia (2016). Mary River Threatened Aquatic Species Recovery Plan (draft for comment). https://mrccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mary-River-Threatened-Aquatic-Species-Recovery-Plan-draft-for-comment-updated.pdf.
Barung Landcare (accessed 2026). Barung Landcare. Maleny. https://barunglandcare.org.au.
Seqwater (2024). Seqwater investment strengthens Sunshine Coast RiverCare program to safeguard water quality. Seqwater news, September 2024. https://www.seqwater.com.au/news/seqwater-investment-strengthens-sunshine-coast-rivercare-program-safeguard-water-quality.
Sunshine Coast Council (accessed 2026). Mary River turtle protection program. https://sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/environment/invasive-plants-and-animals/invasive-animals/managing-invasive-animals/what-council-is-doing/mary-river-turtle-protection-program.
Tangalooma whaling station, Moreton Island, 1952–1962 (6,277 humpbacks taken — verified); east-Australian humpback population driven to a few hundred, protected from 1963, since recovered to ~40,000 and now at/above pre-whaling levels (DCCEEW eastern-Australia humpback assessment).
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (2026). Ex-HMAS Brisbane Conservation Park: park alert 26528. https://parks.qld.gov.au/park-alerts/26528.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (2026). Whale comeback creates new era of coexistence on the Great Barrier Reef. GBRMPA news, 24 August 2026. https://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/news/whale-comeback-creates-new-era-coexistence-great-barrier-reef.
Noad, M.J., Kniest, E. & Dunlop, R.A. (2019). Boom to bust? Implications for the continued rapid growth of the eastern Australian humpback whale population despite recovery. Population Ecology 61(2): 198–209. DOI 10.1002/1438-390X.1014.
Taylor-Brown, A. et al. (2019). The impact of human activities on Australian wildlife. PLOS ONE 14(1): e0206958. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206958.
Wildlife Warriors (accessed 2026). Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. Wildlife Warriors Worldwide. https://wildlifewarriors.org.au/conservation-projects/australia-zoo-wildlife-hospital/.
National Museum of Australia (accessed 2026). Introduction of cane toads (Defining Moments in Australian History). https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/introduction-of-cane-toads.
Weeds Australia (accessed 2026). Lantana (Lantana camara) profile. Centre for Invasive Species Solutions. https://weeds.org.au/profiles/lantana-common-kamara/.
Weeds Australia — Camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) profile (accessed 2026). Centre for Invasive Species Solutions. https://weeds.org.au/profiles/camphor-laurel-tree/.
WWF-Australia (accessed 2026). Introduced predators. https://wwf.org.au/what-we-do/species/introduced-predators/.
Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld). Queensland Government. https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-1992-020.
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (accessed 2026). Cooloola (Great Sandy) and Glass House Mountains national parks. parks.qld.gov.au. https://parks.qld.gov.au/parks/glass-house-mountains.
Neal, R. & Stock, E. (1986). Pleistocene occupation in the south-east Queensland coastal region. Nature 323: 618–621. DOI 10.1038/323618a0.
Adams, S. et al. (2024). Early human occupation of Australia's eastern seaboard. Scientific Reports 14: 2579. DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-52000-y.

Comparable / model books

Slattery, D. (2025). Australian Alps (3rd ed.). CSIRO Publishing.
Morton, S. (2022). Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes. CSIRO Publishing.
McPhee, D. (2017). Environmental History and Ecology of Moreton Bay. CSIRO Publishing.
Davie, P. (1998). Wild Guide to Moreton Bay. Queensland Museum.
Leiper, G. et al. (2022). Mangroves to Mountains (3rd ed.). Native Plants Queensland.
Haslam, S. Noosa's Native Plants (4th ed.). Noosa Integrated Catchment Association.