Publications
Journal Articles
Wijas, Baptiste J., Flores-Moreno, Habacuc, Allison, Steven D., Cernusak, Lucas A., Cheesman, Alexander W., Eggleton, Paul, Kooyman, Robert M., Powell, Jeff R. and Zanne, Amy E. (2025). Decadal recovery of fungal but not termite deadwood decay in tropical rainforest. Journal of Applied Ecology, 62 (6), 1555-1566. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.70053
Wijas, Baptiste (2025). Engineering biodiversity from within: Termites reshape deadwood as habitat in subtropical forests. Functional Ecology, 39 (6), 1495-1497. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.70069
Bruce, Tom, Amir, Zachary, Allen, Benjamin L, Alting, Brendan F., Amos, Matt, Augusteyn, John, Ballard, Guy‐Anthony, Behrendorff, Linda M., Bell, Kristian, Bengsen, Andrew J., Bennett, Ami, Benshemesh, Joe S., Bentley, Joss, Blackmore, Caroline J., Boscarino‐Gaetano, Remo, Bourke, Lachlan A., Brewster, Rob, Brook, Barry W., Broughton, Colin, Buettel, Jessie C., Carter, Andrew, Chiu‐Werner, Antje, Claridge, Andrew W., Comer, Sarah, Comte, Sebastien, Connolly, Rod M., Cowan, Mitchell A., Cross, Sophie L., Cunningham, Calum X. ... Luskin, Matthew S. (2025). Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis. Biological Reviews, 100 (2), 530-555. doi: 10.1111/brv.13152
Wijas, Baptiste J., Cornwell, William K., Oberle, Brad, Powell, Jeff R. and Zanne, Amy E. (2025). Faster than expected: release of nitrogen and phosphorus from decomposing woody litter. New Phytologist, 245 (5), 2214-2223. doi: 10.1111/nph.20362
Xu, Tongtong, Cornwell, Will, Wang, Ling, Wijas, Baptiste, Liu, Chen, Yuan, Zuoqiang and Letnic, Mike (2024). Impacts of wild herbivores on soil seed banks are explained by precipitation conditions in protected areas across semi‐arid to arid regions. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61 (12), 2946-2958. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14803
Calvert, Jed, Yatsko, Abbey R., Bresgi, Judy, Cheesman, Alexander W., Cook, Keith, Crowe, James, Gambold, Indigo, Jones, Caleb, O'Connor, Liam, Peter, Tony, Russell‐Smith, Pedro, Taylor, Elisha, Trigger, Blair, Wijas, Baptiste and Zanne, Amy E. (2024). Modelling internal stem damage in savanna trees: error in aboveground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning and allometry. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15 (9), 1639-1652. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.14375
Wijas, Baptiste J., Allison, Steven D., Austin, Amy T., Cornwell, William K., Cornelissen, J. Hans C., Eggleton, Paul, Fraver, Shawn, Ooi, Mark K. J., Powell, Jeff R., Woodall, Christopher W. and Zanne, Amy E. (2024). The role of deadwood in the carbon cycle: implications for models, forest management, and future climates. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 55, 133-155. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110421-102327
Wijas, Baptiste J., Letnic, Mike and Cornwell, William K. (2024). Spatial variability in the contribution of termites to the decay of plant detritus. Austral Ecology, 49 (7) e13555, 7. doi: 10.1111/aec.13555
Wijas, Baptiste J., Flores-Moreno, Habacuc, Allison, Steven D., Rodriguez, Luciana Chavez, Cheesman, Alexander W., Cernusak, Lucas A., Clement, Rebecca, Cornwell, Will K., Duan, Elizabeth S., Eggleton, Paul, Rosenfield, Marc V., Yatsko, Abbey R. and Zanne, Amy E. (2024). Drivers of wood decay in tropical ecosystems: termites versus microbes along spatial, temporal and experimental precipitation gradients. Functional Ecology, 38 (3), 546-559. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14494
Wijas, Baptiste J., Cornwell, William K. and Letnic, Mike (2023). Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems. Ecology, 104 (5) e4035, e4035. doi: 10.1002/ecy.4035
Wijas, Baptiste J., Finlayson, Graeme and Letnic, Mike (2022). Herbivores' impacts cascade through the brown food web in a dryland. Ecosystems, 26 (5), 969-982. doi: 10.1007/s10021-022-00810-4
Mallen-Cooper, Max, Atkinson, Joe, Xirocostas, Zoe A., Wijas, Baptiste, Chiarenza, Giancarlo M., Dadzie, Frederick A. and Eldridge, David J. (2022). Global synthesis reveals strong multifaceted effects of eucalypts on soils. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31 (8), 1667-1678. doi: 10.1111/geb.13522
Wijas, Baptiste J., Lim, Shevaun and Cornwell, William K. (2022). Continental-scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies. Ecography, 2022 (1) ecog.05902. doi: 10.1111/ecog.05902
Wijas, Baptiste and Letnic, Mike (2021). Top-down effects have primacy over bottom-up effects on the population dynamics of a flightless desert bird. Journal of Arid Environments, 195 104611, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104611
Wijas, Baptiste and Atkinson, Joe (2021). Termites in restoration: the forgotten insect?. Restoration Ecology, 29 (8) e13511, 1-5. doi: 10.1111/rec.13511
Mills, Charlotte H., Wijas, Baptiste, Gordon, Christopher E., Lyons, Mitchell, Feit, Anna, Wilkinson, Aodan and Letnic, Mike (2021). Two alternate states: shrub, bird and mammal assemblages differ on either side of the Dingo Barrier Fence. Australian Zoologist, 41 (3), 534-549. doi: 10.7882/az.2021.005