Publications
Refereed journal articles on mast seeding
Buonaccorsi, J. P., Elkinton, J., Koenig, W. D., Duncan, R. P., Kelly, D. & Sork, V. L. (2003). Measuring masting behavior: relationships among population variation, individual variation and synchrony. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 224, 107-114. (pdf 154kb)
Dickinson, K. J. M., Kelly, D., Mark, A. F., Wells, G. & Clayton, R. (in press). What limits a rare alpine plant species? Comparative demography of three endemic species of Myosotis (Boraginaceae). Austral Ecology.
Kelly, D. & Sork, V. L. (2002). Mast seeding in perennial plants: why, how, where? Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 33, 427-447. (pdf 460kb)
Kelly, D. & Sullivan, J. J. (1997). Quantifying the benefits of mast seeding on predator satiation and wind pollination in Chionochloa pallens (Poaceae). Oikos, 78, 143-150. (pdf 614kb)
Kelly, D. (1994). The evolutionary ecology of mast seeding. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 465-470. (pdf 770kb)
Kelly, D., Harrison, A. L., Lee, W. G., Payton, I. J., Wilson, P. R. & Schauber, E. M. (2000). Predator satiation and extreme mast seeding in 11 species of Chionochloa (Poaceae). Oikos, 90, 477-488. (pdf 179kb)
Kelly, D., Hart, D. E. & Allen, R. B. (2001). Evaluating the wind-pollination benefits of mast seeding. Ecology, 82, 117-126. (pdf 1.6mb)
Kelly, D., McKone, M. J., Batchelor, K. J. & Spence, J. R. (1992). Mast seeding of Chionochloa (Poaceae) and pre-dispersal seed predation by a specialist fly (Diplotoxa, Diptera: Chloropidae). New Zealand Journal of Botany, 30, 125-133. (pdf 834kb)
Koenig, W. D., Kelly, D., Sork, V. L., Duncan, R. P., Elkinton, J. S., Peltonen, M. S. & Westfall, R. D. (2003). Dissecting components of population-level variation in seed production, and the evolution of masting. Oikos, 102, 581-591. (pdf 504kb)
Lord, J. M. & Kelly, D. (1999). Seed production in Festuca novae-zelandiae: the effect of altitude and pre-dispersal seed predation. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 37, 503-509. (pdf 555kb)
McCall, A. C., Kelly, D. & Chapman, H. C. (2004). Little geographic or host plant genetic variation in a Chionochloa (Poaceae) seed predator (Cecidomyiidae: undescribed species). New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 28, 215-224. (pdf 121kb)
McKone, M. J., Kelly, D. & Lee, W. G. (1998). Effect of climate change on masting species: frequency of mass flowering and escape from specialist insect seed predators. Global Change Biology, 4, 591-596. (pdf 470kb)
McKone, M. J., Kelly, D., Harrison, A. L., Sullivan, J. J. & Cone, A. J. (2001). Biology of insects that feed in the inflorescences of Chionochloa pallens (Poaceae) in New Zealand and their relevance to mast seeding. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 28, 89-101. (pdf 1mb)
McKone, M. J., Thom, A. L. & Kelly, D. (1997). Self-compatibility in Chionochloa pallens and C. macra (Poaceae) confirmed by hand pollination of excised styles. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 35, 259-262. (pdf 406kb)
Monks, A. & Kelly, D. (2006). Testing the resource matching hypothesis in the mast seeding tree Nothofagus truncata (Fagaceae). Austral Ecology, 31: 366-375. (pdf 217kb)
Norton, D. A. & Kelly, D. (1988). Mast seeding over 33 years by Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb. (rimu) (Podocarpaceae) in New Zealand: the importance of economies of scale. Functional Ecology, 2, 399-408. (pdf 728kb)
Rees, M., Kelly, D. & Bjornstad, O. (2002). Snow tussocks, chaos, and the evolution of mast seeding. American Naturalist, 160, 44-59. (pdf 287kb)
Schauber, E. M., Kelly, D., Turchin, P., Simon, C., Lee, W. G., Allen, R. B., Payton, I. J., Wilson, P. R., Cowan, P. E. & Brockie, R. E. (2002). Synchronous and asynchronous masting by 18 New Zealand plant species: the role of temperature cues and implications for climate change. Ecology, 83, 1214-1225. (pdf 723kb)
Sullivan, J. J. & Kelly, D. (2000). Why is mast seeding in Chionochloa rubra (Poaceae) most extreme where seed predation is lowest? New Zealand Journal of Botany, 38, 221-233. (pdf 1.1mb)
Tisch, P. A. & Kelly, D. (1998). Can wind pollination provide a selective benefit to mast seeding? Chionochloa macra (Poaceae) at Mt Hutt, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 36, 637-643. (pdf 562kb)
Webb, C. J. & Kelly, D. (1993). The reproductive biology of the New Zealand flora. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 442-447. (pdf 600kb)
Non-refereed articles
Kelly, D. (1998). Mast seeding and Lyme disease (letter). Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 506.
Lee, W. G., Dijkgraaf, A. & Kelly, D. (1997). Monitoring key food species of kakapo and predicting mast seed years. Department of Conservation, Wellington. (Landcare Research Report LC9798/028).
