Prof. Dave Kelly - Publications

1998-2008

Refereed Journal Articles

Robertson, A. W., J. J. Ladley, et al. (2008). Does height off the ground affect bird visitation and fruit set in the pollen-limited mistletoe Peraxilla tetrapetala (Loranthaceae)? Biotropica 40(1): 122-126.
           
Dungan, R. J., D. Kelly, et al. (2007). Separating host-tree and environmental determinants of honeydew production by Ultracoelostoma scale insects in a Nothofagus forest. Ecological Entomology 32: 338-348.

Bach, C.E. and Kelly, D. (2007). Mistletoe fruit-colour polymorphism and differential success in a habitat mosaic. Austral Ecology 32: 509-514.

Dickinson, K.J.M., Kelly, D., Mark, A.F., Wells, G. and Clayton, R. (2007). What limits a rare alpine plant species?  Comparative demography of three endemic species of Myosotis (Boraginaceae). Austral Ecology 32: 155-168.

Dungan, R.J., Turnbull, M.H. and Kelly, D. (2007). The carbon costs for host trees of a phloem-feeding herbivore. Journal of Ecology 95(4): 603-613.

Kolesik, P., Sarfati, M.S., Brockerhoff, E.G. and Kelly, D. (2007). Description of Eucalyptodiplosis chionochloae sp. nov., a cecidomyiid feeding on inflorescences of Chionochloa (Poaceae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 34: 107-115.

Burgess, V.J., Kelly, D., Robertson, A.W. and Ladley, J.J. (2006). Positive effects of forest edges on plant reproduction: literature review and a case study of bee visitation to flowers of Peraxilla tetrapetala (Loranthaceae). New Zealand Journal of Ecology 30(2): 179-190.

Christian, R., Kelly, D. and Turnbull, M.H. (2006). The architecture of New Zealand's divaricate shrubs in relation to light adaptation. New Zealand Journal of Botany 44: 171-186.

Monks, A. and Kelly, D. (2006). Testing the resource-matching hypothesis in the mast seeding tree Nothofagus truncata (Fagaceae). Austral Ecology 31: 366-375.

Robertson, A.W., Trass, A., Ladley, J.J. and Kelly, D. (2006). Assessing the benefits of frugivory for seed germination: the importance of the deinhibition effect. Functional Ecology 20(1): 58-66.

Kelly, D., Brindle, C., Ladley, J.J., Robertson, A.W., Maddigan, F.W., Butler, J., Ward-Smith, T., Murphy, D.J. and Sessions, L.A. (2005). Can stoat (Mustela erminea) trapping increase bellbird (Anthornis melanura) populations and benefit mistletoe (Peraxilla tetrapetala) pollination? New Zealand Journal of Ecology 29(1): 69-82.

Kelly, D., Jasperse, J. and Westbrooke, I. (2005). Designing science graphs for data analysis and presentation. Wellington, Department of Conservation: 68.

Robertson, A.W., Ladley, J.J. and Kelly, D. (2005). Effectiveness of short-tongued bees as pollinators of apparently ornithophilous New Zealand mistletoes. Austral Ecology 30(5): 298-309.

Kelly, D., Ladley, J. J. & Robertson, A. W. (2004). Is dispersal easier than pollination? Two tests in New Zealand Loranthaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 42(1): 89-103.

Bach, C.E. and Kelly, D. (2004). Effects of forest edges on herbivory in a New Zealand mistletoe, Alepis flavida. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 28(1): 195-205.

McCall, A.C., Kelly, D. & Chapman, H.C. (2004). Little geographic or host plant genetic variation in Chionochloa (Poaceae) seed predator (Cecidomyiidae: undescribed species). New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 28(2): 215-224.

Bach, C. E. & Kelly, D. (2004). Effects of forest edges, fruit display size, and fruit colour on bird seed dispersal in a New Zealand mistletoe, Alepis flavida. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 28(1): 93-103.

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.

Dungan, R. J. & Kelly, D. (2003). Effect of host-tree and environmental variables on honeydew production by scale insects (Ultracoelostoma sp.) in a high elevation Nothofagus solandri forest. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 27, 169-177.

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.

Lamoureaux, S. L., Kelly, D. & Barlow, N. D. (2003). Population dynamics in mature stands of Hieracium pilosella in New Zealand. Plant Ecology, 166, 263-273.

Montgomery, B. R., Kelly, D., Robertson, A. W. & Ladley, J. J. (2003). Pollinator behaviour, not increased resources, boosts seed set on forest edges in a New Zealand Loranthaceous mistletoe. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 4, 277-286.

Monks, A. & Kelly, D. (2003). Motivational state models fail to explain oviposition behaviour in diamondback moth. Physiological Entomology, 28, 199-208.

Murphy, D. J. & Kelly, D. (2003). Seasonal variation in the honeydew, invertebrate, and mistletoe fruit and nectar resource in a New Zealand mountain beech forest. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 27(1), 11-23.

Howell, C. J., Kelly, D. & Turnbull, M. H. (2002). Moa ghosts exorcised: New Zealand's divaricate shrubs avoid photoinhibition. Functional Ecology, 16, 232-240.

Kelly, D. & Sork, V. L. (2002). Mast seeding in perennial plants: why, how, where? Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 33, 427-447.

Rees, M., Kelly, D. & Bjornstad, O. (2002). Snow tussocks, chaos, and the evolution of mast seeding. American Naturalist, 160, 44-59.

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.

Sessions, L. A. & Kelly, D. (2002). Predator-mediated apparent competition between an introduced grass (Agrostis capillaris) and a native fern Botrychium australe (Ophioglossaceae) in New Zealand. Oikos, 96, 102-109.

Turnbull, M. H., Howell, C. J., Christian, R. & Kelly, D. (2002). Photoinhibition, acclimation, and New Zealand's divaricate plants: A reply to Lusk. Functional Ecology, 16, 858-869.

Kelly, D., Hart, D. E. & Allen, R. B. (2001). Evaluating the wind-pollination benefits of mast seeding. Ecology, 82, 117-126.

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.

Montgomery, B. R., Kelly, D. & Ladley, J. J. (2001). Pollinator limitation of seed set in Fuchsia perscandens (Onagraceae) on Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 29, 559-565.

Murphy, D. J. & Kelly, D. (2001). Scarce or distracted? Bellbird (Anthornis melanura) foraging and diet in an area of inadequate mistletoe pollination. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 25, 69-81.

Sessions, L. A. & Kelly, D. (2001). Heterogeneity in vertebrate and invertebrate herbivory and its consequences for New Zealand mistletoes. Austral Ecology, 26, 571-581.

Sessions, L. A. & Kelly, D. (2001). Methods for monitoring herbivory and plant growth on New Zealand mistletoes (Loranthaceae). New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 25, 19-26.

Sessions, L. A., Rance, C., Grant, A. & Kelly, D. (2001). Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) control benefits native beech mistletoes (Loranthaceae). New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 25, 27-33.

Jesson, L. K., Kelly, D. & Sparrow, A. D. (2000). The importance of dispersal, disturbance and competition for exotic plant invasions in Arthurs Pass National Park, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 38, 451-468.

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.

Sessions, L. A. & Kelly, D. (2000). The effects of browntop (Agrostis capillaris) dominance after fire on native shrub germination and survival. New Zealand Natural Sciences, 25, 1-9.

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.

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.

Robertson, A. W., Kelly, D., Ladley, J. J. & Sparrow, A. D. (1999). Effects of pollinator loss on endemic New Zealand mistletoes (Loranthaceae). Conservation Biology, 13, 499-508.

Baars, R., Kelly, D. & Sparrow, A. D. (1998). Liane distribution within native forest remnants in two regions of the South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 22, 71-85.

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.

Shea, K. & Kelly, D. (1998). Estimating biocontrol agent impact with matrix models: Carduus nutans in New Zealand. Ecological Applications, 8, 824-832.

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, 635-641.

Refereed conference proceedings

Anderson, S. H., Kelly, D., Robertson, A. W., Ladley, J. J. & Innes, J. G. (2004). Birds as pollinators and dispersers: a case study from New Zealand. Acta XXIII Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52(Supplement): 112-115.

Other

Kelly, D., Robertson, A. W., Ladley, J. J., Anderson, S. H. & McKenzie, R. J. (2004). Is inter-dependence of native fauna and flora an issue for future survival of native plants? Canterbury Botanical Society Journal, in press.

Sparrow, A. D. & Kelly, D. (2000). Thar density and vegetation condition. Conservation Advisory Science Notes No.281, Department of Conservation, Wellington.

Kelly, D. (1998). Mast seeding and Lyme disease. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 506. (letter)

Kelly, D. (1998). Native bees with new tricks. New Zealand Science Monthly, 9, 11.

Kelly, D. (1998). Spatial clumping of Tupeia antarctica at Wainui. Canterbury Botanical Society Journal, 32, 62-65.