Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia

P Veth, I Ward, T Manne, S Ulm, K Ditchfield… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Archaeological deposits from Boodie Cave on Barrow Island, northwest Australia,
reveal some of the oldest evidence for Aboriginal occupation of Australia, as well as …

Sea-level change and demography during the last glacial termination and early Holocene across the Australian continent

AN Williams, S Ulm, T Sapienza, S Lewis… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Future changes in sea-level are projected to have significant environmental and social
impacts, but we have limited understanding of comparable rates of change in the past. Using …

Extensive polyploid clonality was a successful strategy for seagrass to expand into a newly submerged environment

JM Edgeloe, AA Severn-Ellis… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Polyploidy has the potential to allow organisms to outcompete their diploid progenitor (s)
and occupy new environments. Shark Bay, Western Australia, is a World Heritage Area …

Depositional and sea-level history from MIS 6 (Termination II) to MIS 3 on the southern continental shelf of South Africa

HC Cawthra, Z Jacobs, JS Compton, EC Fisher… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pleistocene shoreline deposits comprised of calcified shallow marine (palaeobeach) and
aeolian (palaeodune) facies found along mid-latitude coastlines can be useful indicators of …

[HTML][HTML] Morphology and distribution of submerged palaeoshorelines: Insights from the North West Shelf of Australia

U Lebrec, R Riera, V Paumard, MJ O'Leary… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Palaeoshorelines and associated palaeo-coastal features are studied to reconstruct past
sea level, climate, and depositional environments. Their identification typically depends on …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a regional high-resolution bathymetry of the North West Shelf of Australia based on Sentinel-2 satellite images, 3D seismic surveys, and historical …

U Lebrec, V Paumard, MJ O'Leary… - Earth System Science …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
High-resolution bathymetry forms critical datasets for marine geoscientists. It can be used to
characterize the seafloor and its marine habitats, to understand past sedimentary records …

Palaeogeography and voyage modeling indicates early human colonization of Australia was likely from Timor-Roti

MI Bird, RJ Beaman, SA Condie, A Cooper… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Anatomically Modern Humans (AMHs) dispersed rapidly through island southeast
Asia (Sunda and Wallacea) and into Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands) …

Framing Australian Pleistocene coastal occupation and archaeology

K Ditchfield, S Ulm, T Manne, H Farr, D O'Grady… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are few archaeological sites that contain records for Pleistocene coastal occupation in
Australia, as is the case globally. Two major viewpoints seek to explain why so few sites …

Climate change threatens unique evolutionary diversity in Australian kelp refugia

MJ Nimbs, T Wernberg, TR Davis, C Champion… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change has driven contemporary decline and loss of kelp forests globally with an
accompanying loss of their ecological and economic values. Kelp populations at …

[HTML][HTML] Geomorphic insights into Australia's coastal change using a national dataset derived from the multi-decadal Landsat archive

R Nanson, R Bishop-Taylor, S Sagar… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Australia has a vast, diverse and dynamic shoreline, and national perspectives on the
mechanisms, magnitude and trajectories of coastal adjustment are required to underpin …