Ricky Spencer, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 

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2020 Santori C, Spencer RJ, Thompson MB, Whittington CM, Burd TH, Currie SB, Finter TJ, Van Dyke JU. Scavenging by threatened turtles regulates freshwater ecosystem health during fish kills. Scientific Reports. 10: 14383. PMID 32943647 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-020-71544-3  0.735
2020 Stanford CB, Iverson JB, Rhodin AGJ, Paul van Dijk P, Mittermeier RA, Kuchling G, Berry KH, Bertolero A, Bjorndal KA, Blanck TEG, Buhlmann KA, Burke RL, Congdon JD, Diagne T, Edwards T, ... ... Spencer R, et al. Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble. Current Biology : Cb. 30: R721-R735. PMID 32574638 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2020.04.088  0.72
2020 Petrov K, Spencer RJ, Malkiewicz N, Lewis J, Keitel C, Van Dyke JU. Prey-switching does not protect a generalist turtle from bioenergetic consequences when its preferred food is scarce. Bmc Ecology. 20: 11. PMID 32070322 DOI: 10.1186/S12898-020-00279-6  0.637
2020 Santori C, Thompson MB, Van Dyke JU, Whittington CM, Spencer R. Smartphone citizen science for turtles: identifying motives, usage patterns and reasons why citizens stop participating Australian Zoologist. 40: 438-448. DOI: 10.7882/Az.2020.006  0.609
2018 McGlashan JK, Thompson MB, Janzen FJ, Spencer RJ. Environmentally induced phenotypic plasticity explains hatching synchrony in the freshwater turtle Chrysemys picta. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part a, Ecological and Integrative Physiology. PMID 30192440 DOI: 10.1002/Jez.2217  0.677
2018 Santori C, Spencer R, Van Dyke JU, Thompson MB. Road mortality of the eastern long-necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis) along the Murray River, Australia: an assessment using citizen science Australian Journal of Zoology. 66: 41. DOI: 10.1071/Zo17065  0.473
2018 Petrov K, Stricker H, Van Dyke JU, Stockfeld G, West P, Spencer R. Nesting habitat of the broad-shelled turtle (Chelodina expansa) Australian Journal of Zoology. 66: 4. DOI: 10.1071/ZO17061  0.309
2017 Spencer RJ, Van Dyke JU, Thompson MB. Critically evaluating best management practices for preventing freshwater turtle extinctions. Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society For Conservation Biology. PMID 28319283 DOI: 10.1111/Cobi.12930  0.565
2017 McGlashan JK, Thompson MB, Van Dyke JU, Spencer RJ. Thyroid Hormones Reduce Incubation Period without Developmental or Metabolic Costs in Murray River Short-Necked Turtles (Emydura macquarii). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology : Pbz. 90: 34-46. PMID 28051941 DOI: 10.1086/689744  0.695
2016 Spencer RJ, Van Dyke JU, Thompson MB. The ethological trap: functional and numerical responses of highly efficient invasive predators driving prey extinctions. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. 26: 1969-1983. PMID 27755718 DOI: 10.1002/Eap.1375  0.728
2015 McGlashan JK, Loudon FK, Thompson MB, Spencer RJ. Hatching behavior of eastern long-necked turtles (Chelodina longicollis): The influence of asynchronous environments on embryonic heart rate and phenotype. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part a, Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 188: 58-64. PMID 26119599 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cbpa.2015.06.018  0.536
2015 Old JM, Spencer R, Wolfenden J. Corrigendum to: The Common Myna (Sturnus tristis) in urban, rural and semi-rural areas in Greater Sydney and its surrounds Emu. 115: 287-287. DOI: 10.1071/Mu13029_Co  0.343
2015 McGlashan JK, Loudon FK, Thompson MB, Spencer RJ. Hatching behavior of eastern long-necked turtles (Chelodina longicollis): The influence of asynchronous environments on embryonic heart rate and phenotype Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part a : Molecular and Integrative Physiology. 188: 58-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.06.018  0.427
2014 Spencer RJ, Janzen FJ. A novel hypothesis for the adaptive maintenance of environmental sex determination in a turtle. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20140831. PMID 25009063 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.0831  0.603
2014 Old JM, Spencer RJ, Wolfenden J. The Common Myna (Sturnus tristis) in urban, rural and semi-rural areas in Greater Sydney and its surrounds Emu. 114: 241-248. DOI: 10.1071/Mu13029  0.343
2014 Spencer RJ, Georges A, Lim D, Welsh M, Reid AM. The risk of inter-specific competition in Australian short-necked turtles Ecological Research. 29: 767-777. DOI: 10.1007/S11284-014-1169-7  0.39
2013 Loudon FK, Spencer RJ, Strassmeyer A, Harland K. Metabolic circadian rhythms in embryonic turtles. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53: 175-82. PMID 23652198 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Ict040  0.362
2013 Blamires SJ, Spencer RJ. Influence of habitat and predation on population dynamics of the freshwater turtle Myuchelys georgesi Herpetologica. 69: 46-57. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-12-00014  0.432
2012 McGlashan JK, Spencer RJ, Old JM. Embryonic communication in the nest: metabolic responses of reptilian embryos to developmental rates of siblings. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 279: 1709-15. PMID 22130606 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2011.2074  0.411
2011 Spencer RJ, Janzen FJ. Hatching behavior in turtles. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51: 100-10. PMID 21659391 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icr045  0.601
2011 Georges A, Spencer RJ, Welsh M, Shaffer HB, Walsh R, Zhang X. Application of the precautionary principle to taxa of uncertain status: The case of the Bellinger River turtle Endangered Species Research. 14: 127-134. DOI: 10.3354/Esr00350  0.599
2011 Pascoe JH, Mulley RC, Spencer R, Chapple R. Diet analysis of mammals, raptors and reptiles in a complex predator assemblage in the Blue Mountains, eastern Australia Australian Journal of Zoology. 59: 295-301. DOI: 10.1071/Zo11082  0.33
2010 Schwanz LE, Spencer RJ, Bowden RM, Janzen FJ. Climate and predation dominate juvenile and adult recruitment in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. Ecology. 91: 3016-26. PMID 21058561 DOI: 10.1890/09-1149.1  0.76
2010 Colbert PL, Spencer RJ, Janzen FJ. Mechanism and cost of synchronous hatching Functional Ecology. 24: 112-121. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2435.2009.01602.X  0.767
2010 Spencer RJ, Janzen FJ. Demographic consequences of adaptive growth and the ramifications for conservation of long-lived organisms Biological Conservation. 143: 1951-1959. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2010.04.034  0.613
2009 Schwanz LE, Bowden RM, Spencer RJ, Janzen FJ. Nesting ecology and offspring recruitment in a long-lived turtle: Ecological Archives E090-119 Ecology. 90: 1709. DOI: 10.1890/08-1676.1  0.768
2006 Spencer RJ, Janzen FJ, Thompson MB. Counterintuitive density-dependent growth in a long-lived vertebrate after removal of nest predators. Ecology. 87: 3109-18. PMID 17249235 DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[3109:Cdgial]2.0.Co;2  0.678
2006 Spencer RJ, Baxter GS. Effects of fire on the structure and composition of open eucalypt forests Austral Ecology. 31: 638-646. DOI: 10.1111/J.1442-9993.2006.01616.X  0.333
2005 Fuller SJ, Bull CM, Murray K, Spencer RJ. Clustering of related individuals in a population of the Australian lizard, Egernia frerei Molecular Ecology. 14: 1207-1213. PMID 15773947 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2005.02478.X  0.376
2005 Spencer RJ, Thompson MB. Experimental analysis of the impact of foxes on freshwater turtle populations Conservation Biology. 19: 845-854. DOI: 10.1111/J.1523-1739.2005.00487.X  0.541
2005 Blamires SJ, Spencer RJ, King P, Thompson MB. Population parameters and life-table analysis of two coexisting freshwater turtles: Are the Bellinger River turtle populations threatened? Wildlife Research. 32: 339-347. DOI: 10.1071/Wr04083  0.535
2005 Bowen KD, Spencer RJ, Janzen FJ. A comparative study of environmental factors that affect nesting in Australian and North American freshwater turtles Journal of Zoology. 267: 397-404. DOI: 10.1017/S0952836905007533  0.604
2003 Spencer RJ, Thompson MB. The significance of predation in nest site selection of turtles: An experimental consideration of macro- and microhabitat preferences Oikos. 102: 592-600. DOI: 10.1034/J.1600-0706.2003.12436.X  0.573
2002 Spencer RJ. Experimentally testing nest site selection: Fitness trade-offs and predation risk in turtles Ecology. 83: 2136-2144. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2136:Etnssf]2.0.Co;2  0.409
2001 Spencer R, Thompson MB, Banks PB. Hatch or wait? A dilemma in reptilian incubation Oikos. 93: 401-406. DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.930305.x  0.43
2001 Spencer RJ, Thompson MB, Banks PB. Hatch or wait? A dilemma in reptilian incubation Oikos. 93: 401-406. DOI: 10.1034/J.1600-0706.2001.930305.X  0.554
1998 Spencer RJ, Thompson MB, Hume ID. The diet and digestive energetics of an Australian short-necked turtle, Emydura macquarii. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part a, Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 121: 341-9. PMID 10048187 DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10132-0  0.501
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