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Pre-prints
Arnold, P.A., Harris, R.J., Aitken, S.M., Hoek, M.M., Cook, A.M., Leigh, A., Nicotra, A.B. (2026) Towards a standard approach to investigating the Thermal Load Sensitivity of photosystem II via chlorophyll fluorescence. bioRxiv pre-print. 10.64898/2026.04.09.717599
King, J.L., Arnold, P.A., Brown, Z.A., Reich, P.B., Scherer, O., Venn, S.E., Nicotra, A.B. (2025) Interactive effects between drought and warming in field manipulative experiments across grasslands globally: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EcoEvoRxiv pre-print.
10.32942/X2J65J
Ellis Soto, D., Noble, D.W.A., Arnold, P.A., Pottier, P., Robey, A.J., Prokopenko, C., Cohen, J. (2026) Extreme heat as the new normal: A methological roadmap for behavior, physiology, and species distributions. bioRxiv pre-print. 10.64898/2026.02.25.707770
Pottinger, C., Arnold, P.A., Bird, M., Danzey, L.M., Geange, S.R., Herdean, A., Nicotra, A.B., Leigh, A. (2025) Machine learning reveals the effect of leaf temperature extremes on shifts in plant photosystem heat tolerance thresholds. EcoEvoRxiv pre-print. 10.32942/X2N36T
Alagarasan, G., Arnold, P.A., Ramireddy, E. (2024). High plasticity increases phenotype-environment mismatch leading to sub-optimal performance in underutilized crop species. bioRxiv pre-print. 10.1101/2024.11.14.623330
Mu, X., Notarnicola, R.F., Arnold, P.A., Pollo, P., Cornwall, W.K. (2025) Systematic review of heatwave experiments on plant health and survival. EcoEvoRxiv pre-print. 10.32942/X2Q93C.
Notarnicola, R.F., Arnold, P.A., Feng, Z-P., Hamilton, J., Jones, A., Loke, S., Nicotra, A.B., Schwessinger, B., Ganguly, D.R. (2023) Molecular signatures of heat tolerance and sensitivity in the alpine plant Wahlenbergia ceracea during moderate warming. bioRxiv preprint
10.1101/2023.09.27.559694.
Hanley, T.C., Arnold, P.A., Brown, Z.A., Leigh, A., Venn, S.E., Nicotra, A.B. (2026) Acclimation and de-acclimation of photosystem heat tolerance of alpine plants in response to multiday heat exposure in the field. Journal of Vegetation Science. 37, e70109. 10.1111/jvs.70109. [pdf]
Farkas, K. Brown, Z.A., King, J.L., Nicotra, A.B., Head, M.L., Arnold, P.A. (2026) Combined heat and drought affect the abundance, composition and diversity of subalpine surface-active soil arthropod communities. Ecological Entomology. 10.1111/een.70015. [pdf]
2026
Arnold, P.A., Walker, T.J., Wishart, E.V., Guja, L.K. (2026) Evaluating the vulnerability of critical early life stages in plants during heat extremes. Conservation Physiology. 10.1093/conphys/coag015
2025
Briceño, V.F.*, Arnold, P.A.*, Cook, A.M., Courtney Jones, S.K., Gallagher, R.V., French, K., Bravo, L.A., Nicotra, A.B., Leigh, A. (2025) Drivers of thermal tolerance breadth of plants across contrasting biomes. Journal of Ecology. 10.1111/1365-2745.70198. [pdf]
Harris, R. J., Bryant, C., Arnold, P.A., Scafaro, A.P., Leigh, A., Coleman, M.A., Nicotra, A.B. (2025) Seasonal response of respiration and thermal tolerance of PSII to sea surface temperature variation in two foundation seaweed species. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 10.1016/j.jembe.2025.152129. [pdf]
Arnold, P.A., Brown, F.M., Brown, Z.A., Aitken, S.M., Danzey, L.M., Hanley, T.C., King, J.L., Mu, X., Osmolovsky, I., Sumner, E.E., Williamson, V.G., Xirocostas, Z.A., Leigh, A., Moles, A.T., Venn, S.E., Nicotra, A.B. (2025) Effective heating chamber design to simulate acute heatwaves and night-time warming for ecological communities under natural field conditions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10.1111/2041-210x.70114. [pdf]
Arnold, P.A., Noble, D.W.A., Nicotra, A.B., Kearney, M.R., Rezende, E.L., Andrew, S.C., Briceño, V.F., Buckley, L.B., Christian, K.A., Clusella-Trullas, S., Geange, S.R., Guja, L.K., Jiménez Robles, O., Kefford, B.J., Kellermann, V., Leigh, A., Marchin, R.M., Mokany, K. & Bennett, J.M. (2025) A framework for modelling thermal load sensitivity across life. Global Change Biology.
10.1111/gcb.70315. [pdf]
Arnold, P.A., White, M.J., Cook, A.M., Leigh, A., Briceño, V.F., Nicotra, A.B. (2025). Plants originating from more extreme biomes have improved leaf thermoregulation. Annals of Botany. 10.1093/aob/mcaf080. [pdf]
2024
Andrew, S.C., Simonsen, A.K., Coppin, C.W., Arnold, P.A., Briceño, V.F., McLay, T.G.B., Jackson, C.J., Gallagher, R.V., Mokany, K. (2024). Expression-environment associations in transcriptomic heat stress responses for a global plant lineage. Molecular Ecology. 10.1111/mec.17473. [pdf]
Arnold, P.A., Wang, S., Notarnicola, R.F., Nicotra, A.B., Kruuk, L.E.B. (2024). Testing the evolutionary potential of an alpine plant: Phenotypic plasticity in response to growth temperature far outweighs parental environmental effects and other genetic causes of variation. Journal of Experimental Botany. 10.1093/jxb/erae290. [pdf]
Alton, L.A., Kutz, T., Bywater, C.L., Lombardi, E., Cockerell, F.E., Layh, S., Winwood-Smith, H., Arnold, P.A., Beaman, J.E., Walter, G.M., Monro, K., Mirth, C.K., Sgrò, C.M., White, C.R. (2024) Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 10.1098/rstb.2022.0484. [pdf]
2023
Alton, L.A., Novelo, M., Beaman, J.E., Arnold, P.A., Bywater, C.L., Kerton, E.J., Lombardi, E.J., Koh, C., McGraw, E.A. (2023) Exposure to ultraviolet-B radiation increases the susceptibility of mosquitoes to infection with dengue virus. Global Change Biology. 10.1111/gcb.16906. [pdf]
Valdés, A., Arnold, P.A., Ehrlén, J. (2023) Spring temperature drives phenotypic selection on plasticity of flowering time. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 10.1098/rspb.2023.0670. [pdf]
Harris, R.J., Bryant, C., Coleman, M.A., Leigh, A., Briceño, V.F., Arnold, P.A., Nicotra, A.B. (2023) A novel and high throughput approach to assess photosynthetic thermal tolerance of kelp using chlorophyll α fluorometry. Journal of Phycology. 59, 179-192. 10.1111/jpy.13296. [pdf]
Arnold, P.A., Cassey, P., White, C.R. (2023) Morphological shifts in response to spatial sorting on dispersal behaviour in red flour beetles across multiple generations. Journal of Zoology. 320, 131-142. 10.1111/jzo.13062. [pdf]
Notarnicola, R.F., Kruuk, L.E.B., Nicotra, A.B., Arnold, P.A. (2023) Effects of warming temperatures on germination responses and trade-offs between seed traits in an alpine plant. Journal of Ecology. 111, 62-76. 10.1111/1365-2745.14014. [pdf]
Andrew, S.C.*, Arnold, P.A.*, Simonsen, A.K., Briceño, V.F. (2023) Consistently high heat tolerance acclimation in response to a simulated heatwave across species from the broadly distributed Acacia genus. Functional Plant Biology. 50, 71-83. 10.1071/FP22173. [pdf]
2022
Arnold, P.A., Wang, S., Catling, A.A., Kruuk, L.E.B., Nicotra, A.B. (2022) Patterns of phenotypic plasticity along a thermal gradient differ by trait type in an alpine plant. Functional Ecology. 36, 2412-2428. 10.1111/1365-2435.14128. [pdf]
Rixen, C., Høye, T.T., Macek, P., Aerts, R., Alatalo, J., Anderson, J.T., Arnold, P.A., Barrio, I.C., Bjerke, J.W., Björkman, M.P., Blok, D., Blume-Werry, G., Boike, J., Bokhorst, S., Carbognani, M., Christiansen, C.T., Convey, P., Cooper, E.J., Cornelissen, H.C., Coulson, S.J., Dorrepaal, E., Elberling, B., Elmendorf, S.C., Elphinstone, C., Forte, T.G.W., Frei, E.R., Geange, S.R., Gehrmann, F., Gibson, C., Grogan, P. Halbritter, A.H., Harte, J., Henry, G.H.R., Inouye, D.W., Irwin, R.E., Jespersen, G., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Jung, J.Y., Klinges, D., Kudo, G., Lämsä, J., Lee, H., Lembrechts, J.J., Lett, S., Lynn, J.S., Mastepanov, M., Morse, J., Myers-Smith, I.H., Olofsson, J., Paavola, R., Petraglia, A., Phoenix, G.K., Rosenstand Mann, H.M., Semenchuk, P., Siewert, M.B., Slatyer, R.A., Spasojevic, M., Suding, K., Sullivan, P., Thompson, K.L., Väisänen, M., Vandvik, V., Venn, S., Walz, J., Way, R., Welker, J.M., Wipf, S., Zong, S. (2022) Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems. Arctic Science. 10.1139/AS-2020-0058. [pdf]
Wang, S., Feng, W-W., Huang, K., Liu, M-C., Arnold, P.A., Nicotra, A.B., Feng, Y-L. (2022) Inherent conflicts between reaction norm slope and plasticity indices when comparing plasticity: a theoretical and empirical test. Oecologia. 198, 593-603. 10.1007/s00442-022-05122-x. [pdf]
Wang, S., Chen, J-X., Liu, M-C., Arnold, P.A., Wang, W-B., Feng, Y-L. (2022) Phenotypic plasticity and exotic plant invasions: effects of soil nutrients, species nutrient requirements and types of traits. Physiologia Plantarum. e13637. 10.1111/ppl.13637. [pdf]
Hennessy, E.A., Acabchuk, R.L., Arnold, P.A., Dunn, A.G., Foo, Y.Z., Johnson, B.T., Geange, S.R., Haddaway, N.R., Nakagawa, S., Mapanga, W., Mengersen, K., Page, M.J., Sánchez-Tójar, A., Welch, V., & McGuinness, L.A. (2021) Ensuring prevention science research is synthesis-ready for immediate and lasting scientific impact. Prevention Science. 10.1007/s11121-021-01279-8. [pdf]
2021
Arnold, P.A., Delean, S., Cassey, P. & White, C.R. (2021) Meta-analysis reveals that metabolic rate is not consistently related to fitness in animals. Journal of Comparative Physiology B.
10.1007/s00360-021-01358-w. [pdf]
Slatyer, R.A., Umbers, K.D.L. & Arnold, P.A. (2021) Ecological responses to variation in seasonal snow cover. Conservation Biology. 10.1111/cobi.13727. [pdf]
Geange, S.R.*, Arnold, P.A.*, Catling, A.A., Coast, O., Cook, A.M., Gowland, K.M., Leigh, A., Notarnicola, R.F., Posch, B.C., Venn, S.E., Zhu, L. & Nicotra, A.B. (2021) The thermal tolerance of photosynthetic tissues: a global systematic review and agenda for future research.
New Phytologist. 229, 2497-2513. *co-first-authorship. [pdf]
2020
Nakagawa, S., Dunn, A.G., Lagisz, M., Bannach-Brown, A., Grames, E.M., Sánchez-Tójar, A., O’Dea, R.E., Noble, D.W.A., Westgate, M.J., Arnold, P.A., Barrow, S., Bethel, A., Cooper, E.,
Foo, Y.Z., Geange, S.R., Hennessy, E., Mapanga, W., Mengersen, K., Munera, C., Page, M.J., Welch, V., Evidence Synthesis Hackathon 2019 Participants, & Haddaway, N.R. (2020) A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 4, 498-501. [pdf]
2019
White, C.R., Marshall, D.J., Alton, L.A., Arnold, P.A., Beaman, J.E., Bywater, C.L., Condon, C., Crispin, T.S., Janetski, A., Pirtle, E., Winwood-Smith, H.S., Angilletta, M.J., Chenoweth, S.F., Franklin, C.E., Halsey, L.G., Kearney, M.R., Portugal, S.J., Ortiz-Barrientos, D. (2019) The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3: 598-603. [pdf]
Arnold, P.A., Kruuk, L.E.B., Nicotra, A.B. (2019) How to analyse plant phenotypic plasticity in response to a changing climate. New Phytologist. 222: 1235-1241. [pdf]
Pre-2019
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