PUBLICATIONS

Articles can also be viewed on Google Scholar, and data and code are available on Github.

 

Peer-reviewed

​Preprints​

• Leiva F. P., Barneche D., Blackburn T., Castañeda L., Chown S., Gaitán-Espitia J. D., Gebauer P., Gomez Isaza D. F., Hardy I. C. W., Hermaniuk A., Hirst A., Jorissen S., Keasar T., Koene J., Le Lann C., Molinet C., Niklitschek E. J., Oliveira B., Orizaola G., Pilakouta N., Shameer K. S., Shokri M., Stoks R., Tougeron K., Tuni C., van de Pol I. L. E., van Dis N. E., Visser B., Vogels J., White C. R., Wu N. C., Berg M. P., Ellers J., Verberk W. C. E. P. (2023) ShareTrait: a data portal for making trait data interoperable and reusable. Zenodo, [Link].

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• Kong J. D., & Wu N. C. (2023) Can we improve our ability to interpret ectotherm thermal tolerance? bioRxiv, [Link]

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2025​​

• Pottier P., Kearney M. R., Wu N C., Gunderson A. R., Rej J. E., Rivera-Villanueva A. N., Pollo, P., Burke S., Drobniak S. M., & Nakagawa S. (Accepted) Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming., [Link]

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• Wu N. C., Fuh N. T., Borzée A., Wu C. S., Kam Y. C., & Chuang M. F. (2025) Developmental plasticity to pond drying has carry-over costs in metamorph performance. Conservation Physiology, 13, coaf008 [Link]

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• Noble D. W. A, Xirocostas Z. A., Wu N. C., … Nakagawa S. & Lagisz M. (2025) The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292, 20241487 [Link]​​​​​

 

2024​​

• Wu N. C., Bovo, R. P., Enriquez-Urzelai U., Clusella-Trullas S., Kearney, M. R., Navas C. A., & Kong J. D. (2024) Global exposure risk of frogs to increasing environmental dryness. Nature Climate Change, 14, 1314–1322 [Link] [The Wildlife Society] [EurekaAlert!] [CNN Brazil] [Yahoo! News] [Cosmos] [Earth]

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• Wu N. C., Welbergen J. A., Villada-Cadavid T., Lumsden L. F., & Turbill C. (2024) Vulnerability of Southern Hemisphere bats to white-nose syndrome based on global analysis of fungal host specificity and cave temperatures. Conservation Biology, e14390 [Link]

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• Wu N. C., Alton L. A., Bovo R. P., Carey N., Currie S. E., Lighton J. B., McKechnie A. E., Pottier P., Rossi G., White C. R., Levesque D. (2024) Reporting guidelines for terrestrial respirometry: Building openness, transparency of metabolic and evaporative water loss data. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, 296, 111688 [Link]

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• Pottier P., Noble D. W. A., Seebacher F., Wu N. C., Burke S., Lagisz M., Schwanz L. E., Drobniak S. M., & Nakagawa S. (2024) New horizons for comparative studies and meta-analyses. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39, 435-445 [Link]

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2023​​

• Downie A. T., Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., & Franklin C. E. (2023) Sub-lethal consequences of ultraviolet radiation exposure on vertebrates: synthesis through meta-analysis. Global Change Biology, 29, 6620-6634 [Link]

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• Deme G. G., Wu N. C., Hao X., & Sun B. (2023)  Environmental seasonality and latitude drive clutch size diversity in female lizards across populations. Ecological Indicator, 154, 110490 [Link]

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• Wu N. C. (2023) Pathogen load predicts host functional disruption: A meta-analysis of an amphibian fungal panzootic. Functional Ecology, 37, 900-914 [Link] [BES]

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• Cheng C. T., Chuang M. F., Haramura T., Cheng C. B., Kim Y. I., Borzée A., Wu C. S., Chen Y. H., Jang Y., Wu N. C.*, & Kam Y. C. (2023) Open habitats increase vulnerability of amphibian tadpoles to climate warming. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 83-94. *Senior author. [Link]

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2022

• Wu N. C., Rusli M. U., Broderick A. C., & Barneche D. R. (2022) Scaling of sea turtle reproduction may reconcile theory and conservation strategies at the global scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 1277-1289 [Link] [UWA press] [The Epoch Times] [The Star]

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• Yu X., Wu N. C., Ge L., Li L., Zhang Z., & Lei J. (2022) Artificial shelters provide suitable thermal habitat for a cold-blooded animal. Scientific Report, 12, 5879 [Link]

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• Wu N. C., & Seebacher F. (2022) Physiology can predict animal activity, exploration, and dispersal. Communications Biology, 5, 109 [Link] [Nature Portfolio]

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• Schwanz L. E., Gunderson, A., Iglesias-Carrasco M., Johnson M. A., Kong J. D., Riley J., & Wu N. C. (2022) Best practices for building and curating databases for comparative analyses. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225, jeb243295 [Link]

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• Wu N. C., Rubin A. M., & Seebacher F. (2022) Endocrine disruption from plastic pollution and warming interact to increase the energetic cost of growth in a fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289, 20212077 [Link] [The Guardian]

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2021​

• Lei J., Yusof N. S. B., Wu N. C., Zhang Z., & Booth D. T. (2021) The burrowing ecology of a tropical lizard (Leiolepis belliana). Herpetologica, 77, 37–44 [Link]

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• Wu N. C., & Seebacher F. (2021) Bisphenols alter thermal plasticity and performance in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Conservation Physiology, 9, coaa138 [Link] [Outside JEB]

 

2020​

• Wu N. C., & Seebacher F. (2020) Effect of the plastic pollutant bisphenol A on the biology of aquatic organisms: A meta-analysis. Global Change Biology, 26, 3821-3833 [Link] 

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• Grosell M., Heuer R. M., Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., Wang Y., Mager E. M., Dwyer R. G., & Franklin C. E. (2020) Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223, jeb210732 [Link] 

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2019

• Wu N. C., McKercher C., Cramp R. L., & Franklin C. E. (2019) Mechanistic basis for the loss of water balance in green tree frogs infected with a fungal pathogen. American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 317, R301-R311 [Link] [Outside JEB]

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• Ohmer M. E. B., Cramp R. L., White C. R., Harlow P. S., McFadden M. S., Merino-Viteri A., Pessier A. P., Wu N. C., Bishop P. J., & Franklin C. E. (2019) Phylogenetic investigation of skin sloughing rates in frogs: relationships with skin characteristics and disease-driven declines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286, 20182378 [Link] [Envirobites]

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• Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., Ohmer M. E. B., & Franklin C. E. (2019) Epidermal epidemic: unravelling the pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222, jeb191817 [Link] [UQ News]

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• Gauberg J., Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., Kelly S. P., & Franklin C. E. (2019) A lethal fungal pathogen directly alters tight junction proteins in the skin of a susceptible amphibian. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222, jeb192245 [Link] [YFile]

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2018

• Clemente C. J., & Wu N. C. (2018) Body and tail-assisted pitch control facilitates bipedal locomotion in Australian agamid lizards. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 15, 20180276 [Link] [UQ News][Science Daily​] [My Sunshine Coast​] [Cosmos] [EurekAlert] [TechXplore] [ABC]

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• Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., & Franklin C. E. (2018) Body size influences energetic and osmoregulatory costs in frogs infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Scientific Reports, 8, 3739 [Link]

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2017

• Shu G., Gong Y., Xie F., Wu N. C., & Li C. (2017). Effects of long-term preservation on amphibian body conditions: implication on historical morphological research. PeerJ, 5, e3805 [Link]

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• Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., & Franklin C. E. (2017). Living with a leaky skin: upregulation of ion transport proteins during sloughing. Journal of Experimental Biology, 22, 2026-2035 [Link] [Inside JEB] [Brisbane Times] [EurekAlert!] [Phys.org] [Scimex]

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• Wu N. C., & Waas J. R. (2017). No evidence for across-population scent discrimination of cloacal gland secretions in tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). Journal of Herpetology, 51, 178-185 [Link]

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2013 – 2016

• Rusli M. U., Wu N. C., & Booth D. T. (2016). Tonic immobility in newly emerged sea turtle hatchlings. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 15, 143-147 [Link] [New Scientist]

 

• Wu N. C.,  Alton L. A., Clemente C. J., Kearney M. R., & White C. R. (2015). Morphology and burrowing energetics of semi-fossorial skinks (Liopholis spp.). Journal of Experimental Biology, 218, 2416-2426 [Link]

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• Wu N. C., Górski K., & Daniel A. J. (2013). Abundance of larval native and non-native fishes in floodplain habitats of the lower Waikato River, New Zealand. Inland Waters, 3, 359-368 [Link] 

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Books/Consultation reports/Magazine articles/Thesis

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• Valckenborgh F., & Wu N. C. (2020). Recent reptile surveys in the Sydney Olympic Park. In P. Figgis (Ed.), 20 years of healing: Delivering the ecological legacy of the Green Games, pp 214–223 [Link]

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• Wu N. C. (2019). The role of sloughing of the pathophysiology of chytridiomycosis in amphibians. The University of Queensland. [PhD thesis] [Link]

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• Wu N. C. (2017). Microsurgery training course. Society for Experimental Biology Magazine. [Link]

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• Wu N., Daniel A., & Tempero G. (2013). Fish biomass and gonad development in the Rotopiko (Serpentine) lakes. Client report prepared for Department of Conservation. Environmental Research Institute Report No. 20, The University of Waikato, Hamilton. 27 pp [PDF]

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