Education
PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2010)
Advisor: Simon Levin
Princeton University

MA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2007)
Advisor: Simon Levin
Princeton University

BSc (Hons.) in Mathematics and Statistics (Hons. in Botany) (2001)
Advisor: Mark Burgman
The University of Melbourne, Australia

BA in German (2001)
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Peer-reviewed publications

Muller-Landau, H. C., M. Detto, R. A. Chisholm and R. Condit (in press). Detecting and predicting global change influences on forest biomass. In Forests and Global Change, British Ecological Society.

Chisholm, R. A. and S. A. Levin. 2012. Linking dispersal and immigration in multi-dimensional environments. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 8:1754-1763 pdf

Chisholm, R. A. and B. A. Wintle. 2012. Choosing ecosystem service investments that are robust to uncertainty in multiple parameters. Ecological Applications 22:697-704 pdf

Chisholm, R. A. 2011. Time-dependent solutions of the spatially implicit neutral model of biodiversity. Theoretical Population Biology 80:71-79 doi pdf

Chisholm, R. A. and H. C. Muller-Landau. 2011. A theoretical model linking interspecific variation in density dependence to species abundances. Theoretical Ecology 4:241-253 pdf

Chisholm, R. A. and S. W. Pacala. 2011. Theory predicts a rapid transition from niche-structured to neutral biodiversity patterns across a speciation-rate gradient. Theoretical Ecology 4:195-200 pdf

Chisholm, R. A. and S. W. Pacala. 2010. Niche and neutral models predict asymptotically equivalent species abundance distributions in high-diversity ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 36:15821-15825 pdf

Chisholm, R. A. 2010. Trade-offs between ecosystem services: water and carbon in a biodiversity hotspot. Ecological Economics 69:1973-1987 pdf

Chisholm, R. A. and R. J. Taylor. 2010. Body size and extinction risk in Australian mammals: an information-theoretic approach. Austral Ecology 35:616-623 pdf

Chisholm, R. A. and J. W. Lichstein. 2009. Linking dispersal, immigration and scale in the neutral theory of biodiversity. Ecology Letters 12:1385-1393 pdf

Chisholm, R. A. and E. Filotas. 2009. Critical slowing down as an indicator of transitions in two-species models. Journal of Theoretical Biology 257:142-149. pdf

Bekessy, S. A., B. A. Wintle, A. Gordon, J. C. Fox, R. Chisholm, B. Brown, T. Regan, N. Mooney, S. M. Read, and M. A. Burgman. 2009. Modelling human impacts on the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax fleayi). Biological Conservation 142:2438-2448

Chisholm, R. A. 2009. The Ecology, Economics and Management of Alien Invasive Species. In S. A. Levin, editor. The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Bekessy, S., B. Wintle, A. Gordon, R. Chisholm, L. Venier, and J. Pearce. 2008. Dynamic Landscape Meta-population Models and Sustainable Forest Management. In J. Millspaugh and F. Thompson, editors. Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes. Elsevier Science, The Netherlands.

Chisholm, R. A., and R. J. Taylor. 2007. Null-hypothesis significance testing and the critical weight range for Australian mammals. Conservation Biology 21:1641–1645. pdf

Chisholm, R. A. 2007. Sampling species abundance distributions: Resolving the veil-line debate. Journal of Theoretical Biology 247:600-607. pdf

Chisholm, R. A., and B. A. Wintle. 2007. Incorporating landscape stochasticity into population viability analysis. Ecological Applications 17:317-322 pdf

Taylor, R. J., and R. A. Chisholm. 2005. The occurrence of hollows in eucalypts and Ironwood (Erythrophleum chlorostachys) in the Gulf region of the Northern Territory and its implications for timber harvesting. Pacific Conservation Biology 11:57-63.

Wintle, B. A., S. A. Bekessy, L. A. Venier, J. L. Pearce, and R. A. Chisholm. 2005. Utility of dynamic landscape metapopulation models for sustainable forest management. Conservation Biology 196:1930-1943.

Chisholm, R. A., and M. A. Burgman. 2004. The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography: comment. Ecology 85:3172–3174. pdf