Selected publications

Adeonipekun, P. A., Adeleye, M. A., Oyebanji, O. O., & Haberle, S. G. (2025). Millennia of climate and human influence on Gashaka-Gumti montane landscape, West Africa: Implications for biodiversity conservation and management. Quaternary International, 730–731, 109775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109775 

Adeleye, M.A., Hopf, F., Haberle, S.G., Stannard, G.L., Mcwethy, D.B., Harris, S. and Bowman, D.M.J.S., 2024. Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago. Science Advances, vol. 10, doi:10.1126/sciadv.adp6579.

Mariani, M., Wills, A., Herbert, A., Adeleye, M., Florin, S.A., Cadd, H., Connor, S., Kershaw, P., Theuerkauf, M., Stevenson, J., Fletcher, M.-.S., Mooney, S., Bowman, D. and Haberle, S., 2024. Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia. Science, vol. 386, issue 6721, p.567-573. doi:10.1126/science.adn8668.

Connor, S.E., Lewis, T., van Leeuwen, J.F.N., van der Knaap, W.O., Schaefer, H., Porch, N., Gomes, A.I., Piva, S.B., Gadd, P., Kuneš, P., Haberle, S.G., Adeleye, M.A., Mariani, M. and Elias, R.B., 2024. Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation, vol. 291, p.110512-. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110512 

Adeleye, M.A., Andrew, S.C., Gallagher, R., van der Kaars, S., de Deckker, P., Hua, Q. and Haberle, S.G., 2023. On the timing of megafaunal extinction and associated floristic consequences in Australia through the lens of functional palaeoecology. Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 316, p.108263-. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108263.

Adeleye, M.A., Haberle, S.G. and Bowman, D.M.J.S., 2023. Long-term stability of temperate Australian wet forest-moorland mosaics despite recurrent fires associated with late Holocene climate change. Landscape Ecology, vol. 38, issue 10, p.2675-2685. doi:10.1007/s10980-023-01738-3.

Adeleye, M.A., Haberle, S.G., Gallagher, R., Andrew, S.C. and Herbert, A., 2023. Changing plant functional diversity over the last 12,000 years provides perspectives for tracking future changes in vegetation communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 7, issue 2, p.224-235. doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01943-4.

Adeleye, M.A., Haberle, S.G., Harris, S., O’Connor, S. and Bowdler, S., 2023. Landscapes created by millennia of cultural land use in the Fleurieu Group of Islands, Tasmania—a knowledge baseline for current and future land management under changing climates. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, vol. ahead-of-print, issue ahead-of-print, p.1-20. doi:10.1080/15564894.2023.2234877.

Adeleye, M.A., Haberle, S.G., Hopf, F., Harris, S. and McWethy, D.B., 2023. Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the Holocene. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 32, issue 4, p.419-427. doi:10.1007/s00334-023-00918-0.

Adeleye, M.A., Haberle, S.G., Ondei, S. and Bowman, D.M.J.S., 2022. Ecosystem transformation following the mid-nineteenth century cessation of Aboriginal fire management in Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Regional Environmental Change, vol. 22, issue 3, p.99-. doi:10.1007/s10113-022-01954-8.

Adeleye, M.A., Haberle, S.G., Harris, S., Connor, S.E. and Stevenson, J., 2021. Assessing Long-Term Ecological Changes in Wetlands of the Bass Strait Islands, Southeast Australia: Palaeoecological Insights and Management Implications. Wetlands, vol. 41, issue 7, p.88-. doi:10.1007/s13157-021-01480-z.