academic article

• Reiter NBohman BBatley MPhillips RD. Pollination of an endangered Caladenia species (Orchidaceae) by nectar-foraging behaviour of a widespread species of colletid bee.  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.  189:83-98. 2019
• Bohman BPhillips RDFlematti GRPeakall R. (Methylthio)phenol semiochemicals are exploited by deceptive orchids as sexual attractants for Campylothynnus thynnine wasps.  Fitoterapia.  126:78-82. 2018
• Phillips RDPeakall R. An experimental evaluation of traits that influence the sexual behaviour of pollinators in sexually deceptive orchids.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology.  31:1732-1742. 2018
• Phillips RDPeakall R. Breaking the rules: discovery of sexual deception in Caladenia abbreviata (Orchidaceae), a species with brightly coloured flowers and a non-insectiform labellum.  Australian Journal of Botany.  66:95-100. 2018
• Krauss SLRoberts DGPhillips RDEdwards C. Effectiveness of camera traps for quantifying daytime and nighttime visitation by vertebrate pollinators.  Ecology and Evolution.  8:9304-9314. 2018
• Scaccabarozzi DCozzolino SGuzzetti LGalimberti AMilne LDixon KWPhillips RD. Masquerading as pea plants: behavioural and morphological evidence for mimicry of multiple models in an Australian orchid..  Annals of Botany.  122:1061-1073. 2018
• Reiter NBohman BFlematti GRPhillips RD. Pollination by nectar-foraging thynnine wasps: Evidence of a new specialized pollination system for Australian orchids.  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.  188:327-337. 2018
• Miller BPSinclair EAMenz MHMElliott CPBunn ECommander LEDalziell EDavid EDavis BErickson TEGolos PJKrauss SLLewandrowski WMayence CEMerino-Martín LMerritt DJNevill PGPhillips RDRitchie ALRuoss SStevens JC. A framework for the practical science necessary to restore sustainable, resilient, and biodiverse ecosystems.  Restoration Ecology.  25:605-617. 2017
• Xu HBohman BWong DCJRodriguez-Delgado CScaffidi AFlematti GRPhillips RDPichersky EPeakall R. Complex Sexual Deception in an Orchid Is Achieved by Co-opting Two Independent Biosynthetic Pathways for Pollinator Attraction.  Current Biology.  27:1867-1877.e5. 2017
• Gaskett ACEndler JAPhillips RD. Convergent evolution of sexual deception via chromatic and achromatic contrast rather than colour mimicry.  Evolutionary Ecology.  31:205-227. 2017
• Phillips RDBrown GRDixon KWHayes CLinde CCPeakall R. Evolutionary relationships among pollinators and repeated pollinator sharing in sexually deceptive orchids.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology.  30:1674-1691. 2017
• Linde CCMay TWPhillips RDRuibal MSmith LMPeakall R. New species of Tulasnella associated with terrestrial orchids in Australia.  IMA Fungus: the global mycological journal.  8:28-48. 2017
• Krauss SLPhillips RDKarron JDJohnson SDRoberts DGHopper SD. Novel Consequences of Bird Pollination for Plant Mating.  Trends in Plant Science.  22:395-410. 2017
• Reiter NVlcek KO’Brien NGibson MPitts DBrown GRBower CCPhillips RD. Pollinator rarity limits reintroduction sites in an endangered sexually deceptive orchid (Caladenia hastata): implications for plants with specialized pollination systems.  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.  184:122-136. 2017
• Bohman BPhillips RDFlematti GRBarrow RAPeakall R. The Spider Orchid Caladenia crebra Produces Sulfurous Pheromone Mimics to Attract its Male Wasp Pollinator.  Angewandte Chemie International Edition.  56:8455-8458. 2017
• Weinstein AMDavis BJMenz MHMDixon KWPhillips RD. Behaviour of sexually deceived ichneumonid wasps and its implications for pollination in Cryptostylis (Orchidaceae).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.  119:283-298. 2016
• Ong JWLPhillips RDDixon KWJones MGKWylie SJ. Characterization of the first two viruses described from wild populations of hammer orchids ( Drakaea spp.) in Australia.  Plant Pathology.  65:163-172. 2016
• Phillips RDBarrett MDDalziell ELDixon KWSwarts ND. Geographical range and host breadth of Sebacina orchid mycorrhizal fungi associating with Caladenia in south-western Australia.  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.  182:140-151. 2016
• Bezemer NKrauss SLPhillips RDRoberts DGHopper SD. Paternity analysis reveals wide pollen dispersal and high multiple paternity in a small isolated population of the bird-pollinated Eucalyptus caesia (Myrtaceae).  Heredity.  117:460-471. 2016
• Ayton STomlinson SPhillips RDDixon KWWithers PC. Phenophysiological variation of a bee that regulates hive humidity, but not hive temperature.  The Journal of Experimental Biology.  219:1552-1562. 2016
• Menz MHMBrown GRDixon KWPhillips RD. Absence of nectar resource partitioning in a community of parasitoid wasps.  Journal of Insect Conservation: an international journal devoted to the conservation of insects and related invertebrates.  19:703-711. 2015
• Davis BJPhillips RDWright MLinde CCDixon KW. Continent-wide distribution in mycorrhizal fungi: implications for the biogeography of specialized orchids.  Annals of Botany.  116:413-421. 2015
• Tomlinson SPhillips RD. Differences in metabolic rate and evaporative water loss associated with sexual dimorphism in thynnine wasps.  Journal of Insect Physiology.  78:62-68. 2015
• Menz MHMPhillips RDAnthony JMBohman BDixon KWPeakall R. Ecological and genetic evidence for cryptic ecotypes in a rare sexually deceptive orchid, Drakaea elastica.  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.  177:124-140. 2015
• Phillips RDBohman BAnthony JMKrauss SLDixon KWPeakall R. Mismatch in the distribution of floral ecotypes and pollinators: insights into the evolution of sexually deceptive orchids.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology.  28:601-612. 2015
• Phillips RDPeakall RRetter BAMontgomery KMenz MHMDavis BJHayes CBrown GRSwarts NDDixon KW. Pollinator rarity as a threat to a plant with a specialized pollination system.  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.  179:511-525. 2015
• Brown GRPhillips RD. A review of the diet of flower wasps (Hymenoptera: Thynnidae: Thynninae).  Northern Territory Naturalist.  25:50-63. 2014
• Phillips RDScaccabarozzi DRetter BAHayes CBrown GRDixon KWPeakall R. Caught in the act: pollination of sexually deceptive trap-flowers by fungus gnats in Pterostylis (Orchidaceae).  Annals of Botany.  113:629-641. 2014
• Phillips RDSteinmeyer FMenz MHMErickson TEDixon KW. Changes in the composition and behaviour of a pollinator guild with plant population size and the consequences for plant fecundity.  Functional Ecology.  28:846-856. 2014
• Linde CCPhillips RDCrisp MDPeakall R. Congruent species delineation of Tulasnella using multiple loci and methods.  New Phytologist.  201:6-12. 2014
• Bohman BPhillips RDMenz MHMBerntsson BWFlematti GRBarrow RADixon KWPeakall R. Discovery of pyrazines as pollinator sex pheromones and orchid semiochemicals: implications for the evolution of sexual deception.  New Phytologist.  203:939-952. 2014
• Phillips RDPeakall RHutchinson MFLinde CCXu TDixon KWHopper SD. Specialized ecological interactions and plant species rarity: The role of pollinators and mycorrhizal fungi across multiple spatial scales.  Biological Conservation.  169:285-295. 2014
• Phillips RDXu THutchinson MFDixon KWPeakall R. Convergent specialization - the sharing of pollinators by sympatric genera of sexually deceptive orchids.  Journal of Ecology.  101:826-835. 2013
• Menz MHMPhillips RDDixon KWPeakall RDidham RK. Mate-Searching Behaviour of Common and Rare Wasps and the Implications for Pollen Movement of the Sexually Deceptive Orchids They Pollinate.  PLoS ONE.  8:1-8. 2013
• Bohman BPhillips RDFlematti GPeakall RBarrow RA. Sharing of Pyrazine Semiochemicals Between Genera of Sexually Deceptive Orchids.  Natural Product Communications: an international journal for communications and reviews.  8:701-702. 2013
• Bohman BJeffares LFlematti GByrne LTSkelton BWPhillips RDDixon KWPeakall RBarrow RA. Discovery of Tetrasubstituted Pyrazines As Semiochemicals in a Sexually Deceptive Orchid.  Journal of Natural Products.  75:1589-1594. 2012
• Phillips RDDixon KWPeakall R. Low population genetic differentiation in the Orchidaceae: implications for the diversification of the family.  Molecular Ecology.  21:5208-5220. 2012
• Tomlinson SPhillips RD. Metabolic rate, evaporative water loss and field activity in response to temperature in an ichneumonid wasp.  Journal of Zoology.  287:81-90. 2012
• Whitehead MRPhillips RDPeakall R. Pollination: The Price of Attraction.  Current Biology.  22:R680-R682. 2012
• Bohman BJeffares LFlematti GPhillips RDDixon KWPeakall RBarrow RA. The Discovery of 2-Hydroxymethyl-3-(3-methylbutyl)-5-methylpyrazine: A Semiochemical in Orchid Pollination.  Organic Letters.  14:2576-2578. 2012
• Phillips RDBarrett MDDixon KWHopper SD. Do mycorrhizal symbioses cause rarity in orchids?.  Journal of Ecology.  99:858-869. 2011
• Phillips RDBrown APDixon KWHopper SD. Orchid biogeography and factors associated with rarity in a biodiversity hotspot, the Southwest Australian Floristic Region.  Journal of Biogeography.  38:487-501. 2011
• Menz MHMPhillips RDWinfree RKremen CAizen MAJohnson SDDixon KW. Reconnecting plants and pollinators: challenges in the restoration of pollination mutualisms.  Trends in Plant Science.  16:4-12. 2011
• Anthony JMPhillips RDSinclair EADixon KW. Characterisation of polymorphic microsatellite markers isolated from Drakaea glyptodon Fitz. (Orchidaceae).  Conservation Genetics Resources.  2:291-294. 2010
• Foster-Smith JDrew EEvans SMPrince JPhillips RD. Optimal and Anti-Predator Foraging in the Sand Bubbler Crab Scopimera inflata (Decapoda: Ocypodidae).  Journal of Crustacean Biology.  30:194-199. 2010
• Phillips RDHopper SDDixon KW. Pollination ecology and the possible impacts of environmental change in the Southwest Australian Biodiversity Hotspot.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences.  365:517-528. 2010
• Phillips RDStorey AWJohnson MS. Genetic structure of Melanotaenia australis at local and regional scales in the east Kimberley, Western Australia.  Journal of Fish Biology.  74:437-451. 2009
• Phillips RDBackhouse GBrown APHopper SD. Biogeography of Caladenia (Orchidaceae), with special reference to the South-west Australian Floristic Region.  Australian Journal of Botany.  57:259-259. 2009
• Phillips RDFaast RBower CCBrown GRPeakall R. Implications of pollination by food and sexual deception for pollinator specificity, fruit set, population genetics and conservation of Caladenia (Orchidaceae).  Australian Journal of Botany.  57:287-287. 2009
• Cousin JAPhillips RD. Habitat complexity explains species-specific occupancy but not species richness in a Western Australian woodland.  Australian Journal of Zoology.  56:95-95. 2008
• Phillips RDBrown APDixon KWHopper SD. Orchid biogeography and rarity in a biodiversity hotspot: The southwest Australian Floristic Region.  Lankesteriana.  7:93-96. 2007
• Dixon KPhillips RD. The Orchid conservation challenge.  Lankesteriana.  7:11-12. 2007