Patrick Mo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Mo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Mo |
| SIGNATURE | MO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1546-9242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Late Quaternary environments of Nicholas Swamp, Nicholas Range, eastern Tasmania/Lutruwita, Australia
Late Quaternary environmental records from Tasmania (Aboriginal name Lutruwita) are geographically biased to the western areas of the island, with most records from eastern Tasmania generally covering the Holocene to Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) period. This paper provides new insight into pre-LGM landscapes for this region through the palaeoecological and geochemical analysis of sediment core samples from Nicholas Swamp, Eastern Highlands, Tasmani…
Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland
Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics Bioregion (WTB) in far North Queensland, suggests a strong relationship between natural and cultural firing regi…
Resilience-The role of place and time
“Resilience” is an increasingly important term, which is used to characterise the ability of a system (either human or natural) to cope with uncertainty and change. This term has been supplementing “sustainability” and “vulnerability” in policy and academic discourse, as well as being positioned as a response to global climate change and natural hazards in particular (Achour et al., 2015; Weichselgartner & Kelman, 2015). The importance of this co…
The geography of the Anthropocene
Through a range of activities and impacts, humanity now plays a dominant role in transforming the global environment. This dominance can be seen in varied physical and societal processes, including global climate change, land degradation, urbanisation, species extinction, pollution, and habitat fragmentation, which are often encapsulated in the term “the Great Acceleration” and are represented by physical and socioeconomic environmental measures …
Australian peatlands—Globally unique and undiscovered landscapes
None. Not applicable
Economic evaluation of the increased mental health value of increasing Queensland's protected areas to 17% land area
The authors explore the value that protected areas contribute to society and how an increase in protected areas would contribute to an increase in value. While protected areas contribute a wide range of benefits to a variety of stakeholders, focus within this report is placed on the mental health value and the affiliated benefits and costs accruing to the Queensland Government. The class of protected areas surveyed within this study is state-mana…
Implications of sea level variability on the formation and evolution of subtropical Rainbow Beach patterned fen complexes, Queensland, Australia
The Great Sandy National Park [K’gari (Fraser Island) and Cooloola] contains the largest subtropical patterned fen complexes in the world. These globally significant, groundwater-dependent ecosystems have been previously studied in relatively undisturbed areas on K’gari and were suggested to be resilient to changes in hydrology, sea level and wildfires. The Rainbow Beach patterned fens are under-studied systems thought to be formed in local perch…
Development of a Training Set of Contemporary Salt-Marsh Foraminifera for Late Holocene Sea- Level Reconstructions in southeastern Australia
We collected contemporary foraminiferal training sets from two salt marshes to enable more precise and accurate proxy historical sea-level reconstructions from southeastern Australia. Combined with an existing training set from Tasmania, this new regional set consists of 112 samples and 16 species of foraminifera, of which 13 are agglutinated. Cluster analyses group the regional training set into a high–elevation cluster, dominated by Trochammini…
Changing use of Lizard Island over the past 4000 years and implications for understanding Indigenous offshore island use on the Great Barrier Reef
Archaeological records documenting the timing and use of northern Great Barrier Reef offshore islands by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout the Holocene are limited when compared to the central and southern extents of the region. Excavations on Lizard Island, located 33 km from Cape Flattery on the mainland, provide high resolution evidence for periodic, yet sustained offshore island use over the past 4000 years, with focuse…
A late-Holocene record of coastal wetland development and fire regimes in tropical northern Australia
This study presents three records of environmental change during the late-Holocene from wetlands across Bentinck Island in the South Wellesley Islands, northern Australia. Radiometric dating provided ages for sediment cores with the longest chronology spanning the last 1250 cal. yr BP. Palynological results show the diverse mangrove community transitioned to woodland- and wetland-dominated vegetation over the last 850 years on the southeast coast…
Late Middle Stone Age Behavior and Environments at Chaminade I (Karonga, Malawi)
Robust local vegetation records from dense archaeological shell matrixes: A palynological analysis of the Thundiy shell deposit, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Holocene sea-level change and coastal landscape evolution in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
A revised Holocene sea-level history for the southern Gulf of Carpentaria is presented based on new data from the South Wellesley Archipelago and age recalibration of previous research. Results confirm that rising sea levels during the most recent post-glacial marine transgression breached the Arafura Sill ca. 11,700 cal. yr BP. Sea levels continued to rise to ca. –30 m by 10,000 cal. yr BP, leading to full marine conditions. By 7700 cal. yr BP, …
A 25,000-year record of environmental change from Welsby Lagoon, North Stradbroke Island, in the Australian subtropics
Short-term late Holocene dry season occupation and sandy-mud flat focused foraging at Murdumurdu, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria
Archaeological survey, excavations, and analyses of the Murdumurdu shell midden on Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria are reported. Patterns of subsistence as well as the timing and periodicity of site use are investigated through quantification of cultural materials, AMS radiocarbon dating, stable isotopic analysis of Marcia hiantina shell carbonates (δ18O and δ13C), magnetic susceptibility analysis of the deposits and palaeoenvironmental reco…
A late Quaternary record of vegetation and climate change from Hazards Lagoon, eastern Tasmania
Land-use change and socio-ecological drivers of wetland conversion in Ha Tien Plain, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Geochemical investigation of the South Wellesley Island wetlands: Insight into wetland development during the Holocene in tropical northern Australia
The South Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, were the recent focus of a palynological investigation which found vegetation change during the Holocene was driven by coastal progradation and regional climate. Here, we present new elemental data from x-ray fluorescence core scanning which provides non-destructive, continuous and high resolution analysis from three wetlands across Bentinck Island, the largest of the Sou…
Environmental context for late Holocene human occupation of the South Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia
Extended residence times for foraminifera in a marine-influenced terrestrial archaeological deposit and implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
Interventions to better manage the carbon stocks in Australian Melaleuca forests
Impacts of Late Quaternary sea-level changes on coastal environments of eastern Queensland, Australia
Late Quaternary terrestrial and marine environments for the Wet Tropics of Northeastern Australia, based on ODP Site 820
Late Quaternary Fire Regimes in the Sub-Tropics of Eastern Australia
An Island of Green in the Sunburnt Country: The Rainforest of the Humid Tropics of Northeastern Australia and Their Response to Quaternary Environmental Change
The Humid Tropics of northeastern Australia is a region of exceptional diversity and productivity that reflects many of the characteristics of similar tropical biomes. In the Australian context, it is a unique environment being a virtual ‘island of green’ surrounded by the more typical sclerophyll (i.e. dry and fire prone) landscapes of Australia. This article will examine the modern ecological characteristics of the region, as well as providing …
Holocene sea-level change and coastal landscape evolution in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
A revised Holocene sea-level history for the southern Gulf of Carpentaria is presented based on new data from the South Wellesley Archipelago and age recalibration of previous research. Results confirm that rising sea levels during the most recent post-glacial marine transgression breached the Arafura Sill ca. 11,700 cal. yr BP. Sea levels continued to rise to ca. –30 m by 10,000 cal. yr BP, leading to full marine conditions. By 7700 cal. yr BP, …
Late Middle Stone Age Behavior and Environments at Chaminade I (Karonga, Malawi)
Land-use change and socio-ecological drivers of wetland conversion in Ha Tien Plain, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Robust local vegetation records from dense archaeological shell matrixes: A palynological analysis of the Thundiy shell deposit, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Environmental change and the arrival of people in the Australian region
Continuous pollen and charcoal records, predominantly from well dated marine sediments, provide a good spatial coverage of patterns of change in vegetation, climate and biomass burning within the northern Australian - southern Indonesian region through the late Quaternary period. Northern hemisphere ice volume and monsoon forcing is conspicuous on orbital timescales with general expansion of wetter communities under higher precipitation during in…
Extended residence times for foraminifera in a marine-influenced terrestrial archaeological deposit and implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
The geography of the Anthropocene
Through a range of activities and impacts, humanity now plays a dominant role in transforming the global environment. This dominance can be seen in varied physical and societal processes, including global climate change, land degradation, urbanisation, species extinction, pollution, and habitat fragmentation, which are often encapsulated in the term “the Great Acceleration” and are represented by physical and socioeconomic environmental measures …
Development of a Training Set of Contemporary Salt-Marsh Foraminifera for Late Holocene Sea- Level Reconstructions in southeastern Australia
We collected contemporary foraminiferal training sets from two salt marshes to enable more precise and accurate proxy historical sea-level reconstructions from southeastern Australia. Combined with an existing training set from Tasmania, this new regional set consists of 112 samples and 16 species of foraminifera, of which 13 are agglutinated. Cluster analyses group the regional training set into a high–elevation cluster, dominated by Trochammini…
Geochemical investigation of the South Wellesley Island wetlands: Insight into wetland development during the Holocene in tropical northern Australia
The South Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, were the recent focus of a palynological investigation which found vegetation change during the Holocene was driven by coastal progradation and regional climate. Here, we present new elemental data from x-ray fluorescence core scanning which provides non-destructive, continuous and high resolution analysis from three wetlands across Bentinck Island, the largest of the Sou…
Interventions to better manage the carbon stocks in Australian Melaleuca forests
Resilience-The role of place and time
“Resilience” is an increasingly important term, which is used to characterise the ability of a system (either human or natural) to cope with uncertainty and change. This term has been supplementing “sustainability” and “vulnerability” in policy and academic discourse, as well as being positioned as a response to global climate change and natural hazards in particular (Achour et al., 2015; Weichselgartner & Kelman, 2015). The importance of this co…
Australian peatlands—Globally unique and undiscovered landscapes
None. Not applicable
Environmental change and the arrival of people in the Australian region
Continuous pollen and charcoal records, predominantly from well dated marine sediments, provide a good spatial coverage of patterns of change in vegetation, climate and biomass burning within the northern Australian - southern Indonesian region through the late Quaternary period. Northern hemisphere ice volume and monsoon forcing is conspicuous on orbital timescales with general expansion of wetter communities under higher precipitation during in…
An Island of Green in the Sunburnt Country: The Rainforest of the Humid Tropics of Northeastern Australia and Their Response to Quaternary Environmental Change
The Humid Tropics of northeastern Australia is a region of exceptional diversity and productivity that reflects many of the characteristics of similar tropical biomes. In the Australian context, it is a unique environment being a virtual ‘island of green’ surrounded by the more typical sclerophyll (i.e. dry and fire prone) landscapes of Australia. This article will examine the modern ecological characteristics of the region, as well as providing …
Impacts of Late Quaternary sea-level changes on coastal environments of eastern Queensland, Australia
Late Quaternary terrestrial and marine environments for the Wet Tropics of Northeastern Australia, based on ODP Site 820
Late Quaternary Fire Regimes in the Sub-Tropics of Eastern Australia
Interventions to better manage the carbon stocks in Australian Melaleuca forests
Environmental context for late Holocene human occupation of the South Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia
Extended residence times for foraminifera in a marine-influenced terrestrial archaeological deposit and implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
Geochemical investigation of the South Wellesley Island wetlands: Insight into wetland development during the Holocene in tropical northern Australia
The South Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, were the recent focus of a palynological investigation which found vegetation change during the Holocene was driven by coastal progradation and regional climate. Here, we present new elemental data from x-ray fluorescence core scanning which provides non-destructive, continuous and high resolution analysis from three wetlands across Bentinck Island, the largest of the Sou…
A 25,000-year record of environmental change from Welsby Lagoon, North Stradbroke Island, in the Australian subtropics
Short-term late Holocene dry season occupation and sandy-mud flat focused foraging at Murdumurdu, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria
Archaeological survey, excavations, and analyses of the Murdumurdu shell midden on Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria are reported. Patterns of subsistence as well as the timing and periodicity of site use are investigated through quantification of cultural materials, AMS radiocarbon dating, stable isotopic analysis of Marcia hiantina shell carbonates (δ18O and δ13C), magnetic susceptibility analysis of the deposits and palaeoenvironmental reco…
A late Quaternary record of vegetation and climate change from Hazards Lagoon, eastern Tasmania
Land-use change and socio-ecological drivers of wetland conversion in Ha Tien Plain, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Holocene sea-level change and coastal landscape evolution in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
A revised Holocene sea-level history for the southern Gulf of Carpentaria is presented based on new data from the South Wellesley Archipelago and age recalibration of previous research. Results confirm that rising sea levels during the most recent post-glacial marine transgression breached the Arafura Sill ca. 11,700 cal. yr BP. Sea levels continued to rise to ca. –30 m by 10,000 cal. yr BP, leading to full marine conditions. By 7700 cal. yr BP, …
Late Middle Stone Age Behavior and Environments at Chaminade I (Karonga, Malawi)
Robust local vegetation records from dense archaeological shell matrixes: A palynological analysis of the Thundiy shell deposit, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Changing use of Lizard Island over the past 4000 years and implications for understanding Indigenous offshore island use on the Great Barrier Reef
Archaeological records documenting the timing and use of northern Great Barrier Reef offshore islands by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout the Holocene are limited when compared to the central and southern extents of the region. Excavations on Lizard Island, located 33 km from Cape Flattery on the mainland, provide high resolution evidence for periodic, yet sustained offshore island use over the past 4000 years, with focuse…
A late-Holocene record of coastal wetland development and fire regimes in tropical northern Australia
This study presents three records of environmental change during the late-Holocene from wetlands across Bentinck Island in the South Wellesley Islands, northern Australia. Radiometric dating provided ages for sediment cores with the longest chronology spanning the last 1250 cal. yr BP. Palynological results show the diverse mangrove community transitioned to woodland- and wetland-dominated vegetation over the last 850 years on the southeast coast…
Development of a Training Set of Contemporary Salt-Marsh Foraminifera for Late Holocene Sea- Level Reconstructions in southeastern Australia
We collected contemporary foraminiferal training sets from two salt marshes to enable more precise and accurate proxy historical sea-level reconstructions from southeastern Australia. Combined with an existing training set from Tasmania, this new regional set consists of 112 samples and 16 species of foraminifera, of which 13 are agglutinated. Cluster analyses group the regional training set into a high–elevation cluster, dominated by Trochammini…
Economic evaluation of the increased mental health value of increasing Queensland's protected areas to 17% land area
The authors explore the value that protected areas contribute to society and how an increase in protected areas would contribute to an increase in value. While protected areas contribute a wide range of benefits to a variety of stakeholders, focus within this report is placed on the mental health value and the affiliated benefits and costs accruing to the Queensland Government. The class of protected areas surveyed within this study is state-mana…
Implications of sea level variability on the formation and evolution of subtropical Rainbow Beach patterned fen complexes, Queensland, Australia
The Great Sandy National Park [K’gari (Fraser Island) and Cooloola] contains the largest subtropical patterned fen complexes in the world. These globally significant, groundwater-dependent ecosystems have been previously studied in relatively undisturbed areas on K’gari and were suggested to be resilient to changes in hydrology, sea level and wildfires. The Rainbow Beach patterned fens are under-studied systems thought to be formed in local perch…
Australian peatlands—Globally unique and undiscovered landscapes
None. Not applicable
The geography of the Anthropocene
Through a range of activities and impacts, humanity now plays a dominant role in transforming the global environment. This dominance can be seen in varied physical and societal processes, including global climate change, land degradation, urbanisation, species extinction, pollution, and habitat fragmentation, which are often encapsulated in the term “the Great Acceleration” and are represented by physical and socioeconomic environmental measures …
Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland
Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics Bioregion (WTB) in far North Queensland, suggests a strong relationship between natural and cultural firing regi…
Resilience-The role of place and time
“Resilience” is an increasingly important term, which is used to characterise the ability of a system (either human or natural) to cope with uncertainty and change. This term has been supplementing “sustainability” and “vulnerability” in policy and academic discourse, as well as being positioned as a response to global climate change and natural hazards in particular (Achour et al., 2015; Weichselgartner & Kelman, 2015). The importance of this co…
Geography (23 works) · Geology (17 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (17 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Oceanography (15 works) · Paleontology (13 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Holocene (11 works) · Physical geography (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 works)