Dr Aniko Toth
Research Fellow

Dr Aniko Toth

Science
Centre for Ecosystem Science

Anikó completed her PhD at Macquarie University in 2019. Prior to her studies in Australia, she spent 5 years as a research consultant at the Smithsonian US National Museum of Natural History. She is a member of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems program, which researches community assembly processes of terrestrial animals and plants on geological timescales. She is currently a research fellow working with David Keith on risk assessment models for Antarctic ecosystems.

  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, pp. 444 - 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14033
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31595-8
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Body mass-related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America', Ecography, 44, pp. 56 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05027
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 36, pp. 61 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.09.001
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Mammal species occupy different climates following the expansion of human impacts', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922859118
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Measurement and analysis of interspecific spatial associations as a facet of biodiversity', Ecological Monographs, 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1452
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction', Science, 365, pp. 1305 - 1308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw1605
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Herbivore teeth predict climatic limits in Kenyan ecosystems', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, pp. 12751 - 12756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609409113
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts (vol 529, pg 80, 2016)', NATURE, 538, pp. 542 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19104
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts', Nature, 529, pp. 80 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature16447
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Lyons et al. reply', Nature, 537, pp. E5 - E6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19111
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Lyons et al. reply', Nature, 538, pp. E3 - E4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature20097
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'A century of change in Kenya's mammal communities: Increased richness and decreased uniqueness in six protected areas', PLoS ONE, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093092
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary', Ecography, 37, pp. 1095 - 1108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00779
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Ecological Fidelity of Functional Traits Based on Species Presence-Absence in the Mammalian Bone Assemblage of Amboseli National Park, Kenya', The Paleontological Society Special Publications, 13, pp. 9 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200010121
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Ecological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in a modern mammalian bone assemblage (Amboseli, Kenya)', Paleobiology, 40, pp. 560 - 583, http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/13062
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Mammals of Kenya's protected areas from 1888 to 2013', Ecology, 95, pp. 1711 - 1711, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-2118.1
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Species Richness, Community Dynamics, and Time-Averaging in Recent Kenyan Ecosystems', The Paleontological Society Special Publications, 13, pp. 8 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s247526220001011x
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Sympatry and syntopy of the cricket frogs Acris crepitans and Acris gryllus in southeastern Virginia, USA and decline of A. gryllus at the northern edge of its range', Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 7, pp. 276 - 298
  • Preprints | 2022
    2022, Ecological interactions disrupted by habitat alteration in the Neotropics, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2054778/v1
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences, , http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.165854021.12539794/v1
    Preprints | 2019
    2019, Measurement and analysis of interspecific spatial associations as a facet of biodiversity, , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/7z8f9

2020 Science Achievement Award for Best Paper of 2019 from the US National Museum of Natural History

2019 Student Service Award from Macquarie University for promoting digital literacy through the Macquarie R users group.

2017 Science Achievement Award for Best Paper of 2016 from the US National Museum of Natural History

2010 Virginia Herpetological Society  Richard L. Hoffman Award for best student presentation. 

 

 

Member of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Working group based at the US National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution)

Working group on Australian Alpine Ecosystem risk assessments

Member of trait data working group hosted by iDiv