Publications
Foster, N.R., Jones, A.R., Serrano, O. et al. Environmental DNA identifies coastal plant community shift 1,000 years ago in Torrens Island, South Australia. Communications Earth and Environment 5, 115 (2024).
Foster, N.R., Taylor, D., Hoogewerff, J., Aberle, M.G., de Caritat, P., Roffey, P., Edwards, R., Malik, A., Waycott, M. and Young, J.M., 2023. The secret hidden in dust: Assessing the potential to use biological and chemical properties of the airborne fraction of soil for provenance assignment and forensic casework. Forensic Science International: Genetics, 67, p.102931.
Foster, N.R., Martin, B., Hoogewerff, J., Aberle, M.G., de Caritat, P., Roffey, P., Edwards, R., Malik, A., Thwaites, P., Waycott, M. and Young, J., 2023. The utility of dust for forensic intelligence: Exploring collection methods and detection limits for environmental DNA, elemental and mineralogical analyses of dust samples. Forensic Science International, 344, p.111599.
Bunholi, I. V., Foster, N. R., & Casey, J. M. (2023). Environmental DNA and RNA in aquatic community ecology: Toward methodological standardization. Environmental DNA, 00, 1–15.
Foster, N.R., van Dijk, K.J., Biffin, E., Young, J.M., Thomson, V.A., Gillanders, B.M., Jones, A.R. and Waycott, M., 2022. A targeted capture approach to generating reference sequence databases for chloroplast gene regions. Ecology and Evolution, 12(4), p.e8816.
Foster, N.R., Van Dijk, K.-J., Biffin, E., Young, J., Thomson, V.A., Gillanders, B., et al. (2021) A multi-gene region targeted capture approach to detect plant DNA in environmental samples: A case study from coastal environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9.
Blyth ,C., Christmas, M. J., Bickerton, D. C., Breed, M. F., Foster, N. R., Guerin, G. R., et al. (2021). Genomic, Habitat, and Leaf Shape Analyses Reveal a Possible Cryptic Species and Vulnerability to Climate Change in a Threatened Daisy. Life, 11.
Yaakub, S.M., Foster, N., Waycott, M. and Todd, P., 2020. Translating seagrass science into action. Marine and Freshwater Research, 71(8), pp.i-iii.
Waycott, M., O'Loughlin, E., Foster, N., McGrath, A., Jones, A. and Van Dijk, K. J. (2020) Distribution and dynamics of filamentous green algae and the Ruppia aquatic plant community in the Southern Coorong. Goyder Institute for Water Research Technical Report Series No. 20/02.
Foster, N.R., Gillanders, B.M., Jones, A.R., Young, J.M. and Waycott, M., 2020. A muddy time capsule: using sediment environmental DNA for the long-term monitoring of coastal vegetated ecosystems. Marine and Freshwater Research, 71(8), pp.869-876..
Foster N.R., Jones AR, Waycott M, and Gillanders BM (2019) Coastal Carbon Opportunities: Technical report on changes in the distribution of mangrove and saltmarsh across South Australia (1987–2015). Goyder Institute for Water Research Technical Report Series No. 19/23.
Armbrecht, L.H., Coolen, M.J., Lejzerowicz, F., George, S.C., Negandhi, K., Suzuki, Y., Young, J., Foster, N.R., Armand, L.K., Cooper, A., Ostrowski, M., Amaranta, F., Stat, M., Moreau, J.W., and Weyrich, L. 2019. Ancient DNA from marine sediments: Precautions and considerations for seafloor coring, sample handling and data generation. Earth-Science Reviews, 196.
Connell, S.D., Doubleday, Z.A., Foster, N.R., Hamlyn, S.B., Harley, C.D., Helmuth, B., Kelaher, B.P., Nagelkerken, I., Rogers R.L, Sara, G. and Russell, B.D., 2018. The duality of ocean acidification as a resource and a stressor. Ecology, 99(5), 10005–1010
Foster, N.R.,Fotheringham, D.G., Brock, D.J. and Waycott, M., 2017. A resourceful and adaptable method to obtain data on the status of seagrass meadows. Aquatic Botany, 141, pp.17-21.
Connell, S.D., Doubleday, Z.A., Hamlyn, S.B., Foster, N.R.,Harley, C.D., Helmuth, B., Kelaher, B.P., Nagelkerken, I., Sarà, G. and Russell, B.D., 2017. How ocean acidification can benefit calcifiers. Current Biology, 27(3), 95-R96.
Collier, C, van Dijk, K-J, Erftemeijer, P, Foster, N, Hipsey, M, O'Loughlin, E, Ticli, K, Waycott, M, 2017. Optimising Coorong Ruppia habitat: Strategies to improve habitat conditions for Ruppia tuberosa in the Coorong (South Australia) based on literature review, manipulative experiments and predictive modelling. University of Adelaide, [Peer reviewed research report], Adelaide, South Australia. 169 pp.