Hoefer, Sebastian, McKnight, Donald T., Allen-Ankins, Slade, Nordberg, Eric J., and Schwarzkopf, Lin (2024) Diverse Methods for Diverse Systems: A Large-Scale Comparison of Reptile Sampling Methods. Herpetologica. (In Press)

Todd, Stephanie J., McKnight, Donald T., Congdon, Brad C., Pierson, Jennifer, Fischer, Manuela, Abell, Sandra, and Koleck, Jessica (2023) Diversity and structure of Bettongia tropica: using population genetics to guide reintroduction and help prevent the extinction of an endangered Australian marsupial. Conservation Genetics, 24. pp. 739-754.

Allen-Ankins, Slade, McKnight, Donald T., Nordberg, Eric J., Hoefer, Sebastian, Roe, Paul, Watson, David M., McDonald, Paul G., Fuller, Richard A., and Schwarzkopf, Lin (2023) Effectiveness of acoustic indices as indicators of vertebrate biodiversity. Ecological Indicators, 147 (March). 109937.

Hollender, Ethan C., Ligon, Day B., and McKnight, Donald T. (2023) Learned avoidance of trap locations in freshwater turtles. Wildlife Research, 50 (6). pp. 465-474.

McKnight, Donald T., Ard, Kendall, Auguste, Renoir J., Barhadiya, Gaurav, Benard, Michael F., Boban, Paige, Dillon, Martin L., Downs, Colleen T., DeGregorio, Brett A., Glorioso, Brad M., Goodman, Rachel M., Hird, Coen, Hollender, Ethan C., Kennedy, Malcolm, Kidman, Rosie A., Massey, Andrhea, McGovern, Pearson, Mühlenhaupt, Max, Ostovar, Kayhan, Podgorski, Danusia, Price, Cormac, Reinke, Beth A., Streeting, Louise M., Venezia, Jane, Young, Jeanne, and Nordberg, Eric J. (2023) Nocturnal basking in freshwater turtles: A global assessment. Global Ecology and Conservation, 43. e02444.

Hoefer, Sebastian, McKnight, Donald T., Allen-Ankins, Slade, Nordberg, Eric J., and Schwarzkopf, Lin (2023) Passive acoustic monitoring in terrestrial vertebrates: a review. Bioacoustics, 32 (5). pp. 506-531.

Nordberg, Eric J., and McKnight, Donald T. (2023) Seasonal, environmental and anthropogenic influences on nocturnal basking in turtles and crocodiles from North-Eastern Australia. Austral Ecology, 48 (8). pp. 1516-1531.

Kidman, Rosie A., McKnight, Donald T., Schwarzkopf, Lin, and Nordberg, Eric J. (2023) Too cold is better than too hot: Preferred temperatures and basking behaviour in a tropical freshwater turtle. Austral Ecology, 48 (8). pp. 1532-1546.

Bertola, Lorenzo V., Hoskin, Conrad J., Jones, David B., Zenger, Kyall R., McKnight, Donald T., and Higgie, Megan (2023) The first linkage map for Australo-Papuan Treefrogs (family: Pelodryadidae) reveals the sex-determination system of the Green-eyed Treefrog (Litoria serrata). Heredity, 131. pp. 263-272.

McKnight, Donald T., Hollender, Ethan C., and Ligon, Day B. (2022) Where are the turtles? Looking for Western Chicken Turtles, Deirochelys reticularia miaria, in Mississippi. Herpetology Notes, 15. pp. 609-613.

McKnight, Donald T., Huerlimann, Roger, Bower, Deborah S., Schwarzkopf, Lin, Alford, Ross A., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2022) The interplay of fungal and bacterial microbiomes on rainforest frogs following a disease outbreak. Ecosphere, 13 (7). e4037.

McKnight, Donald T., Wirth, Wytamma, Schwarzkopf, Lin, and Nordberg, Eric J. (2021) Leech removal is not the primary driver of basking behavior in a freshwater turtle. Ecology and Evolution, 11 (16). pp. 10936-10946.

Bower, Deborah S., Jennings, Charlotte K., Webb, Rebecca J., Amepou, Yolarnie, Schwarzkopf, Lin, Berger, Lee, Alford, Ross A., Georges, Arthur, McKnight, Donald T., Carr, Leah, Nason, Dillian, and Clulow, Simon (2020) Disease surveillance of the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Papua New Guinea. Conservation Science and Practice, 2 (9). e256.

McKnight, D. T., Nordine, J., Jerrett, B., Murray, M., Murray, P., Moss, R., Northey, M., Simard, N., Alford, R. A., and Schwarzkopf, L. (2020) Do morphological adaptations for gliding in frogs influence clinging and jumping? Journal of Zoology, 310 (1). pp. 55-63.

McKnight, Donald T., Carr, Leah J., Bower, Deborah S., Schwarzkopf, Lin, Alford, Ross A., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2020) Infection dynamics, dispersal, and adaptation: understanding the lack of recovery in a remnant frog population following a disease outbreak. Heredity, 125. pp. 110-123.

McKnight, Donald T., Zenger, Kyall R., Alford, Ross A., and Huerlimann, Roger (2020) Microbiome diversity and composition varies across body areas in a freshwater turtle. Microbiology, 166 (5). pp. 440-452.

Nordberg, Eric J., and McKnight, Donald T. (2020) Nocturnal basking behavior in a freshwater turtle. Ecology, 101 (7). e03048.

Maclaine, Alicia, Wirth, Wytamma T., McKnight, Donald T., Burgess, Graham W., and Ariel, Ellen (2020) Ranaviruses in captive and wild Australian lizards. Facets, 5 (1). pp. 758-768.

McKnight, Donald T., Huerlimann, Roger, Bower, Deborah S., Schwarzkopf, Lin, Alford, Ross A., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2019) Methods for normalizing microbiome data: an ecological perspective. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10 (3). pp. 389-400.

McKnight, Donald T., Huerlimann, Roger, Bower, Deborah S., Schwarzkopf, Lin, Alford, Ross A., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2019) microDecon: a highly accurate read‐subtraction tool for the post‐sequencing removal of contamination in metabarcoding studies. Environmental DNA, 1 (1). pp. 14-25.

McKnight, Donald T., Lal, Monal M., Bower, Deborah S., Schwarzkopf, Lin, Alford, Ross A., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2019) The return of the frogs: the importance of habitat refugia in maintaining diversity during a disease outbreak. Molecular Ecology, 28 (11). pp. 2731-2745.

McKnight, Donald T. (2019) Life finds a way: the recovery of frog populations from a chytridiomycosis outbreak. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

McKnight, Donald T., Hollender, Ethan C., Howell, Hunter J., Carr, John L., Buhlmann, Kurt A., and Ligon, Day B. (2018) Egg and clutch sizes of western chicken turtles (Deirochelys reticularia miaria). Acta Herpetologica, 13 (2). pp. 191-194.

Galvez, Ángel, McKnight, Donald T., and Monrós, Juan S. (2018) Habitat preferences of breeding amphibians in eastern spain. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 13 (2). pp. 453-463.

McKnight, Donald T., and Ligon, Day (2017) Correcting for unequal catchability in sex ratio and population size estimates. PLoS ONE, 12 (8).

McKnight, Donald T., Schwarzkopf, Lin, Alford, Ross A., Bower, Deborah S., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2017) Effects of emerging infectious diseases on host population genetics: a review. Conservation Genetics, 18. pp. 1235-1245.

McKnight, Donald T., Alford, Ross A., Hoskin, Conrad J., Schwarzkopf, Lin, Greenspan, Sasha E., Zenger, Kyall R., and Bower, Deborah S. (2017) Fighting an uphill battle: the recovery of frogs in Australia's Wet Tropics. Ecology, 98 (12). pp. 3221-3223.

McKnight, Donald T., Howell, Hunter J., Hollender, Ethan C., and Ligon, Day B. (2017) Good vibrations: a novel method for sexing turtles. Acta Herpetologica, 12 (1). pp. 117-121.