Preece, Noel (2024) Endangered Spectacled Flying-fox: a review of past and current knowledge and future needs to re-start its recovery. Australian Zoologist. (In Press)

Preece, Noel D., van Oosterzee, Penny, and Lawes, Michael J. (2023) Reforestation success can be enhanced by improving tree planting methods. Journal of Environmental Management, 336. 117645.

Singh Ramesh, Arun, Cheesman, Alexander W., Flores-Moreno, Habacuc, Preece, Noel D., Crayn, Darren M., and Cernusak, Lucas A. (2023) Temperature, nutrient availability, and species traits interact to shape elevation responses of Australian tropical trees. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6. 1089167.

Preece, Noel, and Fitzsimons, James (2022) Gaps in Monitoring Leave Northern Australian Mammal Fauna with Uncertain Futures. Diversity, 14 (3). 158.

Preece, Noel, Locke, John, and Turpin, Gerry (2022) Perspectives on research protocols on Indigenous conservation lands: Outcomes from a talking circle. Ecological Management and Restoration, 23 (1). pp. 5-9.

Driscoll, Don A., Garrard, Georgia E., Kusmanoff, Alexander M., Dovers, Stephen, Maron, Martine, Preece, Noel, Pressey, Robert L., and Ritchie, Euan G. (2021) Consequences of information suppression in ecological and conservation sciences. Conservation Letters, 14 (1). e12757.

Palma, Ana C., Goosem, Miriam, Fensham, Roderick J., Goosem, Steve, Preece, Noel D., Stevenson, Pablo R., and Laurance, Susan G.W. (2021) Dispersal and recruitment limitations in secondary forests. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32 (1). e12975.

van Oosterzee, Penny, Liu, Hongbo, and Preece, Noel D. (2020) Cost benefits of forest restoration in a tropical grazing landscape: Thiaki rainforest restoration project. Global Environmental Change, 63. 102105.

Hussain-Yusuf, Hazizul, Stenos, John, Vincent, Gemma, Shima, Amy, Abell, Sandra, Preece, Noel D., Tadepalli, Mythili, Hii, Sze Fui, Bowie, Naomi, Mitram, Kate, and Graves, Stephen (2020) Screening for rickettsia, coxiella and borrelia species in ticks from Queensland, Australia. Pathogens, 9 (12). 1016.

Crowley, Gabriel M., and Preece, Noel D. (2019) Does extreme flooding drive vegetation and faunal composition across the Gulf Plains of north-eastern Australia? Austral Ecology, 44 (7). pp. 1256-1270.

Cheesman, Alex W., Preece, Noel, van Oosterzee, Penny, Erskine, Peter D., and Cernusak, Lucas A. (2018) The role of topography and plant functional traits in determining tropical reforestation success. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55 (2). pp. 1029-1039.

Derhé, Mia A., Murphy, Helen T., Preece, Noel D., Lawes, Michael J., and Menéndez, Rosa (2018) Recovery of mammal diversity in tropical forests: a functional approach to measuring restoration. Restoration Ecology, 26 (4). pp. 778-786.

Lawes, Michael J., Moore, Anthony M., Andersen, Alan N., Preece, Noel D., and Franklin, Donald C. (2017) Ants as ecological indicators of rainforest restoration: community convergence and the development of an Ant Forest Indicator Index in the Australian wet tropics. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (20). pp. 8442-8455.

Preece, Noel D., Van Oosterzee, Penny, Hidrobo Unda, Gabriela C., and Lawes, Michael J. (2017) National carbon model not sensitive to species, families and site characteristics in a young tropical reforestation project. Forest Ecology and Management, 392. pp. 115-124.

Preece, Noel D., Abell, Sandra E., Grogan, Laura, Wayne, Adrian, Skerratt, Lee F., Van Oosterzee, Penny, Shima, Amy, Daszak, Peter, Field, Hume, Reiss, Andrea, Berger, Lee, Rymer, Tasmin L., Fisher, Diana O., Lawes, Michael J., Laurance, Susan G., McCallum, Hamish, Esson, Carol, and Epstein, Jon H. (2017) A guide for ecologists: detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery. Biological Conservation, 214. pp. 136-146.

Goosem, Miriam, Paz, Claudia, Fensham, Rod, Preece, Noel, Goosem, Stephen, and Laurance, Susan G.W. (2016) Forest age and isolation affect the rate of recovery of plant species diversity and community composition in secondary rain forests in tropical Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27 (3). pp. 504-514.

Preece, Luke D., van Oosterzee, Penny, Dungey, Kym, Standley, Peta-Marie, and Preece, Noel D. (2016) Ecosystem service valuation reinforces world class value of Cape York Peninsula's ecosystems but environment and indigenous people lose out. Ecosystem Services, 18. pp. 154-164.

Tng, David Y.P., Goosem, Miriam W., Paz, Claudia P., Preece, Noel D., Goosem, Stephen, Fensham, Roderick J., and Laurance, Susan G.W. (2016) Characteristics of the Psidium cattleianum invasion of secondary rainforests. Austral Ecology, 40 (4). pp. 344-354.

Paul, Keryn I., Cunningham, Shaun C., England, Jacqueline R., Roxburgh, Stephen H., Preece, Noel D., Lewis, Tom, Brooksbank, Kim, Crawford, Debbie F., and Polglase, Philip J. (2016) Managing reforestation to sequester carbon, increase biodiversity potential and minimize loss of agricultural land. Land Use Policy, 51. pp. 135-149.

Pandolfo Paz, Claudia, Goosem, Miriam, Bird, Michael, Preece, Noel, Goosem, Steve, Fensham, Rod, and Laurance, Susan (2016) Soil types influence predictions of soil carbon stock recovery in tropical secondary forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 376. pp. 74-83.

Preece, Noel D., Lawes, Michael J., Rossman, Allison K., Curran, Timothy J., and van Oosterzee, Penny (2015) Modelling the growth of young rainforest trees for biomass estimates and carbon sequestration accounting. Forest Ecology and Management, 351. pp. 57-66.

Paul, Keryn I., Roxburgh, Stephen H., England, Jacqueline R., de Ligt, Robert, Larmour, John S., Brooksbank, Kim, Murphy, Simon, Ritson, Peter, Hobbs, Trevor, Lewis, Tom, Preece, Noel D., Cunningham, Shaun C., Read, Zoe, Clifford, David, and Raison, R. John (2015) Improved models for estimating temporal changes in carbon sequestration in above-ground biomass of mixed-species environmental plantings. Forest Ecology and Management, 338. pp. 208-218.

Ziembicki, Mark R., Woinarski, John C.Z., Webb, Jonathan K., Vanderduys, Eric, Tuft, Katherine, Smith, James, Ritchie, Euan G., Reardon, Terry B., Radford, Ian J., Preece, Noel, Perry, Justin, Murphy, Brett P., McGregor, Hugh, Legge, Sarah, Leahy, Lily, Lawes, Michael J., Kanowski, John, Johnson, Chris N., James, Alex, Griffiths, Anthony D., Gillespie, Graeme, Frank, Anke S.K., Fisher, Alaric, and Burbidge, Andrew A. (2015) Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia. Therya, 6 (1). pp. 169-225.

Van Oosterzee, Penny, Dale, Allan, and Preece, Noel (2014) Integrating agriculture and climate change mitigation at landscape scale: implications from an Australian case study. Global Environmental Change, 29. pp. 306-317.

van Oosterzee, Penny, Morris, Ian, Lucas, Diane, and Preece, Noel D. (2014) A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia's Top End. Gecko Books, Marleston, SA, Australia.

Whitehead, Tegan, Goosem, Miriam, and Preece, Noel D. (2014) Use by small mammals of a chronosequence of tropical rainforest revegetation. Wildlife Research, 41 (3). pp. 233-242.

Franklin, Donald C., and Preece, Noel D. (2014) The eucalypts of northern Australia: an assessment of the conservation status of taxa and communities. Report. Environment Centre NT, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Paul, K., Roxburgh, S., Raison, J., Larmour, J., England, J., Murphy, S., Norris, J., Ritson, P., Brooksbank, K., Hobbs, M., Neumann, C., Lewis, T., Read, Z., Clifford, D., Kmoch, L., Rooney, M., Freudenberger, D., Jonson, J., Peck, A., Giles, R., Bartle, J., McAurthur, G., Wildy, D., Lindsay, A., Preece, N., Cunningham, S., Powe, T., Carter, J., Bennett, R., Mendham, D., Sudmeyer, R., Rose, B., Butler, D., Cohen, L., Fairman, T., Law, R., Finn, B., Brammar, M., Minchin, G., Van Oosterzee, P., and Lothian, A. (2013) Improved estimation of biomass accumulation by environmental plantings and mallee plantings using FullCAM. Report. CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Preece, Noel D. (2013) Tangible evidence of historic Australian indigenous savanna management. Austral Ecology, 38 (3). pp. 241-250.

Preece, Noel, Van Oosterzee, Penny, and Lawes, Michael J (2013) Planting methods matter for cost-effective rainforest restoration. Ecological Management and Restoration, 14 (1). pp. 63-66.

Preece, N., van Oosterzee, P., Dale, A., Eberhard, R., Armstrong, G., Vella, K., and Sweatman, C. (2013) Resilience and Opportunity: regions and the roll-out of Australia's greenhouse gas abatement programs - a manual for Queensland's NRM regions. Manual. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, Cairns, QLD, Australia.

Preece, N.D., and Corporation, Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal (2013) Fire operations manual. Manual. Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation, Western Australia. (Unpublished)

Preece, N.D., and Corporation, Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal (2013) Pest species control manual. Manual. Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation, Western Australia. (Unpublished)

Van Oosterzee, Penny, Preece, Noel, and Dale, Allan (2012) An Australian landscape-based approach: AFOLU mitigation for smallholders. In: Wollenberg, Eva, Nihart, Alison, Tapio-Bistrom, Marja-Liisa, and Grieg-Gran, Maryanne, (eds.) Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 193-202.

Preece, Noel D., Crowley, Gabriel M., Lawes, Michael J., and Van Oosterzee, Penny (2012) Comparing above-ground biomass among forest types in the Wet Tropics: small stems and plantation types matter in carbon accounting. Forest Ecology and Management, 264. pp. 228-237.

Preece, Noel, Harvey, Kylie, Hempel, Craig, and Woinarski, John C.Z. (2010) Uneven distribution of weeds along extensive transects in Australia’s Northern Territory points to management solutions. Ecological Management and Restoration, 11 (2). pp. 127-134.

van Oosterzee, Penny, Preece, Noel, and Dale, Allan (2010) Catching the baby: accounting for biodiversity and the ecosystem sector in emissions trading. Conservation Letters, 3 (2). pp. 83-90.

Preece, Noel, Shephard, Sue, Shephard, Tom, and Garnett, Stephen (2009) Re-assessment of the status of the Golden-shouldered Parrot Psephotus chrysopterygius. Report. Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Preece, Noel (2007) Traditional and ecological fires and effects of bushfire laws in north Australian savannas. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 16 (4). pp. 378-389.

Preece, Noel (2002) Aboriginal fires in monsoonal Australia from historical accounts. Journal of Biogeography, 29 (3). pp. 321-336.

Preece, Noel, Van Oosterzee, Penny, and James, David (1995) Two way track - biodiversity conservation and ecotourism: an investigation of linkages, mutual benefits and future opportunities. Report. Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Preece, Noel (1984) The NPWS and residential subdivisions adjacent to National Parks. Environmental Law Newsletter, 15. pp. 27-33.