Whelan, R.J. (1998) Communicating with a poster presentation. pp. 57-60 in: R. Wills & R.J. Hobbs (eds) Ecology for Everyone. Communicating Ecology to Scientists, the Public and the Politicians. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Sydney.
Harper, B., Hedberg, J. & Whelan, R. (1998). Developing Skills in Ecology Research for Undergraduate Students: An Interactive Multimedia Simulation. pp. 466-471 in: Ottmann, T. and Tomek, I. (eds.) Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 98. AACE, Freiburg, Germany.
Cox, J. & Whelan, R.J. (1998) Soil fauna in an artificial soil mix. pp. 263-268 in: Fox, H.R., Moore, H.M. and McIntosh, A.D. (eds) Land Reclamation: Achieving Sustainable Benefits. Balkems, Rotterdam.
Whelan, R.J. & Baker, J.R. (1999) Fire in Australia: coping with variation in ecological effects of fire. pp. 71-79 in: Sutton, F., Keats, J., Dowling, J. and Doig, C. (eds). Protecting the Environment, Land, Life and Property. Proceedings of the Bushfire Mnaagement Conference. NSW Nature Conservation Council, Sydney.
Whelan, R.J., Ayre, D.J., England, P., Llorens, T. & Beynon, F. (2000) Population fragmentation and the ecology and genetics of Grevillea (Proteaceae). pp. 253 - 269 in: Young, A.G. and Clarke, G.M. (eds) Genetics, Demography and Viability of Fragmented Populations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Whelan, R.J., Rodgerson, L., Dickman, C.R. & Sutherland, E.F. (in press) Critical life cycles of plants and animals: developing a process-based understanding of population changes in fire-prone landscapes. In: Bradstock, R.A., Williams, J. and Gill, A.M. (eds) Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Keith, D.A., McCaw, W.L. & Whelan, R.J. (in press) Fire regimes in heathlands and their effects on plants and animals. In: Bradstock, R.A., Williams, J. and Gill, A.M. (eds) Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Whelan, R.J. and Tait, I. (1995) Responses of plant populations to fire:fire season as an understudied element of fire regime. CALMScience Supplement 4, 147-150.
Edwards, W. and Whelan, R.J. (1995) The size, distribution and germination requirements of the soil-stored seed bank of Grevillea barklyana (Proteaceae) Australian Journal of Ecology 20, 548-555.
Whelan, R.J., Ward, S., Hogbin, P. and Wasley, J. (1996) Responses of heathland Antechinus stuartii to the Royal National Park wildfire in 1994. Journal of the Linnean Soc. of NSW 116, 97-108.
Baker, J. & Whelan, R.J. (1996) Modelling reservations: a response to Baird et al. (1994). International Journal of Wildland Fire 6: 1-4.
Carthew, S.M., Whelan, R.J. & Ayre, D.J. (1996) Experimental confirmation of preferential outcrossing in Banksia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 157, 615-620.
van Tets, I. & Whelan, R.J. (1997) Banksia pollen in the diet of Australian mammals. Ecography 20, 499-505.
Goldingay, R.L. & Whelan, R.J. (1997) Powerline easements: do they promote edge effects in eucalypt forest for small mammals? Wildlife Research 24, 737-744.
Hogbin, P., Ayre, D.J. & Whelan, R.J. (1998) A genetic and demographic investigation of the conservation value of the threatened shrub Grevillea barklyana (Proteaceae). Heredity 79, 180-186.
Whelan, R.J., de Jong, N., & von der Burg, S. (1998) Variation in bradyspory and seedling recruitment without fire among populations of Banksia serrata (Proteaceae) Australian Journal of Ecology. 23, 121-128.
Whelan, R.J. & Brown, C. (1998) The role of Callistemon fruits and infructescences in protecting seeds from heat in fires. Australian Journal of Botany. 46, 235-239.
Baker, J.R., Goldingay, R.L. & Whelan, R.J. (1998) Powerline easements through forests: a case study of impacts on avifauna. Pacific Conservation Biology, 4, 79-89.
Whelan, R.J. & York, J. (1998) Does post-fire germination of Hakea sericea and Petrophile sessilis differ between spring and autumn burning? Australian Journal of Botany. 47, 367-376.
Hermanutz, L., Innes, D., Denham, A. & Whelan, R. (1998) Very low fruit:flower ratios in Grevillea (Proteaceae) are independent of breeding system. Australian Journal of Botany. 47, 465-478.
England, P.R., Ayre, D.J. & Whelan, R.J. (1999) Microsatellites in the Australian shrub Grevillea macleayana (Proteaceae). Molecular Ecology, 8, 689-690.
Brown, C.L. & Whelan, R.J. (2000) Season of occurrence of fire and availability of viable seeds in Hakea sericea and Petrophile sessilis. Journal of Ecology in press
Denham, A. & Whelan, R.J. (1999) Reproductive ecology and breeding system of Lomatia silaifolia (Proteaceae) after a fire. Australian Journal of Botany, in press
Cox J.A. & Whelan, R.J. (2000) Soil development of an artificial soil mix: nutrient dynamics, plant growth and initial physical changes. Australian Journal of Soil Research 38, 465-478.
Richardson, M.B.G., Ayre, D.J. & Whelan, R.J. (2000) Pollinator behaviour, mate choice and the realised mating systems of Grevillea mucronulata and Grevillea sphacelata. Australian Journal of Botany 48, 357-366.
England, P.R., Beynon, F., Ayre, D.J. & Whelan, R.J. (2001) A molecular genetic assessment of mating system variation in a naturally bird-pollinated shrub: contributions from birds and introduced honeybees. Conservation Biology in press.
Myerscough, P.J., Whelan, R.J. & Bradstock, R.A. (2001) Ecology of the Proteaceae with special reference to the Sydney region. Cunninghamia in press.
Whelan, R.J. (2002) Managing fire regimes for conservation and property protection: an Australian response. Conservation Biology 16, 1659-1661.
Whelan, R.J. (2002) Don’t fight fire with fire. Nature 416, 15 [March 7]
Baker, J.R., French, K.O & Whelan, R.J. (2002) The edge effect and ecotonal species: Bird communities across a natural edge in southeastern Australia. Ecology 83, 3048-3059.
Whelan, R.J., Rodgerson, L., Dickman, C.R. & Sutherland, E.F. (2002) Critical life cycles of plants and animals: developing a process-based understanding of population changes in fire-prone landscapes. pp. 94-124 in: Bradstock, R.A., Williams, J. and Gill, A.M. (eds) Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
England, P.R., Whelan, R.J. and Ayre, D.J. (2003) Effects of seed bank disturbance on the fine-scale genetic structure of populations of the rare shrub Grevillea macleayana. Heredity 91, 475-480.
Brewer, I.M. & Whelan, R.J. (2003) Changes in dune vegetation over 60 years in a sand-mined area of the NSW Central Coast. Cunninghamia 8, 85-92.
Whelan, R.J. (2003). Adaptive Management: What does it mean and how can it be used in fire management? In: Bushfire: Managing the Risk. NSW Nature Conservation Council, Sydney.
Whelan, R.J., Brown, C.L. & Farrier, D. (2004) The precautionary principle: what is it and how might it be applied in threatened species conservation? In: Hutchings, P., Lunney, D. and Dickman, C. (eds) Threatened Species Legislation: Is it Just and Act? Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Sydney.
Llorens, T.M., Ayre, D.J. & Whelan, R.J. (2004) Evidence for ancient genetic subdivision among currently fragmented populations of the endangered shrub Grevillea caleyi (Proteaceae). Heredity 94, 519-526.
Roberts, D.G., Ayre, D.J. & Whelan, R.J. (2005) Are Urban Plants Genetic Reservoirs or Threats to the Integrity of Bushland Populations? In press Conservation Biology
Whelan, R.J., Roberts, D.G. & Ayre, D.J. (2005) Interactions between native plants in urban gardens and surrounding bushland populations: potential for contamination? In press Biological Conservation