2024

• Hamilton, R., Amano, N., Bradshaw, C., Saltre, F., Patalano, R., Penny, D., Stevenson, J., Wolfhagen, J., Roberts, P. (2024). Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(1). [More Information]
• Fletcher, R., White, K., Penny, D. (2024). Risk and Low-Density Dispersed Urbanism. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 6, 1347157. [More Information]

2023

• Bhattacharya, T., Krause, S., Penny, D., Wahl, D. (2023). Drought and water management in ancient Maya society. Progress in Physical Geography, 47(2), 189-204. [More Information]
• Gillespie, J., Hamilton, R., Penny, D. (2023). Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation. Ambio: a journal of the human environment, 52(12). [More Information]
• Passos, T., Bernardino, A., Penny, D., Barcellos, R., Passos, F., Nobrega, G., Ferreira, T., Kauffman, J., Sanders, C. (2023). Low carbon accumulation in a macro-tidal mangrove forest on the Amazon coast. Limnology and Oceanography, 68(8), 1936-1948. [More Information]
• Penny, D., Cook, D. (2023). Paul Bishop and the longue durée of human–environmental relations in SE Asia. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4), 312-327. [More Information]
• Hamilton, R., Gillespie, J., Penny, D., Ingrey, S., Mooney, S. (2023). Re-imagining Sydney’s freshwater wetlands through historical ecology. Landscape Research. [More Information]

2022

• Passos, T., Sanders, C., Barcellos, R., Penny, D. (2022). Assessment of the temporal retention of mercury and nutrient records within the mangrove sediments of a highly impacted estuary. Environmental Research, 206(Article 112569), 1-13. [More Information]
• Passos, T., Penny, D., Barcellos, R., Nandan, S., Babu, D., Santos, I., Sanders, C. (2022). Increasing carbon, nutrient and trace metal accumulation driven by development in a mangrove estuary in south Asia. Science of the Total Environment, 832. [More Information]
• Spate, M., Yatoo, M., Penny, D., Shah, M., Betts, A. (2022). Palaeoenvironmental proxies indicate long-term development of agro-pastoralist landscapes in Inner Asian mountains. Scientific Reports, 12(554), 554. [More Information]
• Spate, M., Penny, D., Yatoo, M., Betts, A. (2022). Re-examining climate-driven Malthusian collapse in Kashmir: New palaeoenvironmental context for the archaeological record. Quaternary International, 623, 127-138. [More Information]
• Gillespie, J., Penny, D. (2022). The effect of proximity to protected areas on community adaptation to environmental change. Journal of Environmental Management, 301, 113805. [More Information]

2021

• Hall, T., Penny, D., Vincent, B., Polkinghorne, M. (2021). An integrated palaeoenvironmental record of Early Modern occupancy and land use within Angkor Thom, Angkor. Quaternary Science Reviews, 251, 106710. [More Information]
• Penny, D., Beach, T. (2021). Historical socioecological transformations in the global tropics as an Anthropocene analogue. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(40), e2022211118. [More Information]
• Passos, T., Penny, D., Sanders, C., De Franca, E., Oliveira, T., Santos, L., Barcellos, R. (2021). Mangrove carbon and nutrient accumulation shifts driven by rapid development in a tropical estuarine system, northeast Brazil. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 166, 1-7. [More Information]
• Job, T., Penny, D., Morgan, B., Hua, Q., Gadd, P., Zawadzki, A. (2021). Multi-stage Holocene evolution of the River Murray Estuary, South Australia. The Holocene, 31(1), 50-65. [More Information]
• Lewis, R., Tibby, J., Arnold, L., Gadd, P., Jacobsen, G., Barr, C., Negus, P., Mariani, M., Penny, D., Chittleborough, D., Moss, E. (2021). Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods. Quaternary Research, 102, 68-90. [More Information]
• Oliveira, T., Xavier, D., Santos, L., Passos, T., Sanders, C., De Franca, E., Camargo, P., Penny, D., Barcellos, R. (2021). Reconstructing the history of environmental impact in a tropical mangrove ecosystem: A case study from the Suape port-industrial complex, Brazil. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 44, 101747. [More Information]

2020

• Hamilton, R., Penny, D., Hall, T. (2020). Forest, fire & monsoon: investigating the long-term threshold dynamics of south-east Asia’s seasonally dry tropical forests. Quaternary Science Reviews, 238. article 106334, 1-12. [More Information]
• Job, T., Penny, D., Morgan, B. (2020). Geochemical signatures of acidic drainage recorded in estuarine sediments after an extreme drought. Science of the Total Environment, 749, 1-14. [More Information]
• Hall, T., Penny, D. (2020). Tracing the Networks of Past Societies in Palaeoenvironmental Research. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 112(4), 421-440. [More Information]

2019

• Hamilton, R., Penny, D., Hua, Q. (2019). A 4700-year record of hydroclimate variability over the Asian monsoon intersection zone inferred from multi-proxy analysis of lake sediments. Global and Planetary Change, 174, 92-104. [More Information]
• Hamilton, R., Hall, T., Stevenson, J., Penny, D. (2019). Distinguishing the pollen of Dipterocarpaceae from the seasonally dry, and moist tropics of south-east Asia using light microscopy. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 263, 117-133. [More Information]
• Penny, D., Hall, T., Evans, D., Polkinghorne, M. (2019). Geoarchaeological evidence from Angkor, Cambodia, reveals a gradual decline rather than a catastrophic 15th-century collapse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(11), 4871-4876. [More Information]
• Hall, T., Penny, D., Hamilton, R. (2019). The environmental context of a city in decline: The vegetation history of a Khmer peripheral settlement during the Angkor period. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24, 152-165. [More Information]

2018

• Job, T., Penny, D., Hua, Q. (2018). Metal enrichment in estuarine sediments proximal to acid sulfate soils as a novel palaeodrought proxy. Science of the Total Environment, 612, 247-256. [More Information]
• Hall, T., Penny, D., Hamilton, R. (2018). Re-evaluating the occupation history of Koh Ker, Cambodia, during the Angkor period: A palaeo-ecological approach. PloS One, 13(10), 1-25. [More Information]
• Penny, D., Zachreson, C., Fletcher, R., Lau, D., Lizier, J., Fischer, N., Evans, D., Pottier, C., Prokopenko, M. (2018). The demise of Angkor: Systemic vulnerability of urban infrastructure to climatic variations. Science Advances, 4(10), 1-8. [More Information]

2017

• Tibby, J., Barr, C., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., Moss, P., Arnold, L., Page, T., Questiaux, D., Olley, J., Kemp, J., Penny, D., Moss, E., et al (2017). Persistence of wetlands on North Stradbroke Island (south-east Queensland, Australia) during the last glacial cycle: implications for Quaternary science and biogeography. Journal of Quaternary Science, 32(6), 770-781. [More Information]
• Hua, Q., Cook, D., Fohlmeister, J., Penny, D., Bishop, P., Buckman, S. (2017). Radiocarbon Dating of a Speleothem Record of Paleoclimate for Angkor, Cambodia. Radiocarbon, 59(6), 1873-1890. [More Information]

2016

• Penny, D., Williams, G., Gillespie, J., Khem, R. (2016). 'Here be dragons': Integrating scientific data and place-based observation for environmental management. Applied Geography, 73, 38-46. [More Information]
• Feneley, M., Penny, D., Fletcher, R. (2016). Claiming the hydraulic network of Angkor with Visnu: A multidisciplinary approach including the analysis of archaeological remains, digital modelling and radiocarbon dating: With evidence for a 12th century renovation of the West Mebon. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 9, 275-292. [More Information]
• Hall, T., Penny, D., Hendrickson, M., Cooke, C., Hua, Q. (2016). Iron and fire: Geoarchaeological history of a Khmer peripheral centre during the decline of the Angkorian Empire, Cambodia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6, 53-63. [More Information]
• Hoogakker, B., Smith, R., Singarayer, J., Marchant, R., Prentice, I., Allen, J., Anderson, R., Bhagwat, S., Behling, H., Borisova, O., Penny, D., et al (2016). Terrestrial biosphere changes over the last 120 kyr. Climate of the Past, 12(1), 51-73. [More Information]

2015

• Hamilton, R., Penny, D. (2015). Ecological history of Lachlan Nature Reserve, Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia: a palaeoecological approach to conservation. Environmental Conservation, 42(1), 84-94. [More Information]
• Penny, D. (2015). Water Management at Angkor. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer Netherlands.

2014

• Penny, D. (2014). Social upheaval in ancient Angkor resulting from fluvial response to land use and climate variability. Pages Magazine, 22(1), 32-33.
• Penny, D., Chevance, J., Tang, D., De Greef, S. (2014). The Environmental Impact of Cambodia's Ancient City of Mahendraparvata (Phnom Kulen). PloS One, 9(1), 1-9. [More Information]

2012

• Penny, D. (2012). China and Southeast Asia. In S E Metcalfe and D J Nash (Eds.), Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics, (pp. 207-235). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. [More Information]
• Gale, S., Penny, D. (2012). Clastic spring sediments: a tool for palaeoflood reconstruction? Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, 56(3), 387-400. [More Information]
• Pottier, C., Penny, D., Hendrickson, M., Carter, E. (2012). Unearthing an Atlantean myth in Angkor: geoarchaeological investigation of the 'underwater road' crossing on the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39(8), 2604-2611. [More Information]
• Tibby, J., Penny, D., Leahy, P., Kershaw, A. (2012). Vegetation and water quality responses to Holocene climate variability in Lake Purrumbete, western Victoria. In Simon G Haberle, Bruno David (Eds.), Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, (pp. 359-373). Canberra: ANU E Press. [More Information]

2010

• Buckley, B., Anchukaitis, K., Penny, D., Fletcher, R., Cook, E., Masaki, S., Nam, L., Wichienkeeo, A., Minh, T., Truong, M. (2010). Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(15), 6748-6752. [More Information]
• Penny, D. (2010). The Mekong River System and the End of the Angkor Civilization: A Water Historical Perspective. In Terje Tvedt and Richard Coopey (Eds.), A History of Water, Series 2, Volume 2, Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times, (pp. 129-143). London, United Kingdom: I.B. Tauris.

2008

• Lustig, T., Fletcher, R., Kummu, M., Pottier, C., Penny, D. (2008). Did Traditional Cultures Live in Harmony with Nature? Lessons from Angkor, Cambodia. In Matti Kummu, Marko Keskinen, Olli Varis (Eds.), Modern myths of the Mekong: a critical review of water and development concepts, principles and policies, (pp. 81-94). Helsinki: Water & Development Publications - Helsinki University of Technology.
• Kummu, M., Penny, D., Sarkkula, J., Koponen, J. (2008). Sediment: Curse or Blessing for Tonle Sap Lake. Ambio: a journal of the human environment, 37(3), 158-163. [More Information]
• Penny, D. (2008). The Mekong at Climatic Crossroads: Lessons from the Geological Past. Ambio: a journal of the human environment, 37(3), 164-169. [More Information]
• Fletcher, R., Penny, D., Evans, D., Pottier, C., Barbetti, M., Kummu, M., Lustig, T., Authority for the Protection and Mgt of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap, A. (2008). The water management network of Angkor, Cambodia. Antiquity, 82(2008), 658-670. [More Information]

2007

• Sanderson, D., Bishop, P., Stark, M., Alexander, S., Penny, D. (2007). Luminescence dating of canal sediments from Angkor Borei, Mekong Delta, Southern Cambodia. Quaternary Geochronology, 2(1-4), 322-329. [More Information]
• Penny, D. (2007). Microfossil records of environmental change, land use and societal collapse at Angkor, Cambodia. XVII Inqua Congress. The Tropics: heat engine of the Quaternary, Quaternary International: Elsevier.

2006

• Luly, J., Grindrod, J., Penny, D. (2006). Holocene palaeoenvironments and change at Three-Quarter Mile Lake, Silver Plains Station, Cape York Peninsula, Australia. The Holocene, 16(8), 1085-1094. [More Information]
• Fletcher, R., Penny, D., Barbetti, M., Pottier, C., Than, H., Chan, K., Somaneath, T. (2006). The Greater Angkor Project 2005-2009: Issues and Program. In Elisabeth A Bacus, Ian C Glover and Vincent C Piggot (Eds.), Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, (pp. 347-354). Singapore: National University of Singapore.
• Penny, D. (2006). The Holocene history and development of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25(3-4), 310-322. [More Information]
• Penny, D., Pottier, C., Fletcher, R., Barbetti, M., Fink, D., Hua, Q. (2006). Vegetation and land-use at Angkor, Cambodia: a dated pollen sequence from the Bakong temple moat. Antiquity, 80(3), 599-614. [More Information]

2005

• Penny, D., Pottier, C., Kummu, M., Fletcher, R., Zoppi, U., Barbetti, M., Somaneath, T. (2005). Hydrological history of the West Baray, Angkor, revealed through palynological analysis of sediments from the West Mebon. Bulletin de l'ecole Francaise d'extreme-Orient, 92(3), 497-521.
• Penny, D., Cook, G., Sok, S. (2005). Long-term rates of sediment accumulation in the Tonle Sap, Cambodia: A threat to ecosystem health? Journal of Paleolimnology, 33(1), 95-103. [More Information]
• Penny, D., Kealhofer, L. (2005). Microfossil evidence of land-use intensification in north Thailand. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32(1), 69-82. [More Information]

2004

• Kershaw, A., Tibby, J., Penny, D., Yezdani, H., Walkley, R., Cook, E., Johnston, R. (2004). Latest Pleistocene And Holocene Vegetation And Environmental History Of The Western Plains Of Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 116(1), 139-161.
• Pickett, E., Harrison, S., Hope, G., Harle, K., Dodson, J., Kershaw, A., Prentice, I., Backhouse, J., Colhoun, E., D'Costa, D., Penny, D., et al (2004). Pollen-based reconstructions of biome distributions for Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (SEAPAC region) at 0, 6000 and 18,000 (14)C yr BP. Journal of Biogeography, 31(9), 1381-1444. [More Information]
• White, J., Penny, D., Kealhofer, L., Maloney, B. (2004). Vegetation Changes From The Late Pleistocene Through The Holocene From Three Areas Of Archaeological Significance In Thailand. Quaternary International, 113(1), 111-132. [More Information]

2003

• Bishop, P., Penny, D., Stark, M., Marian, S. (2003). A 3.5 ka Record of Paleoenvironments and Human Occupation at Angkor Borei, Mekong Delta, Southern Cambodia. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 18(3), 359-393. [More Information]
• Fletcher, R., Barbetti, M., Evans, D., Than, H., Sokrithy, I., Chan, D., Penny, D., Pottier, C., Somaneath, T. (2003). Redefining Angkor: Structure and environment in the largest, low density urban complex of the pre-industrial world. Udaya Journal of Khmer Studies, 4, 107-121.

2002

• Kershaw, P., David, B., Tapper, N., Penny, D., Brown, J. (2002). Bridging Wallace's Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian - Australian Region. Reiskirchen, Germany: Catena Verlag GMBH.

2001

• Penny, D. (2001). A 40,000 year palynological record from north-east Thailand; implications for biogeography and palaeo-environmental reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 171(3), 97-128.
• van der Kaars, S., Penny, D., Tibby, J., Fluin, J., Dam, R., Suparan, P. (2001). Late Quaternary palaeoecology, palynology and palaeolimnology of a tropical lowland swamp: Rawa Danau, West-Java, Indonesia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 171(3), 185-212.
• Kershaw, A., Penny, D., van der Kaars, S., Anshuri, G., Thamotherampillai, A. (2001). Vegetation and climate in lowland Southeast Asia at the Last Glacial Maximum. In Metcalfe, I., Smith, J.M.B., Morwood, M., Davidson, I. (Eds.), Faunal and floral migrations and evolution in Southeast Asia – Australasia. United States: CRC Press.