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Wu N. C., Villada-Cadavid T., Welbergen J. A., & Turbill C. (2025) Seasonal fattening among bat populations globally: storing energy for survival in a changing world. Ecol. Lett., 28, e70155
Wu N. C., Anderson R. O., Borzee A., Buttimer S., … Wang J. H., & Bovo R. P. (2025) A user’s guide for understanding reptile and amphibian hydroregulation and climate change impacts. Conserv. Physiol., 13, coaf038
Wu N. C., Welbergen J. A., Villada-Cadavid T., Lumsden L. F., & Turbill C. (2025) Vulnerability of Southern Hemisphere bats to white-nose syndrome based on global analysis of fungal host specificity and cave temperatures. Conserv. Biol., 39, e14390
Pottier P., Kearney M. R., Wu N C., Gunderson A. R., Rej J. E., Rivera-Villanueva A. N., Pollo, P., Burke S., Drobniak S. M., & Nakagawa S. (2025) Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming. Nature, 639, 954–961
Wu N. C., Fuh N. T., Borzée A., Wu C. S., Kam Y. C., & Chuang M. F. (2025) Developmental plasticity to pond drying has carry-over costs in metamorph performance. Conserv. Physiol.,13, coaf008
Noble D. W. A, Xirocostas Z. A., Wu N. C., … Nakagawa S. & Lagisz M. (2025) The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution. P. Royal Soc. B, 292, 20241487
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Wu N. C., Bovo, R. P., Enriquez-Urzelai U., Clusella-Trullas S., Kearney, M. R., Navas C. A., & Kong J. D. (2024) Global exposure risk of frogs to increasing environmental dryness. Nat. Clim. Change, 14, 1314–1322
Wu N. C., Alton L. A., Bovo R. P., Carey N., Currie S. E., Lighton J. R. B., McKechnie A. E., Pottier P., Rossi G., White C. R., Levesque D. L. (2024) Reporting guidelines for terrestrial respirometry: building openness, transparency of metabolic and evaporative water loss data. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A, 296, 111688
Pottier P., Noble D. W. A., Seebacher F., Wu N. C., Burke S., Lagisz M., Schwanz L. E., Drobniak S. M., & Nakagawa S. (2024) New horizons for comparative studies and meta-analyses. Trends Ecol. Evol., 39, 435–445
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Downie A. T., Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., & Franklin C. E. (2023) Sub-lethal consequences of ultraviolet radiation exposure on vertebrates: synthesis through meta-analysis. Glob. Chang. Biol., 29, 6620–6634
Wu N. C. (2023) Pathogen load predicts host functional disruption: A meta-analysis of an amphibian fungal panzootic. Funct. Ecol., 37, 900–914
Cheng C. T., Chuang M. F., Haramura T., Cheng C. B., Kim Y. I., Borzée A., Wu C. S., Chen Y. H., Jang Y., Wu N. C.*, & Kam Y. C.* (2023) Open habitats increase vulnerability of amphibian tadpoles to climate warming. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 32, 83–94 *Joint-senior author
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Wu N. C., Rusli M. U., Broderick A. C., & Barneche D. R. (2022) Scaling of sea turtle reproduction may reconcile theory and conservation strategies at the global scale. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 31, 1277–1289
Yu X., Wu N. C., Ge L., Li L., Zhang Z., & Lei J. (2022) Artificial shelters provide suitable thermal habitat for a cold-blooded animal. Sci. Rep., 12, 5879
Wu N. C., & Seebacher F. (2022) Physiology can predict animal activity, exploration, and dispersal. Comm. Biol., 5, 109
Schwanz L. E., Gunderson, A., Iglesias-Carrasco M., Johnson M. A., Kong J. D., Riley J., & Wu N. C. (2022) Best practices for building and curating databases for comparative analyses. J. Exp. Biol., 225, jeb243295
Wu N. C., Rubin A. M., & Seebacher F. (2022) Endocrine disruption from plastic pollution and warming interact to increase the energetic cost of growth in a fish. P. Roy. Soc. B, 289, 20212077
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Lei J., Yusof N. S. B., Wu N. C., Zhang Z., & Booth D. T. (2021) The burrowing ecology of a tropical lizard (Leiolepis belliana). Herpetologica, 77, 37–44
Wu N. C., & Seebacher F. (2021) Bisphenols alter thermal plasticity and performance in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Conserv. Physiol., 9, coaa138
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Wu N. C., & Seebacher F. (2020) Effect of the plastic pollutant bisphenol A on the biology of aquatic organisms: A meta-analysis. Glob. Chang. Biol., 26, 3821–3833
Grosell M., Heuer R. M., Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., Wang Y., Mager E. M., Dwyer R. G., & Franklin C. E. (2020) Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum. J. Exp. Biol., 223, jeb210732
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Wu N. C., McKercher C., Cramp R. L., & Franklin C. E. (2019) Mechanistic basis for the loss of water balance in green tree frogs infected with a fungal pathogen. Am. J. Physiol.—Reg. I., 317, R301–R311
Ohmer M. E. B., Cramp R. L., White C. R., Harlow P. S., McFadden M. S., Merino-Viteri A., Pessier A. P., Wu N. C., Bishop P. J., & Franklin C. E. (2019) Phylogenetic investigation of skin sloughing rates in frogs: relationships with skin characteristics and disease-driven declines. P. Roy. Soc. B, 286, 20182378
Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., Ohmer M. E. B., & Franklin C. E. (2019) Epidermal epidemic: unravelling the pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis. J. Exp. Biol., 222, jeb191817
Gauberg J., Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., Kelly S. P., & Franklin C. E. (2019) A lethal fungal pathogen directly alters tight junction proteins in the skin of a susceptible amphibian. J. Exp. Biol., 222, jeb192245.
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Clemente C. J., & Wu N. C. (2018) Body and tail-assisted pitch control facilitates bipedal locomotion in Australian agamid lizards. J. Roy. Soc. Interface, 15, 20180276
Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., & Franklin C. E. (2018) Body size influences energetic and osmoregulatory costs in frogs infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Sci. Rep., 8, 3739
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Shu G., Gong Y., Xie F., Wu N. C., & Li C. (2017) Effects of long-term preservation on amphibian body conditions: implication on historical morphological research. PeerJ, 5, e3805
Wu N. C., Cramp R. L., & Franklin C. E. (2017) Living with a leaky skin: upregulation of ion transport proteins during sloughing. J. Exp. Biol., 227, 2026–2035
Wu N. C., & Waas J. R. (2017) No evidence for across-population scent discrimination in tuatara (Sphenodon). J. Herpetol., 51, 178–185
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Rusli M. U., Wu N. C., & Booth D. T. (2016) Tonic immobility in newly emerged sea turtle hatchlings. Chelonian Conserv. Biol., 15, 143–147
Wu N. C., Alton L. A., Clemente C. J., Kearney M. R., & White C. R. (2015) Morphology and burrowing energetics of semi-fossorial skinks (Liopholis spp.). J. Exp. Biol., 218, 2416–2426
Wu N. C., Górski K., & Daniel A. J. (2013) Abundance of larval native and non-native fishes in floodplain habitats of the lower Waikato River, New Zealand. Inland Waters, 3, 359–368