The Ecology Centre

Conservation & Ecological Research within the Faculty of Science at UQ

Archive for Landscape Ecology

Yvonne Buckley

Research interests:

  • metapopulation dynamics
  • population viability
  • theoretical population ecology
  • weed management
  • Lyn Cook

    Research interests:

  • Distribution and diversity of plants and insects in the southern hemisphere
  • Evolutionary origins of Australian plants and animals
  • Effects of past and present climate change on extinction and speciation
  • Use of phylogenies in addressing evolutionary questions
  • Norm Duke

    Research Interests:

  • International mangrove floristics, biogeography, climate change, vegetation mapping, pollution impacts and habitat condition assessment.
  • Effective management and mitigation of disturbed and damaged tidal wetland ecosystems
  • Rod Fensham

    Dr Rod Fensham

    Research interests:

  • Vegetation community typology and ecology
  • Woodland dynamics
  • Ecology of rare plant species
  • Ecology of fire effects on vegetation
  • Arid zone ecology
  • Historical biogeography
  • Land-use policy
  • Margie Mayfield

    Research interests:

  • Plant community structure and function in fragmented tropical ecosystems.
  • Linking community assembly theory to restoration practice in Mediterranean and tropical plant communities.
  • The role of life-history strategies in maintaining plant species under habitat fragmentation and climate change.
  • Clive McAlpine

    Dr Clive McAlpine

    Research interests:

  • Modelling landscape dynamics in changing climate
  • Biodiversity conservation in human modified landscapes
  • Sustainable forest and native vegetation management
  • Regional natural resource management and planning
  • Hugh Possingham

    Professor Hugh Possingham

    Research interests:

  • conservation planning/reserve design
  • population dynamics and ecological theory
  • decision theory for conservation biology and monitoring
  • bird ecology
  • Cynthia Riginos

    Dr Cynthia Riginos

    Research Interests:

  • Landscape genetics
  • Connectivity and natural selection in marine animals
  • Adaptation and hybridization accompanying biological invasions
  • Susanne Schmidt

    Research interests:

  • Nutrient cycles of ecosystems and bioproduction systems
  • Plant Adaptation and Ecophysiology
  • Sustainable plant production
  • Plant-microbe-soil interactions
  • Biogeochemistry of seabird island