Conservation & Ecological Research within the Faculty of Science at UQ
Archive for Marine & Freshwater Ecology
7 June, 2010 at 12:26 am · Filed under Conservation Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Ecology, Plant Ecology, Restoration Ecology
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
7 June, 2010 at 12:21 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Behavioural Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Ecology
Research interests:
Coral reef ecology
Fish behaviour, particularly cleaning behaviour
Cleaner fish
Marine parasite ecology
Fish ectoparasites
Cooperation & mutualism
Marine isopodes (Cnathiidae)
Fish larvae biology
7 June, 2010 at 12:20 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Conservation Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Ecology, Vertebrate Ecology
Research interests:
Conservation biology and ecology of large marine vertebrates
Population ecology of dugongs
Feeding ecology of marine reptiles: sea turtles and sea snakes
Factors influencing reproduction in marine vertebrates
Disturbance ecology
7 June, 2010 at 12:19 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Marine & Freshwater Ecology, Plant Ecology
Research interests:
ecology of marine plant communities
global climate change
nutrient enrichment of the coastal zone
linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems
7 June, 2010 at 12:18 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Invertebrate Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Ecology
Research Interests:
Invasive marine invertebrates common in marinas around the world
The role of phenotypic links among life-history stages in population dynamics
The role of sexual selection in organisms with external fertilization
Large scale quantitative genetics and community ecology studies
7 June, 2010 at 12:12 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Marine & Freshwater Ecology
Research Interests:
Marine Palaeoecology
Understanding the recent past history of coral reef communities from around the world
Long-term ecological studies
The effects of humans and climate change on coral reef communities
7 June, 2010 at 12:11 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Conservation Ecology, Economic Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Ecology, Mathematical Ecology, Plant Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Vertebrate Ecology
Research interests:
conservation planning/reserve design
population dynamics and ecological theory
decision theory for conservation biology and monitoring
bird ecology
7 June, 2010 at 12:10 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Invertebrate Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Ecology, Mathematical Ecology, Vertebrate Ecology
Research interests:
Impacts of climate change on marine systems
Plankton and fish ecology
Fisheries science
Data mining of large biological datasets
7 June, 2010 at 12:09 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Evolutionary Genetics, Landscape Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Ecology, Molecular Ecology
Research Interests:
Landscape genetics
Connectivity and natural selection in marine animals
Adaptation and hybridization accompanying biological invasions
7 June, 2010 at 12:07 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Marine & Freshwater Ecology
landscape ecological theory in marine systems
marine animals in esturies
global climate change
larval invertebrate settlement on coral reefs (in collaboration with Dr Bernie Degnan)
7 June, 2010 at 12:06 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Marine & Freshwater Ecology, Vertebrate Ecology
Research Interests:
The biology, ecology and evolution of fishes and occasional invertebrates.
The use of evolutionary models in exploring the role of morphological innovation in diversity, or the lack thereof.
How structure and function relate to the ways in which fishes interact with their environment
7 June, 2010 at 12:04 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Behavioural Ecology, Conservation Ecology, Marine & Freshwater Ecology, Vertebrate Ecology
Research Interests:
Marine biology with particular interest in marine conservation and human impacts on the marine environment.
Global scale issues such as climate change and marine pollution are investigated using a multidisciplinary approach
Understanding the conservation status of marine species identified by the IUCN Red List within Australian waters.
7 June, 2010 at 12:02 am · Filed under ALL RESEARCHERS, Marine & Freshwater Ecology
Research Interests:
The reproduction and recruitment of scleractinian corals
The response of corals to environmental stress such as climate change, particularly temperature changes, bleaching and ocean acidification, nutrient levels, Trichodesmium exposure and mechanical damage.
The effects of ocean acidification on the development and larval physiology of sea hares.
