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- Bayesian methods for mark-recapture demography studie
- Incorporating spatial or genetic data into mark-recapture models
- Statistical evaluation of the usefulness of Distance Sampling, using agent-based models
- Application of Bayesian decision theory to conservation planning and management: modeling uncertainty
- Extreme value theory in the analysis of physiological performance
- Other projects involving statistics with applications in ecology
- Investigations of the influence of temperature on the energetics of development in ectotherms. Experimental animals can include bird eggs, reptile eggs, frog larvae, fish, insects and other invertebrates
- Any projects relating to thermal biology of animals including ectotherms & endotherms, vertebrates and invertebrates
- Any projects examining the process of respiratory gas exchange (i.e. exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide), or the effects of changing concentrations of these gases on animals
- Ecology & management of invasive species - neutral models of invasibility, population dynamics, impact and control
- Plant population dynamics – analysis of a global data-set of matrix models to determine what makes plant populations fluctuate in space & time
- Plant dispersal & landscape ecology – basic & applied ecology
- Population dynamics & biocontrol of the weed Salvinia in Kakadu National Park
- How has climate change shaped the flora and fauna of Australia
- Fire ecology in south-east Queensland forest
- The sex life of Pandanus
- The ecology of rare plant species
- Historical analysis of kangaroo densities
- Water remoteness and conservation planning
- Which tree species are driving structural change in eucalypt woodlands
- Causes of seasonal and geographic variation in sociality in antechinuses: resource sharing between relatives, information-sharing at communal nests, or thermoregulation
- Conservation ecology of the Kultarr (a poorly known, declining dasyurid at Idalia National Park)
- How many are there? Where do they forage, what do they eat? Do they burrow, in what habitat/ soil type? How has management of Idalia National Park affected them?
- Food availability and the conservation of the bridled nailtail wallaby: effects of local soil fertility, buffel grass invasion, drought, and fire on the sole wild population
- Effects of past and current habitat manipulation on bridled nailtail wallabies and black-striped wallabies at Taunton National Park (Scientific)
- Anything to do with marsupial ecology, reproductive success and behaviour, especially in antechinuses, kultarrs or planigales
- Marsupial conservation biology, especially macropods and dasyurids
- *Benefits and costs of sociality: tests using antechinus
- *Evolution of antechinus mating systems
- conservation of physiology of freshwater turtles
- Functional ecology of burrowing frogs
- Questions relating to the behaviour of eastern grey kangaroos, including vigilance, mating systems or social behaviour
- Questions relating to behaviour and ecology of common wombats (dependent on funding)
- *Metapopulation dynamics of northern brown bandicoots in urban Brisbane
- Resource availability and community dynamics: what causes species invasions?
- Climate change impacts on SW Australia's flora
- Rainforest restoration and landscape ecology
- *Relationships between plant-animal interactions and plant diversity patterns in fragmented tropical landscapes
- *Theoretical plant community ecology
- The role of sexual selection in driving reproductive isolation in plants
- The genetic basis of conspecific pollen precedence
- Tempo and mode of speciation in daisies
- Testing the ecological speciation hypothesis in daisies
- Molecular mechanisms controlling hybrid fitness
- Are rates of molecular evolution higher in plant reproduction related genes than in other plant genes
- Bird community ecology
- Conservation planning
- Population modelling
- Optimal monitoring of biodiversity
- *Research in marine and terrestrial reserve system design
- *Threatened species modeling
- *Optimal control of pests and weeds
- *Optimal monitoring of threatened species and pests for detecting trends
- *Basic theory of active adaptive management
- Australian Mesozoic vertebrate faunas
- Geology and taphonomy of dinosaur sites in the Winton Formation of central-western Queensland
- Anatomy and activation of the uhyral valve in crocodilians
- Osteoderm development in Australian crocodilians
- Swimming kinematics in semi-aquatic Australian reptiles
- Locomotor kinematics and bracing mechanics in varanids
- Sustainable harvesting, ecology and material properties of spinifex grasses
- Predicting the fate of rainforest flora to climate change
- Forest plantations for carbon trading
- Nutrient physiology of invasive and crop grasses
- Carbon sequestration and nutrient fluxes in rangeland soils
- Ecology meets architecture: green walls for city spaces
- Generalist herbivores and their interactions with host plants
- How do volatile chemicals and vision influence host plant relationships of herbivores?
- Investigating host relationships for biological control (herbivores or parasitoids)
- Cryptic species complexes and sexual communication in insects
- Host associations and natural enemies of date palms in Alice Springs(there is financial support for this work)
- Pollination mechanisms, with a possible project on cucurbit pollination by native insects in the Northern Territory
- Will our woodland undestorey ultimately be dominated by high-biomass African grasses? (Wiith CSIRO)
- Comparative analyses of vertebrate metabolism
- Allometry of physiological, ecological, or life-history traits
- Energetics of vertebrates or invertebrates
- Prioritising restoration
- The impact of climate change on conservation investments
- Land use modelling in the context of climate change
- Monitoring and evaluation of conservation investments
- Incorporating socio-political uncertainties into conservation decision making
- Behavioural ecology of Australian native freshwater fish and crayfish
- Thermal acclimation and adaptation of frogs, tadpoles, crayfish and fish
- Integrative ecology of frogs, fish and reptiles
* Research projects for PhD/MPhil students only
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