Zoology & Ecology

Saul Chemonges

Adjunct Associate Professor
saul.chemonges@jcu.edu.au

Daniel Montesinos Torres

Senior Research Fellow
daniel.montesinos@jcu.edu.au

Claire Gely

Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology
claire.gely@jcu.edu.au

Ben Hirsch

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
ben.hirsch@jcu.edu.au

Stephen Williams

Adjunct Professor
stephen.williams@jcu.edu.au

Myles Menz

Senior Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology
myles.menz@jcu.edu.au

Martijn van de Pol

Associate Professor, Mathematical Modelling
martijn.vandepol@jcu.edu.au

Slade Allen-Ankins

Research Fellow
slade.allenankins@jcu.edu.au

Noel Preece

Adjunct Associate Professor
noel.preece@jcu.edu.au

Conrad Hoskin

Professor
conrad.hoskin@jcu.edu.au

Can species interactions drive rapid niche evolution? (Old ID 23572)

Conrad Hoskin

01 Aug 2017 - 31 Aug 2019

Climate change can alter the distribution of species and cause novel interactions. This project will...

Can species interactions drive rapid niche evolution? (Old ID 23572)

Megan Higgie

01 Aug 2017 - 31 Aug 2019

Climate change can alter the distribution of species and cause novel interactions. This project will...

Understanding population growth time lags in invasive species: Chital deer as a model system. (Old ID 26559)

Lin Schwarzkopf

11 Oct 2019 - 09 Oct 2025

Lags in population growth of introduced species are common, but poorly understood. Chital deer (Axis...

Predicting genetic exchange between species under climate change (Old ID 27104)

Conrad Hoskin

01 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2024

This project aims to resolve the factors that lead to the mixing of species’ gene pools, with a focu...

The interaction of yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepsis gracilipes) with mammals of the Wet Tropics (Old ID 24871)

Peter Yeeles

01 Apr 2018 - 31 Dec 2018

Yellow crazy ants arrived in Cairns in 2001 and have spread to other locations in the Wet Tropics. T...

The interaction of yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepsis gracilipes) with mammals of the Wet Tropics (Old ID 24871)

Tasmin Rymer

01 Apr 2018 - 31 Dec 2018

Yellow crazy ants arrived in Cairns in 2001 and have spread to other locations in the Wet Tropics. T...

Can parental care behaviour and breeding microhabitat protect Critically Endangered nursery frogs from rising temperatures on Wet Tropics mountaintops? (Old ID 28975)

Conrad Hoskin

01 Apr 2023 - 01 Aug 2025

Nursery frogs are terrestrial breeders with ‘direct development’ and the male stays with the eggs un...

Baseline invasive ant fauna and impact survey in the Torres Strait (Old ID 27827)

Lori Lach

18 Oct 2022 - 30 Jun 2024

The project aims to collect a representative baseline sample of ant fauna on all inhabited Torres St...

Genetic ‘health’ assessments and a decision-making framework for some of Australia’s most endangered frogs and reptiles (Old ID 27665)

Conrad Hoskin

01 Jul 2022 - 01 Dec 2023

According to expert assessment, more than half of Australia’s endangered and critically endangered f...

Genetic ‘health’ assessments and a decision-making framework for some of Australia’s most endangered frogs and reptiles (Old ID 27665)

Megan Higgie

01 Jul 2022 - 01 Dec 2023

According to expert assessment, more than half of Australia’s endangered and critically endangered f...

Complex growth rate evolution in a latitudinally widespread species

2004
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf

Shade acclimation of rainforest leaves to colonization by lichens

2002
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Betsy Jackes

Master of them all: performance specialization does not result in trade-offs in tropical lizards

2007
Evolutionary Ecology
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf

Does total reproductive effort evolve independently of offspring size?

2001
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf

Nomadic movement in tropical toads

2002
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf

Sexual dimorphism in body shape without sexual dimorphism in body size in water skinks (Eulamprus quoyii)

2005
Herpetologists' League
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf

Grasses of James Cook University, Townsville Campus Part A: a pictorial key to grass genera in North Queensland

2009
James Cook University
Researchers:Nanette HookerBetsy Jackes

Grasses of James Cook University, Townsville Campus Part B: generic descriptions and key to species

2009
James Cook University
Researchers:Nanette Hooker

Mechanisms driving avoidance of non-native plants by lizards

2007
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf