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

Listening for Chital Deer

Lin Schwarzkopf

11 Feb 2025 - 30 Sep 2025

Chital Deer Audio Recording devices

The role of drought-stress and insect attack on rainforest plant health (Old ID 26337)

Susan Laurance

01 Jan 2020 - 31 May 2025

This project aims to examine the vulnerability of tropical plants to drought and insect attack in a ...

An Outstanding Opportunity: Using Solar Farms for Biodiversity Preservation

Lin Schwarzkopf

01 Mar 2025 - 01 Mar 2026

Renewable energy projects are growing at a remarkable rate in Australia In north Queensland alone, ...

Enhancing Frog Resilience to Natural Disasters: Determining Captive Husbandry Techniques for the Conservation of Threatened Frogs of the Wet Tropics.

Conrad Hoskin

21 May 2025 - 30 Jun 2027

This two- and half-year project aims to increase the resilience and drastically lower the risk of e...

Enhancing Frog Resilience to Natural Disasters: Determining Captive Husbandry Techniques for the Conservation of Threatened Frogs of the Wet Tropics.

Conrad Hoskin

21 May 2025 - 30 Jun 2027

This two- and half-year project aims to increase the resilience and drastically lower the risk of e...

Audio & Environmental Monitoring Equipment for Biodiversity

Conrad Hoskin

01 Jul 2025 - 31 Dec 2025

Proposed Use of Funds: To purchase a number of audio and environmental temperature monitoring units,...

Audio & Environmental Monitoring Equipment for Biodiversity

Lyanne Brouwer

01 Jul 2025 - 31 Dec 2025

Proposed Use of Funds: To purchase a number of audio and environmental temperature monitoring units,...

Audio & Environmental Monitoring Equipment for Biodiversity

Lin Schwarzkopf

01 Jul 2025 - 31 Dec 2025

Proposed Use of Funds: To purchase a number of audio and environmental temperature monitoring units,...

Audio & Environmental Monitoring Equipment for Biodiversity

Megan Higgie

01 Jul 2025 - 31 Dec 2025

Proposed Use of Funds: To purchase a number of audio and environmental temperature monitoring units,...

Large leaf gas exchange chamber and light source

Daniel Montesinos Torres

01 Jun 2025 - 31 Dec 2025

We propose to purchase a large leaf chamber and accompanying light source (6800-13L, Licor Inc.) for...

Identification and dynamics of a cryptic suture zone in tropical rainforest

2009
Royal Society Publishing
Researchers:Conrad Hoskin

Something different for dinner? Responses of a native Australian predator (the keelback snake) to an invasive prey species (the cane toad)

2010
Springer
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf

Locomotor performance in an invasive species: cane toads from the invasion front have greater endurance, but not speed, compared to conspecifics from a long-colonised area

2010
Springer
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf

Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests

2009
Elsevier
Researchers:William LauranceSusan Laurance

Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen

2009
Cell Press
Researchers:William Laurance

Changing ecology of tropical forests: evidence and drivers

2009
Annual Reviews
Researchers:William Laurance

New insights into the tropical biodiversity crisis

2009
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:William Laurance

Environmental synergisms and extinctions of tropical species

2009
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:William Laurance

Changing drivers of deforestation and new opportunities for conservation

2009
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:William Laurance

Belly up: reduced crevice accessibility as a cost of reproduction caused by increased girth in a rock-using lizard

2010
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Lin Schwarzkopf

Title: ARC Future Fellow ($680,000), Global Change: Rainforest responses to experimental drought

Reseracher: Susan Laurance (Professor, Personal Chair)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2014

Title: American Society of Naturalists

Reseracher: Megan Higgie (Associate Professor)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2003

Title: European Research Council Advanced Grant 2018, ($2.5 million Euros). Role: collaborator, Lead Investigator: Dr Lourens Poorter

Reseracher: Susan Laurance (Professor, Personal Chair)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2018

Title: Habilitation (Venia Docendi), University of Bern

Reseracher: Myles Menz (Senior Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2013

End Date: 01 Jan 2018

Title: PhD, The University of Western Australia

Reseracher: Myles Menz (Senior Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2009

End Date: 01 Jan 2013

Title: MSc in Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern

Reseracher: Myles Menz (Senior Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2006

End Date: 01 Jan 2008

Title: Bachelor of Science , The University of Western Australia

Reseracher: Myles Menz (Senior Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2000

End Date: 01 Jan 2003

Title: Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand

Reseracher: Tasmin Rymer (Associate Professor)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2004

End Date: 01 Jan 2009

Title: Minibeast Wildlife, I partnered with Minibeast Wildlife to support an Honour's student's project focusing on subsociality in tarantulas. That work is in the process of being published.

Reseracher: Tasmin Rymer (Associate Professor)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2024

End Date: 01 Jan 2025

Title: Master of Science, University of Pretoria

Reseracher: Tasmin Rymer (Associate Professor)

Start Date: 01 Jan 2003

End Date: 01 Jan 2004