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

Northern Australia Plant Biosecurity Facility

Daniel Montesinos Torres

01 Jan 2024 - 30 Jun 2025

This proposal aims to establish the only Australian plant quarantine facility north of the 27th para...

Northern Australia Plant Biosecurity Facility

Lori Lach

01 Jan 2024 - 30 Jun 2025

This proposal aims to establish the only Australian plant quarantine facility north of the 27th para...

Northern Australia Plant Biosecurity Facility

Susan Laurance

01 Jan 2024 - 30 Jun 2025

This proposal aims to establish the only Australian plant quarantine facility north of the 27th para...

ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity

Myles Menz

01 Aug 2024 - 30 Aug 2029

The Biosecurity Training Centre aims to deliver a solution for Australia’s increasing biosecurity ri...

Conservation genetics and population trends in the endangered Mahogany Glider (Petaurus gracilis) (Old ID 27035)

Conrad Hoskin

31 Aug 2020 - 26 Oct 2021

Forest clearances has resulted in severe habitat fragmentation that threats population connectivity ...

Can species interactions drive rapid niche evolution? (Old ID 23427)

Conrad Hoskin

01 May 2017 - 30 Apr 2018

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

Can species interactions drive rapid niche evolution? (Old ID 23427)

Megan Higgie

01 May 2017 - 30 Apr 2018

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

Conservation Geonomics of Nursery Frogs (Old ID 27588)

Conrad Hoskin

01 Jul 2022 - 01 Dec 2023

Nursery Frogs of the Cophixalus genus make up 5 of 7 critically endangered vertebrate species. They ...

Conservation Geonomics of Nursery Frogs (Old ID 27588)

Megan Higgie

01 Jul 2022 - 01 Dec 2023

Nursery Frogs of the Cophixalus genus make up 5 of 7 critically endangered vertebrate species. They ...

Research to Inform Yellow Crazy Ant Management in the Wet Tropics (Old ID 23489)

Peter Yeeles

15 May 2017 - 31 Mar 2020

Research and activities required will be: ensure compliance with APVMA permit conditions; research e...

Oxygen isotope composition of phloem sap in relation to leaf water in Ricinus communis

2003
CSIRO Publishing
Researchers:Lucas Cernusak

Water relations link carbon and oxygen isotope discrimination to phloem sap sugar concentration in Eucalyptus globulus

2003
American Society of Plant Biologists
Researchers:Lucas Cernusak

Diurnal variation in the stable isotope composition of water and dry matter in fruiting Lupinus angustifolius under field conditions

2002
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Lucas Cernusak

Responses of foliar δ13C, gas exchange and leaf morphology to reduced hydraulic conductivity in Pinus monticola branches

2001
Heron Publishing
Researchers:Lucas Cernusak

Carbon isotope discrimination in photosynthetic bark

2001
Springer
Researchers:Lucas Cernusak

Photosynthetic refixation in branches of Western White Pine

2000
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Lucas Cernusak

Australia prepares tax penalty attack on environmental advocacy groups

2014
Ecosystems
Researchers:Susan LauranceWilliam Laurance

National emphasis on high-level protection reduces risk of biodiversity decline in tropical forest reserves

2015
Elsevier
Researchers:William Laurance

Mammal use of Raphia taedigera palm stands in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula

2015
Walter de Gruyter
Researchers:William Laurance

Setting environmental research priorities is daunting when the challenges are so huge

2015
The Conversation Media Group
Researchers:William Laurance

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