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Our ecology projects cover a range of topics, from plant community ecology and nutrient cycling to understanding and minimising human impacts on the environment. Choose from the selection of available projects here, or visit our research pages to find an academic who shares your interest.

Investigating the role and opportunities of dead mangroves forests for seagrass habitat
The global emergence of novel freshwater fish communities in the Anthropocene.
The growth dynamics of eucalypt woodland
How does dry rainforest respond to fire?
Regeneration ecology of Myrtaceae after fire.
Flammability of rainforest boundaries
The status of plunkett mallee (Eucalyptus curtisii)
Where is Maundia? Maundia triglochinoides is known from streams around Brsibane and beyond, but we don’t know much else about this enigmatic wetland plant
Floods, droughts and storms. What does the historical record tell us about extreme weather events?
Population decline and threats to Cupaniopsis tomentella (Sapindaceae): a rare softwood scrub species from the Ipswich-Boonah area in south-east Queensland.
Effects of intraspecific variation on tipping points in ecological systems
How will populations persist in response to extreme weather events?
The use of surface-generated sounds in the presence of singers in humpback whales
Benefits of reforestation approaches to bee diversity in restored South Australian woodland
Identifying ‘keystone’ plant species for bee species restoration in agricultural and urban landscapes across eastern Australia
Facilitation among plants - how do they help each other?
Wildlife ecology and conservation of the Australian wet tropics
The prevalence and drivers of including non-English language studies in environmental evidence synthesis
Identifying population time-series data published in non-English languages for the Living Planet Index
The effect of antibiotic resistance on competitive ability and niche overlap in microbial systems
Microbial competition and costs of antibiotic resistance in fluctuating environments
Conservation benefits of marine protected areas (MPAs)
Improving conservation education
Communicating conservation
Impacts of recreational fishing on Australian fisheries
Understanding the effects of coastal development on the long-term ecology of reef coral communities using reef sediment cores
Investigating how mangroves use different sources of water
Carbon and nutrient cycling in mangroves and saltmarshes
Threatened species on Norfolk Island
Island conservation, introduced species, feral animals and threatened species
Invasive alien birds and mammals
Conservation planning and prioritisation
Plant-insect tri-trophic interactions
Insecticide resistance in diamondback moth
Habitat management for improved biological control of insect pests
Experimental and comparative genomic approaches to the origin and evolution of animal-bacteria interactions
Molecular ecology of marine invertebrate larval sensory systems
Statistical evidence in evolutionary biology
The role of fossils in phylogenetic comparative methods
What are the consequences of using consensus trees in phylogenetic comparative analyses?
Variance estimators for phylogenetic GEE models

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