Fields of Research

Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Conservation and biodiversity
Environmental assessment and monitoring
Agricultural hydrology
Physical oceanography
Forest health and pathology
Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment

Research Objectives

Natural hazards
Marine biodiversity
Other environmental management
Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems
Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in marine environments
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Environmentally sustainable plant production
Coastal and estuarine systems and management
Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems
Marine systems and management
Fisheries - wild caught
Coastal or estuarine biodiversity

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Climate change cascades: Shifts in oceanography, species' ranges and subtidal marine community dynamics in eastern Tasmania; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Competition coefficients in a marine epibenthic assemblage depend on spatial structure; Oikos
Designing a targeted monitoring program to support evidence-based management of Australian Marine Parks: A pilot in the South-east Marine Parks Network
Designing a targeted monitoring program to support evidence-based management of Australian Marine Parks: A pilot in the South-east Marine Parks Network
Environmental Flow Assessment of the Lower Coal River and Pitt Water Estuary
Invasion rates increase with species richness in a marine epibenthic community by two mechanisms; Oecologia
Larval gregariousness and neonate establishment of the eucalypt-feeding beetle Chrysophtharta agricola (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Paropsini); Oikos
Linking richness, community variability, and invasion resistance with patch size; Ecology
Model based grouping of species across environmental gradients; Ecological Modelling
Predicting global dynamics from local interactions: individual-based models predict complex features of marine epibenthic communities; Ecological Modelling
RAD biodiversity: Prediction of rank abundance distributions from deep water benthic assemblages; Ecography: Pattern and Diversity in Ecology
Spatial self-organising as an important determinant of community dynamics in a temperate marine epibenthic community
Spatio-temporal variation in coral recruitment at different scales on Heron Reef, southern Great Barrier Reef; Coral Reefs

Research Projects

Development of an Environmental Flow Regime for the Coal River and Pittwater

Research Candidate Supervision