A5067708753- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Plant and animal studies
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Human Health and Disease
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Marine and fisheries research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Public Health and Nutrition
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Jury Decision Making Processes
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
The University of Melbourne
2023-2025
Technical University of Denmark
2019-2024
Bielefeld University
2019-2021
Monash University
2013-2019
The University of Adelaide
2013
Abstract A recent meta‐analysis concluded, ‘ transgenerational effects are widespread, strong and persistent’ . We identify biases in the literature search, data analyses, questioning that conclusion. Re‐analyses indicate few studies actually tested – making it challenging to disentangle condition‐transfer from anticipatory parental effects, providing little insight into underlying mechanisms.
High quality research data and analytical code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results, key outputs, crucial elements to facilitate reproducibility. However, in ecology evolution (E&E) particular, it is currently unknown how many journals have policies on data- code-sharing peer review purposes, or upon manuscript acceptance. Furthermore, clarity such may impact authors' compliance. Thus, we assessed clarity, strictness, timing across 275 E&E. We also...
The round goby ( Neogobius melanostomus ) was first observed in the Baltic Sea 1990 and has since displayed substantial secondary dispersal, establishing numerous dense populations where they may outcompete native fish negatively impact prey species. There have been multiple diet studies from both North American Great Lakes are similarly invasive. However, that quantify their effects on recipient ecosystems and, specifically, impacts benthic invertebrate macrofauna rare, particularly...
At-border interventions are a critical step along the biosecurity continuum, to measure and control risks associated with cross-border movement of people goods. Air passengers high-volume pathway for range risk materials, against which various may be used (e.g., manual searches, detector dogs, x-rays, etc.). Tasmania is an island state, its environment industries have benefited from low level invasive pests due their geographic isolation. Therefore, relatively strict at-border prevent entry...
Accounting for the costs incurred due to biological invasions is important informing invasive species management policies, and understanding mitigating future losses. InvaCost, a living review massive database of cost estimates, valuable open science resource that can support informed policy has since been basis many regional national assessments. This study used this existing an independent systematic literature conduct expedited (or rapid review) state New South Wales, Australia. work...
Meta-analysis is increasingly used in biology to both quantitatively summarize available evidence for specific questions and generate new hypotheses. Although this powerful tool has mostly been deployed study mean effects, there untapped potential effects on (trait) variance. Here, we use a recently published data set as case demonstrate how meta-analysis of variance can be provide insights into biological processes. This included 704 effect sizes from 89 studies, covering 56 animal species,...
Recent studies into community level dynamics are revealing processes and patterns that underpin the biodiversity complexity of natural ecosystems. Theoretical food webs have suggested species‐rich highly complex communities inherently unstable, but incorporating certain characteristics empirical communities, such as allometric body size scaling non‐random interaction distributions, been shown to enhance stability facilitate species coexistence. Incorporating individual traits variability web...
The round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is a fish native to the Ponto-Caspian region that highly invasive through freshwater and brackish habitats in northern Europe North America. Individual behavioural variation appears be an important factor their spread, for example goby's personality traits can influence dispersal tendency, which may also produce behavioral composition of populations at different points along invasion fronts. To further analyze drivers within populations, we focused on...
The outcomes of interspecific and intraspecific ecological interactions can be considered to fall along continua from cooperative (mutually beneficial) antagonistic (detrimental one or both parties). Furthermore, the position an interaction outcome continuum, for example whether a symbiont provides net costs benefits its host, two conspecifics cooperatively forage compete food, is often not fixed but change over time across contexts. In this systematic review, we investigate role trait...
This study examines the sediment preferences of small sandeel (Ammodytes tobianus), an elongated forage fish common in marine and brackish environments northern Europe. Sandeel have a high fidelity for sandy habitats spend much their lives buried, as important part both diel behavioural cycles overwintering behaviour. A series independent choice laboratory assays were conducted using wild-caught schools sandeel, to: (1) determine preferred substrate composition burial; (2) identify upper...
Heterotrophic organic-carbon cycling is a major source of energy to aquatic food webs, yet there are few studies into patterns heterotrophic productivity in large lowland rivers. The Lachlan River experienced period extreme flow variability from September 2010 February 2011; for example, daily discharge (ML day–1) at one site reached >22 times its 10-year average. dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and particulate (POC) were assessed over this six sites on the River. Concentrations total...
Studying food webs across contrasting abiotic conditions is an important tool in understanding how environmental variability impacts community structure and ecosystem dynamics. The study of extreme environments provides insight into community-wide level responses to pressures with relevance the future management aquatic ecosystems. In western Lake Eyre Basin arid Australia, there are two characteristic habitats: springs rivers. Permanent isolated Great Artesian represent hydrologically...
An animal's behavioural traits can influence the outcomes of ecological interactions within their food web, including what they eat, vulnerability to predation and who compete with. Despite this, few studies have directly measured links between among-individual trophic variation. Invasive species like round goby, Neogobius melanostomus, are often found consistent differences in behaviour populations across invasion front. Therefore, an individualized approach invasive may be valuable...
At-border interventions are a critical step along the biosecurity continuum, to measure and control risks associated with cross-border movement of people goods. Air passengers high-volume pathway for range risk materials, against which various may be used (e.g., manual searches, detector dogs, x-rays, etc.). Using large interception database air entering southern Australian state Tasmania, this study applies common statistical modelling tools assess efficacy (namely, dog detectors, bag...
Meta-analysis is increasingly used in biology to both quantitatively summarize available evidence for specific questions, and generate new hypotheses. While this powerful tool has mostly been deployed study mean effects, there untapped potential effects on (trait) variance. Here, we use a recently published dataset as case demonstrate how meta-analysis of variance can be provide insights into biological processes. This included 704 effect sizes from 89 studies, covering 56 animal species,...