Science People — DEC research staff profiles
Research staff in the Department contribute hundreds of research papers to the wider scientific debate each year.
Some of this research is in journal articles written in a very precise language. However, other research items are contributed in the form of maps, posters, films, books and more. You can view the research by a particular author by accessing their profile, below. Additionally, you can search staff research interests from the Papers area.
Sort by: Surname | Given name
| Staff Member | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Ian Abbott | Anthropogenic impacts, ecological principles, ecological theories, faunal extinctions, jarrah forest fauna and flora, original distribution of bird and mammal species, scientific method, zoological history |
| David Algar | Abundance, baiting, control, dog/dingo, ecology, eradiction, feral cats, foxes, monitoring, predation, surveys |
| John Angus | 1080, bait, baiting, camera trap, Felis catus, feral cat, introduced predator, motion sensor photography, sodium monofluoroacetate |
| Kevin Bancroft | Community ecology, habitat mapping, marine biodiversity survey, marine ecology, marine fauna distributions, marine invertebrates, marine monitoring, shallow water benthic habitats, sponges |
| Louisa Bell | Fauna monitoring, fauna trapping, mammal hair analysis, mammal hair identification, radio tracking |
| Louise Biggs | Bryophytes, hornworts, liverworts, mosses |
| Carly Bishop | Community ecology, dieback, disturbance ecology, habitat modelling and mapping, Phytophthora |
| Neale Bougher | Beneficial fungi, forest fungi, fungi herbarium, fungi phylogeny, fungi taxonomy, FungiBank, mycology, mycorrhizal fungi, urban fungi, wheatbelt fungi |
| Allan Burbidge | Biogeography, bird distribution, bird ecology, birds, birds and fire, bristlebirds, parrots, Pilbara birds, threatened birds |
| Neil Burrows | Arid zone ecology, fauna conservation, fire behaviour, fire ecology, fire management, introduced predators |
| Ryonen Butcher | Banded ironstone ranges, Elaeocarpaceae, Fabaceae, Mirbelieae, molecular systematics, Proteaceae, Ravensthorpe, Sphaerolobium, Synaphea, Taxonomy, Tetratheca, Tremandraceae |
| Margaret Byrne | Conservation genetics, evolutionary patterns, gene flow, molecular markers, phylogenetics, phylogeography, plant genetics |
| David Cale | Aquatic ecology, aquatic invertebrates, wetland fauna, wetland monitoring |
| Richard Campbell | |
| Sue Carroll | WACENSUS and WAHERB databases |
| Alex Chapman | Bioinformatics, Epacridaceae, Ericaceae, Leucopogon, Melichrus, Monotoca, Styphelioideae, Systematics |
| Tamra Chapman | |
| Juanita Ciampini | Dieback, Phytophthora cinnamomi, Phytophthoras, sampling, vegetation health |
| Alan Clarke | Banded Stilt, directory of important wetlands in Australia, salinity, wetland monitoring |
| David Coates | Conservation and restoration genetics, evolution of the Western Australian flora, management and reintroduction of threatened flora, management of remnant vegetation, plant mating systems, population biology of rare and threatened plants, population cytogenetics, viability of plant populations in fragmented landscapes |
| Anne Cochrane | Dormancy, dormancy-breaking, ex-situ seed conservation, genebanking, germination, germination biology, germplasm, germplasm conservation, seed, seed collection, seed ecology, seed storage |
| Skye Coffey | Curation: vascular and cryptogam collection |
| Annette Cook | |
| Mark Cowan | |
| Colin Crane | Dieback, fungi, mushrooms, phosphite, Phytophthora, taxonomy |
| Ray Cranfield | Flora advice, flora taxonomy, lichen flora, plant ecology, plant taxonomy |
| Andrew Crawford | Dormancy, ex-situ, gene banking, germination, germplasm, seed collection, seed conservation, seed ecology, seed storage |
| Rob Davis | Curation, genus Ptilotus, plant identification, taxonomy |
| Rebecca Dillon | |
| Steven Dillon | Banded Ironstone Formations, BIF, flora surveys |
| Judy Dunlop | |
| Chris Dunne | Armillaria, biological control, communications and marketing, horticultural disease control, phosphite, Phytophthora, training and extension |
| Brad Durrant | Ants, arachnids, biogeography, entomology, insects, invertebrates, spiders, taxonomy |
| Richard Evans | |
| Richard Fairman | |
| Meriel Falconer | Curation: vascular plant collection at WA Herbarium |
| Janet Farr | Arboreal insect defoliation, bullseye borer, forest entomology, forest insects, gumleaf skeletonizer, lerps, Phoracantha acanthocera, psyllids, rural tree decline, tree canopy insects, Uraba lugens |
| Stuart Field | |
| Kim Friedman | Allee effects, knowledge transfer, population dynamics, recruitment, resource exploitation, survey design |
| Tony Friend | Dibbler, ecology, fungal diet, Gilbert's potoroo, marsupials, numbat, population dynamics, radio-tracking, reintroduction, telemetry, terrestrial amphipods., translocation, western barred bandicoot |
| Lesley Gibson | Biogeography, biological survey, dietary studies, eco-physiology, Geographic Information Systems, habitat suitability modelling, landscape ecology, mammal ecology, species distributional modelling |
| Neil Gibson | Biological surveys, conservation status of plant species and communities, plant community dynamics |
| Paul Gioia | Biodiversity information management, biodiversity modelling, exploring patterns of species richness and endemism, spatial analysis |
| Carl Gosper | Fire ecology, fire regime, fragmentation, invasive plants, mallee, mallee-heath, plant functional type, restoration ecology, wheatbelt |
| Nadine Guthrie | Arachnids, beetles, biogeography, Coleoptera, entomology, insects, invertebrates, Pilbara Biological Survey, spiders, taxonomy |
| Neil Hamilton | Avian species, baiting efficiency, feral animals, mesopredators |
| Maggie Hankinson | DNA extraction, Microsatellite analysis, Microsatellite library, Molecular genetics, PCR |
| Deborah Harding | Editor: Conservation Science Western Australia, Librarian: Conservation Science |
| Stephanie Hill | Captive breeding, fauna monitoring, Gilbert's Potoroos, hair arching and hair analyses, radio-tracking, western barred bandicoots, wildlife rehabilitation |
| Michael Hislop | Curation, Ericaceae (Epacridaceae), Isopogon, Leucopogon, Petrophile, plant identification, taxonomy |
| Tom Holmes | Conservation biology, coral reef ecology, fish behavioural ecology, larval and recruitment processes, predatory interactions |
| John Huisman | Algae, Chlorophyta, interactive keys, marine flora, Phaeophyceae, phycology, Rhodophyta, seaweed, systematics, taxonomy |
| Greg Keighery | Biology of native plants, taxonomy of Liliaceae, Myrtaceae, Apiaceae and others, weeds of Western Australia |
| Alan Kendrick | Ecology and biology of temperate fishes, ecology of temperate inter-tidal reefs, mangroves and seagrasses, marine protected area management |
| Joe Kinal | Data loggers, dieback, groundwater, hydrology, jarrah silviculture, salinity, soil temperature |
| Karina Knight | Collections, curation, databasing, duplicates, flora census, herbarium, herbarium insect pests, incorporation, mounting, name currency, specimen, specimen loans, volunteer management, volunteer program |
| Nicholas Lander | Asteraceae (Compositae), Astereae, botany, descriptive databases, interactive keys, Malvaceae, systematics, taxonomy |
| Jim Lane | Directory of Important Wetlands, Peel-Harvey, Ramsar Convention, shorebirds, Vasse-Wonnerup, waterbird survey, waterbirds, wetland monitoring, wetlands, Whicher National Park. |
| Margaret Langley | Bushland regeneration, effects of fire, flora of Tutanning Nature Reserve, mallee shrublands, vegetation monitoring and survey |
| Graeme Liddelow | Amphibians, arid zone ecology, birds, fire ecology, fire management, FORESTCHECK, habitat management, introduced predators, Landscope Expeditions, mammals, monitoring, owls, quokkas, reptiles |
| Glenda Lindsey | Adminstrative and secretarial support to the Director of the Science Division |
| Tanya Llorens | Impact of habitat fragmentation on plant populations, pollination and mating systems of native plants, population and conservation genetics of plants |
| Mike Lyons | Desktop mapping and graphics, regional botanical surveys, soil surveys and analysis |
| Bronwyn Macdonald | DNA extractions, molecular markers, plant molelcular genetics |
| Terry Macfarlane | |
| Beng Siew Mahon | Librarian: Conservation Science, Managing Editor: Nuytsia |
| Adrienne Markey | Anthospermeae (Rubiaceae), biogeography, Coprosma, flora and vegetation community survey, ironstone floras, phylogenetics, pollination and dispersal syndromes, systematics, taxonomy |
| Nicky Marlow | Bait development, baiting, Bettongia penicillata, bilbies, boodies, dalgytes, fauna decline, fox control, foxes, mala, mesopredator release, western barred bandicoots, woylies |
| Ralph Martin | Gravitational microlensing, supernova detection and photometry |
| Bruce Maslin | Acacias, Wattles, WorldWideWattle |
| Shelley McArthur | DNA, laboratory analysis |
| Lachie McCaw | Actinostrobus, air quality, bushfires, Callitris, eucalypt woodlands, fire behaviour, fire ecology, forest management, forestry, forests, landscape ecology, mallee-heath, monitoring, silviculture, smoke |
| Caroline McCormick | |
| Evelyn McGough | |
| Norm McKenzie | Australian mammal distributions ecology and extinction factors, bat foraging ecology aerodynamics and echolocation, determinants of structure and composition in species assemblages, ecological survey |
| Rachel Meissner | |
| Melissa Millar | Agroforestry, biotechnology, cell culture, evolutionary genetics, genetic diversity, molecular genetics, molecular markers, native flora conservation, population genetics, tissue culture |
| Leonie Monks | Management of threatened flora, translocation |
| James Moore | |
| Keith Morris | Forest fauna, introduced predator and rat control, island fauna, marine turtles, threatened fauna (particularly mammal) conservation |
| Mike Onus | |
| Russell Palmer | |
| Cheryl Parker | Curation, FloraBase, herbarium specimens, marine plant collections, Reference Herbarium, state collection |
| David Pearson | Community ecology of hummock grassland vertebrates, dasyurid ecology, ethno-zoology, python ecology, threatened reptiles |
| Melita Pennifold | |
| Adrian Pinder | Aquatic earthworms, aquatic invertebrate biodiversity, aquatic invertebrate taxonomy, aquatic oligochaetes, biogeography, salinity, species distributions, waterbirds, wetland conservation, wetland ecology, wetland fauna |
| Pieter Poot | |
| Bob Prince | Marine turtles |
| Kirsty Quinlan | |
| Ian Radford | Biological control, fire response, impact assessment, invasive plants, mycorrhizal facilitation, plant community assembly, plant functional types, plant nutrition requirements, plant taxonomy, restoration ecology, trophic interactions |
| Kelly Rayner | |
| Rosemarie Rees | Collections management, curation, fungi collections, herbarium specimens, name currency, spirit collections, vascular plants |
| Ben Richardson | Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH), biodiversity informatics, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), bioinformatics, data standards, FloraBase, Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID), web databases, web design |
| Richard Robinson | Armillaria, armillaria root disease, disease survey, forest pathology, fungal ecology, fungi, fungi survey, fungus, mushroom, mycology, pathology, polypore, root disease, tree disease, wood decay |
| Jim Rolfe | Biological survey, MS Access, MS Visual Basic, reptiles, trapping |
| Michael Rule | Ecological processes in marine benthic communities, human impact on the marine environment, recruitment and development in benthic communities, temperate and sub-tropical ecology |
| Barbara Rye | Editor of Nuytsia, flora writing, genetics of the family Myrtaceae, taxonomy, Thymelaeaceae |
| Jane Sampson | Conservation genetics, gene flow, plant genetic diversity, plant mating systems, plant population genetics |
| Bryan Shearer | |
| George Shedrawi | |
| Kelly Shepherd | Anatomy, Chenopodiaceae, cytology, DNA, molecular phylogeny, morphology, Salicornioideae, Samphires, systematics, taxonomy, Tecticornia |
| Chris Simpson | Coral reef ecology, experimental design, management and performance assessment, marine policy, monitoring design, MPA design, science-policy links |
| Mike Stukely | Dieback, disease resistance, forest management, forest pathology, jarrah silviculture, Mundalla Yellows, Phytophthora, Phytophthora culture collection, Phytophthora taxonomy, Phytophthora testing, tree decline, tree disease, Vegetation Health Service |
| Kevin Thiele | Banksia, biodiversity informatics, computer identification keys, conservation ecology, grasslands, grassy woodlands, interactive identification, Rhamnaceae, systematics, taxonomy, Viola |
| Neil Thomas | 1080 baiting, endangered mammals, eradication, fauna surveys (mammals), feral cat, fox, marsupials, mesopredators, motion detection cameras, predation, radio tracking, reintroduction, translocation |
| Verna Tunsell | Data collation and validation, Forestcheck, Tony Annels Herbarium curation |
| Paul Van Heurck | Arthropods, beetle fire ecology, beta richness, Bushfire CRC, Coleoptera biodiversity, fire mosaics, ForestCheck beetles, rarefaction, structural diversity, trophic guilds, Walpole beetles, Walpole protocol, wildfire impacts |
| Stephen van Leeuwen | Arid zone ecology, biological survey, botanical survey, fire ecology of arid zone plants and vegetation, flora survey, mulga woodland ecology, plant species distributions, rare flora reproductive autecology, rare flora reproductive ecology, reserve system selection and design, survey methodology, vegetation mapping |
| Chris Vellios | |
| Kelly Waples | |
| Bruce Ward | Abundance, arid zone ecology, baiting, camels, control, feral cats, fire behaviour, fire ecology, fire management, foxes, introduced plants, introduced predators, monitoring, predation, surveys |
| Colin Ward | |
| Adrian Wayne | Impacts of logging and fire, Koomal (common brushtail possum), Ngwayir (western ringtail possum), vertebrate fauna of the south-west forests, Woylie (brush-tailed bettong) |
| Janet Webster | Dieback, Phytophthora cinnamomi, Phytophthoras, sampling, vegetation health |
| Juliet Wege | Botanical nomenclature, Stylidiaceae, Stylidium, systematics, taxonomy, triggerplants |
| Kim Whitford | Crown assessment, forest management, hollow management, jarrah seed production, monitoring and managing soil disturbance, soil compaction, tree age, tree and log hollows |
| Scott Whiting | |
| Carolyn Wilkins | Conservation ecology, Lasiopetalae tribe, Malvaceae s.l., phylogenetic analysis, systematics, taxonomy |
| Andrew J Williams | Extrasolar planets, gravitational microlensing, supernova statistics |
| Andrew AE Williams | |
| Matthew Williams | Butterflies, butterfly conservation, sun moth |
| Allan Wills | Eucalyptus canopy decline, eucalyptus crown decline, fire effects on invertebrates, forest invertebrates, invertebrate biodiversity, silvicultural effects on invertebrates, terrestrial earthworms, tree pest insects |
| Paul Wilson | Asteraceae, bluebush, bluebushes, Boronia, Chenopodiaceae, daisies, daisy, Diplolaena, naming of plants, Phebalium, Philotheca, plant nomenclature, Rutaceae, saltbush, saltbushes, samphire, samphires, taxonomy |
| Shaun Wilson | Coral reef ecology, coral reef fish, environmental effects of fishing, habitat disturbances, herbivory, trophodynamics |
| Yvonne Winchcombe | South West Wetlands Database (SWWMP) |
| Lisa Wright | Librarian: Conservation Science |
| Colin Yates | Demography, fire ecology, granite outcrops, habitat fragmentation, pollination biology, population biology, population dynamics, rarity, threatened species, vegetation dynamics |
