Research Projects

Current Projects

Native Bees, Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change

Investigating the ways in which native bees are impacted by climate change and developing management strategies for the future

Plant-plant interactions and coexistence

Investigating how higher-order interactions and facilitation shape coexistence in natural plant communities.

Species Interactions in Human Altered Landscapes


Understanding how interactions among species are affected by human landscape modification.

Tree range limits and drought tolerance 

The role of drought tolerance in mediating tree ranges across the globe.

 

Women in Science

Global study of gender and publication outcomes of biological graduate students

Past Projects

Diversity carbon co-benefits

Investigating the relationship between diversity and carbon storage in Australian forest plantings.

Monarto reforestation project

Identifying cost-effective reforestation approaches for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in southern Australia.

Novel Plant communities


Mechanisms of assembly in Western Australia’s novel woodlands under the combined impacts of climate change, agricultural intensification and land-use change.

Community assembly with climate change


Understanding how community diversity shapes ecosystem resilience and functioning in a changing world.