Professor of Entomology
P: 02 6773 2937
Insect Ecology Lab Manager
Research Fellow: Future Keepers project
Dr Zac Hemmings
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dung Beetle Ecosystem Engineers (DBEE) program
Dr Alva Curtsdotter
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Individual based modelling of dung beetles in response to climatic and nutritional variation
E: alva.curtsdotter@une.edu.au
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Assessing the vulnerability of native dung beetles to a warmer and drier climate along environmental gradients.
Dr Behnaz Ghaedi
Research Assistant
Dung Beetle Ecosystem Engineers (DBEE) program.
Mukta Mala
PhD Student
Project: Plants, microbes and arthropods interaction: manipulation of host plant defenses.
Sam Bawa
PhD Student
Project: Host Preference and Geographical Variations of Helicoverpa punctigera Wallengren (Lepidoptera; Noctuidae) Populations On Some Selected C4 Plants
Jessica de Souza-Vilela
PhD Student
Project: The Black Soldier Fly Larvae in Poultry Feed
Tom Heddle
PhD Student
Project: Ecosystem services of dung beetles across temporal scales in northern New South Wales
Dung Beetle Ecosystem Engineers (DBEE) program
Renee Ulbrich
Masters of Natural Resources
Project: Effects of companion vines on subtropical Birdwing butterfly populations
Undergrduate Interns and volunteers
Conor Nest
Eric Sinclair
Georgia Pianko
Technical Officer DBEE Project and Undergraduate Lab Intern
Liwen Song
Dr James O Hanlon (2017-2019
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Landscape scale effects of animal behavior: Are ants planting Australia’s forests?
Dr Jean Drayton (2016 - 18)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Ecosystem services in a changing climate: climate change effects on dung burial by dung beetles and beetle mediated greenhouse gas emissions
Dr Kirsti Abbott (2014/15)
School of Ants (Australia) Coordinator
Dr Graham Hall (2010-15)
Dr Senshan Wang (2013/14)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Thermal tolerances of aphids under different dietary regimes
Zac Hemmings (2013)
Thermal tolerances of high altitude ants.
Dr Nereda Christian (2010-2012)
The Sweep Net - Introduction and Extension of IPM in Northern NSW.
Rachel Lawrence (2010-2012)
The Sweep Net - Introduction and Extension of IPM in Northern NSW.
Dr Myung-Pyo Jung (2010-2011)
Thermal tolerances of meat ants.
Dr Md Habibullah Bahar (2010-2011)
Insect thermal physiology.
Dr Kerri Clarke (2007-2009)
Ecology of insect herbivore assemblages: influence of climate, evolutionary history and plant traits.
Min Raj Pokhrel (2020)
How does temperature, food quality and competition affect ability of dung beetles to find and keep resources?
Biniam Lakew (2020)
Project: Identification and epidemiology of vectors for Theileria orientalis
Nirosha Ranawaka (2020)
Population genetics and nest variation of Iridomyrmex purpureus (meat ant) around the New England Tablelands
Amrit Sidhu (2020)
Developing breeding grounds for dung beetles.
Isobel Roberts (2019)
The influence of climate on insect-plant communications
Kalifa al Kindi (2019)
Modelling of dubas bug habitat and population density in Oman based on association with human, environmental and climatological factors.
Sean Moore (2019)
Does thermal stress and resource limitation impact on ant communities?
Sue Jagger (2019)
Interactions between natural enemies of greenhouse whiteflies as control agents on greenhouse tomatoes
Zoology, University of New England
Zac Hemmings (2018)
The thermal games dung beetles play: assessing how temperature and competition influence a critical ecosystem service provider.
Behnaz Ghaedi (2017)
Impact of repeated stress exposures on the thermal tolerance abilities in the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae).
Matt Binns (2016)
Peter Serov (2014)
Evolution of the Anaspidacea (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida).
Michelle Yates (2014)
Ecosystem Services Within a Semi-Arid Agricultural Landscape: The Importance of Weed Species and Native Plants in Supporting Aphid Parasitoids and Plant Pollinators.
Tom Mooney (2013)
Response of soil invertebrates to petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils at Macquarie Island.
Sabine Nooten (2012)
Impacts of Climate Change on Plant-Insect Interactions. PhD at Macquarie University
Austin O'Malley (2012)
Spacial patterns in truffle-like fungi distribution, mutualistic interactions with mammals, and spore dispersal dynamics.
Chanthy Pol (2011)
The potential impact of climate change on Nezara viridula (L.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) and its parasitoid,Trichopoda giacomelii Blanchard (Diptera: Tachinidae) in Cambodia and Australia: Ecological, behavioural and physiological assessments.
Melissa Danks (2011)
The swamp wallaby Wallabia bicolor: a generalist browser as a key mycophagist.
Siobhan Rothsey (2006)
The effect of the earth's magnetic field and other orientation cues on direction seeking in four crustaceans (three intertidal - Amphipoda and Isopoda, one freshwater - Decapoda).
Sydney Jordan (2006)
Burrowing behaviour in the Australian Mygalomorphae.
Rebecca DiODnato
Master of Environmental Science Student
Project: THE FUTURE KEEPERS: The influence of a novel/warmer environment on ant nest development
Coleoptera assemblage structure and morphology on Acacia host-plant species along an environmental gradient: the implications of climate change
Ariella Moser
Feasibility of using detector dogs to detect high risk plant pests.
Aimee Leatham
Invertebrates of the Little Desert: developing protocols to allow Conservation Volunteers to collect and manage unique invertebrate communities
Mahoba Alderah (2013)
Population genetics and stable Isotope analysis of meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus)
Gia Minh Hoang (2012)
Response of aphids to their host plants and artificial diets under controlled temperatures.
Thi Phuong Chi Nguyen (2012)
Thermal biology of diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella).
Dwi Ristyadi (2008)
Influence of pesticide type and adjacent crop vegetation on arthropod community structure through a soybean/sorghum cropping cycle.
Ahmed Eid (2008)
Abundance/occupancy of fruit fly assemblages: associations with decaying stone fruit under different shading regimes.
Rowen Shee (2007)
Beetle (Coleoptera), fly (Diptera) and earwig (Dermaptera) species richness, abundance and assemblages in urban sclerophyll remnants in south east Queensland, Australia.
Ethan Towns (2020)
Hannah Smart (2019)
Ants as Dispersal Agents for Phasmid Eggs.
Sandie Manns (2105)
Seed dispersal by burier and roller dung beetles
Sigrid Mackensie (2015)
Project: Impacts of macrocyclic lactones on dung beetle larval performance
Zac Hemmings (2013)
Thermal Tolerance in Ants
Tom Mooney (2007)
Comparison of dung beetle assemblages and dung specificity between pasture and native forest on the New England Tablelands, NSW.
Michelle Yates (2008)
Ant morphology trait and assemblage structure: patterns in remnants and pasture habitat along an environmental gradient.
Katy Barstow (2008)
Leaf miner and plant faller diversity on Acacia: importance of climate, plant evolutionary history and plant traits.
Mitch Smidt (2008)
Comparison of herbivore assemblages from Acacia species on the New England Tablelands, NSW.
Andrea Grady (2013)
Melissa Chenery (2016) Advanced Science Project (third year): Assessing the effects of thermal stress on ants in relation to diet preferences and nest development
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