Research
Numerous research projects in the natural sciences are conducted by JCU faculty and students. The brief outlines presented here are to introduce you to some of the diversity of studies carried out in this unique tropical environment.
- Woolsey - Coral biogeography and larval ecology in a warming ocean.
- Inkster - Microbats in the Wet Tropics, their physiological and ecological requirements.
- Wardhaugh - Rainforest canopy insects, distribution and utilisation of microhabitats
- Bell - Disease resistance to the amphibian chytrid fungus in Australian tropical rainforest frogs
- Chan-Modelling the effects of ocean acidification, global warming and flow on the growth and distribution of reef corals.
- Parsons -Forest leaf litter and near infrared reflectance spectroscopy.
- Sutari- Irrawaddy dolphins, Orcaella brevirostris in Chilika lagoon, India: conservation in a complex socio-ecological system.
- Anthony: White Syndrome disease in aquarium corals.
- Richards: Rarity in the coral genus Acropora: implications for biodiversity conservation.
- The ecology of rivers in the Australian dry tropics
- Predicting the vulnerability of birds in Australian tropical savanna to climate change
- Priete-Phytoplankton Dynamics in the seasonal Dry Tropics of North Queensland, Australia
- Collier -Seagrass meadows of the Great Barrier Reef: What affects change?
- Johnson-Can fish recruitment be used as a tool to evaluate the health of an estuary?
- Holtum-How increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide centration affects plant growth
- Wen-Recruitment hotspots and their role in management of large predatory fishes
- Yansen- Why do some vines eventually become epiphytic?
- Are no-take marine reserves viable?
- Fox- The role of rabbitfishes in coral reef ecosystems
- Dixson-The use of olfactory cues by coral reef fish larvae
- Aristophanous- Dung beetle biodiversity and climate change (North Queensland)
- Howells - How resilient are coral endosymbionts to climate change?
- Smith - Habitat specialisation, macro-algae and phase shifts: the structure and resilience of reef fish communities on a coastal reef.
- Donelson - Climate change and the future for coral reef fishes: impacts and adaptation
- McIntyre - Does the Quinine berry (Petalostigma pubescens) contain quinine?
- Abell - Truffle fungi and northern bettongs in North Queensland
- Milione - Reproduction, culture and growth of the winged pearl oyster, Pteria penguin
- Jerry - Aquaculture Group (pearls, barramundi, coral reef fish)
- Qian - Evolution of social structure in the ant genus Myrmecia
- Luter - Sponge disease in Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef
- Ortiz Guerra - The role of macrobenthic invertebrates in tropical Australian estuaries
- Congdon - Invasive grasses and conservation of natural ecosystems
- Luly - Acacia peuce - the Waddi Tree of the desert
- Moorhead - Development of captive breeding techniques for marine environmental fish
- Busilacchi - Subsistence fishing in the Torres Strait and sustainability
- Huerlimann - Microalgal Lipid metabolism
- Devney - Climate variation and population dynamics in tropical seabirds
- Holmes - Processes and mechanisms of predatory interactions on newly settled reef fish
- Puente-Lelievre - Molecular systematics and Pollen studies in Astroloma-Styphelia clade in the Styphelioideae of the Ericaceae
- Kenyon - Variable susceptibility of frogs to the emerging infectious disease, Chytridiomycosis
- Magnusson - Impact of herbicide contamination on tropical microalgae
- Grant - Biodiversity, Biogeography and Phylogeny of Australian Freshwater Planarians