Dr. Jeff Wright Position:   Associate Lecturer Room:   32 G13 Phone No:   +(61) 2 4221 5260 Email:   jeffw@uow.edu.au Lab/other loc:     Lab Phone:

Research Interests

Demography of marine algae and invertebrates

Marine plant-herbivore interactions

Invasive species

Caulerpa taxifolia invasion

 

 

Representative Publications

Wright JT, Davis AR (In Press) Demographic feedback between clonal growth and fragmentation in an invasive seaweed. Ecology

Gribben PE, Wright JT (In Press) Invasive seaweed enhances recruitment of a native bivalve: roles of refuge from predation and habitat choice. Marine Ecology Progress Series

Dworjanyn SD, Wright JT, Paul N, de Nys R, Steinberg PD (In Press) The cost of chemical defense in the red alga Delisea pulchra. Oikos

Wright JT, Dworjanyn SA, Rogers CN, Steinberg PD, Williamson JE, Poore AGB (2005) Density-dependent sea urchin grazing: differential removal of species, changes in community composition and alternative community states. Marine Ecology Progress Series 298:143-156

Wright JT, de Nys R, Poore AGB, Steinberg PD (2004) Chemical defence in a marine alga: heritability and the potential for selection by herbivores. Ecology 85:2946-2959

Wright JT, Steinberg PD (2001) Effects of variable recruitment and post-recruitment herbivory on local population size of a marine alga. Ecology 82:2200-2215

Searchable Publication List

 

Current Students

Honours

Jeremy Comer

Predator habitat use in Caulerpa taxifolia-invaded estuaries of south-eastern NSW

Loni Koukoumaftsis

Does Caulerpa taxifolia increase the susceptibility of infauna to predation

Justin McKinnon

 

 

 

Suggested Topics for Future Students

 

 

See Also the Honours Topics Page

 

 

Abbreviated CV

Academic Degrees

1999. PhD. School of Biological Sciences, University of NSW

1992. BSc. (Hons) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong

 

Academic and Research Appointments

2005 – current. Associate Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong;

2002 – 2005. ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong;

2000 - 2001. Postdoctoral Researcher, Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis

2000 – 2001 Visiting Research Scientist, Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories, University of Washington