ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY

Within ICBEM our interests in Environmental Biology range across the disciplines of ecology, physiology genetics and behaviour.

Major conservation themes include:

the potential impacts of climate change on plants and animals in both

• marine (Davis, Minchinton)
• and terrestrial (Robinson, French, Bradstock) environments,

as well as anthropogenic environmental impacts on the Australian biota including:

• the effects of habitat fragmentation and built environments (French, Whelan, Ayre),
• fire regimes (Bradstock, Whelan),
• invasive species (French, Davis, Minchinton, Ayre),
• indigenous hunting (Adams),
• fishing (West, Davis, Ayre)

Still other applied areas range from

• studies of the effects of anchor damage on sea grass and sea grass habitat (West),
• urban garden design and bird Biodiversity (French),
• the importance of endogenous heat production in forensic entomology (Wallman)

Many projects also include direct input into policy and management strategies (see Conservation Biology and Law pages).