I'm the Managing Editor for Restoration Ecology, the Journal of the Society for Ecological Restoration.
I'm a benthic marine ecologist and my research interests evolve around the mechanistic underpinnings of organisms' responses to environmental change and disturbance.
I'm a collaborator at MARE–Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
SER2019 World Conference on Ecological Restoration
Cape Town, South Africa 2019
UPCOMING EVENTS
MY LATEST RESEARCH
Most recently, I've tested the proteomic responses of three spatially distinct Sydney rock oyster populations to elevated pCO2. We found that elevated pCO2 differ significantly between wild populations of Sydney rock oysters based on localised scales of biotic and abiotic pressures. Only some components of the generic intracellular stress response were activated in all three Sydney rock oyster populations responding to elevated pCO2. In addition multivariate analysis identified clear differences in their overall proteomic response. Differences between populations in their proteomic responses suggested that the local environments from which oysters originate might affect their capacity to respond to ocean acidification.
In this study I've hypothesised that (1) Bembicium auratum, an intertidal mangrove gastropod, would display greater and more rapid vertical migration out of acidified than reference estuarine waters, and (2) responses would be more pronounced in gastropods collected from acidified than reference sites. Both the migration of gastropods out of acidified waters and retraction into their shells serves to reduce exposure time to acidified waters and may reduce the impact of this stressor on their populations. The stronger response to acidification of gastropods from populations previously exposed to this stressor suggests that the response may be learned, inherited or induced over multiple exposures.
