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Melodie’s research focuses on the ecology and conservation of populations and communities. Her interests extend from quantifying and modeling the abundance ..... Read more here 

                                                          David’s research focuses on understanding the impacts of environmental change on biodiversity. This work has included assessing the potential impacts of climate change across protected area networks, evaluating the efficacy .... Read more here 

His PhD research investigated the consequences of multispecies invasion for understorey plant communities in a dry forest ecosystem. It used a largely trait-based approach to look at how multispecies invasion ... Read more here 

Cath’s PhD research continues her passion of working to increase our knowledge about threatened species and their associated threatening processes to enable appropriate conservation management.  Cath will focus on the critically endangered Azorella macquariensis ... Read more here 

                                                Sarah’s PhD research is on what drives biodiversity patterns and interactions across multiple trophic levels, and what this means for ecosystem multifunctionality. She will examine the relationships between native and invasive plant species ... Read more here 

For his PhD research, David will be broadly looking at the use, or lack thereof, of ecological theory in the risk assessment process for invasive species. This will include the critical assessment of current and proposed assessment techniques .... Read more here 

Saxbee is a graduate of Monash University’s Bachelor of Science Advanced – Global Challenges in ecology and conservation biology. He received first class honours for investigating the potential threat environmental arsenic contamination poses to Australian marsupial populations. - Read more here