ERS staff

ACADEMIC

TECHNICAL

ADMINISTRATIVE

• Insect herbivores and herbivory
• Potential impacts of climate change on
  insect interactions, physiology & behaviour
• Insect community structure along
  environmental and evolutionary gradients
• Tri-trophic interactions (plant: insect
  herbivores: predators & parasitoids

• Hydrothermal ore deposits
• Environmental geochemistry of catchments
• Regolith geochemistry and processes

• Epidemiology and management of soil-borne plant diseases
• Population ecology of soil fungi
• Biological indicators of soil health
• Plant-pathogen interactions

• Crop Agronomy

• Companion animal health and nutrition
• Canine dental health
• Urate urolithiasis in the Dalmatian
• Grass eating behaviour in dogs

• Systematics of Cyperaceae worldwide
• Floral development, photosynthetic pathway variation and biology of Cyperaceae
• Biology, biogeography and taxonomy of Australian plants
  
  

• Population dynamics
• Resource allocation
• Habitat utilisation macropod
• Marsupial ecology experimental ecology

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• Fire ecology
• Remnant vegetation
• Plant invasion ecology
• Mangrove and saltmarsh dynamics
• Arid zone plant ecology
  

• Wool traits in Merino sire evaluation
  
• Risk management in wool supply chains
• Modelling wool production
  
• Wool colour

• Nutrition and wool characteristic

• Effects of soil organic matter and other bonding agents on aggregate stability
• Effects of compaction on soil strength and soil structure
• Effects of soil strength on the ability of plant roots to penetrate soil
• Study of pasture hydrology under different grazing management systems
• Study of soil cover designs for mine waste rock dumps

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• Sheep parasitology
• Nutrition and sheep/wool production

• Mariculture

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• Irrigation - the hydrology/water balance of surface irrigation and the operational and management techniques to achieve the most efficient use of water
  
• The impact of land-use on hydrology and health of estuarine systems

• Estuarine wetlands, the impact of opening floodgates for rehabilitation

• Ornithology
• Behavioural ecology of woodland and forest birds
• Conservation biology in rural landscapes
• Biology of honeyeaters
• Ecology and conservation of coastal wetland birds
  

• Post mortem proteolysis in muscle tissue
• Determinants of meat quality

• Physiological ecology of animals; energetics in mammals, birds, lizards and invertebrates
• Thermoregulation in mammals, birds and reptiles
• Hibernation and torpor in mammals, birds and lizards
• Dietary lipids

• Discovery of genes underlying disease resistance and adaptation
• Design of sustainable and profitable breeding programs in developed and developing world
• Utilization of molecular genetic technologies in genetic improvement
• Assessment and utilization of genetic diversity

• Waste management/industrial ecology – improved utilisation of waste products and scare natural resources
• Improved engineering utilisation of sustainable natural resources, such as timber and recyclables

• Heritage engineering - history, preservation/conservation and/or restoration of engineering infrastructure

• Comparative erythrocyte biochemistry
• The regulation of gastrointestinal motility in ruminants
• Comparative gastrointestinal development
• Aquaculture
  

• Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life for optimization of biological problems
• Computational methods and statistical analysis of high-throughput genomic data
• Evolution and population genetics
  

• Ecology of pests and beneficial insects in cotton
• Insect migration and short-range movement
• Reproductive behaviour and pheromones of insects
• Forecasting pest outbreaks
  

• Conservation, management and ecology of endangered plants
• Reproductive requirements of pioneer species
• Bee pollination
• Plant systematics and evolution
• Plant biodiversity in grassland ecosystems
  
  

• Plant-soil interactions in the rhizosphere
• Role of organic matter in nutrient cycling
• Soil solution chemistry and plant nutrition
• Whole farm systems research
  
  

• The behaviour of farm animals, in particular the impact of social behaviour on production and welfare
• Nutrition x reproduction interactions in ruminant animals, in particular the manipulation of neonatal survival
• Aspects of artificial breeding technologies (superovulation and embryo transfer) in small ruminants

• Nutrition of poultry and pigs
• Effects of anti-nutritional factors on farm animals
• Development of digestive function in poultry
• Nutritional application of biotechnology feed additives (microbial enzymes; prebiotics)
• Evaluation of alternative feed resources for poultry and pigs

• Plant Breeding (triticale improvement)
• Improved water use in pulse and oilseed crops
• Weed control in cropping systems
• New crop studies
  
  

• Nutritional and genetic regulation of host resistance to internal parasites of sheep
• Ecology of major trichostrongylid parasites of sheep
• Periparturient relaxation of immunity to internal parasites of sheep
• Grazing management and effects on animal production and natural resource management
• Strategies to reduce neonatal lamb mortality
• Nutrition of grazing herbivores

• Theoretical quantitative genetics and design of animal breeding programs
• Information systems to aid detection and exploitation of genes of major effect
• Implementation systems for integrating technical, cost and logistical issues in breeding programs

Email: kknox2@une.edu.au
Phone: 02 6773 2204

• Agricultural ecology
• Plant physiology
• Farming systems analysis
• Biostatistics

• GIS and remote sensing applications in biodiversity, conservation planning, species distribution, rangeland management, forest ecosystems
• Spatial modelling including GRID based modelling, habitat modelling, risk and sensitivity modelling
• Mobile GIS applications in natural resources management
• Hyperspectral remote sensing in forestry and wetlands
• Decision support systems

• The role of soil fauna (notably ants, termites and earthworms) in modifying a range of physical, chemical and morphological soil properties
• The ramifications of soil/fauna interactions for agricultural, forestry, mining and native vegetation conservation and rehabilitation issues
• The perceptions of land users about land degradation and soil health

• Chemistry, hydrology and management of acid sulphate soils
• Crop and pasture management in relation to soil chemical and physical properties
• The role of computers and multimedia in tertiary education
  
  

• Nutrition of pigs and poultry
• Gut microbiology
• Gastrointestinal physiology and function
• Evaluation of alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters for pigs and poultry

• Ruminant nutrition; supplementing diets with urea and ‘escape’ protein
• Degradation of plant protein in the rumen
• Estimation of microbial growth in the rumen using urinary excretion of purine derivatives
• Protein synthesis and degradation in animal tissues
• Voluntary food intake and selective grazing behaviour
• Use of istopic tracers in biological research

• Biodiversity conservation and fire management
• Agroforestry, farm forestry, revegetation and ecosystem rehabilitation
• Environmental dispute resolution
• Park and wildland management
• Ecosystem function and health of trees in agricultural landscapes
• Ecology and management of mistletoes
• Ornithology and avian ecology
• Vegetation ecology and managemen

• Egg and egg shell quality in laying hens
• Infectious bronchitis disease in laying hens
• Kidney structure and function in avian species

• Bioinformatics and gene evolution
• Molecular population genetics

• Rehabilitation of wetland and riverine systems
• River function as bioindicators
• Environmental flows in coastal and inland aquatic systems
• Aquatic food webs and their response to floods
• Droughts and human-induced impacts
• Algal ecology
• Biogeochemistry of aquatic systems

• Animal nutrition, in particular carbohydrate and protein digestion
• Supplementary feeding of cattle and sheep and the impact it has on growth and reproduction
• Rangeland ecology with particular interest in the impact of grazing management practices

• Mixed Farming Systems
• Sustainability of whole farm systems
• Management of perennial pastures through drought
• Pasture establishment
• Research data management
• Board member of the Cicerone Project (http://www.cicerone.org.au)

• Poultry nutrition
• Gut microbiology

• Weed Ecology and Management
• Pasture and crop weed ecology and management
• Weed seed banks
• Weed surveys
• Crop competition and herbicide tolerance

• Marine and estuary ecology
• Natural spatial and temporal variation
• Human impacts
• Conservation and management
• Biogeography
• Ecological processes

• Applied cotton production
• Entomology in biological control of weeds and pests

• Techniques to measure in vivo body composition; different physiological stresses (weight loss, pregnancy and lactation)
• Aspects of meat quality

• Detection and use of quantitative trait for livestock production
• Optimisation of animal breeding programs and use of new technologies in Statistical Genetics
• Genetic evaluation and Linear Models
  

• Evolution and ecology of plant mating systems
• Gender strategies in plants
• Pollination biology and floral evolution
• The evolution of selfing from outcrossing
• Life cycle patterns and life history evolution
• Population ecology of rare plants and weeds

• Dietary ecology of mycophagous ('fungus-eating') mammals
• Ecology and conservation of terrestrial vertebrates, especially threatened marsupials
• Wild horse ecology and management
• Wildlife management
• Spatial ecology (home range, movement and habitat use) of macropods
• Response of vertebrate populations to fire
• Diversity and distribution of hypogeal fungi ('truffles')

• Diseases of sheep and goats with a special interest in the integrated control of internal parasites
• Diseases of poultry with a special interest in Marek’s disease of chickens
• Sheep and goat production systems
• The teleology and regulation of seasonality in ruminants

• Nutrient dynamics in arid, semi-arid and humid plant communities
• Ecophysiology of drought stress
• Ecophysiology of plants in saline and arid environments

• Monitoring and management of salt movement from beef cattle feedlots
• Environmental impact of sewage treatment plants (biosolids and wastewater) to land
• Acid sulphate soil monitoring

• Fate, behaviour and bioavailability of contaminants, both organic xenobiotic compounds and metals, in environmental systems, specifically soils
• Contaminants in soils amended with biosolids
• The environmental chemistry of mining derived As and Sb contaminated soils
• Remediation of contaminated soils

• Plant and animal gene discovery
• Molecular genetic mapping
• Gene expression and functional analysis

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