Annual Report 2019 Welcome from the Head of Department 2019 – CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE in RESEARCH, TEACHING and SERVICE

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Faculty of Science and Engineering Annual report 2019 Welcome from the Head of Department 2019 – CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH, TEACHING AND SERVICE

The Department’s vision is to be a truly integrative Department of Biological Sciences that achieves excellence in research, teaching and service to the scientific and broader community. We value our inclusive and collegial culture and continue to strive to achieve high-impact research that addresses significant challenges to the Earth’s biological DISTINGUISHED systems, provide an inspiring and supportive student experience, and PROFESSOR build productive partnerships with researchers, industry, government MICHELLE LEISHMAN and the wider community. Head of Department

The recognised research strengths of the Department are animal behaviour, conservation biology, ecology and evolution, with emerging areas of research strength in biosecurity and urban greening. In 2019 we published nearly 400 journal articles, book chapters or conference proceedings, including high-impact publications in Science, Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Ecology and Evolution, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Our animal behaviour researchers were named among the most influential researchers in the Life Sciences and Earth Sciences category in The Australian’s 2019 research magazine in the field of animal behaviour and ethology. Several of our plant ecologists are listed as Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers for 2019: Professor Ian Wright – Plant and Animal Science, Adjunct Professor Colin Prentice – Environment and Ecology, Professor Hendrik Poorter – Plant and Animal Science. In addition, Professor Ian Wright was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. The Department now boasts five Distinguished Professors with the appointment of Professor Ian Wright and Professor Philip Taylor. In other awards, two of our early career researchers received NSW Tall Poppy awards (Dr Chris Reid and Dr Simon Clulow), Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was presented with the Australian Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Distinguished Professors Lesley Hughes and Michelle Leishman were finalists for this year’s Eureka Environmental Research Award. Simon Clulow also won this year’s British Ecological Society Southwood Prize – the Journal of Applied Ecology award for the best paper by an early career researcher in 2018. Our adjunct and emeritus professors were also recognised for their achievements: Emeritus Professor Dick Frankham was awarded the Whitley Certificate of Special Commendation from the Royal Zoological Society of NSW for the publication of books on Australasian Zoology that emphasise the conservation of its fauna, and Adjunct Professor David Mabberley was honoured with the publication of a Festschrift, published as a supplementary issue of the Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore and consisting of a series of essays written by his students and peers. The Department was associated with two successful ARC Centre for Excellence outcomes in 2019. Professor Michael Gillings is a named investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, led by Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen (Molecular Sciences), while Distinguished Professor Ian Wright will lead a node in the UQ-led ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture. Finally, our external research income continued to increase, totalling over $11.7 million from a wide range of organisations and partners, including the Australian Research Council, NSW Office of Environment & Heritage, NSW Department of Primary Industries, and Horticulture Innovation Australia. Our higher degree research students are an extremely important part of the Department. With over 100 students, our annual HDR conference is a fabulous showcase of exciting research. An increasing proportion of our students study through cotutelle arrangements with a wide range of partnership universities globally. In addition to departmental support, many of our HDR students successfully obtain small grants to support their research through a wide range of professional societies and NGOs. The Department supports our HDR students through the HDR panels, as well as a research enrichment program, statistical support, writing workshops and a writing bootcamp. In 2019 there was a strong focus on curriculum development under the University’s Curriculum Architecture project. We finalised the development of exciting new initiatives in the Bachelor of Medical Sciences and four-year integrated Bachelor/Master programs in Medical Sciences, Conservation Biology, and Marine Sciences and Management, as well as a new Open Universities Australia course – a Bachelor of Science (Biology). Our strong focus is on maintaining a sustainable teaching program and enhancing the student experiences, with several seminars and workshops on innovative teaching, student engagement and working collaboratively across teaching and professional staff to deliver excellence in teaching. Dr Kerstin Bilgmann was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy for demonstrating

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In the coming year we look forward to WELCOME FROM THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT 2 increasing our strength and reputation GOVERNANCE 4 in our current and emerging areas of RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 5 research excellence, and delivering RESEARCH STAFF HIGHLIGHTS 8 excellence in teaching, focusing on INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT 10 enhanced student engagement and EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING 11 employability. LEARNING AND TEACHING 13 Current Offerings 13 Planning Future offerings 13 outstanding contribution and leadership in teaching and supporting Under the New Curriculum student learning. Dr Bruno Buzatto won the Learning and Teaching Continuous Feedback on 13 Student Nominated Award, Dr Katherine McClellan won awards Learning and Teaching for Excellence in Leadership and Citizenship and in Teaching Excellence, while Lachie Roach was recognised for Excellence in Engagement with Industry 13 Sessional Teaching. Supporting our Staff 13 Our Outreach team regularly welcomed school groups to our campus and the newly revamped Biology Discovery Centre, and developed STAFF HIGHLIGHTS 14 and delivered a work experience program for students from seven local high schools. Many of our staff are excellent science AWARDS AND PRIZES 15 communicators who are frequently sought by the media and asked Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence 15 to deliver talks and workshops at events such as the Sydney Science Faculty of Science and Engineering 15 Festival and Science in the Pub. Awards for Excellence The Department is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion Undergraduate Prizes in Biological Sciences 15 as well as to sustainability. In 2019 the Department developed a Cultural Statement that underpins who we are; this is available on HDR Student Awards and Grants 16 our website. We held a number of celebrations, including morning Doctorate and Master of Research 16 teas for Harmony Day and Environment Day, the Faculty of Science Student Completions 2019 and Engineering Women in STEM morning tea, as well as events such as the Annual Easter Treasure Hunt, pot-luck lunches, games and the OTHER DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES 18 social club. We were the first Macquarie University department to achieve GOLD accreditation for Sustainability, and staff got together for regular tree planting and litter collection lunches. 2019 PUBLICATIONS 21

In the coming year we look forward to increasing our strength and BIOLOGY AT A GLANCE 38 reputation in our current and emerging areas of research excellence, and delivering excellence in teaching, focusing on enhanced student engagement and employability. We will continue to expand our engagement with industry and the wider community through research partnerships and our successful and growing outreach program. We highly value our reputation for collegiality, equity and respect, which we will continue to foster through mentoring and support. I value the enormous contribution of the academic staff, students and professional staff of the Department. It is a pleasure to be a part of such a vibrant and productive department and I look forward to the year ahead.

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR MICHELLE LEISHMAN Head of Department

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 3 Governance THE DEPARTMENT’S GOVERNANCE IS BASED ON AN INCLUSIVE AND COLLEGIATE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE

The Head of Department appoints an Executive Group, the Directors of Research, Learning & Teaching and Higher Degree Research, and all chairs of the departmental committees.

The Executive Group consists of the Head, Deputy Heads of OUR DIVERSITY STATEMENT Department, a member of the Department and the Department’s We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and Executive Officer. The Head of Department, the Executive Group Elders of the lands on which our university is located. and Department committees are responsible for defining and In the Department of Biological Sciences, we strive to create a implementing the strategic direction for the Department. diverse community that is inclusive and respectful. We recognise, The Directors of the Learning & Teaching, HDR and Research welcome and support staff, students and visitors from different committees represent the Department on their equivalent Faculty countries, cultures, backgrounds, genders, gender identities and committees. Committees include representation from academic and sexualities, people with disabilities, from all ages, and more. professional staff as well as HDR students where appropriate. We believe a visibly diverse Department generates creativity, inspiration, productivity and a positive working environment. Head of Department We value this diversity and show respect in the way we interact Michelle Leishman with each other. We conduct our core mission (research, teaching, Executive Group community engagement) in a way that is inclusive and encourages everyone to participate and contribute. Michelle Leishman (HoD), Andrew Barron (Deputy HoD), Grant Hose (Deputy HoD), Mariella Herberstein, Sharyon O’Donnell (Department Manager) Committees Learning and Higher Degree Work Health Teaching Research and Safety Drew Allen Culum Brown Simon Griffith Master of Research Advising Prizes Grant Hose Glenn Brock Linda Beaumont Outreach Fieldwork Research Matthew Bulbert Martin Whiting Andrew Barron Diving and Boating Plant Growth Early Career Safety Facility Research Robert Harcourt Ian Wright Ajay Narendra and Rachel Dudaniec

4 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Research highlights THE RESEARCH GENERATED BY STAFF AND STUDENTS GENERATES NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPACT

ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR SHARK ATTACKS Proximity to river mouths is implicated for all three species, says IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS Hart, because they are productive areas for shark prey. Rainfall Ryan LA, Lynch SK, Harcourt R, Slip DJ, Peddemors V, Everett JD, makes them even more so. Using rainfall data from the Bureau of Harrison L-M, Hart NS (2019). Environmental predictive models Meteorology, the researchers established that white shark attack for shark attacks in Australian waters. Marine Ecology Progress risk peaked when monthly rainfall was 100mm, and that tiger shark Series 631, 165–179. risk also increased significantly with rainfall. Led by Macquarie University, the research has discovered that the 2 risk of great white shark attack increases near river mouths, at times of high rainfall and in water that is cooler than usual. There is also an overall trend for more attacks when the sea is warmer, which coincides with more people using the ocean for recreation. Analysing 101 years’ worth of data from the Taronga Zoo-curated Australian Shark Attack File (ASAF), the Modelling Shark Attacks, Australia study aimed to understand how environmental conditions relate to the risk of shark bites in order to build models that can predict when the likelihood of shark attack is highest. The researchers’ analysis of the ASAF data showed that over the period from 1915 to 2015, there were 835 people bitten by sharks in Australian waters, attributed to 12 different shark species. One in every four of these attacks was fatal, and just three species of shark were responsible for all of the fatal attacks: white sharks, tiger sharks and bull sharks. The study, assisted by researchers from the Taronga Conservation Society, the NSW Department of Primary Industries and the University of NSW, found hot spots for white shark attacks along the south-west coast of Western Australia. Bull shark attacks were most common at higher latitudes along the north of Western 2. Fly feeding through a capillary tube during a feeding experiment. Photo: Ajay Narendra. Australia and east coast of Queensland. Attacks by tiger sharks had the highest occurrence in the northern parts of Australia, close to tropical reef locations, as well as some hot spots around Sydney. SELF-MEDICATION: HOW TO USE MACRONUTRIENTS TO BETTER SURVIVE INFECTIONS 1 Ponton F, Morimoto J, Robinson K, Kumar SS, Cotter S, Wilson K, Simpson SJ (2019). Macronutrients modulate survival to infection and immunity in Drosophila. Journal of Animal Ecology 89, 460–470. Nutrition and parasitic infections are amongst the most common environmental challenges faced by organisms and will become increasingly variable with ongoing climate change. Given that animals in the wild are likely to experience changes in both their nutritional conditions and parasitic challenges, we need to understand how the interactions between these conditions shape an animal’s response if we hope to mitigate the effects of environmental changes. The interplay between nutrition, infection and immune function remains however poorly understood. Resources have typically been considered as something of a “black 1. Associate Professor Nathan Hart (left) and Dr Laura Ryan. box”, with the quantity of available food being used as a proxy for Photo: Jess Taylor. resource limitation. However, food is a complex mixture of macro-

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and micronutrients, the precise balance of which determines an 4 animal’s fitness. Here the effects of nutrition were measured through a geometric manipulation of the dietary protein and carbohydrate balance in the fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni. Our observations unveiled nutritional regulations of resistance to septic bacterial infections, with animals able to self-medicate by shifting their diet choice. Our work reinforces the idea that self-medication can happen through modulating macronutrient (carbohydrates and protein) selection to stimulate the immune response and potentially compensate for the negative effects of an infection. This result nicely matched some data we recently published using the fly Drosophila, and that show a similar trend whereby infected individuals shift their food choice towards a carbohydrate diet which activates antimicrobials production and provides them with a better survival after septic infection [Ponton et al. (2020) Journal of Animal Ecology 89, 460–470]. The interactions involving nutrition and immunity, and how the host deals with infectious agents, are critical aspects of animal health. Together, our results reveal the intricate relationship between food quality and resistance to infection and integrate the cross-talk between metabolic and immune pathways, strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology.

3 DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE OYSTER REEF RESTORATION Gribben PE, Bishop MJ, Figueira W, Dafforn KA, Vila Conjero A, Ross P, Bugnot A, Gillies C, Russell K, Brennan A (2019). Developing a framework for successful oyster reef restoration. ARC Linkage 2019–2022. $330,000. Oyster reefs support dense and diverse ecological communities and important ecosystems services such as water filtration, shoreline protection and fisheries production. Largely as a consequence of historic overharvest using destructive fishing practices, over 85% of oyster reefs have been lost globally and in Australia, since industrialisation. Despite subsequent removal of fishing pressure, oyster reefs have not recovered. The availability of hard substrate for settlement is broadly regarded as the critical factor limiting recovery, but other environmental and biological factors may also contribute. This project is identifying the ecological barriers to oyster reef recovery, at a variety of sites along the east Australian coast. It is then using this knowledge to develop and trial methods for oyster reef restoration. Expected outcomes are an ecological decision framework for effective oyster reef restoration that can be integrated into management and policy.

4. Remnant Sydney rock oyster reefs at low tide in Bermagui river, NSW. Photo: Francisco Martinez-Baena. 5. Growing Eucalyptus grandis (flooded gum) from seed in Biological Sciences Plant Growth Facility. Six different populations were sampled and grown for 3. Graphical abstract. Flies were injected with the pathogenic bacteria Serratia heat wave experiments. marcescens and offered a choice between diets during which their intake Photo: Unknown. of protein and carbohydrate was measured. Infected insects showed a shift in their diet choice compared to naïve and sham-infected individuals. This 6. Dr Rachael Gallagher sampling eucalypts for ‘omics analyses. modification of their feeding behaviour allowed them to better survive the Photo: Jemma Geohegan. infection and prevent the growth of the pathogens in their body. Flies self- 7. Visiting fellow Juliane Schaer releasing a grey headed flying fox (Pteropus medicated through a shift in their macronutrient intake. poliocephalus). Graphic: Dihn & Ponton Photo: Michelle Powers.

6 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES EVIDENCE FROM THE PROTEOME FOR LOCAL ADAPTATION MOLECULAR INVESTIGATION OF HEPATOCYSTIS PARASITES TO EXTREME HEAT IN A WIDESPREAD TREE SPECIES IN THE AUSTRALIAN FLYING FOX PTEROPUS POLIOCEPHALUS ACROSS ITS DISTRIBUTION RANGE Maher T, Mirzaei M, Pascovici D, Wright IJ, Haynes PA, Gallagher RV (2019). Evidence from the proteome for local adaptation to Schaer J, Boardman WSJ, McKeown A, Westcott D, extreme heat in a widespread tree species. Functional Ecology 33, Matuschewski K, Power ML (2019). Molecular investigation 436–446. of Hepatocystis parasites in the Australian flying fox Pteropus poliocephalus across its distribution range. Infection, Genetics The Plant Ecology & Conservation Group led by Dr Rachael and Evolution 75L 103978. Gallagher (ARC DECRA Fellow) collaborated with the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility at MQ to understand how eucalypts Bats are renowned for carrying highly diverse viruses but do they respond to heat waves. The project was led by an exceptional Master also carry diverse bacteria and parasites? The Parasite Interactions of Research student (Timothy Maher) who has since gone on to an Research Group, led by Associate Professor Michelle Power, industry position as a botanical consultant. This work was published is investigating this very question. While there is a plethora of in Functional Ecology and was featured on ABC Radio and in the information on viruses in bats, there is comparatively little on the print media and was also discussed by Dr Gallagher in the Royal bacteria and parasites that they may carry. Botanic Gardens Sydney podcast ‘Branching Out’. Examining the diversity of malarial parasites (Haemosporida) in When temperatures reach extremes, plants – just like people – need Australian Flying Foxes (also known as fruit bats) is one avenue being strategies to cope. Unlike animals, which can bury deeper into the investigated in collaboration with Dr Juliane Schaer from Humboldt soil or flee to cooler locations, plants are stuck in one spot and so University, Berlin and also an Honorary Researcher in the Department, must be able to withstand extreme conditions in situ. Understanding and collaborators from the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, how plants cope with extreme conditions is important because the University of Adelaide and CSIRO Land and Water. number of hot days and heat waves are increasing in many locations Associate Professor Power spent time in Berlin during 2019 with across the globe due to climate change. Trees typically take a long Dr Schaer, analysing DNA extracted from blood samples taken from time to mature and make new seeds compared to herbs and grasses the grey-headed flying fox, which can be found from Queensland to and this may limit their ability to adapt to our rapidly changing South Australia. DNA sequencing revealed a high genetic similarity climate. We investigated how the seedlings from one species of between Hepatocystis parasites sampled across the grey-headed Australian gum tree (Eucalyptus grandis) use proteins to protect flying fox range supporting the high connectivity of flying fox against heat, and whether this is related to how often temperatures colonies. The Hepatocystis parasites from the grey-headed flying fox reach extremes across their range along the east coast of Australia. were also genetically similar to those from three other Australian To do this, we raised seedlings from six populations in a common flying fox species indicating a lack of host specificity and geographic glasshouse environment and then exposed them to either a four-day separation. Interestingly, a low Hepatocystis prevalence was heat wave (42°C) or control treatment (24°C) in growth cabinets. detected in the South Australian colony which represents the edge Importantly, the locations where the populations were sourced had of the grey-headed flying fox range. This low prevalence may be due different exposure to extreme heat conditions, ranging between to the absence of the vector which remains unknown. 0.3–13 days per year where temperatures were 15°C or more above the annual average. We used a technique (proteomics) for surveying all Dr Schaer is studying the evolutionary relationships of the proteins found in a plant tissue to look at changes between heat wave malarial parasites, and as bats carry unique parasite genera, the study and control conditions. We found that during heat waves, seedlings of these bat parasites is essential for evolutionary inferences and for from populations which are more regularly exposed to extreme heat our understanding of the malaria disease in humans. The parasite make more proteins associated with protection from heat stress. We data from Australian flying foxes is advancing the understanding can use this knowledge and approach to discover which populations of evolution of malarial parasites. The data is also contributing to a might provide the best seed for restoring ecosystems and climate- wider question on the role of co-infection and vial dynamics in flying proofing forestry as temperatures become more extreme. foxes, a major direction of Associate Professor Power’s research.

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MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2019 7 Research staff highlights A BUSY YEAR OF AWARDS, FUNDING SUCCESS AND COLLABORATIONS FOR OUR RESEARCHERS

NEWEST FELLOW OF THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 12 Internationally renowned plant ecologist Professor Ian Wright was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. The Academy inducted 22 new Fellows in 2019, elected for their outstanding contributions to their disciplines. Professor Wright is best known for global scale analysis of plant traits, for careful quantification of plant structure-function relationships, and for using concepts from economics to understand plant evolution and plant ecological strategies. The concept of a Leaf Economic Spectrum (LES) has become standard in textbooks covering plant ecology, physiology and ecological climatology. Both the LES and “least-cost theory” are becoming embedded in global vegetation and production models, providing a more robust theoretical basis to these important tools. AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIFETIME 10 ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was honoured for her work on climate change with the 2019 Australian Museum Research Institute Lifetime Achievement Award.

2019 NSW TALL POPPY SCIENCE AWARD Dr Chris Reid and Dr Simon Clulow were each awarded a 2019 NSW Tall Poppy Science Award. Chris Reid’s research examines the extraordinary collective behaviour of ant colonies and slime moulds. He uses laboratory and field-based experiments to understand how these simple rules translate into complex group-level outcomes, to improve our own human-designed systems, in areas ranging from computer algorithms to swarms of autonomous robots. EUREKA PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH Simon Clulow received his award for his research on innovative Distinguished Professor Michelle Leishman and Distinguished conservation strategies, from controlling global pathogens to Professor Lesley Hughes with the Weed Futures team were named resurrecting extinct species. as finalists for the 2019 NSW Environment, Energy and Science (DPIE) Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. The Weed Futures 11 project predicts how Australia’s exotic plants will respond to climate change, to help land managers fight the war on weeds. The project means Australia is better placed to manage and protect its biodiversity in a changing climate.

10. Professor Ian Wright. Photo: Chris Stacey. 11. (From left) Dr Noushin Nasiri (School of Engineering) Dr Simon Clulow, Dr Chris Reid, Dr Ronika Power (Department of Ancient History). Photo: Richard Gates. 12. Professor Lesley Hughes and family with her 2019 AMRI Lifetime Achievement Award. Photo: Unknown. 13. Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes (left) and Distinguished Professor Michelle Leishman. Photo: Joanne Stephan.

8 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 14 WORKSHOP ON ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS (WEEG2019) Katoomba, Blue Mountains, August 4–9th 2019. WEEG2019 was a 6-day immersive workshop in the Blue Mountains that provided training in conservation genetics, detecting adaptation to the environment, genomics, and using environmental DNA for biodiversity monitoring. International and national presenters delivered state of the art demonstrations of the latest methods and theory. The workshop attracted 57 participants from 29 institutions (24 in Australia, others in New Zealand, Germany and India) and provided training in bioinformatics for ecology and evolution to a diversity group of participants including those from Taronga Zoo, Sydney Water, CSIRO, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Museum of Victoria and HDR students from 17 universities. Four of the 10 presenters were international experts from New Zealand, Germany, United States and France, with a final keynote address NEW ARC DISCOVERY AWARDS FOR 2019 from Professor Ary Hoffman. PROJECT TITLE: THE SPARROWS IN THE MINING TOWNS: WEEG2019 was conceived and organised by Rachael Dudaniec A CENTURY OF ADAPTATION TO METAL CONTAMINATION with funding from the NSW Chief Scientist Sponsorship Fund, co-organised with Anthony Chariton, and MQ HDR student tutors Simon Giffith, Mark Taylor, John Swaddle Natalie Hejl, Sonu Yadav and Annachiara Codello. The workshop This project will characterise how contamination from the was supported by Melbourne Bioinformatics and QFAB, Genomics extraction of precious metals can spread through the environment Virtual Lab (Nektar) in Brisbane. and how it affects a highly urbanised bird – the house sparrow. House sparrows provide a great natural system to understand 16 the genetic potential of organisms to adapt to anthropomorphic change in the environment connected with the resources industry. This work will provide insight into the future management of environmental contamination from the mining industry.

The image shows a male house sparrow with the inset photo illustrating the proximity between the urban area and the mining Participants from the Workshop on Ecological industry in Broken Hill, NSW. and Evolutionary Genomics, Katoomba.

17 THE CONVERSATION YEARBOOK 2019 Dr Alessandro Ossola, Dr Hugh Burley, Ms Leigh Staas, Dr Rachael Gallagher, Associate Professor Linda Beaumont and Distinguished Professor Michelle Leishman’s work on urban trees and climate change was featured in The Conversation Yearbook 2019. Their work was selected from among 4,000 PROJECT TITLE: NAVIGATING BRAINS: THE NEUROBIOLOGY lay articles published by Australia's top OF SPATIAL COGNITION thinkers in 2019. Ken Cheng, Jochen Zeil, Ajay Narendra, Andrew Barron, 14. The image shows a male house sparrow with the inset photo illustrating the Rüdiger Wehner proximity between the urban area and the mining industry in Broken Hill, NSW. Graphic: Unknown. This project aims to identify how different forms of spatial 15. The dorsal view of the head of an Australian bull ant the showing visual and information are processed and integrated by the brain. We olfactory brains regions in a micro-computed tomography image. developed techniques to anaesthetise specific brain regions and Photo: Ajay Narendra 16. Participants from the Workshop on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics, to place tethered ants in a virtual-reality simulation of their real Katoomba. Photo: Unknown. environment to allow precise control of visual navigational cues. 17. The Conversation Yearbook 2019.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2019 9 Industry engagement GROWING INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT IN RESEARCH AND LEARNING & TEACHING

The Department continues to grow its industry engagement and industry led-research, with most staff in the Department having close ties to external organisations and collaboration across teaching and research.

There were several very successful learning and teaching initiatives 8 with industry. The hugely successful Science Safari, run in partnership with the Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney, was held again in 2019. Under this program, Advanced Science (BIOL188, BIOL388) and MRes students provide scientific activities for school students to showcase research in biological and environmental sciences. This event also offers opportunities for the Advanced Science students to interact with the Botanical Gardens’ scientists and conservation managers. Our students in BIOL349 Biodiversity and Conservation also worked with North Sydney Council to assess the biodiversity values of Sydney’s largest green roof at the Coal Loader site at Ball’s Head. Industry involvement in teaching continues to grow, for example, with industry experts providing specialist guest lectures in units such as BIOL373 Aquatic of the four ARC Linkage projects submitted in 2019 that involved Ecosystems, BIOL861 Conservation and Management of Wild members of the Department. Partners on successful Linkage grants Populations and BIOL875 Contemporary Conservation in Australia. also included Hunter Local Land Services, Landcare Australia Ltd, Taronga Conservation Society, Reunion Shark Risk Management In 2019, the University signed a Memorandum of Understanding Centre and Oceans Research. with the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. The MoU recognises the many strong relationships between The successful Which Plant Where project (supported by DPIE and department members and will be a mechanism to Horticulture Innovation Australia) has continued to provide detailed grow this engagement in the coming years. The success of the advice and resources to the horticultural industry on plant species ongoing partnership was recognised with Biology Professors selection for urban green spaces, particularly with increasing heat Michelle Leishman and Lesley Hughes being finalists for the 2019 and drought under climate change. The project developed a living Eureka Prize for Environmental Research for their WeedFutures lab on campus in 2019 and continues to engage widely with the collaborative project with DPIE. DPIE were also partners on two nursery and horticultural industry.

8. Macquarie Uni signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the NSW Department of Planning, Industry & Environment. Photo: Mitchell Ferris. 9. The Living Lab on the Macquarie University campus. Photo: Unknown.

10 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES External research funding AWARDED TO BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES IN 2019

Table 1. External research funding awarded to Biological sciences in 2019. Award holders Title Funding Scheme Melanie Bishop, Katherine Dafforn Developing a framework for effective oyster reef ARC Linkage-Projects, 116866142 - The restoration Nature Conservancy Australia Trust Grant, 100579805 - NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Bruno Buzatto Sydney funnel-web spiders: behaviour, mating Australian Geographic Society Sponsorship system and population structure of the world’s Grant deadliest spider Bruno Buzatto, Braxton Jones Sydney funnel-web spiders: Behaviour, mating National Geographic Scientific system and population structure of the world’s Research Grant deadliest spider Ken Cheng Neuro-Autonomy: Neuroscience-inspired AUSMURI perception, navigation, and spatial awareness for autonomous robots Ken Cheng, Ajay Narendra Becoming expert navigators with tiny brains: ARC Discovery Projects Learning in desert ants Simon Clulow, Angela Simms Reviewing the conservation status and ecology Turtle Survival Alliance of the endemic chelonians of Sulawesi: Forsten’s Tortoise (Indotestudo forstenii) and Sulawesi Forest Turtle (Leucocephalon yuwonoi) Simon Clulow, Grant Webster, The ecology of the newly described and endangered ECA Terrestrial Ecology Research Grant Martin Whiting frog, Uperoleia mahonyi Simon Clulow, Grant Webster The ecology of a newly described and endangered Lake Macquarie City Council Environmental frog, Mahony’s toadlet Research Grant Katherine Dafforn, Melanie Bishop, Ecological engineering of marine infrastructure Department of Agriculture, Commonwealth Maria Vozzo Rachael Gallagher, Michelle Leishman, Extending the SoS Site Selection Tool to optimise for NSW Office of Environment and Heritage James Lawson adaptive capacity and cost-effectiveness Rachael Gallagher Selected NSW Fabaceae species: IUCN risk NSW Office of Environment and Heritage assessments workshop Rachael Gallagher Rainforest refugia in NSW: Characterising an area of NSW Office of Environment and Heritage outstanding biodiversity value Jemma Geoghegan, Jane Williamson Revealing the emergence of fish viruses in Australia NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment & DPI Recreational Fishing Trusts Funding Michael Gillings, Sasha Tetu Peril and promise: Origins and spread of integron ARC Discovery Projects gene cassettes Simon Griffith, Callum McDiarmid Sperm morphology program Ecological Society of Australia - Student Research Award Oliver Griffith Inflammation as an early form of maternal-fetal ARC Discovery Projects signalling in pregnancy Simon Griffith, Mark Taylor The sparrows in the mining towns: A century of ARC Discovery Projects adaptation to metal contamination Robert Harcourt, Assessing trophic interactions between key marine PADI Foundation Research Grant Ana Sabrina Riverón Mato apex predators off the Uruguayan coast

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Award holders Title Funding Scheme Grant Hose, Kathryn Korbel, Predicting the effect of groundwater abstraction on NSW Department of Industry Anthony Chariton groundwater ecosystems Grant Hose, Anthony Chariton, Determining groundwater use by vegetation using NSW Department of Industry Kathryn Korbel environmental DNA Grant Hose, Anthony Chariton Predicting the impacts of groundwater abstraction NSW Environmental Trust - on groundwater ecosystems Environmental Research Program Grants Michelle Leishman, Jaco Le Roux, Tree root intrusion of sewerage infrastructure in the Sydney Water Corporation Alessandro Ossola, Ian Wright, Greater Sydney Region: towards a predictive risk Leigh Staas, Jerusha Beresford model Lizzy Lowe, Marie Herberstein ASAB: Exploring the social brain hypothesis in Individual donor(s) - International spiders Michelle Power Linking individual traits, the gut microbiome and ARC Discovery Projects parasite load in wildlife Chris Reid The emergence of modular information processing ARC Discovery Projects in animal collectives Rick Shine Appointment as a Member of the Australian ARC Appointment to the College of Experts Laureate Fellowships Selection Advisory Committee Rick Shine The evolution of phenotypic plasticity during a ARC Discovery Projects biological invasion Phil Taylor, Bishwo Mainali, Benefits and risks of raspberry ketone supplements IAEA Technical Cooperation Fund (TCF) Vivian Mendez Alvarez for Queensland fruit fly, and selection lines as an alternative approach to reduced cuelure responsiveness Phil Taylor, Mohammad Siddiqui Develop new molecular methods for comprehensive Department of Agriculture, Commonwealth and rapid fruit fly diagnosis Phil Taylor Developing and optimising production of a male- Horticulture Innovation Australia (HIA) only, temperature-sensitive-lethal, strain of Qfly, B. R&D Strategic Investment tryoni for SIT Phil Taylor MQ-AIMS co-funded appointment in engineered Australian Institute of Marine Science coral resilience (AIMS) Phil Taylor Joint MQ-CSIRO appointment in CSIRO Mouse Grains Res and Dev Corp (GRDC) Genomics Research and Dev Grant, 123056744 - CSIRO (NH) Phil Taylor Fungal gene drive post-doctoral fellowship CSIRO Fellowships Louise Tosetto Using drones to assess and monitor habitat use and Reef Guardian behaviours of sharks and rays across a coral reef Research Grant Martin Whiting, Ivan Beltran Arevalo Digging deep into the future: Effects of climate Australian Society of Herpetologists, Inc change in a fossorial lizard Jane Williamson, Biodiversity of marine flatworms in south-eastern Joyce W Vickery Scientific Research Fund Jorge Rodriguez Monter Australia Jane Williamson Identifying risk from marine debris sourced from DPI Recreational Fishing Trusts Funding recreational fishing and, where appropriate, determining solutions to key issues Jane Williamson AMSA 2020: Marine science in the Anthropocene NSW Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP) - Conference

12 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Learning and teaching NEW CURRICULUM 2020, TARGETED AT CAREER PATHWAYS IN BIOLOGY, MEDICAL SCIENCES AND CONSERVATION

CURRENT OFFERINGS offer and strategise how WIL activities can be better implemented Within the Bachelor of Science, the Department currently offers into our curriculum. Finally, in 2020, we will begin to explore ways 8-unit majors in Biology and Palaeobiology, and a 12-unit major in in which we can shift to team-based teaching of our units. This will Human Biology. The Department also manages two named degrees, help improve the teaching sustainability of our units and assist with the Bachelor of Biodiversity and Conservation and the Bachelor of incorporating multiple perspectives into the curriculum. Medical Sciences, and co-owns the Bachelor of Marine Science with the Departments of Earth & Planetary Sciences and Environmental UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES Sciences. At the postgraduate coursework level, the Department Undergraduate prizes were awarded to 10 students undertaking administers two coursework Masters degrees: The Master of Marine units of study in Biological Sciences in the areas of Plant Biology, Science and Management, and the Master of Conservation Biology. Genetics, Palaeontology and General Biological Sciences (Table 3 on A postgraduate certificate and postgraduate diploma level in page 13). We are grateful to the many individuals and organisations Conservation Biology is also offered. that make these prizes possible.

PLANNING FUTURE OFFERINGS UNDER CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK ON LEARNING AND TEACHING THE NEW CURRICULUM We recognise that obtaining and incorporating student feedback is In 2019, our L&T Committee worked closely with program essential for effective learning and teaching. In addition to collecting directors to review and revise all of our existing programs as student feedback data through the University LEU process, our part of Macquarie University Curriculum Architecture Project. department continues to promote student representatives in all These program changes, which will be rolled out in 2020, of our units and programs. We also have a formal bi-annual include: process of peer-review in the area of learning and teaching for all our convenors. • Expanding the Bachelor of Biodiversity and Conservation to include greater training in mathematics, statistics and ENGAGEMENT WITH INDUSTRY computer science, because such skills are increasingly sought by employers in the environmental fields The Department’s strategies are to enhance the student learning experience and embed an employability axis into all our programs. • Developing a four-year vertical double degree for the The Department is continuing to develop learning and teaching Bachelor of Biodiversity and Conservation and the Master initiatives with industry. For example, since 2017, we have partnered of Conservation Biology to cater to highly motivated with North Sydney Council to offer PACE activities to students in students BIOL349 (a capstone PACE unit for students in the Bachelor of • Reorganising the Bachelor of Medical Science to include Biodiversity and Conservation). Our PACE students are collecting six distinct majors through a cross-faculty partnership baseline biodiversity data on plants, birds and other wildlife in and between the Departments of Biological Sciences and around the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability at Balls Head Drive Molecular Sciences in the Faculty of Science and in Waverton. Engineering, the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and the Faculty of Human Sciences. SUPPORTING OUR STAFF The L&T Committee held a L&T one-day retreat attended by nearly all academic staff to discuss innovation in L&T and co-teaching of FUTURE DIRECTIONS units by teams of convenors in related topic areas (e.g. physiology, The L&T Committee has a busy year ahead. Our process for genetics). Since 2016, on an annual basis, we have been offering organising unit reviews will be revamped in 2020. Rather than staff targeted workshops that highlight new technologies that are reviewing units individually, units will instead be teams of 4-6 proven to improve student engagement and retention in our units convenors in teaching clusters (e.g. genetics, physiology). This will and programs. We also offer at least one learning and teaching- provide opportunities for convenors to ensure that units listed as based peer teaching session, with speakers from both inside and prerequisite cover the necessary material, and that assessment tasks outside the University. Finally, in 2019, the Biology department for units within a teaching cluster are varied and build on previous awarded funding to four applicants to support innovative teaching. knowledge. The Committee will also review graduate employment These funds were used to develop novel human-based experiments outcomes in our programs and identify areas for assessment and in neurophysiology, new assessments in plant biology, videos course changes. In addition, the Committee will complete the to enhance teaching of microscope skills, and an ebook for mapping of work integrated learning (WIL) activities in the units we invertebrate identification.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2019 13 Staff highlights BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES STAFF RECOGNISED FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AND IN LEARNING AND TEACHING

STAFF HIGHLIGHTS dimorphisms. His publications have covered a wide range of Hendrik Poorter insects and arachnids, and in the last few years Bruno’s group has focused on using experimental evolution in bulb mites to Hendrik Poorter is a highly- investigate the evolution of male fights and weapons. In 2019 cited plant biologist, who partly Bruno turned his attention to the Sydney funnel-web spiders, works at Macquarie University, securing funding from Australian Geographic and National and partly at the Jülich Research Geographic to investigate this infamous and yet very poorly Centre in Germany. In the first understood icon of the Australian fauna. stage of his career, he sought answers to physiological and Rachael Gallagher ecological questions by doing large comparative experiments Dr Gallagher is an emerging leader in Australian conservation in growth chambers. However, science whose research focuses on Australian plant diversity. that takes a lot of time, and one always keeps wondering to With members of her Plant Conservation and Ecology Group what extent the results fit into the big picture. Now Hendrik she addresses the urgent challenges facing plant species, is at the second stage of his career and completely focuses including climate change and habitat loss. She specialises on MetaPhenomics, the meta-analysis of phenotypic traits. in spatial analysis of patterns of plant diversity and the He aims to establish generalised dose-response curves for threatening processes they face. Rachael is passionate about a wide range of plant traits and environmental conditions, integrating her findings into conservation policy and practice based on ecophysiological experiments published over more through collaborative connections to state and federal than a century. The highlight of 2019 was the publication of government environment departments. She is currently generalised dose-response curves for 70 traits in relation Deputy Chair of the NSW Threatened Species Scientific to light intensity. These curves are highly relevant for Committee and holds an Australian Research Council DECRA plant modeling and provide a good basis to answer further Fellowship. In 2020 she will take a continuing position as questions, such as differentiation between functional groups. Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences. Poorter, H., Niinemets, Ü., Ntagkas, N., Siebenkäs, A., In 2019, Dr Gallagher developed a new global initiative which Mäenpää, M., Matsubara, S. and Pons, T., 2019. A meta- brings together researchers and institutions working towards analysis of plant responses to light intensity for 70 traits synthesising data on the traits of all organisms. The Open ranging from molecules to whole plant performance. New Traits Network adopts key principles of the Open Science Phytologist, 223(3), pp.1073–1105. movement – such as research transparency and equity of access to data – to guide the collation of trait information. Her Bruno Buzatto interest in large scale datasets and open science stems from her co-creation of the AusTraits database – a comprehensive Bruno Buzatto joined the collection of plant traits for the Australian flora which Department of Biological is standardised from hundreds of disconnected primary Sciences in 2018 and has sources. The ever-growing collection will allow researchers to convened BIOL114 (Organisms easily access a wealth of information on native plants. to Ecosystems) for the last three years. Bruno has excelled in his teaching and in 2019 he became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) and was also the recipient of a Vice-Chancellor Learning and Teaching Award at Macquarie University. As a result, the university is now nominating Bruno for a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, a national award by Universities Australia. Bruno is an evolutionary biologist and behavioural ecologist, and his research focuses on sexual selection and the evolution of mating systems and

14 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Awards and prizes OUR STAFF AND STUDENTS ARE REGULARLY THE RECIPIENTS OF PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS AND PRIZES

Table 1. Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence Table 2. Faculty of Science & Engineering Awards for Excellence Recipient Award Recipient Award Professor Phillip Taylor Excellence in Research: Five Future-shaping Research Katherine McClellan Excellence in Leadership Priorities - Winner and Citizenship Dr Bruno Buzatto Learning and Teaching Student Katherine McClellan Teaching Excellence Nominated Award - Winner Lachie Roach Excellence in Sessional Dr Matthew Bulbert, Teaching Excellence - Finalist Teaching Serene Lin-Stephens, Prasanth Subramani Technical Excellence Fiona Jones and Associate Professor Martin Whiting Dr Matthew Bulbert Educational Leader Award - Finalist Prasanth Subramani Innovation and Process Improvement - Finalist Caitlin Kordis Outstanding Service Award FSE Administration and Collaboration and Connection Outreach Coordinators Award - Finalist (including Jenny Ghabache)

Table 3. Undergraduate prizes in Biological Sciences Recipient Prize Awarded for Dana Lanceman 200 Level Biology Prize Best student overall in two or more 200 level BIOL units Kaitlyn Mcloghry 300 Level Biology Prize Best student overall in three or more 300 level BIOL units Dana Lanceman Australian Federation of Graduate Women Academic excellence by a female student in at least 2 units at NSW (North Shore Branch) Prize 200-level in Biological Sciences Adam Nasiry Biology Prize Highest GPA for a finishing Biology major Dana Lanceman Milthorpe Memorial Prize Academic excellence in a 300-level Plant Biology unit Luke Haeusler Mollie Thomson Prize Academic excellence in two 100-level Biological Science units Yasmin Asar Ralph Faulkner Prize for Evolutionary Academic excellence in the unit BIOL381 Palaeontology Kaitlyn Mcloghry GT Micropro Prize (Faculty) Most outstanding performance in 300-level units offered within certain Departments in the Faculty of Science (Biological Sciences, Molecular Sciences, Chiropractic, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science) Dana Lanceman John Morris Scientific Prize (Faculty) Most outstanding performance in 200-level units offered within certain Departments in the Faculty of Science (Biological Sciences, Molecular Sciences, Chiropractic, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science) Quinn Stacpoole Life Technologies Prize (Biology, Mol Sci) Outstanding performance in a 300-level BIOL or CBMS unit

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Table 4. HDR Student Awards and Grants Recipient Award Funding body Callum McDiarmid Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award BirdLife Australia Callum McDiarmid Research Award Ecological Society of Australia Angela Simms Sulawesi Chelonian Conservation Program Turtle Survival Alliance Ana Sabrina Riverón Mato Research Award PADI Foundation Kate Dodds Allen Research Award Australian Museum Timothy Ghaly William Macleay Microbiology Research Fund Linnean Society of New South Wales Farhad Masoomi-Aladizgeh Val Williams Scholarship for Botany Australian Plants Society NSW (North Shore) Farhad Masoomi-Aladizgeh Joyce W Vickery Scientific Research Fund Linnean Society of New South Wales Jorge Rodriguez Monter Joyce W Vickery Scientific Research Fund Linnean Society of New South Wales Yvette Bauder Betty Mayne Scientific Research Fund Linnean Society of New South Wales for Earth Sciences Alfonso Aceves Aparicio Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Ecological Society of Australia Louise Tosetto Reef Guardians Research Grants Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Alfonso Aceves Aparicio Barbara Rice Memorial Field Research Award Department of Biological Sciences for Best Presentation Kate Dodds Best Presentation of Field-Based Research Department of Biological Sciences (Runner Up) Georgina Binns Best Presentation of Field-Based Research Department of Biological Sciences (Runner Up) Timothy Ghaly Best Presentation of laboratory-based Department of Biological Sciences Research Binh Nguyen Best Presentation of laboratory-based Department of Biological Sciences Research (Runner Up) Donald McLean Best Presentation of modelling-based Department of Biological Sciences Research Tristan Guillemin People’s Choice Award for Best MRES poster Department of Biological Sciences

Table 5. Doctorate and Master of Research students completions in 2019 Student name Thesis title Ravindra Palavalli Nettimi, Implications of miniaturisation in ants on their vision and visual navigation PhD Md. Mohasinul Haque, PhD Knowns and unknowns: An assessment of knowledge shortfalls in the digitised collection of Australia's flora Vanessa Pirotta, PhD Conceptual and practical approaches to aid the conservation of cetaceans Laura Fernandez, PhD Impacts of the invasive pathogen Austropuccinia psidii (Myrtle Rust) on Australian native communities Jessica Wilks, PhD Temporal and spatial variability of phytoplankton fluxes in the Australian and New Zealand sectors of the Southern Ocean Penelope Carbia, PhD Cognitive and behavioural plasticity in the intertidal Cocos Frillgoby (Bathygobius cocosensis) Rachael Woods, PhD Understanding the biological, ecological and environmental limitations to coral larval dispersal and success Birgit Szabo, PhD Does sociality affect cognitive ability in lizards? Learning and behavioural flexibility in Australian skinks Guyo Duba Gufu, PhD Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and nutrient enrichment on freshwater plant species

16 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Student name Thesis title

Tahereh Moadz Improved larval diets for mass rearing of Queensland fruit fly (Bactrocera tryoni)

Md Mahmudunnabi, PhD The role of sex pheromones in a sexually cannibalistic praying mantid, Pseudomantis albofimbriata: Identification and behavioural responses

Aniko Toth, PhD Quantifying patterns and processes of community assembly with co-occurrence analysis

Lorraine Hardwick, PhD Functional ecological processes in upland swamps and chain of ponds systems in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands of eastern New South Wales, Australia

Rene Heim, PhD Linking inter and intraspecific variation in leaf traits to spectral signatures of arid shrub species

Hanja Brandl, PhD Information use in an unpredictable environment – a case study on wild zebra finches

Caterina Funghi, PhD The integration of spatial-ecology and animal behaviour in the unpredictable arid zone: A case study with the zebra finch

Ina Geedicke, PhD Anthropogenic impacts on mangrove and saltmarsh communities in eastern Australia

Thomas Pyne, MRes Local adaptation to climate in Sydney sandstone plant species

Callum McDiarmid, MRes Sperm phenotype of admixed and ‘pure’ subspecies males in the long-tailed finch

Molly Gilmour, MRes The role of personality on spatial behaviour in merino sheep (Ovis aries)

Sara Godinez Espinosa, Spatial variability of δ15N and δ13C in symbiotic corals MRes

Olivia Seeger, MRes The visual system of the blind shark (Brachaelurus waddi)

Michael Kelly, MRes The paradox of inaccurate mimicry

Kelly-Anne Lawler, MRes Radiolarian-based Quaternary palaeoclimate reconstructions of the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica

Kathleen Smiley, MRes Changes in fear responses of urban birds

Elisha Duxbury, MRes A novel course for South Creek Catchment

Peta Vine, MRes Effects of temperature on macromolecular composition of the Antarctic diatom, Corethron pennatum

Tracy White, MRes The effect of drawdown on the movement of groundwater invertebrates

Anthony Seward, MRes Benthic visual ecology

Patrick Burke, MRes Movement, vertebral morphology and age dynamics of the common sawshark Pristiophorus cirratus

Bhavana Penmetcha, MRes Structure and physiology of the ant ocelli

Annabelle Wall, MRes Temporal and spatial patterns of scarred whales off the US West-Coast

Mohammad Zaidur Rahman Learning to find a gap: Navigational problem solving in nocturnal bull ants Sabuj, MRes

Sonja Elwood, MRes Life in the big city – predicting bandicoot presence in the urban matrix?

Thea Fraser, MRes Efficacy and cost-efficiency of recovery plans for Australian marine species

Wendy Grimm, MPhil The biology and ecology of Genoplesium baueri R.Br., an endangered terrestrial orchid endemic to New South Wales, Australia

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2019 17 Other department activities THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ACTIVELY PARTICIPATES IN MANY OTHER ACTIVITIES AT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

Outreach activities

In 2019 the Outreach Committee made further progress towards the strategic goals of making meaningful connections with the Australian community while providing departmental members with opportunities to develop their community engagement skills.

The committee that worked towards these goals included: Matthew 18 Bulbert (Chair, Lecturer), Katherine McClellan (Lecturer, School Liaison Officer), Jenny Ghabache (Administration and Outreach Officer), Calli Miller (Administration and Outreach Officer), Ajay Narendra (Senior Lecturer), Chris Reid (ARC DECRA), Bruno Buzatto (ECR Lecturer), Vivian Cumbo (ECR), Juliano Morimoto (ECR), Georgina Binns (HDR), Justin McNab (MRes) Winnie Man (Scientific Officer) and Samantha Newton (Sustainability Officer).

During 2019 the Department contributed to over 90 outreach 18. Session 1 Work Experience student group photo at the end of the reflection events involving over 70 different organisations, and engaged with workshop. Photo: Jenny Ghabache. audiences ranging from pre-school children to the general public. The engagements were wonderfully diverse, ranging from talks, WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAM tours and workshops for schools, societies and government agencies, In 2019 we ran two, one-week blocks of work experience to roles as panel experts, science mentors and engaging with citizen placements, the first in April and the second in November. Ten scientists. Some details of our event highlights are provided below. high school students were invited to attend each week. These students were competitively selected through a short application HSC/IB GENETICS DEPTH STUDY process, which included a CV and a written statement about their This was the second year that we ran the HSC/IB Genetics Depth career aspirations, and how work experience in the Department of Study program, a fee-paying offering that has been designed in Biological Sciences would help them achieve their goals. collaboration with high school teachers and adapted from real Across the two weeks we had 34 staff and HDR students from university research. This program gives Year 12 high school biology two departments – Biological and Molecular Sciences – host 20 students hands on laboratory experience using genetics to explore year 9–12 students from 10 local high schools (Carlingford High shark conservation and management across a five-hour laboratory School, Epping Boys High School, Georges River Grammar, Loreto practical, and supplementary work back at school. In 2019 we Normanhurst, Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney hosted four schools (Narrabeen Sports High School, St Paul’s Girls High School, OLMC Parramatta, Pennant Hills High School College, Georges River Grammar, and St Philips Christian College) and Sefton High School). Our hosts provided a huge variety of and their 84 students during our mid-semester breaks. activities, which engaged the students and gave them a taste of what The success of this program is evidenced through its impact on the working at a university is like. stakeholders, with both students and teachers commenting on the Feedback on the work experience program has been fantastic and quality and engagement of the Depth Study experiences. A student is influencing students to choose science at university. Participants from St Ives High School said ‘I can’t believe how coming here said that ‘…this course has given me more insight on the different today and actually doing the extraction, electrophoresis and PCR fields of biological sciences and has made me consider studying made everything so much more understandable’. A teacher from different areas of biology’; ‘[The work experience program] has Narrabeen Sports High School commented that ‘It was better than opened up my eyes to possible options on a science career’; ‘I didn’t I could have imagined! The students were speaking about it all the know what specific area of study to go with, and this experience way home.’ helped me narrow my choices’.

18 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES This program contributes to the University strategy of being a MACQUARIE IN A DAY destination of choice for students who share our values. This is This event was altered this year in a way that provided opportunity evidenced by feedback from work experience alumni who have for cross-departmental collaboration. This led to a creative chosen to study at Macquarie University: ‘Attending the work extravaganza between the departments of Biology and Molecular experience definitely did influence my decision to apply for Sciences resulting in an event in which students were exposed to Macquarie University. It helped provide some insight on how things the skills required for a zombie apocalypse. In our event led by worked at universities – how lectures were done, how workloads Tim Ghaly, students were asked to use DNA to identify which of the are distributed – and also helped me find my way around campus since I had time to explore. Knowing my way around the campus tutors (colleagues) were covering up the fact they were infected. was probably the main factor that influenced my decision’ - Current Although the event was fun, the very skills the students were Macquarie University Student and Work Experience Alumni 2019. exposed to are currently the skills the medical system is using to detect the origins of coronavirus outbreaks.

19 STANSW CONFERENCE We had a much larger presence at the Science Teachers Association NSW conference this year, offering a range of well received workshops including the Faculty of Science and Engineering Microscopy Unit: Solving conservation mysteries with genetic technologies, Palaeontology: Learning from the history of organisms, and Introduction to ecological methods and applications.

SYDNEY SCIENCE FESTIVAL This year we again contributed to the Sydney Science Festival through the stalls and activities at the Australian Museum’s Science 19. Biology Minibeast Fair - Bee Display. Photo: Jenny Ghabache. in the City event. Viviana Cumbo and Juliano Morimoto took on the responsibility of recruiting and coordinating the event for 2019. The MINIBEAST FAIR result was a wonderful collection of displays from sixteen presenters The second annual Minibeast Day was another huge outreach ranging from 3rd year students to ECRs and staff members. Building success. The Department hosted 40 curious six-year-olds from on past success, the Night of Illusions event in 2019 changed Abbotsleigh Girls School and engaged them in learning from the format and introduced the first illusions stage show by the Night live, interactive exhibits on invertebrates including phasmids, of Illusions crew. The sold-out audience at the Giant Dwarf Theatre spiders, insect development, electron microscopy, slime moulds, in Redfern were taken through visual, auditory and tactile illusions ant brains, honeybees and indigenous invertebrate stories. After before the finale performance on the use of illusions in nature. The lunch, the students were taken on an immersive collecting trip adaptive colouration striptease by Dr Matthew Bulbert during this through the Biology courtyard gardens to discover what Minibeasts performance is the stuff of legends. And again, we had a great range could be found in their backyards. of MRes and PhD volunteers. Comings and goings

Retirement of Professor David Raftos after more 20 than 20 years with the Department

Professor David Raftos retired in January 2019 after more than 20 years as a teaching and research academic in the Department. David is an evolutionary biologist, working in the fields of immunology of marine invertebrates. Much of his research was applied, working with the oyster industry for which he won a Eureka prize for work on a new generation of disease-resistant super-oyster. He supervised many Honours, Masters and PhD students and was a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts.

20. Professor David Raftos. Photo: Jenny Ghabache.

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21. Members of the Sustainability Working Group being presented with certificate of Gold Accreditation by MQ Sustainability Officer, Belinda Bean. (From left) Veronica Peralta, Rekha Joshi, Rachael Dudaniec, Mariella Herberstein, Belinda Bean, Samantha Newton, Julian May and Michelle Leishman. Photo: Jenny Ghabache. Sustainability working group

The year started with the Sustainability Working Group continuing to achieve goals under the University’s Target Better Futures initiative.

In 2018 the Department achieved Silver accreditation. Early in 2019 we finalised the Department’s Vision for Sustainability, and by May We achieve this by: we had achieved Gold accreditation. • Embedding environmental sustainability in our curriculum OUR VISION FOR SUSTAINABILITY • Reducing waste and energy emissions from our We are a diverse, vibrant community, united by our interest and operations curiosity for living systems. We create a better future through collaboration, accountability and sharing of knowledge and • Having an engaged, integrated and caring community. resources.

ADDITIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS • Continued to offset the fieldwork vehicles’ carbon emissions. We offset 31 tonnes of CO2 through Carbon Neutral’s Biodiverse Native Forest program. • Participated in University bioQuest in April and won 2nd place in the Champion Identifiers Team and third place in the Champion Spotters Team. • Reduced waste by participating in Plastic Free July, co-hosting a Plastic Free Global Lunch (with the Diversity and Inclusion Committee), recycling green waste through our worm farms, organising a stationery swap with staff and students, and holding lunchtime litter collection walks. • Reduced reliance on vehicles by participating in Biketober. • Increased biodiversity by planting over 200 new trees and shrubs in the teaching gardens, including a new research plot for Which Plant Where Living Lab, and for National Tree Day (in the lawn near the Chancellory.) • We also supported students who were involved in the Strike for Climate Change movement.

20 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2019 publications THE DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO SUPPORT AND FOSTER IMPACTFUL PUBLICATIONS BY ALL RESEARCH STAFF AND STUDENTS

This list of publications may include papers that were not reported in the 2019 HERDC. Please note that in our discipline it is internationally recognised common practice for research team leaders to be named as last author on peer-reviewed publications, with mentored PhD students or research fellows as first named author.

JOURNAL ARTICLES Arif, R; Lee, SF; Shahid, MG; Saleem, M, 2019. Genotyping Adams, VM; Mills, M; Weeks, R; Segan, DB; Pressey, RL; Gurney, GG; of Ribosomal Proteins in Sordaria fimicola to Study Genetic Groves, C; Davis, FW; Alvarez-Romero, JG, 2019. Implementation Polymorphisms and Phosphorylation Modifications. International strategies for systematic conservation planning. Ambio 48: 2. Journal of Agriculture and Biology 22: 2.

Adnan, SM; Farhana, I; Inskeep, JR; Rempoulakis, P; Taylor, PW, Arif, R; Qasim, S; Shahid, MG; Lee, SF; Saleem, M, 2019. Genetic 2019. Accelerated Sexual Maturation in Methoprene-Treated Sterile Analysis and Post-Translation Modifications of 60S Ribosomal and Fertile Male Queensland Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), Protein L30 in Sordaria fimicola. International Journal of and Mosquito Larvicide as an Economical and Effective Source of Agriculture and Biology 22: 6. Methoprene. Journal of Economic Entomology 112: 6. Asadzadeh, F; Maleki-Kakelar, M; Shabani, F, 2019. Predicting Agbaje, OBA; Thomas, DE; Dominguez, JG; Mclnerney, BV; Kosnik, cationic exchange capacity in calcareous soils of East-Azerbaijan MA; Jacob, DE, 2019. Biomacromolecules in bivalve shells with province, northwest Iran. Communications in Soil Science and Plant crossed lamellar architecture. Journal of Materials Science 54: 6. Analysis 50: 9. Alroy, J, 2019. Discovering biogeographic and ecological clusters Aspinwall, MJ; Pfautsch, S; Tjoelker, MG; Varhammar, A; Possell, M; with a graph theoretic spin on factor analysis. Ecography 42: 9. Drake, JE; Reich, PB; Tissue, DT; Atkin, OK; Rymer, PD; Dennison, S; Alroy, J, 2019. Small mammals have big tails in the tropics. Global Van Sluyter, SC, 2019. Range size and growth temperature influence Ecology and Biogeography 28: 8. Eucalyptus species responses to an experimental heatwave. Global Change Biology 25: 5. Alroy, J, 2019. Latitudinal gradients in the ecology of New World bats. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: 6. Atama, N; Manu, S; Ivande, S; Rosskopf, SP; Matuschewski, K; Schaer, J, 2019. Survey of Hepatocystis parasites of fruit bats in Ameri, M; Kemp, DJ; Barry, KL; Herberstein, ME, 2019. Predator the Amurum forest reserve, Nigeria, identifies first host record for chemical cues decrease attack time and increase metabolic rate in an Rousettus aegyptiacus. Parasitology 146: 12. orb-web spider. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: 22. Austin, VI; Higgott, C; Viguier, A; Grundy, L; Russell, AF; Griffith, Ameri, M; Kemp, DJ; Barry, KL; Herberstein, ME, 2019. Age-Specific Reproductive Investment and Offspring Performance in an Orb-web SC, 2019. Song rate and duetting in the Chirruping Wedgebill Spider, Argiope radon. Evolutionary Biology 46: 2. (Psophodes cristatus): frequency, form and functions. Emu-Austral Ornithology 119: 2. Andrew, SC; Taylor, MP; Lundregan, S; Lien, S; Jensen, H; Griffith, SC, 2019. Signs of adaptation to trace metal contamination in a Baxter-Gilbert, J; Riley, JL; Whiting, MJ, 2019. Bold New World: common urban bird. Science of the Total Environment 650. urbanization promotes an innate behavioral trait in a lizard. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 8. Arif, R; Bukhari, SH; Ishfaq, M; Shahid, MG; Lee, SF; Saleem, M, 2019. Genetic Variation and Post-Translational Modifications of Baxter-Gilbert, JH; Whiting, MJ, 2019. Street fighters: Bite force, Cytochrome C Oxidase-1 (COX1) in different Strains of Sordaria injury rates, and density of urban Australian water dragons fimicola. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology 21: 5. (Intellagama lesueurii). Austral Ecology 44: 2.

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Baylis, AMM; Orben, RA; Arkhipkin, AA; Barton, J; Brownell, RL; Bernasconi, R; Stat, M; Koenders, A; Huggett, MJ, 2019. Global Staniland, IJ; Brickle, P, 2019. Re-evaluating the population size of Networks of Symbiodinium-Bacteria Within the Coral Holobiont. South American fur seals and conservation implications. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 77: 3. Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 29: 11. Berthon, KA; Winzer, LF; Sandhu, K; Cuddy, W; Manea, A; Carnegie, Baylis, AMM; Thorbjornsson, JG; dos Santos, E; Granquist, SM, AJ; Leishman, MR, 2019. Endangered species face an extra threat: 2019. At-sea spatial usage of recently weaned grey seal pups in susceptibility to the invasive pathogen Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle Iceland. Polar Biology 42: 11. rust) in Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology 48: 4.

Baylis, AMM; Tierney, M; Orben, RA; Warwick-Evans, V; Wakefield, Bessey, C; Jarman, SN; Stat, M; Rohner, CA; Bunce, M; Koziol, A; E; Grecian, WJ; Trathan, P; Reisinger, R; Ratcliffe, N; Croxall, Power, M; Rambahiniarison, JM; Ponzo, A; Richardson, AJ; Berry, O, J; Campioni, L; Catry, P; Crofts, S; Boersma, PD; Galimberti, 2019. DNA metabarcoding assays reveal a diverse prey assemblage for F; Granadeiro, J; Handley, J; Hayes, S; Hedd, A; Masello, JF; Mobula rays in the Bohol Sea, Philippines. Ecology and Evolution 9: 5. Montevecchi, WA; Putz, K; Quillfeldt, P; Rebstock, GA; Sanvito, S; Betts, MJ; Claybourn, TM; Brock, GA; Jago, JB; Skovsted, CB; Stanilands, IJ; Brickle, P, 2019. Important At-Sea Areas of Colonial Paterson, JR, 2019. Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian White Breeding Marine Predators on the Southern Patagonian Shelf. Point Conglomerate, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Acta Scientific Reports 9. Palaeontologica Polonica 64: 3. Beaumont, LJ; Esperon-Rodriguez, M; Nipperess, DA; Wauchope- Bilgmann, K; Parra, GJ; Holmes, L; Peters, KJ; Jonsen, ID; Moller, Drumm, M; Baumgartner, JB, 2019. Incorporating future climate LM, 2019. Abundance estimates and habitat preferences of uncertainty into the identification of climate change refugia for bottlenose dolphins reveal the importance of two gulfs in South threatened species. Biological Conservation 237. Australia. Scientific Reports 9. Beckers, P; Helm, C; Purschke, G; Worsaae, K; Hutchings, P; Blamires, SJ; Cerexhe, G; White, TE; Herberstein, ME; Kasumovic, Bartolomaeus, T, 2019. The central nervous system of Oweniidae MM, 2019. Spider silk colour covaries with thermal properties but (Annelida) and its implications for the structure of the ancestral not protein structure. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 16: 156. annelid brain. Frontiers in Zoology 16. Blennerhassett, RA; Bell-Anderson, K; Shine, R; Brown, GP, 2019. Belachew, KY; Nagel, KA; Poorter, H; Stoddard, FL, 2019. The cost of chemical defence: the impact of toxin depletion on Association of Shoot and Root Responses to Water Deficit in Young growth and behaviour of cane toads (Rhinella marina). Proceedings Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science 10. of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 286: 1902.

Beltran, I, 2019. Diurnal colour change in a sexually dimorphic trait Bloomfield, KJ; Prentice, IC; Cernusak, LA; Eamus, D; Medlyn, BE; in the Andean lizard Anolis heterodermus (Squamata: Dactyloidae). Rumman, R; Wright, IJ; Boer, MM; Cale, P; Cleverly, J; Egerton, Journal of Natural History 53: 1-2. JJG; Ellsworth, DS; Evans, BJ; Hayes, LS; Hutchinson, MF; Liddell, Beltran, I; Ramirez-Castaneda, V; Rodriguez-Lopez, C; Lasso, E; MJ; Macfarlane, C; Meyer, WS; Togashi, HF; Wardlaw, T; Zhu, LL; Amezquita, A, 2019. Dealing with hot rocky environments: Critical Atkin, OK, 2019. The validity of optimal leaf traits modelled on thermal maxima and locomotor performance in Leptodactylus environmental conditions. New Phytologist 221: 3. lithonaetes (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Herpetological Journal 29: 3. Bolger, AM; Poorter, H; Dumschott, K; Bolger, ME; Arend, D; Osorio, Benelli, M; Ponton, F; Lallu, U; Mitchell, KA; Taylor, PW, 2019. Cool S; Gundlach, H; Mayer, KFX; Lange, M; Scholz, U; Usadel, B, 2019. storage of Queensland fruit fly pupae for improved management of Computational aspects underlying genome to phenome analysis in plants. Plant Journal 97: 1. mass production schedules. Pest Management Science 75: 12. Bower, DS; Lips, KR; Amepou, Y; Richards, S; Dahl, C; Nagombi, E; Benelli, M; Ponton, F; Taylor, PW, 2019. Cool storage of Queensland Supuma, M; Dabek, L; Alford, RA; Schwarzkopf, L; Ziembicki, M; fruit fly eggs for increased flexibility in rearing programs. Pest Noro, JN; Hamidy, A; Gillespie, GR; Berger, L; Eisemberg, C; Li, YM; Management Science 75: 4. Liu, X; Jennings, CK; Tjaturadi, B; Peters, A; Krockenberger, AK; Bernal, X.E., Rojas, B., Pinto, M.A., Mendoza-Henao, Á.M., Herrera- Nason, D; Kusrini, MD; Webb, RJ; Skerratt, LF; Banks, C; Mack, AL; Montes, A., Herrera-Montes, M.I., Franco, A.D.C., Ceron-Souza, Georges, A; Clulow, S, 2019. Island of opportunity: can New Guinea I., Paz, A., Vergara, D. and Salazar, C., 2019. Empowering Latina protect amphibians from a globally emerging pathogen? Frontiers in scientists. Science, 363: 6429. Ecology And The Environment 17: 6.

22 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Bradford, ST; Nair, SS; Statham, AL; van Dijk, SJ; Peters, TJ; Anwar, N; Kaurova, SA; Gakhova, EN; Cosson, J; Dyzuba, B; Kramarova, F; French, HJ; von Martels, JZH; Sutcliffe, B; Maddugoda, MP; LI; McGinnity, D; Gonzalez, M; Clulow, J; Clulow, S, 2019. Sperm Peranec, M; Varinli, H; Arnoldy, R; Buckley, M; Ross, JP; Zotenko, E; collection and storage for the sustainable management of amphibian Song, JZ; Stirzaker, C; Bauer, DC; Qu, WJ; Swarbrick, MM; Lutgers, biodiversity. Theriogenology 133. HL; Lord, RV; Samaras, K; Molloy, PL; Clark, SJ, 2019. Methylome and transcriptome maps of human visceral and subcutaneous Bruce, BD; Harasti, D; Lee, K; Gallen, C; Bradford, R, 2019. Broad- adipocytes reveal key epigenetic differences at developmental scale movements of juvenile white sharks Carcharodon carcharias genes. Scientific Reports 9. in eastern Australia from acoustic and satellite telemetry. Marine Ecology Progress Series 619. Brakes, P; Dall, SRX; Aplin, LM; Bearhop, S; Carroll, EL; Ciucci, P; Fishlock, V; Ford, JKB; Garland, EC; Keith, SA; McGregor, PK; Bugnot, AB; Hose, GC; Walsh, CJ; Floerl, O; French, K; Dafforn, KA; Mesnick, SL; Noad, MJ; di Sciara, GN; Robbins, MM; Simmonds, MP; Hanford, J; Lowe, EC; Hahs, AK, 2019. Urban impacts across realms: Spina, F; Thornton, A; Wade, PR; Whiting, MJ; Williams, J; Rendell, Making the case for inter-realm monitoring and management. L; Whitehead, H; Whiten, A; Rutz, C, 2019. Animal cultures matter Science of the Total Environment 648. for conservation. Science 363: 6431. Burley, H; Beaumont, LJ; Ossola, A; Baumgartner, JB; Gallagher, R; Brandenburger, CR; Sherwin, WB; Creer, SM; Buitenwerf, R; Poore, Laffan, S; Esperon-Rodriguez, M; Manea, A; Leishman, MR, 2019. AGB; Frankham, R; Finnerty, PB; Moles, AT, 2019. Rapid reshaping: Substantial declines in urban tree habitat predicted under climate the evolution of morphological changes in an introduced beach change. Science of the Total Environment 685. daisy. Proceedings of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences Buzatto, BA; Kotiaho, JS; Assis, LAF; Simmons, LW, 2019. A link 286: 1897. between heritable parasite resistance and mate choice in dung Brandl, HB; Farine, DR; Funghi, C; Schuett, W; Griffith, SC, 2019. beetles. Behavioral Ecology 30: 5. Early-life social environment predicts social network position in Byers, O; Gates, T; Mcknight, L, 2019. Corn-white Clover wild zebra finches. Proceedings of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 286: 1897. Intercropping in Terms of Herbicide Tolerance of White Clover. Ccamlr Science 26: 4. Brandl, HB; Griffith, SC; Farine, DR; Schuett, W, 2019. Wild zebra finches that nest synchronously have long-term stable social ties. Campbell, L; Bower, DS; Clulow, S; Stockwell, M; Clulow, J; Mahony, Journal Of Animal Ecology. M, 2019. Interaction between temperature and sublethal infection with the amphibian chytrid fungus impacts a susceptible frog Brandl, HB; Griffith, SC; Laaksonen, T; Schuett, W, 2019. Begging species. Scientific Reports 9. calls provide social cues for prospecting conspecifics in the wild Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Auk 136: 2. Canavan, S; Richardson, DM; Le Roux, JJ; Wilson, JRU, 2019. Alien Bamboos in South Africa: a Socio-Historical Perspective. Human Brandl, HB; Griffith, SC; Schuett, W, 2019. Wild zebra finches choose Ecology 47: 1. neighbours for synchronized breeding. Animal Behaviour 151. Carbia, PS; Brown, C, 2019. Environmental enrichment influences Brouwer, L; Griffith, SC, 2019. Extra-pair paternity in birds. spatial learning ability in captive-reared intertidal gobies Molecular Ecology 28: 22. (Bathygobius cocosensis). Animal Cognition 22: 1. Brown, CJ; Jupiter, SD; Albert, S; Anthony, KRN; Hamilton, RJ; Carpentier, AS; Berthe, C; Ender, I; Jaine, FRA; Mourier, J; Stevens, Fredston-Hermann, E; Halpern, BS; Lin, HY; Maina, J; Mangubhai, G; De Rosemont, M; Clua, E, 2019. Preliminary insights into the S; Mumby, PJ; Possingham, HP; Saunders, MI; Tulloch, VJD; Wenger, population characteristics and distribution of reef (Mobula alfredi) A; Klein, CJ, 2019. A guide to modelling priorities for managing and oceanic (M. birostris) manta rays in French Polynesia. Coral land-based impacts on coastal ecosystems. Journal of Applied Reefs 38: 6. Ecology 56: 5. Carroll, EL; Alderman, R; Bannister, JL; Berube, M; Best, PB; Boren, Brown, GP; Schwarzkopf, L; Alford, RA; Bower, D; Shine, R, 2019. L; Baker, CS; Constantine, R; Findlay, K; Harcourt, R; Lemaire, Spinal arthritis in invasive cane toads is linked to rate of dispersal as L; Palsboll, PJ; Patenaude, NJ; Rowntree, VJ; Seger, J; Steel, D; well as to latitude. Scientific Reports 9. Valenzuela, LO; Watson, M; Gaggiotti, OE, 2019. Incorporating Browne, RK; Silla, AJ; Upton, R; Della-Togna, G; Marcec-Greaves, non-equilibrium dynamics into demographic history inferences of a R; Shishova, NV; Uteshev, VK; Proano, B; Perez, OD; Mansour, migratory marine species. Heredity 122: 1.

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Carthey, AJR; Gillings, MR; Blumstein, DT, 2019. Microbial Genomes Cheng, X; Umina, PA; Lee, SF; Hoffmann, AA, 2019. Pyrethroid as Extension Packs for Macroorganismal Diversity: A Reply to resistance in the pest mite, Halotydeus destructor: Dominance Morimoto and Baltrus. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 34: 3. patterns and a new method for resistance screening. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 159. Catullo, RA; Yeap, HL; Lee, SF; Brag, JG; Cheesman, J; De Faveri, S; Edwards, O; Hee, AKW; Popa, AD; Schiffer, M; Oakeshott, JG, 2019. Christiansen, NA; Fryirs, KA; Green, TJ; Hose, GC, 2019. The A genome-wide approach for uncovering evolutionary relationships impact of urbanisation on community structure, gene abundance of Australian Bactrocera species complexes (Diptera: Tephritidae). and transcription rates of microbes in upland swamps of Eastern Invertebrate Systematics 33: 4. Australia. Plos One 14: 3. Chalmandrier, L; Pansu, J; Zinger, L; Boyer, F; Coissac, E; Genin, Clark, JA; Brown, C; Gillings, MR; Gardner, M; Williamson, JE; Izzo, A; Gielly, L; Lavergne, S; Legay, N; Schilling, V; Taberlet, P; C; Day, J, 2019. Characterization of 12 polymorphic microsatellite Munkemuller, T; Thuiller, W, 2019. Environmental and biotic drivers of soil microbial beta-diversity across spatial and phylogenetic loci in the Port Jackson Shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni (Meyer, scales. Ecography 42: 12. 1793). Marine Biodiversity 49: 1.

Chapuis, L; Collin, SP; Yopak, KE; McCauley, RD; Kempster, RM; Clarke, GS; Shine, R; Phillips, BL, 2019. Whispers on the wind: male Ryan, LA; Schmidt, C; Kerr, CC; Gennari, E; Egeberg, CA; Hart, NS, cane toads modify mate searching and amplexus tactics based on 2019. The effect of underwater sounds on shark behaviour. Scientific calls from other males. Animal Behaviour 153. Reports 9. Claybourn, TM; Jacquet, SM; Skovsted, CB; Topper, TP; Holmer, LE; Chapuis, L; Kerr, CC; Collin, SP; Hart, NS; Sanders, KL, 2019. Brock, GA, 2019. Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone Underwater hearing in sea snakes (Hydrophiinae): first evidence (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East of auditory evoked potential thresholds. Journal of Experimental Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 93: 3. Biology 222: 14. Close, RA; Benson, RBJ; Alroy, J; Behrensmeyer, AK; Benito, J; Chaput, G; Carr, J; Daniels, J; Tinker, S; Jonsen, I; Whoriskey, F, 2019. Carrano, MT; Cleary, TJ; Dunne, EM; Mannion, PD; Uhen, MD; Butler, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolt and early post-smolt migration RJ, 2019. Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at and survival inferred from multi-year and multi-stock acoustic the local-community scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3:9. telemetry studies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northwest Atlantic. Ices Journal of Marine Science 76: 4. Clulow, J; Upton, R; Trudeau, VL; Clulow, S, 2019. Amphibian Chatterjee, S; Lee, LY; Kawahara, R; Abrahams, JL; Adamczyk, Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Moving from Technology to B; Anugraham, M; Ashwood, C; Sumer-Bayraktar, Z; Briggs, MT; Application. Reproductive Sciences in Animal Conservation, 2nd Chik, JHL; Everest-Dass, A; Forster, S; Hinneburg, H; Leite, KRM; Edition 1200. Loke, I; Moginger, U; Moh, ESX; Nakano, M; Recuero, S; Sethi, MK; Coleman, MA; Clark, JS; Doblin, MA; Bishop, MJ; Kelaher, BP, Srougi, M; Stavenhagen, K; Venkatakrishnan, V; Wongtrakul-Kish, 2019. Genetic differentiation between estuarine and open coast K; Diestel, S; Hoffmann, P; Karlsson, NG; Kolarich, D; Molloy, MP; ecotypes of a dominant ecosystem engineer. Marine and Freshwater Muders, MH; Oehler, MK; Packer, NH; Palmisano, G; Thaysen- Andersen, M, 2019. Protein Paucimannosylation Is an Enriched Research 70: 7. N-Glycosylation Signature of Human Cancers. Proteomics 19: 21-22. Colin, T; Lim, MY; Quarrell, SR; Allen, GR; Barron, AB, 2019. Effects Chau, JH; Born, C; McGeoch, MA; Bergstrom, D; Shaw, J; Terauds, of thymol on European honey bee hygienic behaviour. A; Mairal, M; Le Roux, JJ; van Vuuren, BJ, 2019. The influence Apidologie 50: 2. of landscape, climate and history on spatial genetic patterns in Colin, T; Meikle, WG; Paten, AM; Barron, AB, 2019. Long-term keystone plants (Azorella) on sub-Antarctic islands. Molecular dynamics of honey bee colonies following exposure to chemical Ecology 28: 14. stress. Science of The Total Environment 677. Chen, MP; Wang, GZ; Zhou, SX; Zhao, JF; Zhang, X; He, CS; Zhang, YJ; Song, L; Tan, ZH, 2019. Studies on forest ecosystem physiology: Colin, T; Meikle, WG; Wu, XB; Barron, AB, 2019. Traces of a marginal water-use efficiency of a tropical, seasonal, evergreen Neonicotinoid Induce Precocious Foraging and Reduce Foraging forest in Thailand. Journal of Forestry Research 30: 6. Performance in Honey Bees. Environmental Science & Technology 53: 14.

Cheng, K, 2019. Grid-like units help deep learning agent to navigate. Collalti, A; Prentice, IC, 2019. Is NPP proportional to GPP? Waring’s Learning & Behavior 47: 1. hypothesis 20 years on. Tree Physiology 39: 8.

24 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Cooper, CE; Withers, PC; Hurley, LL; Griffith, SC, 2019. The Field universal metabarcoding surveys (RUMS) as a tool to detect coral Metabolic Rate, Water Turnover, and Feeding and Drinking Behavior reef biodiversity across a depth gradient. Peerj 7. of a Small Avian Desert Granivore During a Summer Heatwave. Dickson, CR; Baker, DJ; Bergstrom, DM; Bricher, PK; Brookes, RH; Frontiers in Physiology 10. Raymond, B; Selkirk, PM; Shaw, JD; Terauds, A; Whinam, J; McGeoch, Cotter, SC; Reavey, CE; Tummala, Y; Randall, JL; Holdbrook, R; MA, 2019. Spatial variation in the ongoing and widespread decline of Ponton, F; Simpson, SJ; Smith, JA; Wilson, K, 2019. Diet modulates a keystone plant species. Austral Ecology 44: 5. the relationship between immune gene expression and functional immune responses. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 109. DiFiore, BP; Queenborough, SA; Madin, EMP; Paul, VJ; Decker, MB; Stier, AC, 2019. Grazing halos on coral reefs: predation risk, Cowley, KL; Fryirs, KA; Chisari, R; Hose, GC, 2019. Water Sources of herbivore density, and habitat size influence grazing patterns that Upland Swamps in Eastern Australia: Implications for System Integrity are visible from space. Marine Ecology Progress Series 627. with Aquifer Interference and a Changing Climate. Water 11: 1. Dinh, H; Mendez, V; Tabrizi, ST; Ponton, F, 2019. Macronutrients Critchley, LP; Bishop, MJ, 2019. Differences in Soft-Sediment and infection in fruit flies. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Infaunal Communities Between Shorelines with and Without Biology 110. Seawalls. Estuaries and Coasts 42: 4. Doody, JS; McHenry, CR; Rhind, D; Clulow, S, 2019. Novel habitat Crome, E; Meyer, L; Bosanquet, A; Hughes, L, 2019. Improving causes a shift to diurnal activity in a nocturnal species. Scientific engagement in an early career academic setting: can existing models Reports 9. guide early career academic support strategies?. Higher Education Research & Development 38: 4. Du, WG; Shine, R; Ma, L; Sun, BJ, 2019. Adaptive responses of the embryos of birds and reptiles to spatial and temporal variations in Crossland, MR; Salim, AA; Capon, RJ; Shine, R, 2019. The Effects of nest temperatures. Proceedings of The Royal Society B-Biological Conspecific Alarm Cues on Larval Cane Toads (Rhinella marina). Sciences 286: 1915. Journal of Chemical Ecology 45: 10. Dudley, A; Butt, N; Auld, TD; Gallagher, RV, 2019. Using traits Damas-Moreira, I; Riley, JL; Harris, DJ; Whiting, MJ, 2019. Can to assess threatened plant species response to climate change. behaviour explain invasion success? A comparison between Biodiversity and Conservation 28: 7. sympatric invasive and native lizards. Animal Behaviour 151. Dunlop, RA; Guillemin, GJ, 2019. The Cyanotoxin and Non-protein Darling, E.S., McClanahan, T.R., Maina, J., Gurney, G.G., Graham, Amino Acid beta-Methylamino-L-Alanine (L-BMAA) in the Food N.A., Januchowski-Hartley, F., Cinner, J.E., Mora, C., Hicks, C.C., Chain: Incorporation into Proteins and Its Impact on Human Maire, E. and Puotinen, M., 2019. Social–environmental drivers Health. Neurotoxicity Research 36: 3. inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 9. Duursma, DE; Gallagher, RV; Griffith, SC, 2019. Variation in the timing of avian egg-laying in relation to climate. Ecography 42: 3. Das, S; Baumgartner, JB; Esperon-Rodriguez, M; Wilson, PD; Yap, JYS; Rossetto, M; Beaumont, LJ, 2019. Identifying climate refugia Dybzinski, R; Kelvakis, A; McCabe, J; Panock, S; Anuchitlertchon, K; for 30 Australian rainforest plant species, from the last glacial Vasarhelyi, L; McCormack, ML; McNickle, GG; Poorter, H; Trinder, maximum to 2070. Landscape Ecology 34: 12. C; Farrior, CE, 2019. How are nitrogen availability, fine-root mass, and nitrogen uptake related empirically? Implications for models Day, J; Clark, JA; Williamson, JE; Brown, C; Gillings, M, 2019. and theory. Global Change Biology 25: 3. Population genetic analyses reveal female reproductive philopatry in the oviparous Port Jackson shark. Marine and Freshwater Egeberg, CA; Kempster, RM; Hart, NS; Ryan, L; Chapuis, L; Kerr, CC; Research 70: 7. Schmidt, C; Gennari, E; Yopak, KE; Collin, SP, 2019. Not all electric shark deterrents are made equal: Effects of a commercial electric Di Lorenzo, T; Di Marzio, WD; Fiasca, B; Galassi, DMP; Korbel, K; anklet deterrent on white shark behaviour. Plos One 14: 3. Iepure, S; Pereira, JL; Reboleira, ASPS; Schmidt, SI; Hose, GC, 2019. Recommendations for ecotoxicity testing with stygobiotic species Eldridge, MDB; Neaves, LE; Spencer, PBS, 2019. Genetic analysis of in the framework of groundwater environmental risk assessment. three remnant populations of the rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes Science of the Total Environment 681. hirsutus) in arid Australia. Australian Mammalogy 41: 1.

DiBattista, JD; Reimer, JD; Stat, M; Masucci, GD; Biondi, P; De El-Sayed, AM; Venkatesham, U; Unelius, CR; Sporle, A; Perez, J; Brauwer, M; Bunce, M, 2019. Digging for DNA at depth: rapid Taylor, PW; Suckling, DM, 2019. Chemical Composition of the

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Rectal Gland and Volatiles Released by Female Queensland Fruit Palearctic swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae). Fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Diptera:Tephritidae). Environmental Zoologica Scripta 48: 4. Entomology 48: 4. Ghaly, TM; Geoghegan, JL; Alroy, J; Gillings, MR, 2019. High Engesser, S; Holub, JL; O’Neill, LG; Russell, AF; Townsend, SW, diversity and rapid spatial turnover of integron gene cassettes in 2019. Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless soil. Environmental Microbiology 21: 5. shared building blocks. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America 116: 39. Gibbons, AT; Idnurm, A; Seiter, M; Dyer, PS; Kokolski, M; Goodacre, SL; Gorb, SN; Wolff, JO, 2019. Amblypygid-fungal interactions: The Esperon-Rodriguez, M; Beaumont, LJ; Lenoir, J; Baumgartner, JB; whip spider exoskeleton as a substrate for fungal growth. Fungal McGowan, J; Correa-Metrio, A; Camac, JS, 2019. Climate change Biology 123: 7. threatens the most biodiverse regions of Mexico. Biological Conservation 240. Gibert, A; Tozer, W; Westoby, M, 2019. Plant performance response to eight different types of symbiosis. New Phytologist 222: 1. Foster, JD; Ellis, AG; Foxcroft, LC; Carroll, SP; Le Roux, JJ, 2019. The potential evolutionary impact of invasive balloon vines on native Gioria, M; Le Roux, JJ; Hirsch, H; Moravcova, L; Pysek, P, 2019. soapberry bugs in South Africa. Neobiota 49. Characteristics of the soil seed bank of invasive and non-invasive Freas, CA; Cheng, K, 2019. Panorama similarity and navigational plants in their native and alien distribution range. Biological knowledge in the nocturnal bull ant Myrmecia midas. Journal of Invasions 21: 7. Experimental Biology 222: 11. Gissi, F; Reichelt-Brushett, AJ; Chariton, AA; Stauber, JL; Greenfield, Freas, CA; Fleischmann, PN; Cheng, K, 2019. Experimental ethology P; Humphrey, C; Salmon, M; Stephenson, SA; Cresswell, T; Jolley, of learning in desert ants: Becoming expert navigators. Behavioural DF, 2019. The effect of dissolved nickel and copper on the adult coral Processes 158. Acropora muricata and its microbiome. Environmental Pollution 250.

French, PW; Ludowyke, R; Guillemin, GJ, 2019. Fungal Neurotoxins Goiran, C; Shine, R, 2019. Grandmothers and deadly snakes: an and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Neurotoxicity Research unusual project in citizen science. Ecosphere 10: 10. 35: 4. Gould, J; Valdez, JW; Clulow, J; Clulow, S, 2019. Diving beetle French, PW; Ludowyke, RI; Guillemin, GJ, 2019. Fungal- offspring oviposited in amphibian spawn prey on the tadpoles upon contaminated grass and well water and sporadic amyotrophic lateral hatching. Entomological Science 22: 4. sclerosis. Neural Regeneration Research 14: 9. Gower, DJ; Sampaio, FL; Peichl, L; Wagner, HJ; Loew, ER; Mclamb, Friesen, CR; Shine, R, 2019. At the invasion front, male cane toads W; Douglas, RH; Orlov, N; Grace, MS; Hart, NS; Hunt, DM; (Rhinella marina) have smaller testes. Biology Letters 15: 7. Partridge, JC; Simoes, BF, 2019. Evolution of the eyes of vipers with Fryirs, KA; Farebrother, W; Hose, GC, 2019. Understanding the and without infrared-sensing pit organs. Biological Journal of The spatial distribution and physical attributes of upland swamps in the Linnean Society 126: 4. Sydney Basin as a template for their conservation and management. Gower, DJ; Sampaio, FL; Peichl, L; Wagner, HJ; Loew, ER; Mclamb, Australian Geographer 50: 1. W; Douglas, RH; Orlov, N; Grace, MS; Hart, NS; Hunt, DM; Funghi, C; McCowan, LSC; Schuett, W; Griffith, SC, 2019. High air Partridge, JC; Simoes, BF, 2019. Evolution of the eyes of vipers with temperatures induce temporal, spatial and social changes in the and without infrared-sensing pit organs. Biological Journal of The foraging behaviour of wild zebra finches. Animal Behaviour 149. Linnean Society 126: 4.

Gallagher, RV; Allen, S; Wright, IJ, 2019. Safety margins and adaptive Grannemann, CCF; Meyer, M; Reinhardt, M; Ramirez, MJ; capacity of vegetation to climate change. Scientific Reports 9. Herberstein, ME; Joel, AC, 2019. Small behavioral adaptations Gatto, E; Agrillo, C; Brown, C; Dadda, M, 2019. Individual enable more effective prey capture by producing 3D-structured differences in numerical skills are influenced by brain lateralization spider threads. Scientific Reports 9. in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Intelligence 74. Gray, EF; Wright, IJ; Falster, DS; Eller, ASD; Lehmann, CER; Gaunet, A; Dinca, V; Dapporto, L; Montagud, S; Voda, R; Schar, Bradford, MG; Cernusak, LA, 2019. Leaf:wood allometry and S; Badiane, A; Font, E; Vila, R, 2019. Two consecutive Wolbachia- functional traits together explain substantial growth rate variation mediated mitochondrial introgressions obscure taxonomy in in rainforest trees. Aob Plants 11: 3.

26 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Gray, R; Jones, HA; Hitchcock, JN; Hardwick, L; Pepper, D; Lugg, A; Hayes, FJ; Buchanan, SW; Coleman, B; Gordon, AM; Reich, PB; Seymour, JR; Mitrovic, SM, 2019. Mitigation of cold-water thermal Thevathasan, NV; Wright, IJ; Martin, AR, 2019. Intraspecific pollution downstream of a large dam with the use of a novel thermal variation in soy across the leaf economics spectrum. Annals of curtain. River Research and Applications 35: 7. Botany 123: 1.

Green, TJ; Siboni, N; King, WL; Labbate, M; Seymour, JR; Raftos, D, Hays, G.C., Bailey, H., Bograd, S.J., Bowen, W.D., Campagna, C., 2019. Simulated Marine Heat Wave Alters Abundance and Structure Carmichael, R.H., Casale, P., Chiaradia, A., Costa, D.P., Cuevas, E. of Vibrio Populations Associated with the Pacific Oyster Resulting in and de Bruyn, P.N., 2019. Translating marine animal tracking data a Mass Mortality Event. Microbial Ecology 77: 3. into conservation policy and management. Trends In Ecology & Evolution 34.5. Greenlees, MJ; Shine, R, 2019. Ontogenetic shift in toxicity of invasive cane toads facilitates learned avoidance by native Hayward, MW; Callen, A; Allen, BL; Ballard, G; Broekhuis, F; Bugir, predators. Aquatic Invasions 14: 3. C; Clarke, RH; Clulow, J; Clulow, S; Daltry, JC; Davies-Mostert, HT; Fleming, PJS; Griffin, AS; Howell, LG; Kerley, GIH; Klop-Toker, K; Gribben, PE; Angelini, C; Altieri, AH; Bishop, MJ; Thomsen, Legge, S; Major, T; Meyer, N; Montgomery, RA; Moseby, K; Parker, MS; Bulleri, F, 2019. FACILITATION CASCADES IN MARINE DM; Periquet, S; Read, J; Scanlon, RJ; Seeto, R; Shuttleworth, C; ECOSYSTEMS: A SYNTHESIS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS. Somers, MJ; Tamessar, CT; Tuft, K; Upton, R; Valenzuela-Molina, M; Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, 57. Wayne, A; Witt, RR; Wuster, W, 2019. Deconstructing compassionate Grutter, AS; Blomberg, SP; Box, S; Bshary, R; Ho, O; Madin, EMP; conservation. Conservation Biology 33: 4. McClure, EC; Meekan, MG; Murphy, JM; Richardson, MA; Sikkel, Hayward, MW; Scanlon, RJ; Callen, A; Howell, LG; Klop-Toker, KL; PC; Sims, CA; Sun, D; Warner, RR, 2019. Changes in local free-living Di Blanco, Y; Balkenhol, N; Bugir, CK; Campbell, L; Caravaggi, A; parasite populations in response to cleaner manipulation over 12 Chalmers, AC; Clulow, J; Clulo, S; Cross, P; Gould, JA; Griffin, AS; years. Oecologia 190: 4. Heurich, M; Howe, BK; Jachowski, DS; Jhala, YV; Krishnamurthy, Gufu, GD; Manea, A; Leishman, MR, 2019. Experimental evidence R; Kowalczyk, R; Lenga, DJ; Linnell, JDC; Marnewick, KA; that CO2 and nutrient enrichment do not mediate interactions Moehrenschlager, A; Montgomery, RA; Osipova, L; Peneaux, C; between a native and an exotic free-floating macrophyte. Rodger, JC; Sales, LP; Seeto, RGY; Shuttleworth, CM; Somers, Hydrobiologia 846: 1. MJ; Tamessar, CT; Upton, RMO; Weise, FJ, 2019. Reintroducing rewilding to restoration - Rejecting the search for novelty. Biological Gufu, GD; Manea, A; Leishman, MR, 2019. Growth, reproduction Conservation 233. and functional trait responses of three freshwater plant species to elevated carbon dioxide. Aquatic Botany 154. He, HXJ; Liao, CH; Wu, XB; Jiang, WJ; Zhang, B; Zhou, LB; Zhang, L; Barron, AB; Zeng, ZJ, 2019. A Maternal Effect on Queen Production Hanssen, BL; Park, SJ; Royer, JE; Jamie, JF; Taylor, PW; Jamie, IM, in Honeybees. Current Biology 29: 13. 2019. Systematic Modification of Zingerone Reveals Structural Requirements for Attraction of Jarvis’s Fruit Fly. Scientific Reports9. He, PC; Wright, IJ; Zhu, SD; Onoda, Y; Liu, H; Li, RH; Liu, XR; Hua, L; Oyanoghafo, OO; Ye, Q, 2019. Leaf mechanical strength and Harcourt, R., Sequeira, A.M.M., Zhang, X., Roquet, F., Komatsu, K., photosynthetic capacity vary independently across 57 subtropical forest Heupel, M., McMahon, C.R., Whoriskey, F.G., Meekan, M., Carroll, species with contrasting light requirements. New Phytologist 223: 2. G. and Brodie, S., 2019. Animal-borne telemetry: An integral component of the ocean observing toolkit. Frontiers in Marine He, XJ; Jiang, WJ; Zhou, M; Barron, AB; Zeng, ZJ, 2019. A comparison Science 6. of honeybee (Apis mellifera) queen, worker and drone larvae by RNA-Seq. Insect Science 26: 3. Harcourt, R; van der Hoop, J; Kraus, S; Carroll, EL, 2019. Future Directions in Eubalaena spp.: Comparative Research to Inform Heim, RHJ; Wright, IJ; Allen, AP; Geedicke, I; Oldeland, J, 2019. Conservation. Frontiers in Marine Science 5. Developing a spectral disease index for myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii). Plant Pathology 68: 4. Hart, NS; Mountford, JK; Voigt, V; Fuller-Carter, P; Barth, M; Nerbonne, JM; Hunt, DM; Carvalho, LS, 2019. The Role of the Heupel, MR; Ledee, EJI; Udyawer, V; Harcourt, R, 2019. Acoustic Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel Proteins Kv8.2 and Kv2.1 in Telemetry: An Essential Sensor in Ocean-Observing Systems. Vision and Retinal Disease: Insights from the Study of Mouse Gene Challenges And Innovations In Ocean In Situ Sensors: Measuring Knock-Out Mutations. Eneuro 6: 1. Inner Ocean Processes And Health In The Digital Age. Elsevier.

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Hewlett, SE; Nordquist, RE, 2019. Effects of Maternal Care During Ward, A; Watson, DW; Watson, JEM; Wintle, BA; Chades, I, 2019. Rearing in White Leghorn and Brown Nick Layer Hens on Cognition, Identifying technology solutions to bring conservation into the Sociality and Fear. Animals 9: 7. innovation era. Frontiers in Ecology and The Environment 17: 10.

Hilder, PE; Battaglene, SC; Hart, NS; Collin, SP; Cobcroft, JM, 2019. Inskeep, JR; Shelly, TE; Vargas, RI; Spafford, H, 2019. Zingerone Retinal adaptations of southern bluefin tuna larvae: Implications for feeding affects mate choice but not fecundity or fertility in the culture. Aquaculture 507. melon fly, Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae). Florida Entomologist 102: 1. Hirsch, H; Castillo, ML; Impson, FAC; Kleinjan, C; Richardson, DM; Le Roux, JJ, 2019. Ghosts from the past: even comprehensive Jacquet, SM; Betts, MJ; Huntley, JW; Brock, GA, 2019. Facies, sampling of the native range may not be enough to unravel the phosphate, and fossil preservation potential across a Lower introduction history of invasive speciesthe case of Acacia dealbata Cambrian carbonate shelf, Arrowie Basin, South Australia. invasions in South Africa. American Journal of Botany 106: 3. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 533.

Hoeppner, JM; Hughes, L, 2019. Climate readiness of recovery plans Jago, JB; Bentley, CJ; Laurie, JR; Corbett, KD, 2019. Some middle for threatened Australian species. Conservation Biology 33: 3. and late Cambrian trilobites and brachiopods from the Adamsfield Trough, Tasmania. Alcheringa 43: 1. Holmer, LE; Yue, L; Zhang, ZL; Zhang, ZF, 2019. The problematic lingulate brachiopod Aulonotreta from the Ordovician (Dapingian- Jami, F; Marincowitz, S; Slippers, B; Crous, PW; Le Roux, JJ; Darriwilian) of Baltoscandia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 68: 4. Richardson, DM; Wingfield, MJ, 2019. Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Acacia heterophylla (La Reunion) and Acacia koa Hooper, DM; Griffith, SC; Price, TD, 2019. Sex chromosome (Hawaii). Fungal Biology 123: 11. inversions enforce reproductive isolation across an avian hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology 28: 6. Jayaweera, A; Rathnayake, DN; Dean, B; Barry, KL, 2019. Chemical signalling and context dependent polyandry in the false garden Hose, GC; Stumpp, C, 2019. Architects of the underworld: mantid Pseudomantis albofimbriata( Mantodea: Mantidae). Austral bioturbation by groundwater invertebrates influences aquifer Entomology 58: 2. hydraulic properties. Aquatic Sciences 81: 1. Jeunen, GJ; Knapp, M; Spencer, HG; Lamare, MD; Taylor, HR; Stat, Hose, GC; Symington, K; Lategan, MJ; Siegele, R, 2019. The Toxicity M; Bunce, M; Gemmell, NJ, 2019. Environmental DNA (eDNA) and Uptake of As, Cr and Zn in a Stygobitic Syncarid (Syncarida: metabarcoding reveals strong discrimination among diverse Bathynellidae). Water 11: 12. marine habitats connected by water movement. Molecular Ecology Hosokawa, A; Reid, CR; Latty, T, 2019. Slimes in the city: The Resources 19: 2. diversity of myxomycetes from inner-city and semi-urban parks in Johnson, SN; Ryalls, JMW; Barton, CVM; Tjoelker, MG; Wright, Sydney, Australia. Fungal Ecology 39. IJ; Moore, BD, 2019. Climate warming and plant biomechanical Hua, Q; Levchenko, VA; Kosnik, MA, 2019. DIRECT AMS C-14 defences: Silicon addition contributes to herbivore suppression in a ANALYSIS OF CARBONATE. Radiocarbon 61: 5. pasture grass. Functional Ecology 33: 4.

Hughes, L, 2019. The Rocky Hill decision: a watershed for climate Jonsen, ID; McMahon, CR; Patterson, TA; Auger-Methe, M; change action?. Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 37: 3. Harcourt, R; Hindell, MA; Bestley, S, 2019. Movement responses to environment: fast inference of variation among southern elephant Hughes, TP; Kerry, JT; Baird, AH; Connolly, SR; Chase, TJ; Dietzel, seals with a mixed effects model. Ecology 100: 1. A; Hill, T; Hoey, AS; Hoogenboom, MO; Jacobson, M; Kerswell, A; Madin, JS; Mieog, A; Paley, AS; Pratchett, MS; Torda, G; Woods, Kadar, J; Ladds, M; Mourier, J; Day, J; Brown, C, 2019. Acoustic RM, 2019. Global warming impairs stock-recruitment dynamics of accelerometry reveals diel activity patterns in premigratory Port corals. Nature 568: 7752. Jackson sharks. Ecology and Evolution 9: 16.

Hurley, LL; Rowe, M; Griffith, SC, 2019. Reproductive coordination Kamhi, JF; Ilies, I; Traniello, JFA, 2019. Social Complexity and Brain breeds success: the importance of the partnership in avian sperm Evolution: Comparative Analysis of Modularity and Integration in biology. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74: 1. Ant Brain Organization. Brain Behavior and Evolution 93: 1.

Iacona, G; Ramachandra, A; McGowan, J; Davies, A; Joppa, L; Keet, JH; Ellis, AG; Hui, C; Le Roux, JJ, 2019. Strong spatial and Koh, LP; Fegraus, E; Game, E; Guillera-Arroita, G; Harcourt, R; temporal turnover of soil bacterial communities in South Africa’s Indraswari, K; Lahoz-Monfort, JJ; Oliver, JL; Possingham, HP; hyperdiverse fynbos biome. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 136.

28 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Kelehear, C; Shine, R, 2019. Non-reproductive male cane toads Korbel, KL; Stephenson, S; Hose, GC, 2019. Sediment size influences (Rhinella marina) withhold sex-identifying information from their habitat selection and use by groundwater macrofauna and rivals. Biology Letters 15: 8. meiofauna. Aquatic Sciences 81: 2.

Kelley, DI; Bistinas, I; Whitley, R; Burton, C; Marthews, TR; Dong, N, Kruppert, S; Deussen, L; Weiss, LC; Horstmann, M; Wolff, JO; 2019. How contemporary bioclimatic and human controls change Kleinteich, T; Gorb, SN; Tollrian, R, 2019. Zooplankters’ nightmare: global fire regimes. Nature Climate Change 9: 9. The fast and efficient catching basket of larval phantom midges (Diptera: Chaoborus). Plos One 14: 3. Kelly, DM; Cheng, K; Balda, R; Kamil, AC, 2019. Effects of sun compass error on spatial search by Clark’s nutcrackers. Integrative Kumar, SS; Penesyan, A; Elbourne, LDH; Gillings, MR; Paulsen, IT, Zoology 14: 2. 2019. Catabolism of Nucleic Acids by a Cystic Fibrosis Pseudomonas Kemp, DJ, 2019. Manipulation of natal host modifies adult aeruginosa Isolate: An Adaptive Pathway to Cystic Fibrosis Sputum reproductive behaviour in the butterfly Heliconius charithonia. Environment. Frontiers in Microbiology 10. Proceedings of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 286: 1910. Kumarathunge, DP; Medlyn, BE; Drake, JE; Tjoelker, MG; Aspinwall, Kempraj, V; Park, SJ; Taylor, PW, 2019. gamma-Octalactone, an MJ; Battaglia, M; Cano, FJ; Carter, KR; Cavaleri, MA; Cernusak, LA; effective oviposition stimulant of Bactrocera tryoni. Journal of Chambers, JQ; Crous, KY; De Kauwe, MG; Dillaway, DN; Dreyer, Applied Entomology 143: 10. E; Ellsworth, DS; Ghannoum, O; Han, QM; Hikosaka, K; Jensen, AM; Kelly, JWG; Kruger, EL; Mercado, LM; Onoda, Y; Reich, PB; Khadiejah, S; Razak, N; Ward-Fear, G; Shine, R; Natusch, DJD, 2019. Rogers, A; Slot, M; Smith, NG; Tarvainen, L; Tissue, DT; Togashi, Asian water monitors (Varanus salvator) remain common in Peninsular HF; Tribuzy, ES; Uddling, J; Varhammar, A; Wallin, G; Warren, JM; Malaysia, despite intense harvesting. Wildlife Research 46: 3. Way, DA, 2019. Acclimation and adaptation components of the Khan, MK; Herberstein, ME, 2019. Sexually dimorphic blue bands temperature dependence of plant photosynthesis at the global scale. are intrasexual aposematic signals in nonterritorial damselflies. New Phytologist 222: 2. Animal Behaviour 156. Kwun, HJ; Myoung, SH, 2019. New record of the Crenimugil Khoei, AJ; Forsatkar, MN; Brown, C, 2019. Behavioral and crenilabis (Forsskal, 1775) (Mugiliformes: Mugilidae) from Korea, as immunotoxic effects of Prograf (R) (tacrolimus) in the male Siamese revealed by mitochondrial DNA barcoding. Mitochondrial Dna Part fighting fish. Ecotoxicology 28: 9. B-Resources 4: 1.

Kim, KW; Jackson, BC; Zhang, HY; Toews, DPL; Taylor, SA; Greig, Labrousse, S; Fraser, AD; Sumner, M; Tamura, T; Pinaud, D; Wienecke, EI; Lovette, IJ; Liu, MNM; Davison, A; Griffith, SC; Zeng, K; Burke, T, B; Kirkwood, R; Ropert-Coudert, Y; Reisinger, R; Jonsen, I; Porter- 2019. Genetics and evidence for balancing selection of a sex-linked Smith, R; Barbraud, C; Bost, CA; Ji, R; Jenouvrier, S, 2019. Dynamic colour polymorphism in a songbird. Nature Communications 10. Fine-Scale Sea Icescape Shapes Adult Emperor Penguin Foraging Habitat in East Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters 46: 20. Klein, S; Pasquaretta, C; He, XJ; Perry, C; Sovik, E; Devaud, JM; Barron, AB; Lihoreau, M, 2019. Honey bees increase their foraging Labrune, C; Lavesque, N; Bonifacio, P; Hutchings, P, 2019. A new performance and frequency of pollen trips through experience. species of Pista Malmgren, 1866 Polychaeta, Terebellidae) from the Scientific Reports 9. north-western Mediterranean Sea. Zookeys 838.

Knox, TC; Callahan, DL; Kernaleguen, L; Baylis, AMM; Arnould, Lafont, M; Goncalves, P; Guo, XM; Montagnani, C; Raftos, D; Green, JPY, 2019. Blubber fatty acids reveal variation in the diet of male T, 2019. Transgenerational plasticity and antiviral immunity in Australian fur seals. Marine Biology 166: 9. the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) against Ostreid herpesvirus 1 Kocsis, AT; Reddin, CJ; Alroy, J; Kiessling, W, 2019. The r package (OsHV-1). Developmental and Comparative Immunology 91. divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling Lahoz-Monfort, JJ; Chades, I; Davies, A; Fegraus, E; Game, E; data. Methods in Ecology And Evolution 10: 5. Guillera-Arroita, G; Harcourt, R; Indraswari, K; Mcgowan, J; Oliver, Kooyman, RM; Morley, RJ; Crayn, DM; Joyce, EM; Rossetto, M; Slik, JL; Refisch, J; Rhodes, J; Roe, P; Rogers, A; Ward, A; Watson, DM; JWF; Strijk, JS; Su, T; Yap, JYS; Wilf, P, 2019. Origins and Assembly Watson, JEM; Wintle, BA; Joppa, L, 2019. A Call for International of Malesian Rainforests. Annual Review Of Ecology, Evolution, And Leadership and Coordination to Realize the Potential of Systematics, Vol 50. Conservation Technology. Bioscience 69: 10.

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Lansverk, AL; Schroeder, KM; London, SE; Griffith, SC; Clayton, collaboration: an Australian Case Study. College & Undergraduate DF; Balakrishnan, CN, 2019. The variability of song variability in Libraries 26: 3. zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) populations. Royal Society Open Lionetti, VAG; Cheng, K, 2019. Vector calibration in Australian Science 6: 5. desert ants, Melophorus bagoti: Effects of a delay after the Lavergne, A; Graven, H; De Kauwe, MG; Keenan, TF; Medlyn, BE; acquisition of vector information. Ethology 125: 12. Prentice, IC, 2019. Observed and modelled historical trends in Loo, WT; Dudaniec, RY; Kleindorfer, S; Cavanaugh, CM, 2019. An inter- the water-use efficiency of plants and ecosystems. Global Change island comparison of Darwin’s finches reveals the impact of habitat, Biology 25: 7. host phylogeny, and island on the gut microbiome. Plos One 14: 12. Lavesque, N; Daffe, G; Grall, J; Zanol, J; Gouillieux, B; Hutchings, P, Loo, WT; Garcia-Loor, J; Dudaniec, RY; Kleindorfer, S; Cavanaugh, 2019. Guess who? On the importance of using appropriate name: CM, 2019. Host phylogeny, diet, and habitat differentiate the gut case study of Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1813). Zookeys 859. microbiomes of Darwin’s finches on Santa Cruz Island. Scientific Lavesque, N; Hutchings, P; Daffe, G; Nygren, A; Londono-Mesas, Reports 9. MH, 2019. A revision of the French Trichobranchidae (Polychaeta), Lowe, EC; Latty, T; Webb, CE; Whitehouse, MEA; Saunders, ME, with descriptions of nine new species. Zootaxa 4664: 2. 2019. Engaging urban stakeholders in the sustainable management Le Breton, TD; Zimmer, HC; Gallagher, RV; Cox, M; Allen, S; Auld, of arthropod pests. Journal of Pest Science 92: 3. TD, 2019. Using IUCN criteria to perform rapid assessments of at- Luo, D; Reid, CR; Makinson, JC; Beekman, M; Latty, T, 2019. Route risk taxa. Biodiversity and Conservation 28: 4. selection but not trail clearing are influenced by detour length in the Le Roux, JJ; Hui, C; Castillo, ML; Iriondo, JM; Keet, JH; Khapugin, Australian meat ants. Insectes Sociaux 66: 1. AA; Medail, F; Rejmanek, M; Theron, G; Yannelli, FA; Hirsch, H, Lynch, KE; Morandini, JS; Dar-Nimrod, I; Griffiths, PE, 2019. Causal 2019. Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Reasoning About Human Behavior Genetics: Synthesis and Future Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29: 17. Directions. Behavior Genetics 49: 2. Le Souef, J, 2019. Evaluation of Germany’s Parasitoid Wasp Fauna. Lynch, KE; Parke, EC; O’Malley, MA, 2019. How causal are Ccamlr Science 26: 4. microbiomes? A comparison with the Helicobacter pylori Lee, KA; Smoothey, AF; Harcourt, RG; Roughan, M; Butcher, PA; explanation of ulcers. Biology & Philosophy 34: 6. Peddemors, VM, 2019. Environmental drivers of abundance and Madin, EMP; Darling, ES; Hardt, MJ, 2019. Emerging Technologies residency of a large migratory shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inshore and Coral Reef Conservation: Opportunities, Challenges, and of a dynamic western boundary current. Marine Ecology Progress Moving Forward. Frontiers in Marine Science 6. Series 622. Madin, EMP; Harborne, AR; Harmer, AMT; Luiz, OJ; Atwood, TB; Lee, KH; Chen, TH; Shang, G; Clulow, S; Yang, YJ; Lin, SM, 2019. A Sullivan, BJ; Madin, JS, 2019. Marine reserves shape seascapes check list and population trends of invasive amphibians and reptiles on scales visible from space. Proceedings of The Royal Society in Taiwan. Zookeys 829. B-Biological Sciences 286: 1901. L’Herpiniere, KL; O’Neill, LG; Russell, AF; Duursma, DE; Griffith, SC, Madin, EMP; Precoda, K; Harborne, AR; Atwood, TB; Roelfsema, 2019. Unscrambling variation in avian eggshell colour and patterning CM; Luiz, OJ, 2019. Multi-Trophic Species Interactions Shape in a continent-wide study. Royal Society Open Science 6: 1. Seascape-Scale Coral Reef Vegetation Patterns. Frontiers in Ecology Lihoreau, M; Dubois, T; Gomez-Moracho, T; Kraus, S; Monchanin, and Evolution 7. C; Pasquaretta, C, 2019. Putting the ecology back into insect Maher, T; Mirzaei, M; Pascovici, D; Wright, IJ; Haynes, PA; cognition research. Advances in Insect Physiology, Vol 57. Gallagher, RV, 2019. Evidence from the proteome for local Linke, S; Turak, E; Asmyhr, MG; Hose, G, 2019. 3D conservation adaptation to extreme heat in a widespread tree species. Functional planning: Including aquifer protection in freshwater plans refines Ecology 33: 3. priorities without much additional effort. Aquatic Conservation- Mahmudunnabi, M; Barry, KL, 2019. Mantid sex pheromones: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 29: 7. female calling behaviour and male responses in the Australian Lin-Stephens, S; Kubicki, JM; Jones, F; Whiting, MJ; Uesi, J; Bulbert, false garden mantid, Pseudomantis albofimbriata (Dictyoptera: MW, 2019. Building student employability through interdisciplinary Mantidae). Journal of Natural History 53: 3–4.

30 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Mainali, BP; Moadeli, T; Ponton, F; Taylor, PW, 2019. Comparison McLean, DJ; Cassis, G; Kikuchi, DW; Giribet, G; Herberstein, ME, of Gel Larval Diet With Traditional Lucerne Chaff and Carrot Solid 2019. Insincere Flattery? Understanding the Evolution of Imperfect Diets for Rearing of Queensland Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae). Deceptive Mimicry. Quarterly Review of Biology 94: 4. Journal of Economic Entomology 112: 5. McMahon, CR; Hindell, MA; Charrassin, JB; Corney, S; Guinet, C; Majumder, R; Sutcliffe, B; Taylor, PW; Chapman, TA, 2019. Next- Harcourt, R; Jonsen, I; Trebilco, R; Williams, G; Bestley, S, 2019. Generation Sequencing reveals relationship between the larval Finding mesopelagic prey in a changing Southern Ocean. Scientific microbiome and food substrate in the polyphagous Queensland fruit Reports 9. fly. Scientific Reports 9. Mencuccini, M; Rosa, T; Rowland, L; Choat, B; Cornelissen, H; Jansen, S; Kramer, K; Lapenis, A; Manzoni, S; Niinemets, U; Reich, Manea, A; Leishman, MR, 2019. The resprouting response of P; Schrodt, F; Soudzilovskaia, N; Wright, IJ; Martinez-Vilalta, J, 2019. co-occurring temperate woody plant and grass species to elevated Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf: wood area ratios. [CO2]: An insight into woody plant encroachment of grasslands. New Phytologist 224: 4. Austral Ecology 44: 5. Middleton, EJT; Garnier, S; Latty, T; Reid, CR, 2019. Temporal Manea, A; Tabassum, S; Carthey, AJR; Cameron, DNS; Leishman, and spatial pattern of trail clearing in the Australian meat ant, MR, 2019. Evidence for a shift in defence driving the invasion Iridomyrmex purpureus. Animal Behaviour 150. success of Acacia longifolia in Australia. Biological Invasions 21: 6. Mohseni, N; Mohseni, A; Karim, A; Shabani, F, 2019. Impact of Martin-Sanz, RC; San-Martin, R; Poorter, H; Vazquez, A; Climent, J, geomorphic disturbance on spatial variability of soil CO2 flux within 2019. How Does Water Availability Affect the Allocation to Bark in a a depositional landform. Land Degradation & Development 30: 14. Mediterranean Conifer?. Frontiers in Plant Science 10. Monk, WA; Compson, ZG; Choung, CB; Korbel, KL; Rideout, NK; Maslin, B; Thomson, L; Mabberley, DJ, 2019. Acacia x mangiiformis Baird, DJ, 2019. Urbanisation of floodplain ecosystems: Weight-of- hybrida nova (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), a wattle of commercial evidence and network meta-analysis elucidate multiple stressor importance in Asia. Telopea 22. pathways. Science of The Total Environment 684.

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Van den Brink, PJ; Bracewell, SA; Bush, A; Chariton, A; Choung, than phenotype matching during olfactory recognition in Australian CB; Compson, ZG; Dafforn, KA; Korbel, K; Lapen, DR; Mayer-Pinto, sea lions (Neophoca cinerea). Journal of Experimental Marine M; Monk, WA; O’Brien, AL; Rideout, NK; Schafer, RB; Sumon, Biology and Ecology 517. KA; Verdonschot, RCM; Baird, DJ, 2019. Towards a general framework for the assessment of interactive effects of multiple Wierucka, K; Barthes, N; Pitcher, BJ; Schaal, B; Charrier, I; Harcourt, stressors on aquatic ecosystems: Results from the Making Aquatic RG, 2019. Chemical Profiles of Integumentary and Glandular Ecosystems Great Again (MAEGA) workshop. Science of The Total Substrates in Australian Sea Lion Pups (Neophoca cinerea). Environment 684. Chemical Senses 44: 3.

Venables, SK; Marshall, AD; Germanov, ES; Perryman, RJY; Winzer, LF; Berthon, KA; Carnegie, AJ; Pegg, GS; Leishman, MR, Tapilatu, RF; Hendrawan, IG; Flam, AL; van Keulen, M; Tomkins, 2019. Austropuccinia psidii on the move: survey based insights to its JL; Kennington, WJ, 2019. It’s not all black and white: investigating geographical distribution, host species, impacts and management in colour polymorphism in manta rays across Indo-Pacific populations. Australia. Biological Invasions 21: 4. Proceedings of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 286: 1912. Wirth, M; Wolff, JO; Appel, E; Gorb, SN, 2019. Ultrastructure of Vercammen, A; McGowan, J; Knight, AT; Pardede, S; Muttaqin, spider thread anchorages. Journal of Morphology 280: 4. E; Harris, J; Ahmadia, G; Estradivari; Dallison, T; Selig, E; Beger, Wolff, JO; Paterno, GB; Liprandi, D; Ramirez, MJ; Bosia, F; van der M, 2019. Evaluating the impact of accounting for coral cover in Meijden, A; Michalik, P; Smith, HM; Jones, BR; Ravelo, AM; Pugno, large-scale marine conservation prioritizations. Diversity and Distributions 25: 10. N; Herberstein, ME, 2019. Evolution of aerial spider webs coincided with repeated structural optimization of silk anchorages. Evolution Vila Pouca, C; Brown, C, 2019. Lack of social preference between 73: 10. unfamiliar and familiar juvenile Port Jackson sharks Heterodontus portusjacksoni. Journal of Fish Biology 95: 2. Wolff, JO; Wiegmann, C; Wirkner, CS; Koehnsen, A; Gorb, SN, 2019. Traction reinforcement n prehensile feet of harvestmen (Arachnida, Vozzo, ML; Bishop, MJ, 2019. Co-occurring secondary foundation Opiliones). Journal of Experimental Biology 222: 3. species have distinct effects on the recruitment and survival of associated organisms. Marine Ecology Progress Series 608. Wosnick, N; Niella, YV; Navas, CA; Monteiro, ELA; Freire, CA; Harnmerschlag, N, 2019. Multispecies thermal dynamics of air-exposed Ward-Fear, G; Rangers, A; Pearson, A; Bruton, M; Shine, R, 2019. ectothermic sharks and its implications for fisheries conservation. Sharper eyes see shyer lizards: Collaboration with indigenous Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 513. peoples can alter the outcomes of conservation research. Conservation Letters 12: 4. Wright, IJ; Cooke, J; Cernusak, LA; Hutley, LB; Scalon, MC; Tozer, WC; Lehmann, CER, 2019. Stem diameter growth rates in a fire- Warren, DL; Beaumont, LJ; Dinnage, R; Baumgartner, JB, 2019. New prone savanna correlate with photosynthetic rate and branch-scale methods for measuring ENM breadth and overlap in environmental biomass allocation, but not specific leaf area. Austral Ecology 44: 2. space. Ecography 42: 3. Wu, YQ; Mirzaei, M; Atwell, BJ; Haynes, PA, 2019. Label-free and Warrington, S; Ellis, A; Novoa, A; Wandrag, EM; Hulme, PE; Duncan, isobaric tandem mass tag (TMT) multiplexed quantitative proteomic RP; Valentine, A; Le Roux, JJ, 2019. Cointroductions of Australian data of two contrasting rice cultivars exposed to drought stress and acacias and their rhizobial mutualists in the Southern Hemisphere. recovery. Data in Brief 22. Journal of Biogeography 46: 7.

Weitzman, CL; Kaestli, M; Gibb, K; Brown, GP; Shine, R; Christian, Wu, YQ; Mirzaei, M; Pascovici, D; Haynes, PA; Atwell, BJ, 2019. K, 2019. Disease Exposure and Antifungal Bacteria on Skin of Proteomes of Leaf-Growing Zones in Rice Genotypes with Invasive Cane Toads, Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases 25: 9. Contrasting Drought Tolerance. Proteomics 19: 9.

Westerband, AC; Kagawa-Viviani, AK; Bogner, KK; Beilman, DW; Wu, YY; Whiting, MJ; Fu, JZ; Qi, Y, 2019. The driving forces behind Knight, TM; Barton, KE, 2019. Seedling drought tolerance and female-female aggression and its fitness consequence in an Asian functional traits vary in response to the timing of water availability agamid lizard. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 6. in a keystone Hawaiian tree species. Plant Ecology 220: 3. Wystrach, A; Schwarz, S; Graham, P; Cheng, K, 2019. Running paths Wierucka, K; Barthes, N; Harcourt, R; Schaal, B; Charrier, I; Pitcher, to nowhere: repetition of routes shows how navigating ants modulate BJ, 2019. Chemical fingerprints suggest direct familiarisation rather online the weights accorded to cues. Animal Cognition 22: 2.

36 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Yadav, S; Stow, AJ; Dudaniec, RY, 2019. Detection of environmental Zhang, JH; Hutchings, P; Kupriyanova, E, 2019. A revision of the and morphological adaptation despite high landscape genetic genus Petta Malmgren, 1866 (Annelida: Pectinariidae), with two connectivity in a pest grasshopper (Phaulacridium vittatum). new species from deep waters of southeastern Australia, and Molecular Ecology 28: 14. comments on phylogeny of the family. Zootaxa 4614: 2.

Yang, YZ; Wang, H; Harrison, SP; Prentice, IC; Wright, IJ; Peng, CH; Zhou, SX; Prentice, IC; Medlyn, BE, 2019. Bridging Drought Lin, GH, 2019. Quantifying leaf-trait covariation and its controls Experiment and Modeling: Representing the Differential across climates and biomes. New Phytologist 221: 1. Sensitivities of Leaf Gas Exchange to Drought. Frontiers in Plant Science 9. Yasin, M; Wakil, W; Ghazanfar, MU; Qayyum, MA; Tahir, M; Bedford, GO, 2019. Virulence of entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria Zhu, YG; Zhao, Y; Zhu, D; Gillings, M; Penuelas, J; Ok, YS; Capon, A; bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae against red palm weevil, Banwart, S, 2019. Soil biota, antimicrobial resistance and planetary Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier). Entomological Research 49: 1. health. Environment International 131.

Ye, YZ; Ma, L; Sun, BJ; Li, T; Wang, Y; Shine, R; Du, WG, 2019. The Zinger, L; Bonin, A; Alsos, IG; Balint, M; Bik, H; Boyer, F; Chariton, Embryos of Turtles Can Influence Their Own Sexual Destinies. AA; Creer, S; Coissac, E; Deagle, BE; Barba, M; Dickie, IA; Dumbrell, AJ; Ficetola, GF; Fierer, N; Fumagalli, L; Gilbert, MTP; Jarman, S; Current Biology 29: 16. Jumpponen, A; Kauserud, H; Orlando, L; Pansu, J; Pawlowski, J; Yichie, Y; Hasan, MT; Tobias, PA; Pascovici, D; Goold, HD; Van Tedersoo, L; Thomsen, PF; Willerslev, E; Taberlet, P, 2019. DNA Sluyter, SC; Roberts, TH; Atwell, BJ, 2019. Salt-Treated Roots of metabarcoding-Need for robust experimental designs to draw Oryza australiensis Seedlings are Enriched with Proteins Involved sound ecological conclusions. Molecular Ecology 28: 8. in Energetics and Transport. Proteomics 19: 19.

Young, HJ; Raoult, V; Platell, ME; Williamson, JE; Gaston, TF, 2019. Within-genus differences in catchability of elasmobranchs during trawling. Fisheries Research 211.

Yu, GH; Chi, ZL; Teng, HH; Dong, HL; Kappler, A; Gillings, MR; Polizzotto, ML; Liu, CQ; Zhu, YG, 2019. Fungus-initiated catalytic reactions at hyphal-mineral interfaces drive iron redox cycling and biomineralization. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 260.

Yun, H; Brock, GA; Zhang, XL; Li, LY; Garcia-Bellido, DC; Paterson, JR, 2019. A new chancelloriid from the Emu Bay Shale (Cambrian Stage 4) of South Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17: 13.

Yun, H; Zhang, XL; Li, LY; Pan, B; Li, GX; Brock, GA, 2019. Chancelloriid sclerites from the lowermost Cambrian of North China and discussion of sclerite taxonomy. Geobios 53.

Zawada, KJA; Dornelas, M; Madin, JS, 2019. Quantifying coral morphology. Coral Reefs 38: 6.

Zawada, KJA; Madin, JS; Baird, AH; Bridge, TCL; Dornelas, M, 2019. Morphological traits can track coral reef responses to the Anthropocene. Functional Ecology 33: 6.

Zeppel, MJB; Anderegg, WRL; Adams, HD; Hudson, P; Cook, A; Rumman, R; Eamus, D; Tissue, DT; Pacala, SW, 2019. Embolism recovery strategies and nocturnal water loss across species influenced by biogeographic origin. Ecology and Evolution 9: 9.

Zhang, JH; Hutchings, P, 2019. A revision of Australian Pectinariidae (Polychaeta), with new species and new records. Zootaxa 4611: 1.

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