I am an ecologist that research environmental impacts on coastal plant and animal communities. My research focuses on how human stressors, such as invasions by non-native species, pollution, and climate change, impact the structure, productivity and biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems. I combine experiments, surveys, analysis of long-term dataset, modelling and meta-analysis, to test how patterns in biological communities are generated and maintained. My research provides predictions on how coastal habitats will respond to human stressors and recommendations for conservation strategies needed to ameliorate their impacts.

Field work in West Australian kelp forest, December 2009