I lead the WSU node of the ARC Centre for Plant Success. My primary interest is on understanding variation in plant functional traits, and how trait variation relates to plant ecological strategies. For the Centre my group is focusing on adaptations to temperature and water stress within the Australian flora.

Based at Macquarie University, my research focuses on abiotic stress tolerance in cultivated plants and eucalypts. Principally by comparing crop species with their Australian wild relatives, I seek to identify the genetic basis of physiological and biochemical tolerance to heat, drought and salinity.

My research centres on the physiological ecology of plants with a primary focus on plant hydraulics, water relations and functional anatomy. I am studying how the structure of the xylem achieves a compromise between features that promote efficiency of transport to the leaves while preserving safety from cavitation.

My primary interest is plant conservation, particularly under climate change. My main research areas are conservation biology, ecology, plant functional traits, biogeography, macroecology, species adaptation to climate change and global change biology.

I am an ecologist focusing on the interactions between soil microbiota, plants, and insect herbivores. A major theme of my group’s research is understanding the ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their effects on plant outcomes.

I'm interested in the processes underlying the assembly of microbial communities and how these processes can be manipulated to achieve beneficial outcomes. A goal of my research is to understand the contributions of microbial biodiversity to the productivity of managed and natural systems and to how these systems respond to environmental change.

The aim of my research program is to compare and contrast the genetic traits in plants that render them susceptible to colonization by mutualistic versus pathogenic microbes. Further, I study the countermeasures used by microbes to manipulate the outcome of these interactions.

I am plant evolutionary ecologist investigating biological adaptations and biodiversity. My group fuses ecology, physiology and genetics to provide fundamental insights into biological processes and the foundation for improved management of real-world issues.

I am an ecologist and modeller with a focus on climate-ecosystem modelling for global change assessment. I led development of the widely-used terrestrial biosphere model, LPJ-GUESS. I am Director of Research at HIE and lead the Land and Primary Industries Network of the NSW Decarbonisation Innovation Hub.