Projects
Read more about our research projects.

Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF, ARC LIEF project)

The ARMF willsupport research to assess the extent and effects of changing climate, water and fire regimes on ecosystem processes and their feedbacks and provide a structure for integrated research, management and governance of Australia's mountains.

Theme

  • Behavioural, evolutionary and physiological ecology
  • Evolutionary genetics and genomics
  • Phylogenetics, population genetics and biodiversity
  • Plant environmental biology and functional ecology
  • Plant-microbe interactions

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Student intake

Open for Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD students

Status

Current

People

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Drivers of phenotypic evolution in a vulnerable alpine ecosystem

This project aims to improve understanding of the capacity for resilience and response to warming and drying conditions and extreme events in vulnerable alpine communities: interacting suites of alpine plants, soil invertebrates, fungi, and microbes.

Theme

  • Behavioural, evolutionary and physiological ecology
  • Evolutionary genetics and genomics
  • Phylogenetics, population genetics and biodiversity
  • Plant environmental biology and functional ecology
  • Plant-microbe interactions

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Student intake

Open for Summer scholar, Honours, Master, PhD students

Status

Current

People

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Enhancing climate-resilience of ecological restoration

If you're interested in working in the iconic landscape of Kosciuszko National Park this project may be for you. We seek PhD or Honours students to join a collaborative project with NSW DPE to explore drivers of variation of growth and establishment of the montane and alpine species in rehabilitated sites.

Theme

  • Behavioural, evolutionary and physiological ecology
  • Plant environmental biology and functional ecology

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Student intake

Open for Summer scholar, Honours, Master, PhD students

Status

Current

People

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