Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change
We are interested in understanding species’ responses to environmental change. We make novel use of time-series available through museum collections and citizen science, with a particular focus on the effects of climate change on avian morphology. We work at a range of scales, from local, within-population dynamics up to continental-wide comparisons of different species in different climatic regions and regimes. We seek to understand the consequences of environmental change for the viability of populations: how climate drives changes in body size and shape, associated fitness costs for individuals and demographic consequences for populations. These factors ultimately determine the abundance and distribution of species so our work has a bearing on environmental management.
Group Leader
PhD Student
Postdoctoral Fellow
Honours Student
Project | Status |
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Avian ecology and climate change | Current |
Carry-over effects of climate on Australian Birds | Current |
Effects of climate change on Australian bird species | Current |
Effects of climate change on Australian bird species | Current |
Effects of climate change on avian morphology | Current |
Please go to https://janetlgardner.wordpress.com/publications/

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: integrating physiological and behavioural data to model the responses of desert birds to climate change
The ability of some birds to survive and breed in the hottest and driest habitats on the planet, despite their diurnal habits and high mass-specifi

Birds are the “canaries in the climate-change coal mine”
