Meet the team

Prof Neal Enright

Professor Enright is a plant ecologist with particular interests in the ecology and management of fire-prone ecosystems and in the restoration of plant communities to post-mined landscapes. His present research focuses on the high biodiversity shrublands of the northern sandplains of SW Australia, and the effects of fire and climate change on this important ecosystem, and spans a range of areas of investigation in co-operation with collaborating scientists, including ecophysiology, molecular ecology and simulation modeling. He has also published extensively on the population ecology of conifers and palms.

Dr Phil Ladd 

Senior Lecturer (Ecology)
Ph: 9360 2219
Room: PS3.036
Email: P.Ladd@murdoch.edu.au

BSc(Hons) University of Melbourne
PhD University of Melbourne

Phil is currently working on fire projects with the Terrestrial Ecology group as well as pollination studies of native Western Australian plants and establishment biology of several species from sandplain and kwongan vegetation with some emphasis on rare plants.

Dr Joe Fontaine 

Dr. Fontaine is a disturbance ecologist with a background in fire and wildlife ecology. His research has focused on the interaction of fire and maintenance of biodiversity (both plants and wildlife) in forests and shrublands of western North America and Western Australia. Projects have included investigation of postfire management and fire effects on birds and small mammals, experimentally shortened fire interval effects on biodiverse shrublands, bushfire carbon emissions, and bushfire threat across Western Australia. In addition to fire-related work, recent research also has focused more broadly on disturbance and urban ecology, investigating potential revegetation and restoration of degraded urban remnants using topsoil transfer as well as urban wildlife ecology and the role of private gardens in retaining native birds in the landscape.
Download Joe's CV (PDF, 102kb).

https://sites.google.com/site/ecologyofdisturbance/