Assoc. Prof. Martin Burd

Deputy Head of School

Office: G17 Biology Building
Telephone: +61-3-9905-5667
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: Martin.Burd@sci.monash.edu.au

• Evolutionary ecology of flowering plant reproduction:
  Sex allocation, ovule number evolution
  Pollination biology
  Plant life history evolution
• Behaviour and social organisation in ant colonies:
  Foraging ecology of leaf-cutting ants
  Traffic and collective movement by ants
  Ants as models of crowd behaviour and crowd panics

Honours projects for prospective students

• Burd, M., T.-L. Ashman, D. R. Campbell, M. R. Dudash, M. O. Johnston, T. M. Knight, S. J. Mazer, R. J. Mitchell, J. A. Steets, and J. C. Vamosi. 2009. Ovule number per flower in a world of uncertain pollination. American Journal of Botany in press.

• Waksberg, A., A. J. Smith, and M. Burd. 2009. Can irrational behaviour maximize fitness? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 63: 461–471.
• Burd, M., and J. J. Howard. 2008. Optimality in a partitioned task performed by social insects. Biology Letters 4: 627–629.
• Brookes, R. M., L. K. Jesson, and M. Burd. 2008. A test of simultaneous resource and pollen limitation in Stylidium armeria. New Phytologist 179: 557–565.
• Read, J., G. D. Sanson, M. Burd, and T. Jaffré. 2008. Mass flowering and parental death in the regeneration of Cerberiopsis candelabra (Apocynaceae), a long-lived monocarpic tree in New Caledonia. American Journal of Botany 95: 558–567.
• Burd, M. 2008. The Haig-Westoby model revisited. American Naturalist 171: 400–404.

Complete publication list