Assoc. Prof. Martin Burd

Associate Professor

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
  Monocarpy and 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

• Brookes, R. H., L. K. Jesson, and M. Burd. 2008. A test of simultaneous resource and pollen limitation in Stylidium armeria. New Phytologist in press.

• Burd, M. 2008. The Haig-Westoby model revisited. American Naturalist 171:400–404.
• Burd, M. 2007. Adaptive function of drip tips: a test of the epiphyll hypothesis in Psychotria marginata and Faramea occidentalis (Rubiaceae). Journal of Tropical Ecology 23:449–455.
• Burd, M., J. Read, G. D. Sanson and T. Jaffré. 2006. Age-size plasticity for reproduction in monocarpic plants. Ecology 87:2755–2764.
• Read, J., G. D. Sanson, T. Jaffré and M. Burd. 2006. Does tree size influence timing of flowering in Cerberiopsis candelabra (Apocynaceae), a long-lived monocarpic rain-forest tree? Journal of Tropical Ecology 22:621-629.
• Burd, M. 2006. Ecological consequences of traffic organisation in ant societies. Physica A 372:124-131.
• Burd, M., F. R. Govedich, and L. Bateson. 2006. Sibling competition in a brood-tending leech. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273:2461-2466.
• Vamosi, J.C., T.M. Knight, J.A. Steets, S.J. Mazer, M. Burd and T.-L. Ashman. 2006. Pollination decays in biodiversity hotspots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 130:837-842.

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