Dr David Chapple

Lecturer

PhD, Australian National University, 2005

Telephone: +61-3-9905-3015
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: david.chapple@monash.edu

• evolutionary biology
• invasion biology
• behavioural & evolutionary ecology
• population & conservation genetics
• phylogenetics & phylogeography

• BIO2022: Evolution and Systematics (second semester)
• BIO2040: Conservation Biology (first semester)
• BIO2242: Animal Structure and Function (second semester)
• BIO3132: Biology of Australian Vertebrates (second semester)
• Biology Honours Coordinator (Semester 2)

• Chapple DG, Simmonds SM, Wong BBM (2012) Can behavioral and personality traits influence the success of unintentional species introductions? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 57-64.
• Chapple DG, Simmonds SM, Wong BBM (2011) Know when to run, know when to hide: can behavioral differences explain the divergent invasion success of two sympatric lizards? Ecology and Evolution 1: 278-289.
• Chapple DG, Hoskin CJ, Chapple SNJ, Thompson MB (2011) Phylogeographic divergence in the widespread delicate skink (Lampropholis delicata) corresponds to dry habitat barriers in eastern Australia. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 191.
• Chapple DG, Chapple SNJ, Thompson MB (2011) Biogeographic barriers in south-eastern Australia drive phylogeographic divergence in the garden skink, Lampropholis guichenoti. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1761-1775.
• Sinervo B, Mendez-De la Cruz F, Miles DB, Heulin B, Bastiaans E, Santa Cruz MV, Lara-Resendiz R, Martinez-Méndez N, Calderon-Espinosa ML, Mesa-Lázaro RN, Gadsden H, Avila LJ, Morando M, De la Riva IJ, Sepulveda PV, Rocha CFD, Ibargüengoytia N, Puntriano CA, Massot M, Lepetz V, Oksanen TA, Chapple DG, Bauer AM, Branch WR, Clobert J, Sites JW (2010) Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal niches. Science 328: 894-899.
• Chapple DG, Ritchie PA, Daugherty CH (2009) Origin, diversification and systematics of the New Zealand skink fauna (Reptilia: Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 470-487.
• Liggins L, Chapple DG, Daugherty CH, Ritchie PA (2008) A SINE of restricted gene flow across the Alpine Fault: phylogeography of the New Zealand common skink (Oligosoma nigriplantare polychroma). Molecular Ecology 17: 3668-3683.
• Liggins L, Chapple DG, Daugherty CH, Ritchie PA (2008) Origin and post-colonization evolution of the Chatham Islands skink (Oligosoma nigriplantare nigriplantare). Molecular Ecology 17: 3290-3305.
• Greaves SNJ, Chapple DG, Daugherty CH, Gleeson DM, Ritchie PA (2008) Genetic divergences pre-date Pleistocene glacial cycles in the New Zealand speckled skink, Oligosoma infrapunctatum. Journal of Biogeography 35: 853-864.
• Greaves SNJ, Chapple DG, Gleeson DM, Daugherty CH, Ritchie PA (2007) Phylogeography of the spotted skink (Oligosoma lineoocellatum) and green skink (O. chloronoton) species complex (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in New Zealand reveals pre-Pleistocene divergence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 729-739.
• Chapple DG, Keogh JS, Hutchinson MN (2005) Substantial genetic substructuring in southeastern and alpine Australia revealed by molecular phylogeography of the Egernia whitii (Lacertilia: Scincidae) species group. Molecular Ecology 14: 1279-1292.
• Chapple DG, Keogh JS (2005) Complex mating system and dispersal patterns in a social lizard, Egernia whitii. Molecular Ecology 14: 1215-1227.
• Chapple DG, Keogh JS, Hutchinson MN (2004) Molecular phylogeography and systematics of the arid-zone members of the Egernia whitii (Lacertilia: Scincidae) species group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 549-561.
• Chapple DG, Swain R (2002) Effect of caudal autotomy on locomotor performance in a viviparous skink, Niveoscincus metallicus. Functional Ecology 16: 817-825.