Assoc. Prof. Alan Lill

Associate Professor
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Telephone: +61-3-9905-5664
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: alan.lill@sci.monash.edu.au

• Ecology, behavioural ecology, ecophysiology and conservation of native Australian mammals and birds.
• Population dynamics and ecology of threatened possum, bandicoot and owl species.
• Foraging behaviour and energetics of penguins and lyrebirds.
• Mating system of moorhens.
• Ecophysiology and ecological energetics of reproduction in burrowing-nesting bee-eaters and overwintering in small passerine birds.

Honours projects for prospective students

• Wildlife ecology, conservation and management: effects of human disturbance and habitat modification
• Avian and mammalian ecophysiology, ecological energetics, conservation physiology and haematology
• Urban ecology, particularly of native and exotic birds
• Behavioural ecology, particularly avian foraging behaviour and sociality
• Vertebrate evolutionary ecology and life history strategies
• Environmental education

• Serong, M. and Lill, A. 2008. Structural and floristic change during secondary succession in Victorian wet forests. Australian Journal of Botany 56, 220-231.
• Price, M. and Lill, A. 2008. Does pedestrian traffic affect the composition of ‘bush bird’ assemblages ? Pacific Conservation Biology 14, 54-62.
• Beckman, J. and Lill, A. 2008. Is morphometric variation associated with teat number differences in Antechinus agilis and A. swainsonii? Observations from the Otway Ranges. Australian Mammalogy 29, 177-190.
• Stanford. L. and Lill, A. 2008. Out on the town: winter feeding ecology of lorikeets in urban parkland. Corella 32, 49-57.
• Smith, J. and Lill A. 2008. Importance of eucalypts in urban invasion by Rainbow and Musk Lorikeets. Emu 108, 187-195.
• Lowry, H. and Lill, A. 2007. Ecological factors facilitating city-dwelling in Red-rumped parrots. Wildlife Research 34, 624-631
• Mortimer, L. and Lill, A. 2007. Activity-related variation in blood parameters associated with oxygen transport and chronic stress in little penguins. Australian Journal of Zoology 55, 249-256.
• J Beckman, SC Banks, P Sunnucks, A. Lill and AC Taylor. 2007.Phylogeography and environmental correlates of a cap on reproduction: teat-number in a small marsupial, Antechinus agilis. Molecular Ecology 16, 1-15.
• Harley, D. K. P. and Lill, A.  2007. Reproduction in a population of the endangered Leadbeater’s possum inhabiting lowland swamp forest. Journal of Zoology 272, 451-457.
• Lill, A. and Fell, P. J. 2007. Microclimate of the Rainbow Bee-eater’s nesting burrow. Emu   107, 1-7.
• Crisp, H. and Lill, A. 2006. City slickers: habitat use and foraging in urban common mynas Acridotheres tristis. Corella 30, 9-15.
• Nicholson, E., Lill, A. and Andersen, A. 2006. Do tropical savanna skink assemblages show a short-term response to low-intensity fire? Wildlife Research 33, 331-338.
• Lill, A., Box, J. and Baldwin, J. 2006. Do metabolism and contour plumage insulation vary in response to seasonal energy bottlenecks in superb fairy-wrens? Australian Journal of  Zoology. 54, 1-7.
• Simmons, P. and Lill, A. 2006. Development of blood oxygen carrying capacity in fairy martin and welcome swallow nestlings. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 143 (4), 459-468.
• Maron, M. and Lill, A. 2006. Intraspecific variation in detection of bird-habitat relationships: declining birds in southern Australian woodlands. Pacific Conservation Biology 12, 301-312.
• Platt, A. and Lill, A. 2006. Composition and conservation value of bird assemblages of urban ‘habitat islands’: do pedestrian traffic and landscape variables exert an influence? Urban Ecosystems 9, 83-97.