Dr Dennis O'Dowd

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Telephone: +61-3-9905-5644
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E-mail: dennis.odowd@sci.monash.edu.au

• Ecology, evolution, and biogeography of plant-animal interactions, especially mutualism.
• Associations between mites and leaf domatia.
• Seed dispersal mutualisms in the genus Acacia.
• Tri-level trophic interactions, especially the effects of plant morphology on the third trophic level.
• The antiquity of protective mutualism between plants and arthropods.
• The ecology and control of environmental weed.
• Biodiversity education.

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