Professor Gordon Sanson

Professor
Director e-Education Centre (Monash University)

Telephone: +61-3-9905-1996
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: gordon.sanson@monash.edu

• The functional morphology of teeth in relation to the biomechanical properties of the diet.
• The nutritional ecology of animals.
• The functional morphology of the animal digestive system and its interaction with animal and plant structure as dietary components.
• The physical and chemical properties of plants and their potential importance as defences against herbivory.

• Evans A.R. and Sanson G.D.(2003) The tooth of perfection: functional and spatial constraints on mammalian tooth shape. Biological Journal Linnean Society. 78, 173-191.
• Logan, M. and Sanson G.D. (2002) The association of tooth wear with sociality of free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss). Australian Journal of Zoology. 50, 621-626.
• Logan, M. and Sanson G.D. (2002) The effects of tooth wear on activity patterns of free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss). Australian Journal of Zoology. 50, 281-292.
• Archer, D. and Sanson, G.D. (2002). The form and function of the selenodont molar in southern African ruminants in relation to their feeding habits. Journal of Zoology (London). 257,13-26.
• Logan, M. and Sanson G.D. (2002). The effect of tooth wear on the feeding behaviour of free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss). Journal of Zoology (London). 256, 63-69.
• Peeters, P., Read, J. and Sanson, G.D. (2001). Variation in the guild composition of herbivorous insect assemblages among co-occurring plant species. Austral Ecology. 26, 385-399.
• Evans, A.R., Harper, I.S. and Sanson, G.D. (2001). Confocal imaging, visualisation and 3-D surface measurement of small mammalian teeth. Journal of Microscopy. 204, 108-119.
• Sanson, G., Read, J., Aranwela, N., Clissold, F. and Peeters, P. (2001). The measurement of leaf biomechanical properties in herbivory: opportunities, problems and procedures. Austral Ecology . 26,535-546.
• Edwards, C., Read, J. and Sanson, G.D. (2000). Characterising sclerophylly: some mechanical properties of leaves from heathland and forest at Wilson’s Promontory, Australia. Oecologia 123, 158-167.
• Logan, M. & Sanson, G.D. (2000). Measuring fine ingesta/digesta particle size distributions. Wildlife Research. 27, 191-194.
• Read, J, Edwards, C., Sanson, G.D. and Aranwela, N. (2000). Relationships between sclerophylly, leaf biomechanical properties and leaf anatomy in some Australian heath and forest species. Plant Biosystems 134, 261-277.
• Aranwela, N., Sanson, G.D. and Read, J. (1999). Approaches to the measurement of the physical properties of leaves. New Phytologist 144, 369-393.
• Evans, A. & Sanson, G.D. (1998) The effect of tooth sharpness on the breakdown of insects. J. Zool. London. 246, 391-400.
• Moore S.J., Lill C.A. & Sanson G.D. (1998). Functional morphology of the gizzard of the domestic goose - design of an artificial gizzard. J. Zool. London. 246, 111-117.
• Murray C.G. and Sanson G.D. (1998). Thegosis - A critical review. Aust. Dental J. 43, 192-8.

• Worley M. & Sanson G. (2000) The effect of tooth wear on grass fracture in grazing kangaroos. Proceedings of the Plant Biomechanics Meeting, Freiburg-Badenweiler 2000 (ed. H.-C. Spatz and T. Speck). (2000) Pp. 583-589.Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.
• Peeters, P.J., Sanson, G.D. and Read, J. (2000). Is chewing insect distribution and morphology correlated with leaf biomechanical properties? Proceedings of the 3^rd Plant Biomechanics Conference, Freiburg-Badenweiler 2000 (ed. H.-C. Spatz and T. Speck), pp. 555-561. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.
• Read, J., Edwards, C. and Sanson, G.D. (2000). Characterising sclerophylly: the biomechanical properties of leaves from heath and forest at Wilson’s Promontory, Australia. Proceedings of the 3^rd Plant Biomechanics Conference, Freiburg-Badenweiler 2000 (ed. H.-C. Spatz and T. Speck), pp. 99-103. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.