Dr Ross Thompson - Research Overview

Senior Lecturer

Ph.D. (2001) University of Otago, New Zealand

Telephone: +61-3-9905-5633
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: ross.thompson@sci.monash.edu.au

Post-doctoral (research) fellows

• Dr. Elisa Rawlings
• Dr. Kay Morris

PhD Students

• Elise King
  'Effects of dispersal and predation on community dynamics in intermittent streams' (with Sam Lake and Paul Reich)
• Mardiana Ali (with Mike Grace, Chemistry)
  'The influence of macrophytes on food web structure and ecosystem dynamics in intermittent streams'
• Samantha Imberger (with Mike Grace, Chemistry)
  'Organic matter dynamics in urban streams'
• Susie Ho (with Nick Bond)
  'Effects of invasive mosquito fish (Gambusia) on food web structure and dynamics'
• Giselle Perdomo (with Paul Sunnucks and Tim Cavagnaro)
  'Effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on moss-microarthropod ecosystems'
• Alissa Monk
  'Trophic transfer of contaminants in marine food webs'

Masters students

• Sam Harrison (with Christian Kull, Geography)
  'The role of invasive vs native crayfish – social perceptions and ecological realities.'

Honours students

• Charlotte Hurry (with Liz James, RBG)
  'Salinity tolerances in wetland plants'
• Kylie Owen
  'Trophic ecology of dolphins'
• Jenny Hellyer (with Rawlings/Morris)
  'Plant dispersal in wetlands'
• Kate Stevenson
  'Urban stream ecology'
• Adrian Dusting
  'Leaf litter dynamics in rural streams'

Recent students

• Darren Gilling HONS (with Paul Reich, Biology) (completed 2008)
  'Trophic role of freshwater crayfish in agricultural streams'
• Erinn Richmond HONS (with Mike Grace, Chemistry) (completed 2008)
  'The role of habitat strcutrue in urbna streams'
• Alissa Monk HONS (completed 2008)
  'Trophic transfer of contaminants in marine food webs'
• James Douglas HONS (completed 2008)
  'The role of invasive salmonids in Australian stream food webs'
• Fiona Melvin HONS (with Paul Sunnucks) (completed 2008)
  'Impacts of climate change on community structure in a moss-microarthropod ecosystem'
• Will Sowersby HONS (with Bob Wong) (completed 2007)
  'Behaviour and ecology of a newly discovered galaxiid fish'
• Sarah Jacobs HONS (with Andrew Singleton, Sociology) (completed 2007)
  'Social perceptions and biological indices of aquatic ecosystem health in urban streams'
• Gareth Belton HONS (with John Beardall) (completed 2007)
  'Stoichiometric effects of zinc on energy transfer in an algae/grazer system'
• Meaghan Walker HONS (completed 2007)
  'Effects of rare species loss in an intertidal mollusc community'
• Penelope Coleman HONS (with Chris Walsh, Chemistry) (completed 2007)
  'Do urban stormwater wetlands protect stream ecosystems?'
• Stacey Parkinson HONS (completed 2006)
  'Does restring riparian vegetation improve urban streams'