Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
B Sc Honours, Ph D - Zoology, Univesity of Adelaide
Employed: Murray Park CAE, 1976-1977
University of Western Australia: 1978 - current
Inaugural Head, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, 2001-2006
Editorial Board: Animal Behaviour, 2004-2006
Employed: Murray Park CAE, 1976-1977
University of Western Australia: 1978 - current
Inaugural Head, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, 2001-2006
Editorial Board: Animal Behaviour, 2004-2006
Roles and responsibilities
Emeritus Professor & Senior Honorary Research Fellow - University of Western Australia
Frog biology
Speciation
Animal acoustics
Ph D supervision: 23 Ph D completions, 6 current students, 3 in negotiation
Honours Supervision: 2 current students working on sperm competition, and, bird acoustics
Frog biology
Speciation
Animal acoustics
Ph D supervision: 23 Ph D completions, 6 current students, 3 in negotiation
Honours Supervision: 2 current students working on sperm competition, and, bird acoustics
Future research
Biogeography - southwestern Australia
Evolution of frog calls: Myobatrachidae and Limnodynastidae
Sperm competition: Crinia georgiana
Genetics and mine site rehabilitation
Evolution of frog calls: Myobatrachidae and Limnodynastidae
Sperm competition: Crinia georgiana
Genetics and mine site rehabilitation
Funding overview
ARC Discovery: 2013-2015, $368,000. L Simmons (University of Western Australia) & JD Roberts,Testing new theoretical models of sperm allocation: does competition for mates compromise male fertility?
ARC Linkage:
ARC Linkage: $300,000, 2012-2014. Managing genetic diversity and evolutionary processes in foundation species for landscape restoration in the Midwest of Western Australia, with M Byrne & D Coates, Department of Environment & Conservation, Western Australia
Australian Department of Environment: review of the Conservation Status of Australian frogs
ARC Linkage:
ARC Linkage: $300,000, 2012-2014. Managing genetic diversity and evolutionary processes in foundation species for landscape restoration in the Midwest of Western Australia, with M Byrne & D Coates, Department of Environment & Conservation, Western Australia
Australian Department of Environment: review of the Conservation Status of Australian frogs
Previous positions
Senior Tutor: 1978
Lecturer: 1987
Senior lecturer: 1993
Associate Professor:2000
Winthrop Professor: 2006
Lecturer: 1987
Senior lecturer: 1993
Associate Professor:2000
Winthrop Professor: 2006
Current projects
Managing genetic diversity and evolutionary processes in foundation species for landscape
restoration in the Midwest of Western Australia. With M Byrne, D Coates & M Millar (DEC, WA), ARC Linkage $300,000 (2012-2014).
South-west biogeography: origins of diversity in a biodiversity hotspot. Review article with Michael Rix (WA Museum), Dan Edwards (Yale), Margaret Byrne (DEC, WA), Leo Joseph (CSIRO).
Evolution of myobatrachid frogs: systematics, call, collur, shape & life history evolution, with Scott Keogh (ANU) and Phil Byrne (Wollongong)
restoration in the Midwest of Western Australia. With M Byrne, D Coates & M Millar (DEC, WA), ARC Linkage $300,000 (2012-2014).
South-west biogeography: origins of diversity in a biodiversity hotspot. Review article with Michael Rix (WA Museum), Dan Edwards (Yale), Margaret Byrne (DEC, WA), Leo Joseph (CSIRO).
Evolution of myobatrachid frogs: systematics, call, collur, shape & life history evolution, with Scott Keogh (ANU) and Phil Byrne (Wollongong)
Industrial relevance
Strong links with Department of Environment & Conservation, WA (Margaret Byrne, David Coates,Melissa Millar) and Western Australian Museum (Paul Doughty). Links through DEC to Cliffs Mining and Karara Mining
Teaching overview
Specialist lectures in: Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary Processes and Wildlife Management
Postgraduate supervision: completed 20 Ph D, 3 M Sc, under examination revision 2 Ph D, current students 4.
Postgraduate supervision: completed 20 Ph D, 3 M Sc, under examination revision 2 Ph D, current students 4.
Research
Biogeography & speciation: Australia - particularly south-western Australia
Anuran biology: frogs
Sexual selection and sperm competition: polyandrous mating systems
Animal acoustics
Conservation and restoration biology
Anuran biology: frogs
Sexual selection and sperm competition: polyandrous mating systems
Animal acoustics
Conservation and restoration biology
Languages
English
Keywords
- Amphibian biology
- Speciation and biogeography
- Behavioural ecology
- Conservation biology
- Evolutionary biology
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Research Output 1993 2019
An integrated genetic approach to provenancing and establishment of founding individuals for restoration in the semiarid midwest region of Western Australia
Millar, M. A., Coates, D. J., Byrne, M. & Roberts, J. D., 2019, In : Australian Journal of Botany. p. 218-233Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
life history trait
semiarid region
Western Australia
genetic structure
life history
Evolutionary histories impart structure into marine fish heterospecific co-occurrence networks
Ford, B. M. & Roberts, J. D., 21 May 2019, In : Global Ecology and Biogeography. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
marine fish
tropical fish
history
indigenous species
fish
Frog survival and population viability in an agricultural landscape with a drying climate
Davis, R. A., Lohr, C. A. & Roberts, J. D., Jan 2019, In : Population Ecology. 61, 1, p. 102-112 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Functional traits reveal the presence and nature of multiple processes in the assembly of marine fish communities
Ford, B. M. & Roberts, J. D., 11 Nov 2019, In : Oecologia.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
marine fish
fish
tropics
niches
latitudinal gradient
Male semelparity and multiple paternity confirmed in an arid-zone dasyurid
Hayes, G. L. T., Simmons, L. W., Dugand, R. J., Mills, H. R., Roberts, J. D., Tomkins, J. L. & Fisher, D. O., 21 Apr 2019, In : Journal of Zoology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
semelparity
paternity
arid zones
Antechinus
litters (young animals)
Projects 1996 2015
- 25 Finished
Managing Genetic Diversity & Evolutionary Processes in Foundation Species for Landscape Restoration in the Midwest of Western Australia
Roberts, D., Coates, D. & Byrne, M.
1/01/12 → 31/12/14
Project: Research
Managing Genetic Diversity & Evolutionary Processes in Foundation Species for Landscape Restoration in the Midwest of Western Australia
Roberts, D., Coates, D. & Byrne, M.
1/01/12 → 31/12/14
Project: Research
Managing Genetic Diversity & Evolutionary Processes in Foundation Species for Landscape Restoration in the Midwest of Western Australia
Roberts, D., Coates, D. & Byrne, M.
1/01/12 → 31/12/14
Project: Research