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Dale Roberts

Emeritus Professor, BSc PhD Adel.

  • The University of Western Australia (M701), 35 Stirling Highway,

    6009 Perth

    Australia

  • 2230 Citations
  • 28 h-Index
1993 …2019
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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

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

Future research

Biogeography - southwestern Australia

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

Previous positions

Senior Tutor: 1978
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)

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.

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

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. 218-233

Research 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

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)
3 Citations (Scopus)

Incorporating climate change into recovery planning for threatened vertebrate species in southwestern Australia

Stewart, B. A., Ford, B. M., van Helden, B. E., Roberts, J. D., Close, P. G. & Speldewinde, P. C., 1 Jan 2018, In : Biodiversity and Conservation. 27, 1, p. 147-165 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

vertebrate
planning
vertebrates
climate change
threatened species

Projects 1996 2015

Testing New Theoretical Models of Sperm Allocation - Does Competition for Mates Compromise Male Fertility

Simmons, L. & Roberts, D.

Australian Research Council

1/01/13 → 31/12/15

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.

Australian Research Council

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.

Australian Research Council

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.

Australian Research Council

1/01/12 → 31/12/14

Project: Research

The Genetic Diversity & Conservation Management of Four Short Range Endemic Species of the Western Australian Yilgarn Banded Iron Formations

Roberts, D. & Micale, M.

Ecological Society of Australia Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment

2/06/11 → 1/06/12

Project: Research