Our research focusses on the ecology and conservation of pollinators and the pollination function they provide both within native and agricultural ecosystems. Our research to date has largely focused on understanding interactions between plants and pollinator communities within a wide variety of Australian ecosystems and determining how this can impact pollination systems.

In addition, we are interested in understanding the nesting and foraging biology of pollinators as weel as their intearction with introduced pollinator species in an effort to protect and conserve native plant-pollinator systems. Our Team employs a variety of methods from multiple disciplines including large-scale manipulative field and glasshouse experiments. We use an integrative approach to understand firstly who are the pollinators and then what is their effect on surrounding plants, ecosystems, plant mating systems, seed fitness as well as fruit quality and yield.

We are based in the School of Science at Western Sydney Universities Richmond campus.

Broad areas of interest: