Our lab 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 identifying pollinators of agriculturally important crops within both temperate and tropical regions of Australia and the floral resources that support healthy pollinator populations within agroecosystems. We employ a variety of methods from multiple disciplines including large-scale manipulative field and glasshouse experiments to determine the effects of climate change on floral resources and pollinators. 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 at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University.

Broad areas of interest: