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Yvonne Buckley
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Lecturer
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Contact details
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The Ecology Centre
St Lucia
Queensland 4072
Australia
Tel (UQ): +61 7 3365 7085
Fax: +61 7 3365 1655
Location: Room 375, Goddard Building
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CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
QBP 306 Carmody Road
St Lucia
Queensland 4067
Australia
Tel (CSIRO) +61 7 3214 2643
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Yvonne.Buckley@csiro.au |
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I work jointly in the School of Integrative Biology at UQ and CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and am interested in various aspects of applied theoretical ecology. In particular I work on the population dynamics, species interactions and management of invasive plants. I’ve recently moved from the UK where I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford and PhD at Imperial College London, I also spent time as a post-doc at the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial.
My current research projects include: disturbance ecology and weed management, Allee effects in invasive plants, dispersal of Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius), dispersal and spread of exotic pines in New Zealand, decision making for weed control on a landscape scale, herbivory and biocontrol, frugivory and seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes of the Australian Northern Tropics, plant population syndromes and restoration ecology of native communities. I am also involved in projects on insect landscape ecology and landscape genetics.
I am involved in the Australian Weed Management CRC with collaborative projects on unpalatable grasses, woody weeds and weed dispersal. I have active collaborations with researchers in Oxford University (UK), Imperial College London (UK), University of Sheffield (UK), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany), CAB International (Switzerland), Landcare Research (NZ), Stockholm University (Sweden) and ENSIS (NZ).
Self-motivated Honours and PhD students are invited to get in touch with me if you are interested in doing a project in the fields outlined below. All research projects in my lab will include some aspect of quantitative ecology, this can be combined with field-work, ecological experiments and/or molecular ecology. In particular I will be expanding my research on dispersal with a grant to do field-work at a site in New Zealand and analyse data from Northern Queensland.
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My research interests include:
- plant population dynamics
- plant-insect interactions
- theory of biological control
- invasive plant ecology
- dispersal
- management models
- evolution of invasive plants
- landscape ecology of pests
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Publications
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Allen, R.M., Buckley, Y.M., & Marshall, D.J. (in press) Offspring size plasticity in a marine invertebrate: an adaptive maternal effect across life-history stages. The American Naturalist.
Kang, M., Buckley, Y.M., & Lowe, A.J. (in press) Testing the role of genetic factors across multiple independent invasions of the shrub Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius). Molecular Ecology.
Chandler, T., Buckley, Y.M., & Dwyer, J. (in press) Restoration potential of Brigalow regrowth: Insights from a cross-sectional study in southern Queensland. Ecological Management and Restoration.
Firn, J. & Buckley, Y.M. (in press) Driver or Passenger? Unravelling the Mechanisms behind the invasion of an unpalatable pasture grass, African Lovegrass. Tropical Grasslands Journal.
Kang, M., Lowe, A., & Buckley, Y. (2007) Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci for the invasive plant Cytisus scoparius Molecular Ecology Notes, 7, 100-102
Buckley, Y.M., Rees, M., Bolker, B. (2007) Disturbance, invasion and re-invasion: managing the weed-shaped hole in disturbed ecosystems. Ecology Letters 10:809-817
Kang, M., Lowe, A., Buckley, Y. 2007. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci for the invasive plant Cytisus scoparius. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7(1): 100-102
Buckley, Y.M., et al. (2006) Management of plant invasions mediated by frugivore interactions. Journal of Applied Ecology, 43, 848-857
Stokes, K.E., Buckley, Y.M. & Sheppard, A.W. (2006) Assessing the potential impact of an exotic bumblebee on exotic weeds in Australia using Scotch broom as a case study. Diversity & Distributions, 12, 593-600
Buckley, Y.M. et al. (2005) Slowing down a pine invasion despite uncertainty in demography and dispersal. Journal of Applied Ecology 42, 1020-1030
Buckley et al. 2005. Stable coexistence of an invasive plant and biocontrol agent: a parameterised coupled plant-herbivore model. Journal of Applied Ecology 42, 70-79
Buckley, Y.M., Rees, M., Paynter, Q.P., Lonsdale, M. 2004. Modelling integrated weed management of an invasive shrub in tropical Australia, Mimosa pigra. Journal of Applied Ecology 41, 547-560
Buckley et al. 2003. Are invasives bigger? a global study of seed size variation in two invasive shrubs. Ecology 6, 1434-1440
Buckley, Y.M., Briese, D.T. & Rees, M. 2003a. Demography and management of the invasive species Hypericum perforatum: 1. Using multi-level mixed effects models for characterising growth, survival and fecundity in a long-term dataset. Journal of Applied Ecology, 40, 481-493
Buckley, Y.M., Briese, D.T. & Rees, M. 2003b. Demography and management of the invasive species Hypericum perforatum: 2. Construction and use of an individual-based model to predict invasion dynamics and the effects of management strategies. Journal of Applied Ecology, 40, 494-507
Buckley, Y.M., Kelly, C.K. 2003. Comparison of population structures and ecology of a congeneric pair of common and rare neotropical tree species. Plant Ecology 167, 45-56
Polaszek, A., M. F. Rabbi, Z. Islam, and Y. M. Buckley. 2002. Trichogramma zahiri (Hymenoptera : Trichogrammatidae) an egg parasitoid of the rice hispa Dicladispa armigera (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae) in Bangladesh. Bulletin of Entomological Research 92:529-537.
Buckley, Y.M, Hinz, H.L., Matthies, D. & Rees, M. 2001. Interactions between density dependent processes and dynamics of an invasive plant species, Tripleurospermum perforatum, (scentless chamomile). Ecology Letters 4:551-558.
Kelly, C. K., H. Banyard Smith, Y. M. Buckley, R. Carter, M. Franco, W. Johnson, T. Jones et al. 2001. Investigations in commonness and rarity: a comparative analysis of co-occurring, congeneric Mexican trees. Ecology Letters 4:618-627.
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