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Current Group
Michael Jennions
Jennie Mallela (Post-doc)
Martin Edvardsson (Visit Fellow)
Crystal Vincent (Visit Fellow)
Richard Milner (PhD Student)
Isobel Booksmythe (PhD student)
Sophie Callander (PhD Student)
Andrew Kahn (PhD Student)
Dominique Roche (PhD Student)
Jonathan Henshaw (Hons student)
James Davies (Research Officer)

 

Recent Members
Megan Higgie (Post-doc)
Clint Kelly (Post-doc)
 Fleur de Crespigny (Visit. Fellow)
Jean Drayton(PhD student)
Brian Mautz (PhD Student)
 Bob Wong (PhD Student)
J.E. (Kobus) Boeke (Msc)
Michelle Shackleton (Msc)

 Jules Livingston (Hons Student)
Fredrick Hayes (Hons Student)
Jessica Bolton (HonsStudent)
 Leah Bala (Hons Student)
Katie Humphrey (Hons Student)

Contact

Evolution, Ecology & Genetics Research School of Biology
Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200,
Australia
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My PhD research is kindly sponsored/funded by (click their links!):                                               
                                                                 

Dominique Roche

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Background

I am originally from Montreal, Canada, where I spent a lot of time enjoying the great outdoors. In between camping trips, cycling, canoeing and the odd telemark skiing adventure in the winter, I completed a BSc in biology at McGill University in 2006. During my undergraduate years, I spent a summer at the Bellairs Research Institute on the stunning Caribbean island of Barbados, where I studied the home range size and time-budget of small piscivorous fish under the supervision of Don Kramer. Later, I undertook a master’s degree with Brian Leung and Mark Torchin in NEO (Neotropical Environment Option), a joint program between McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama . There, I went from working on predators to studying parasites and compared their effects on native and introduced cichlid fishes in the Panama Canal watershed (see here on page 4).

While I thoroughly enjoyed working in this unique freshwater system, I have always been fascinated by the ocean and decided to change fields once again and return to saltwater for my PhD. I have recently joined Michael Jennions’ lab at the ANU, where I will be examining the bio-physical coupling of predator-prey interactions in carnivorous species of coral reef fishes.

Publications

8. Ménard A, Roche DG, Binning SA, Turgeon K, Kramer DL. In revision.  Shelter distribution and use on Caribbean coral reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

7. Kam Y, Schlöder C, Roche DG, Torchin ME. In Press. The Iraqi crab, Elamenopsis kempi, in the Panama Canal: distribution, abundance and interactions with an exotic North American crab. Aquatic invasions   6: 339-345 [PDF]

6. Roche DG, Leung B, Mendoza Franco EF and Torchin ME. 2010. Higher parasite richness, abundance and impact in native versus introduced cichlid fishes. International Journal for Parasitology 40: 1525-1530 – Cover page [PDF]

5. Oestreicher JS, Benessaiah K, Ruiz-Jaen MC, Sloan S, Turner K, Pelletier J, Guay B, Clark KE, Roche DG, Meiners M and Potvin C. 2009. Avoiding deforestation in Panamanian protected areas: an analysis of protection effectiveness and implications for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Global Environmental Change 19: 279-291 [PDF]

4. Mendoza Franco EF, Violante-González J and Roche DG. 2009. Interoceanic occurrence of Aristocleidus spp. Mueller, 1936 (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) parasitizing the gills of gerreid fishes in the Neotropics. Parasitology Research 105: 703-708 [PDF]

3. Roche DG, Torchin ME, Leung B and Binning SA. 2009. Localized invasion of the North American Harris mud crab, Rhithropanopeus harrisii, in the Panama Canal: implications for eradication and spread. Biological Invasions 11: 983-993 [PDF]

2. Mendoza Franco EF, Roche DG and Torchin ME. 2008. New species of Diplectanum (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae), and proposal of a new genus of the Dactylogyridae from the gills of gerreid fishes (Teleostei) from Mexico and Panama. Folia Parasitologica 55: 171-179 [PDF]

1. Roche DG, Torchin ME. 2007. Established population of the North American Harris mud crab, Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould 1841) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae), in the Panama Canal. Aquatic invasions 2: 155-161 [PDF]

 

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