Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Dr Alecia Bellgrove
  Phone   +61 3 556 33099
Email   alecia.bellgrove@deakin.edu.au
Position   Senior Lecturer
Campus   Warrnambool
Research grouping   Marine and Freshwater Science

Research interests

  1. Dispersal and recruitment ecology of marine algae and invertebrates
  2. Ecosystem engineering roles of habitat-forming seaweeds and invertebrates
  3. Human impacts on intertidal rocky shores

Career

Senior Lecturer, Deakin University 2011 - present
Lecturer in Marine Biology & Ecology 2002 - present
University of Tsukuba, Japan, Foreign Research Fellow 2001
Japanese Soceity for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow 1999 - 2001
PhD Monash University 1998

Key publications

Bellgrove, A., McKenzie, P. F., McKenzie, J. L. and Sfilgoj, B. J. (2010) Restoration of the habitat-forming fucoid alga Hormosira banksii at effluent-affected sites: competitive exclusion by coralline turfs Marine Ecology Progress Series Vol 419, pp. 47-56

Bellgrove, A., Kihara, H., Iwata, A., Aoki, M.N., Heraud, P. (2009) Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy as a tool to identify macroalgal propagules Journal of Phycology Vol 45, pp. 560-570

McKenzie, P.F. & Bellgrove, A. (2008) Dispersal of Hormosira banksii via detached fragments: reproductive viability and longevity Journal of Phycology Vol 44, pp, 1108-1115

Bellgrove, A, Clayton, MN & Quinn, GP (2004) An integrated study of the temporal and spatial variation in the supply of propagules, recruitment and assemblages of intertidal macroalgae on a wave-exposed rocky coast, Victoria, Australia Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology Vol 310, pp 207-225

Bellgrove, A, Clayton, MN & Quinn, GP (1997) Effects of secondarily treated sewage effluent on intertidal macroalgal recruitment processes Marine and Freshwater Research Vol 48, pp 137-146

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Professional activities

President Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany (ASPAB)
Member Australian Marine Science Association, Victoria Branch
Member Phycological Society of America
Member The Japanese Society of Phycology
Member Environmental Sustainability Faculty Research Cluster

Related links

Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany
www.aspab.org

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Maria Garcia RojasUsing sea ice charcteristics to identify minke whale habitat in antarctic sea ice Jess KcKenzieThe influence of estuaries on surrounding coastal ecosystems Margie MorriceForaging ecology of Blue Whales in the Bonney Upwelling Region, South Australia Jacquomo MonkEstimating the relationship of subtidal marine habitat on Victorian fish assemblages Daniel GrixtiEstimating and improving the survival of recreationally caught-and-released fish Jacqui Pocklington (Univ. Melb)Role of habitat-forming intertidal fucoids as ecosystem engineers  

 

Honours students

Student nameThesis title Hayley CameronInfluence of parental canopy in successful recruitment of Hormosira banksii Aimee HauserIs gene flow sufficient to prevent outbreeding depression between spatially distant populations of Hormosira banksii  

 

Teaching areas

Marine Biology
Temperate Marine Ecology
Marine and Coastal Environmental Interpretation


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8th February 2013