Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Dr Ben Knott
  Phone   +61 3 522 72242
Email   ben.knott@deakin.edu.au
Position   Research Fellow in Avian Vision (Grade 2)
Campus   Geelong
Research grouping   Ecophysiology, Sensory Ecology and Behaviour
Centre for Integrative Ecology

Research interests

  1. Physiology of avian vision using microspectrophotometry and electroretinography
  2. Short-term effects of environmental variables on avian vision
  3. Molecular sequencing of avian retinal opsins

Career

2010 - Present: Research fellow in avian vision, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
2005-2009: PhD student, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
2002-2005: BSc (Hons) Zoology, 1st class, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Key publications

Knott, B., Bowmaker J.K., Berg, M.L., Bennett, A.T.D. (2012) Absorbance of retinal oil droplets of the budgerigar: sex, spatial and plumage morph-related variation? Journal of Comparative Physiology A 198 (1), 43-51

Gibson R.H., Knott, B., Eberlein, T., Memmott, J. (2011) Sampling method influences the structure of plant–pollinator networks Oikos 120 (6), 822-831

Carvalho, L.S., Knott, B., Berg, M.L., Bennett, A.T.D, Hunt, D.M. (2011) Ultraviolet-sensitive vision in long-lived birds Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278, 107-114

Knott, B., Berg, M.L., Morgan, E.R., Buchanan, K.L., Bowmaker, J.K., Bennett, A.T.D (2010) Avian retinal oil droplets: Dietary manipulation of colour vision? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277, 953-962

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Professional activities

Member of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE), the Australian Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASSAB), the Applied Vision Association (AVA).


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8th February 2013