Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Dr David Roshier
  Phone   N/A
Email   david.roshier@deakin.edu.au
Position   Visitor
Campus   Geelong
Research grouping   Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Ecophysiology, Sensory Ecology and Behaviour
Centre for Integrative Ecology

I'm an ecologist with research interests in animal and plant ecology. I’m primarily interested in spatial
processes in populations and ecosystems, particularly patterns of distribution, movement and dispersal.
The current focus of my research is the ecology of waterbirds, migratory connectivity in bird populations
and the role of avian vectors in the transmission of zoonotic disease. Other interests include patterns of
dispersal in parasitic plants.

Research interests

  1. movement ecology of waterfowl
  2. avian zoonotic disease
  3. spatial modelling


Career

Deakin University (2009 to present) Senior Research Fellow
Charles Sturt University (2000-09) Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow
Charles Sturt University (1996-99) PhD
National Avian Research Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE (1993-95) Ecologist

Key publications

Roshier DA and MW Asmus (2009) Use of satellite telemetry on small-bodied waterfowl in Australia Marine and Freshwater Research 60, 326–332

Roshier DA, VAJ Doerr and ED Doerr (2008) Animal movement in dynamic landscapes: interaction between behavioural strategies and resource distributions Oecologia 156, 465–477

Watson DM, DA Roshier and T Wiegand (2007) Spatial ecology of a root parasite: patterns and predictions Austral Ecology 32 (4), 359–369

Roshier DA and JRW Reid (2004) On animal distributions in dynamic landscapes Ecography 26(4), 539–544

Roshier DA, AI Robertson and RT Kingsford (2002) Responses of waterbirds to flooding in an arid region of Australia and implications for conservation Biological Conservation 106, 399-411

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Professional activities

Member of editorial board Wildfowl
Member of Birds Australia
Member of Waterbird Society
Member of Ecological Society of Australia
Member of MIGRATE (Migration Interest Group: Research Applied Toward Education)

Related links

MIGRATE
www.migrate.ou.edu/index.htm

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
John McEvoy (Deakin, current)The movement ecology of Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa) Dejan Stojanovic (ANU, current)Spatial and population ecology of Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Andrea Gehrold (Germany, current)Flight feather moult and moult migration in waterfowl. Andrew Peters (CSU, current)Mechanisms of disease emergence and maintanence in migratory pigeons Skye Wassens (CSU 2005)Conservation biology of the southern bell frog (Litoria raniformis)  

 

Honours students

Student nameThesis title John Rawsthorne (CSU 2007) Class IConstraints on the dispersal of parasitic plants: the role of frugivorous birds. Tobi Edmonds (CSU 2005) Class IThe frequency of persistent summer snowdrifts and its effects on the composition and structure of alpine vegetation  


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