DrNicholas Porch
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
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- Senior LecturerFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
- +61 3 925 17620 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
At present I am studying the recent fossil record (the last several thousand years) to characterise the nature and extent of human impacts on the ecosystems of Indo-Pacific islands. My research focusses and the role of human colonistation in driving species extinctions and invasions and changes in the nature of the ecosystems more generally. I'm interested in how the fossil record can contribute to island ecology, biogeography and evolution by providing novel insights that are only available through the prism of the fossil record.
Knowledge Areas:
Quaternary Palaeoecology; Island Biogeography; Indo-Pacific and Australian Beetles (Coleoptera); Invertebrate Biogeography and Conservation, Biological Invasions; Invertebrate Extinctions
Current Projects (2024)
Biogoegraphy and Conservation of Australia's Alpine Invertebrates (funded by Hermon Slade Foundation)
Patterns of Endemism in Southeastern Australian Terrestrial Invertebrates (funded by ARC Linkage led by Heloise Gibb)
Knowledge Areas:
Quaternary Palaeoecology; Island Biogeography; Indo-Pacific and Australian Beetles (Coleoptera); Invertebrate Biogeography and Conservation, Biological Invasions; Invertebrate Extinctions
Current Projects (2024)
Biogoegraphy and Conservation of Australia's Alpine Invertebrates (funded by Hermon Slade Foundation)
Patterns of Endemism in Southeastern Australian Terrestrial Invertebrates (funded by ARC Linkage led by Heloise Gibb)
GRANTS
- GRANTHotspots of endemism for invertebrate conservation in south-east Australia29 Oct 2024 - 28 Oct 2027People funded by this grant:
- Nicholas Porch
- GRANTConservation biogeography of the endangered invertebrate fauna of the SE Australian montane archipelago1 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Nicholas Porch
- GRANTTasmania's Forgotten Riparian Ground Beetles18 Jul 2022 - 20 Apr 2024People funded by this grant:
- Nicholas Porch
- GRANTRefuges for narrow range endemic invertebrates, butterflies and jewel beetles17 Sep 2020 - 30 Jun 2021People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Porch N,
- Sato C
- GRANTAssessing the impacts to shorebirds of an emerging threat in critical habitat horses on exposed sandy shores14 Aug 2019 - 31 Dec 2020People funded by this grant:
- Weston M,
- Evans-Clay MJ,
- Porch N
- GRANTPredicting Global Change impacts on Australian Aquatic Biodiversity1 Nov 2013 - 31 May 2015People funded by this grant:
- Nicholas Porch
- FELLOWSHIPDeveloping predictions of extinction risk for tropical arthropods in the face of global environmental change1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2015People funded by this grant:
- Nicholas Porch