The Massey University wildlife ecology research group takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining field observations with laboratory work including microbiological or molecular methods.
Why colour countsColour differentiations in animals can affect their success in territorial disputes and mating. Massey scientists are examining a variety of animals to understand better how colour influences these important behavioural traits.
Our fundamental and applied research ranges from genes to ecosystems. Conservation research centres on the behavioural ecology of rare and endangered birds and reptiles.
We seek to address major questions in evolutionary ecology such as: How do global patterns of biodiversity and species life history traits inform us about evolutionary processes?
We investigate the effect of human-induced changes on the behaviour, life history and fitness of wild animal populations.
Our team has expertise spanning biogeography, quantitative genetics, molecular ecology, population ecology, and conservation biology. Our research spans intertidal, estuarine, coastal, and oceanic marine systems.
Our work seeks to understand animal performance and how traits interact. Questions we ask include how competition influences adult phenotypes and how complex predatory strategies evolve.
Examples of projects from some of the wildlife ecology group at Massey University.
This international collaborative conservation programme is working to save an endangered bird species of the Galapagos islands that inspired Darwin.
A research project by Massey’s Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences has discovered that tui have a language with over 400 syllables
A research project by a Massey University PhD student will provide the first baseline and detailed quantitative assessment of shark abundance and distribution in the Galapagos Islands.
Visitors to a new Massey University website will be able to get their hands on a tuatara skull, an ancient marine fossil and a skink – virtually that is.
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Senior Lecturer in Marine Ecology - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
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Associate Professor James Dale
Associate Professor - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Technician and Laboratory Manager - Ecology - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Senior Lecturer - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Lecturer in Marine Ecology - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Lecturer - Environmental Science/Ecology - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Senior Lecturer - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Lecturer - Statistics - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Senior Lecturer - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Zoology (Vertebrate) - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Lecturer in Zoology (Invertebrate) - Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences