Dr Ian Radford

Office Botany School Annexe Rm 103 (opposite the Union Street Lecture Theatre)
Telephone 64 3 479 9065
Fax 64 3 479 7583
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Current Research

• Why plants become invasive - the interactions between plant available resources, plant traits/strategies, and with associated species (competitors, herbivores, predators, etc).
• What determines success or failure in biological control programmes?
• Landscape and fire ecology of woody weeds.
• Effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations on ecosystem dynamics.
• Morphological and genetic variation and taxonomy

Teaching

• ECOL111 Ecology and Conservation of Diversity

Selected Publications

Radford, I.J., Cousens, R.D. and Michael, P.W. (2004). Morphological and genetic variation in the Senecio pinnatifolius complex: are variants worthy of taxonomic recognition? Australian Systematic Botany 17, 29-48.

Radford, I.J., Dickinson, K. and Lord, J. (2004). The Biological Cringe:- Is the Northern Hemisphere Hieracium lepidulum just better than New Zealand native plants? Southern Connections Conference, Cape Town, January 2004.

Radford, I.J. (2003) Demography, fecundity and natural enemy dynamics of rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora) in riparian and upland sites of north Queensland. Plant Protection Quarterly 18, 138-142.

Radford, I.J., Nicholas, D.M., Tiver, F., Brown, J.R. and Kriticos, D.J. (2002). Seedling establishment, mortality, tree growth rates and vigour of Acacia nilotica in different Astrebla grassland habitats: Implications for invasion. Austral Ecology 27, 258-268.

Radford, I.J., Nicholas, D.M., Brown, J.R. (2002) Impact of prescribed burning on Acacia nilotica seed banks and seedlings in the Astrebla grasslands of northern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 49, 795-807.

Radford, I.J. and Grice, A.C. (2001). Minor impacts of wet season burning on tropical savanna riparian plant communities. Ecological Society of Australia Conference, September 2001.

Radford, I.J. and Cousens, R.D. (2000). Invasiveness and comparative life-history traits of exotic and indigenous Senecio species in Australia. Oecologia 125, 531-542.

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