Michael Gardner

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Professor of Biodiversity/Ecology

Flinders University

Australia

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Michael Gardner is a Professor of Biodiversity and Ecology at Flinders University in Australia. His research focuses on the ecological adaptations of reptiles, the impact of environmental changes on biodiversity, and the complexities of community dynamics among species. Recent publications include studies on neurotoxin-resistant receptors in Australian skinks, behavioral responses of lizards to microclimates, and the ecological impacts of livestock grazing on endangered species.

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Genomics and mixed source populations in wildlife translocations

Open Date: 2020-10-11

Close Date: 2025-10-10

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Can parasites cause host population divergence?

Open Date: 2020-06-19

Close Date: 2023-06-20

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Boundaries and bacteria – identifying the mechanism for a parapatric boundary between two tick species

Open Date: 2019-07-01

Close Date: 2022-07-31

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Conservation management of the endangered Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard

Open Date: 2012-01-01

Close Date: 2019-05-31

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SCRC: Population genetic structure of Sea Cucumbers (bêche-de-mer) in Northern Australia

Open Date: 2008-06-30

Close Date: 2011-06-29

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Riley Hodgson

Flinders University

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Make Acetylcholine Great Again! Australian Skinks Evolved Multiple Neurotoxin-Proof Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Defiance of Snake Venom

Lizards, Lineage and Latitude: Behavioural Responses to Microclimate Vary Latitudinally and Show Limited Acclimatisation to a Common Environment After Two Years

Heat water and reptiles – do the hydro-thermal properties of animals at the source location persist at the translocation site?

Personality, space use, and networks directly and indirectly explain tick infestation in a wild population of lizards

Short‐Term Livestock Grazing Exclusion Has No Site‐Scale Impact on an Endangered Lizard

Squamate reptiles may have compensated for the lack of γδTCR with a duplication of the TRB locus

Morphological and genetic evidence supports that invasive Carcinus Leach, 1814 in South Australia are C. maenas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Enterobacteriaceae community dynamics in sleepy lizards

The retrospective double-entry of a long-term ecological dataset

Serpentoviruses in Free-Ranging Shingleback Skinks (Tiliqua rugosa) in Western Australia and South Australia, Australia

Soil DNA chronosequence analysis shows bacterial community re-assembly following post-mining forest rehabilitation

A giant armoured skink from Australia expands lizard morphospace and the scope of the Pleistocene extinctions

Hold your breath: Observations of the endangered pygmy bluetongue (Tiliqua adelaidensis) submerged in flooded burrows

Changes in parasite species distributions could be driven by host range expansions: the case of hybridisation between two Australian reptile ticks

Does effective population size affect rates of molecular evolution: Mitochondrial data for host/parasite species pairs in bees suggests not

Comparison of Reptilian Genomes Reveals Deletions Associated with the Natural Loss of γδ T Cells in Squamates

Does revegetation cause soil microbiota recovery? Evidence from revisiting a revegetation chronosequence 6 years after initial sampling

Global meta-analysis shows progress towards recovery of soil microbiota following revegetation

Additional instances of snake mite (Ophionyssus natricis) parasitism on sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosa) in South Australia

Recognition of reptile predator scent is innate in an endangered lizard species

Collaborators (16)

Riley Hodgson

Carl Watson

Gavin J. Prideaux

Neil Gemmell

Mark Tibbett

Michael S. Y. Lee

Terry Bertozzi

Martin Breed

Diana Fusco

Michael P. Schwarz

Simon Tierney

Martin J. Whiting

Kailah Thorn

Siegfried L. Krauss

Shawn D. Peddle

Robert Miller

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