Dr Ross Thompson

Lecturer

Ph.D. (2001) University of Otago, New Zealand

Telephone: +61-3-9905-5633
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: ross.thompson@sci.monash.edu.au

• Stream and lake ecology
• Food web ecology and dynamics
• The role of dispersal in community dynamics
• The influence of climate change on community and ecosystem processes

• Executive committee member, Australian Centre for Biodiversity
• Monash Freshwater Ecology Research Group, mFERG
• Facility for Aquatic Science, Teaching and Research

• Lab members (students and post-docs)
• Prospective Honours students

• In press. Thompson, R.M., Phillips, N.R. and Townsend, C.R. Biological consequences of clear-cut logging around streams – moderating effects of management. Journal of Forestry. Accepted 29th January 2007.
• 2007. Bates, C.R., Scott, G., Tobin, M. and Thompson, R. M. Weighing the costs and benefits of reduced sampling resolution in biomonitoring studies: perspectives from the temperate rocky intertidal. Biological Conservation 137: 617-625.
• 2007 Thompson, R.M., Starzomski, B., Hemberg, M. and Shurin, J. Trophic levels and trophic tangles: the prevalence of omnivory in real food webs. Ecology 88: 612-616.
• 2007. Marczak, L.B., Thompson, R.M. and Richardson, J.S. Trophic position, habitat type and relative productivity influence food web effects of resource subsidies. Ecology 88: 140-148
• 2006. Thompson, R.M. and Starzomski, B.S. What does biodiversity actually do? A review for managers and policy makers. Biodiversity and Conservation. Published online 2nd July 2006.
• 2006. Thompson, R.M. and Townsend, C.R. A truce with neutral theory: local deterministic factors, species traits and dispersal limitation together determine patterns of diversity in stream invertebrates. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 476 484.