Dr Nigel Andrew
Convenor of Zoology, Lecturer (Entomology), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Rural Sciences
Qualifications
BSc(Hons)/BA(W'gong), PhD(Macq), GCHE (NE)
Contact
| Email: | nigel.andrew@une.edu.au |
| Room: | S1 Room 148 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2937 (or +61 2 6773 2937 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3814 |
Areas of Teaching
I am the unit coordinator of Entomology (200-level first semester) and Insect Plant Interactions (300/500 level second semester external), and contribute lectures to first-year Biology (100 level first semester) on animal diversity and evolution.
Research interests
• insect herbivores
• potential impacts of climate change on insect interactions, physiology & behaviour
• insect community structure along environmental and evolutionary gradients
• tri-trophic interactions (plant → insect herbivores → predators & parasitoids)
• insect herbivory
• importance of Carbon: Nitrogen: Phosphorous (C:N:P) stoichiometry in shaping insect interactions with their environment
• arthropod/bryophyte communities
Publications
Refereed
Andrew, N.R., and Hughes, L. (2008) Abundance - body mass relationships among insects along a latitudinal gradient. Austral Ecology 33, in press.
Andrew, N. R., and Hughes, L. (2007) Potential host colonization by insect herbivores in a warmer climate: a transplant experiment. Global Change Biology 13, 1539-1549. PDF. This is an electronic version of an article published in Global Change Biology: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Global Change Biology, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/GCB or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.
Andrew, N.R. & Hughes, L. (2005) Diversity and assemblage structure of phytophagous Hemiptera along a latitudinal gradient: predicting the potential impacts of climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14, 249-262 PDF available online at Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com)
Andrew, N. R. and Hughes, L. (2005) Arthropod community structure along a latitudinal gradient: implications for future impacts of climate change. Austral Ecology 30, 281-297. PDF available online at Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com)
Andrew, N. R. and Hughes, L. (2005) Herbivore damage along a latitudinal gradient: relative impacts of different feeding guilds. Oikos 108, 176-182. PDF available online at Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com)
Andrew, N. R. and Hughes, L. (2004) Species diversity and structure of phytophagous beetle assemblages along a latitudinal gradient: predicting the potential impacts of climate change. Ecological Entomology 29, 527-542. PDF available online at Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com)
Michael, C. A., Gillings, M. R., Holmes, A. J., Hughes, L., Andrew, N. R., Holley, M. P. & Stokes, H. W. (2004) Mobile gene cassettes: a fundamental resource for bacterial evolution. American Naturalist 164, 1-12. PDF
Andrew, N. R., Rodgerson, L., and Dunlop, M. (2003) Variation in invertebrate-bryophyte community structure at different spatial scales along altitudinal gradients. Journal of Biogeography 30, 731-746. PDF available online at Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com)
Andrew, N., Rodgerson, L. & York, A. (2000) Frequent fuel-reduction burning: the role of logs and associated leaf litter in the conservation of ant biodiversity. Austral Ecology 25, 99-107 PDF available online at Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com)
Andrew, N. and Rodgerson, L. (1999) Extracting invertebrates from bryophytes. Journal of Insect Conservation 3, 53-55
Non-refereed
Andrew, N. (2006) Book Review Insect Evolutionary Ecology Austral Ecology 31(4), 548.