Dr Nigel Warwick
Senior Lecturer - School of Environmental and Rural Science
Biography
I am Senior Lecturer in Plant and Crop Ecophysiology at the University of New England. My research has a strong focus on plant, crop and horticultural ecophysiology.
I have successfully supervised Honours, Masters and Doctoral students from Australia, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jordan, India, Iran, Nepal and Timor Leste. I have postgraduates working on projects in the cereal, tomato and berryfruit industries. I currently have active research collaborations with cereal breeders at the NSW DPI Tamworth Agricultural Institute and the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the United Kingdom.
Prior to coming to UNE, I worked on research projects on plant water use in horticultural systems, biochemistry of leaf senescence, salinity, wetland plant ecology and photosynthesis at Plant Physiology Division DSIR NZ, the School of Agriculture and Forestry at The University of Melbourne, the Institute of Biological Chemistry at Washington State University, USA, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/CRC for Freshwater Ecology at Monash University.
The definition of Plant Ecophysiology...
Plant Ecophysiology deals with the relationship between plants and their physical and abiotic environment...the study of the adaptive functional and structural features which link the plant to its specific environment...also that of the forms of transfer and transformation of energy and mass connected with dynamics of the ecosystem. (UNESCO Montpellier Symposium, 1962)
