Zac Hemmings
- School of Environmental and Rural Science
Email: zhemmin2@une.edu.au
Biography
Zac is a lecturer of entomology, teaching entomology (ZOOL320) and plant protection (AGRO311). He completed his PhD studying the thermal traits of dung beetles and their plasticity under increasing temperatures traits response to a warming climate. Following this, he took a post-doctoral position at the University of New England working on the Dung Beetles Ecosystem Engineers project. A collaboration between Meat and Livestock Australia, CSIRO, Charles Sturt University, and the University of Western Australia the project quantified the services provided by introduced dung beetles and their economic value to Australian producers.
Zac’s primary research interests are the physiological and ecological response of insects to changing thermal regimes, and the role of insects as ecosystem service providers. He is currently supervising a number of postgraduate students working on a variety of topics, including the response of aphids and their parasitoids to increasingly variable thermal regimes and the potential for dung beetles to reduce greenhouse gas emission from dung.
