Professor

Alan Andersen

FAA

Alan Andersen
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Alan Andersen is international recognised as the leading ant community ecologist in the world. He has pioneered the use of groups of functionally similar species to gain a predictive understanding of responses of ant communities to environmental stress and disturbance. Andersen has applied this to using ants as bio-indicators in land management, and is an international leader in the use of invertebrates in environmental assessment and monitoring. He has also made internationally important contributions to fire ecology, underpinning fire management for biodiversity conservation.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3103 ECOLOGY
    • 310302 Community Ecology
    • 310308 Terrestrial Ecology
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4102 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
  • 4104 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    • 410401 Conservation and biodiversity
    • 410402 Environmental assessment and monitoring
    • 410407 Wildlife and Habitat Management
410102 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Biodiversity
  • Ant-Plant Interactions
  • Ants
  • Biogeography
  • Bioindicators
  • Community Ecology
  • Disturbance Ecology
  • Fire Ecology
  • Myrmecochory
  • Functional Groups
  • Global Ecology
  • Seed Predation
  • Tropical Savannas
  • Biology

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