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Dr Roger Clay

Position: Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: School of Natural and Built Environments
Campus: Mawson Lakes Campus
Office: P2-28B
Telephone: +61 8 830 25172
Fax: +61 8 830 25082
Email: Roger_dot_Clay_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Roger.Clay


Teaching interests

  • Conservation biology, soil ecosystems.
  • Supervision of field studies.

Qualifications

BAgSc (Hons)(Adel.), MEnvSt(Adel.), PhD (Genetics)(U. of Calif., Davis)


Research interests

  • Invertebrates of grasslands and the effects of replacement of native grasses by introduced species.
  • Use of ant communities as indicators of environmental change and of the effectiveness of management actions.

Research publications

Clay, RE & Andersen, AN 1996 Ant fauna of a mangrove community in the Australian seasonal tropics, with particular reference to zonation. Aust. J. Zool. 44 (5) 521-533.

Clay, R & Majer, J 2001 Flooded gum (Eucalyptus rudis) decline in the Perth metropolitan area: a preliminary assessment. Bulletin No. 19, School of Environmental Biology, Curtin University of Technology, 50pp.

Clay, RE & Schneider, KE 2000 The ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna of coastal heath in south-west Victoria: effects of dominance by Acacia sophorae and management actions to control it. Pacific Con. Biol. 6 (2) 144-151.

Andersen, AN & Clay, RE 1996 The ant fauna of Danggali Conservation Park in semi-arid South Australia: a comparison with Wyperfeld (Vic.) and Cape Arid (W.A.) National Parks .Aust. J. of Entomology 35 289-295.

Schneider, KE, Andersen, AN & Clay, RE 2003 The Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna of the Emerald region of central Queensland, and comparisons with other Queensland localities. Records of the South Australian Museum Monograph Series No. 7: 327 - 335.




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