Professor Chris Daniels

Chris Daniels is Professor of Urban Ecology at the University of South Australia. Chris has been a prolific scientist and author, having edited 4 books and contributed to more than 150 scientific publications. He has been published on issues regarding the natural and built environments, and has an abiding interest in reptiles, particularly lizards. Chris is also an award-winning science communicator. He has regular sessions on 891 ABC Radio, and writes for the Advertiser newspaper on a range of science and environmental topics.

Barbara Hardy Centre for Sustainable Urban Environments

• Ecology
• Urban Biodiversity
• Zoology
• Evolution
• Human interactions with wildlife

Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Zoological Society of South Australia: 2003 - present

ARC- Australian-Based Reader (OZREADER): 2003 – present

Doctor of Philosophy. Zoology. The University of New England, New South Wales, 1987. Research into the functional and compositional evolution of the vertebrate pulmonary surfactant system and shown that the surfactant system predates the vertebrate radiation.

BSc(Hons) (Zoology), The University of Adelaide, 1981

BSc(Zoology), The University of Adelaide, 1980

• Development and promotion of strategies that enhance urban living, and encourage education, communication and awareness of the importance of the urban ecological environment.
• Evolution of animals, Adaptation to rapidly changing environments and human animal interactions.
• Favourite research animals include lizards, birds, and possums.

Zammit, M, C B. Daniels and B P. Kear 2008. Elasmosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) neck flexibility: Implications for feeding strategies Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 150: 124-130.

Orgeig, S. and C.B. Daniels. 2008. Environmental selection pressures shaping the pulmonary surfactant system of adult and developing lungs, Chapter 11. In: Glass, M.L. and S.C. Wood (Eds). Cardio-Respiratory Control in Vertebrates: Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects. Springer Verlag (In press, Jan 2008)

Roetman, P. J., and Daniels C. B. 2008. Sustainability as Australian Cities grow: Why and How TREENET Symposium Adelaide pp 1-12 (http://www.treenet.com.au/proceedings.asp)

Blacker, H. A., C. Tsopelas, S. Orgeig, C. B. Daniels , and. B. E. Chatterton. 2007. How Regenerating Lymphatics Function: Lessons From Lizard Tails. Anatomical Record. 290: 108-114.

Foot, N. J., S. Orgeig, S. Donnellan, T. Bertozzi and C.B. Daniels. 2007. Positive Selection in the N-terminal extramembrane domain of pulmonary surfactant protein C (SP-C) in marine mammals. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 65(1):12-22.

Munns S.L. and C.B. Daniels. 2007. Breathing with big babies: Ventilation and oxygen consumption during pregnancy in the lizard Tiliqua Rugosa. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 80 (1): 35-45

Orgeig, S., W. Bernhard, S.C. Biswas, C.B. Daniels, S.B. Hall, S.K. Hetz, C.J. Lang, J.N. Maina, A.K. Panda, J. Perez-Gil, F. Possmayer, R.A. Veldhuizen and W. Yan. 2007. The anatomy, physics and physiology of gas exchange surfaces: Is there a universal function for pulmonary surfactant in animal respiratory structures? Invited Review with new data for the Proceedings of the First International Congress of Respiratory Biology, Bonn, Germany, Aug 2006. Integr. Comp. Biol. 47(4): 610-627.

Potter, S., S. Orgeig, S. Donnellan and C. B. Daniels. 2007.. Purifying selection drives the evolution of surfactant protein SP-C independently of body temperature regulation in mammals. Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology - Part D (Genomics & Proteomics). 2(2): 165-176.

Young, K. M., C. B. Daniels, and G. Johnston. 2007. Species of street tree is important for southern hemisphere bird trophic guilds Austral Ecology 32 (5): 541-550.

Miller, N.J., A.D. Postle, S. Orgeig, G. Koster and C.B. Daniels. 2006. The composition of pulmonary surfactant from diving mammals. Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 152(2):152-68.

Miller, N.J., C.B. Daniels, S. Schürch, W.M. Schoel, S. Orgeig. 2006. The surface activity of pulmonary surfactant from diving mammals. Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 150: 220-232

Foot (née Miller), N.J., S. Orgeig and C.B. Daniels. 2006. The evolution of a physiological system: The pulmonary surfactant system in diving mammals. Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2006 Nov;154(1-2):118-38. Invited Review in the Special Issue entitled “Frontiers in Comparative Respiratory Physiology II: Respiratory Processes and Responses to Environmental Change”, edited by W. Milsom, G. Mitchell, F. Powell.

Johnston G. R and C.B. Daniels 2006 Introduction to the volume "City Life: New Perspectives in Urban Ecology" GR Johnston and CB Daniels Eds. A special issue of Austral Ecology. 31: 113.

Johnston G. R and C.B. Daniels. 2006. Conclusion to the volume "City Life: New Perspectives in Urban Ecology" GR Johnston and CB Daniels Eds. A special issue of Austral Ecology. 31: 291-293

Johnston G.R., and C. B. Daniels. 2006. Editors of "City Life: New Perspectives in Urban Ecology". Proceedings of 3 symposia of the same titles held at the Australian Society of Ecologists, The Australian Evolution Society and The Australian Society for Animal Behaviour meetings in Adelaide South Australia in 2004. 15 papers comprising a special issue of Austral Ecology. 31: 113-292.

Daniels, C.B. and S. Orgeig. 2006. Pulmonary surfactant, cell culture and tissue regeneration as models for understanding the evolution of developmental physiology. Chapter 1, pp 3-20. In: Warburton, S., W.W. Burggren, B. Pelster, C. Reiber and J. Spicer (Eds). Comparative Developmental Physiology. Contributions, Tools and Trends. Oxford University Press, 240 pages. ISBN 0195168607 / 0195168593

Tait, C and C.B. Daniels. 2006. Introduction. Pp. 18-23. In: C.B. Daniels and Tait C (Eds) Adelaide. Nature of a City: The Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036. BioCity, Adelaide.

Tait, C., and C.B. Daniels and R.S. Hill. 2006. The urban ark 1: The historical evolution of the plant community. Chapter 4 Pp. 87-110. In: C.B. Daniels and Tait C (Eds) Adelaide. Nature of a City: The Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036. BioCity, Adelaide.

Tait, C., and C.B. Daniels and 2006. The urban ark 2: The historical evolution of the bird community. Chapter 5 Pp. 111-137. In: C.B. Daniels and Tait C., (Eds) Adelaide. Nature of a City: The Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036. BioCity, Adelaide.

Tait, C, and C.B. Daniels. 2006. The urban ark 3: The historical evolution of the mammal community. Chapter 6 Pp. 138-158. In: C.B. Daniels and Tait C (Eds) Adelaide. Nature of a City: The Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036. BioCity, Adelaide.

Tait, C., and C.B. Daniels and M.N. Hutchinson. 2006. The urban ark 4: The historical evolution of the reptile and amphibian communities. Chapter 7 Pp. 159-176. In: C.B. Daniels and Tait C (Eds) Adelaide. Nature of a City: The Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036. BioCity, Adelaide.

C.B. Daniels. 2006. Future predictions: Adelaide in 2036. Chapter 23 Pp. 525-551. In: C.B. Daniels and Tait C (Eds) Adelaide. Nature of a City: The Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036. BioCity, Adelaide.

Miller, N.J., A.D. Postle, S. Schürch, W.M. Schoel, C.B. Daniels and S. Orgeig. 2005. The development of the pulmonary surfactant system in California sea lions. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 141 (2):191-199.

Lang (née Ormond), C.J., A.D. Postle, S. Orgeig, F. Possmayer, W. Bernhard, A.K. Panda, K.D. Jürgens, W.K. Milsom, K. Nag and C.B. Daniels. 2005. Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine is not the major surfactant phospholipid species in all mammals. Am. J. Physiol. 289: R1426–R1439.

Tait C., C.B. Daniels and R. Hill. 2005. Changes in species assemblages within the city of Adelaide, South Australia, 1836 to 2002. An urban ecological study. Ecological Applications 15: 346-359.

Lang (née Ormond), C.J., S. Orgeig and C.B. Daniels. 2005. New insights into the thermal dynamics of the surfactant system from warm and cold animals. In: Nag, K. (Ed.). Lung Surfactant Function and Disorder. Volume 201. Lung Biology in Health and Disease Series. Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, pp17-57.

Miller, N.J., C.B. Daniels, D.P. Costa and S. Orgeig. 2004. Control of pulmonary surfactant secretion in adult California sea lions. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 313: 737-742.

Blacker, H.A., S. Orgeig and C.B. Daniels. 2004. Hypoxic control of the development of the surfactant system in the chicken: Evidence for physiological heterokairy. Am. J. Physiol. 287: R403-R410.

Daniels, C.B., S. Orgeig, L.C. Sullivan, N. Ling, M.B. Bennett, S. Schürch, A.L. Val and C.J. Brauner. 2004. The origin and evolution of the pulmonary surfactant system in fish: Insights into the evolution of lungs and swim bladders. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 77: 732-749.

Orgeig, S., C.B. Daniels and L.C. Sullivan. 2004. The development of the pulmonary surfactant system. Chapter 10. In: Harding, R., K. Pinkerton, C. Plopper (Eds). The Lung: Development, Aging and the Environment. Academic Press, pp 150-167.

Orgeig, S. and C.B. Daniels. 2004. The effect of aging, disease and the environment on the adult pulmonary surfactant system. Chapter 27. In: Harding, R., K. Pinkerton, C. Plopper (Eds). The Lung: Development, Aging and the Environment. Academic Press, pp 363-375.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Zoology

• Urban Ecology
• Zoology
• People and the Environment