Position
School of Biological Sciences
Contact
Flinders University
http://www.scieng.flinders.edu.au/biology/people/academic/bull_m/index.html
Research interests
Impact of parasites on wildlife populations, social organisation of lizards and its influence on parasite transmission.
Ten Most Significant Publications
BULL C. M. (1988). Mate fidelity in an Australian lizard Trachydosaurus rugosus. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 23,45-49
BULL C. M. (1991) Ecology of parapatric distributions. Annual Review Ecol Syst 22, 19-36
BULL C. M. and Burzacott, D. (1993). The impact of tick load on the fitness of their lizard hosts. Oecologia 96, 415-419
BULL C. M. and Possingham, H. (1995). A model to explain ecological parapatry. American Naturalist 145, 935-947
BULL C. M., Cooper, S. J. B. and Baghurst, B. C. (1998). Social monogamy and extra-pair fertilization in an Australian lizard, Tiliqua rugosa. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 44, 63-72
BULL C. M., Griffin C. L. and Johnston, G. R. (1999). Olfactory discrimination in scat-piling lizards. Behav Ecol 10, 136-140
Main A. R. and BULL C. M. (2000) The impact of tick parasites on the behaviour of the lizard Tiliqua rugosa. Oecologia 122, 574-581
BULL C. M. (2000) Monogamy in lizards. Behavioural Processes 51, 7-20
BULL C. M. and Burzacott D. A. (2001) Temporal and spatial dynamics of a parapatric boundary between two Australian reptile ticks. Molecular Ecology 10, 639-648
BULL C. M. and Burzacott D. (2002) Changes in climate and in the time of pairing of the Australian lizard, Tiliqua rugosa: a 15 year study. Journal of Zoology 256, 383-387
Currently Held Grants
ARC Discovery DP0664408 2006-2008 Ecological dynamics of parasite infections in reptiles
ARC Discovery DP0877384 2008- 2010 Lizard social networks and the spread of parasites
ARC Linkage LP0883495 2008- 2011 Translocation as a conservation strategy for the pygmy bluetongue lizard
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