Zoe Richards
Curtin Research Fellow
Department of computer science
Curtin University
Australia
Biography
Zoe Richards is a coral taxonomist who’s research revolves around coral biodiversity and how best to monitor and protect it. Working in the areas of systematics, phylogenetics, population genetics, ecology, geoscience and conservation biology, Zoe has conducted research on coral reefs across the globe for 15 years. Zoe currently holds a joint appointment with the Western Australian Museum.
Research Interest
Environmental Sciences: Conservation and Biodiversity, Environmental Impact Assessment and Biological Sciences. Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology): Animal Systematics and Taxonomy, Speciation and Extinction, Population and Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
Publications
-
Specht, J., C. Gosden, C. Pavlides, Z. T. Richards, and G. Summerhayes. 2016. "Exploring Lapita diversity on New Britain’s south coast, the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea." Journal of Pacific Archaeology 7 (1): 20-29.
-
Ceccarelli, D. M., M. J. Emslie, and Z. T. Richards. 2016. "Post-disturbance stability of fish assemblages measured at coarse taxonomic resolution masks change at finer scales." PLoS ONE 11 (6)
-
Rosser, N. L., L. Thomas, S. Stankowski, Z. T. Richards, J. W. Kennington, and M. S. Johnson. 2017. "Phylogenomics provides new insight into evolutionary relationships and genealogical discordance in the reef-building coral genus Acropora." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 284 (1846)
