Dr Jeremy Robertson
Senior Lecturer
Biological Sciences
Flinders University
Australia
Biography
Since growing up in India I have been a passionate naturalist and a kind letter from Gerald Durrell led me to study Zooology at Aberdeen University. As an undergraduate I became involved in research on Europeean Otters and was fortunate to rear an otter cub in my flat in Aberdeen. I also took part in two biological expeditions, one to the Outer Hebrides and the second to Ghana in West Africa. On graduating I was offered five Ph.D. scholarships including one at Cambridge, but I had to come to Australia as it is the only place (with New Guinea) that has all three Sub-Classes of mammals. Ironically I ended up working on amphibians. I worked on conservation biology in Uppsala, Sweden for seven years, and then ran my own ecotourism business on the west coast of Scotland, before returning to Australia at Flinders University.
Research Interest
nimal behaviour Biodiversity conservation Communications technologies Ecology Environmental science and management Evaluating quality in teachers' and learners' knowledge Evolutionary biology Physiology Science education Zoology
Publications
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Zanollo, V., Griggio, M., Robertson, G. and Kleindorfer, S.M. (2013). Males with a faster courtship display have more white spots and higher pairing success in the diamond firetail, Stagonopleura guttata. Ethology, 119(4) pp. 344-352.
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Zanollo, V.B., Griggio, M., Robertson, G.J. and Kleindorfer, S.M. (2012). The number and coloration of white flank spots predict the strength of a cutaneous immune response in female Diamond Firetails, Stagonopleura guttata. Journal of Ornithology, 153(4) pp. 1233-1244.
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Kleindorfer, S.M., Evans, C., Mihailova, M., Colombelli-Negrel, D., Hoi, H., Griggio, M., et al. (2013). When subspecies matter: resident Superb Fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) distinguish the sex and subspecies of intruder birds. Emu, 113(3) pp. 259-269.
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Zanollo, V., Griggio, M., Myers, S.A., Robertson, G., Stangoulis, J.C.R., Guild, G., et al. (2013). Maternal investment in Diamond Firetails Stagonopleura guttata: female spot numbers predict egg volume and yolk lutein content. ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA, 48(2) pp. 253-261.
