Luciana Moller
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Flinders University
Australia
Biography
I am an Associate Professor in Marine Biology at the School of Biological Sciences. I also act as the Course Coordinator for the BSc (Marine Biology) and joint coordinator for the BSc (Marine Biology & Aquaculture). I am the Research Leader of the Cetacean Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution Lab and Deputy Head of the Molecular Ecology Lab, and member of the Animal Welfare Committee (Biological Sciences sub-commitee). In addition, I act as an Associate Editor for the Journal Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology, and I am a member of the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group. Between 2003 and 2008 I was a Research Fellow at Macquarie University, where I coordinated long-term projects on the behavioural and molecular ecology of marine mammals. In 2002-03 I was a Research Associate at Yale University. In 2001 I received my PhD in Environmental Studies from Macquarie University. Before my PhD I was a Research Fellow at the Rio Grande Oceanographic Museum. I received my BSc (Oceanography) from Rio Grande University in 1993.
Research Interest
My research interests include behaviour, ecology and molecular ecology of marine mammals, particularly cetaceans, and marine conservation.
Publications
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Zanardo, N., Bilgmann, K., Parra Vergara, G.J. and Moller, L.M. (2016). Socio-genetic structure of short-beaked common dolphins in southern Australia. Journal of Zoology, 299 pp. 89-97.
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Attard, C., Beheregaray, L.B. and Moller, L.M. (2016). Towards population-level conservation in the critically endangered Antarctic blue whale: the number and distribution of their populations. Scientific Reports, 6 pp. Art: 22291.
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Zanardo, N., Parra Vergara, G.J., Passadore Real, M.C. and Moller, L.M. (2017). Ensemble modelling of southern Australian bottlenose dolphin Tursiops sp. distribution reveals important habitats and their potential ecological function. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 569 pp. 253-266.
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Robbins, W.D., Huveneers, C.P.M., Parra Vergara, G.J., Moller, L.M. and Gillanders, B. (2017). Anthropogenic threat assessment of marine-associated fauna in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Marine Policy, 81 pp. 392-400.
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Passadore Real, M.C., Moller, L.M., Diaz Aguirre, F.M. and Parra Vergara, G.J. (2017). Demography of southern Australian bottlenose dolphins living in a protected inverse estuary. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems,
