Belinda Robson
Assistant Professor
Environmental and Conservation Sciences
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
Belinda received a First Class Honours degree in Biological Sciences from Murdoch University in 1989 and a PhD in Zoology from the University of Tasmania in 1996. She has taught in the areas of ecology, research methods, freshwater biology, marine biology and environmental management. Presently, she teaches Managing Wetlands and Water and Climate Change Adaptation: Ecosystems and Societies and contributes to units in Global and Regional Sustainability, Introduction to Environmental Science and Restoration Ecology. She has supervised over 20 Honours students and 9 PhD students.
Research Interest
Her research interests focus on rivers and wetlands, examining the sustainability of biodiversity in agricultural, urban and conservation landscapes, especially freshwater ecosystems and riparian zones. Refuges from disturbance for biodiversity in landscapes especially refuges from drought and anthropogenic refuges. Resistance and resilience to climate change impacts and recovery pathways after extreme events: in particular drought and wildfire. Restoration ecology, including revegetation, re-snagging and environmental flow allocation. Recovery pathways following restoration. Catchment management issues, particularly the modification of flow regimes. Experimental design and data analysis. Spatial scaling of ecological pattern and process.
Publications
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O'Toole, P., Robson, B., Chambers, J., (2017), Riparian vegetation condition is associated with invertebrate assemblage composition in intermittent and humic streams., Aquatic Sciences: research across boundaries, 79, 2, pages 277 - 289.
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Paice, R., Chambers, J., Robson, B., (2017), Potential of submerged macrophytes to support food webs in lowland agricultural streams, Marine & Freshwater Research, 68, 3, pages 549 - 562.
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Paice, R., Chambers, J., Robson, B., (2017), Native submerged macrophyte distribution in seasonally-flowing, south-western Australian streams in relation to stream condition, Aquatic Sciences: research across boundaries, 79, 1, pages 171 - 185.
