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Current Appointment
Senior Lecturer in Ecology
Contact
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway
NSW 2007, Australia
Phone: 61-2-9514 4075
Fax: 61-2-9514 4079
Email: Brad.Murray [at] uts.edu.au
Research Interests
Biodiversity, biological invasions, ecosystem function, fire ecology, invasive species, macroecology, rare and threatened species
Publications
A list of my peer-reviewed publications can be viewed here.
Current Scientific and UTS Community Activities
Associate Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
Core Member, Plant Functional Biology & Climate Change Research Cluster (C3, UTS)
Subject Coordinator, Ecology (91154)
Subject Coordinator, Advances in Ecology (91162)
Honours Committee, Department of Environmental Sciences
Course Review Committee, Department of Environmental Sciences
The Murray Lab
Current research in my Lab is focussed on the following themes:
- Attributes of exotic plant species that underpin the transition from being naturalized to spreading invasively across a landscape.
- Ecological impacts on native ecosystems that result from the intrusion of exotic plant species into native vegetation assemblages.
- Synergistic effects of exotic plant species and climate change on ecosystem structure and function.
Current members of the Murray Lab:
- Andrew Baker (PhD student): The dynamics of litterfall in eucalypt woodland surrounding exotic pine plantations.
- Damian Licari (PhD student): Homogenization of native vegetation assemblages at multiple spatial scales.
- Leigh Martin (PhD student): Synergistic effects of invasive species and climate change: impacts on reptile and amphibian species.
- Tara Morgan (PhD student): Predicting the impacts of climate change, drought and invasive species on the structure, function and evolution of plant communities in a semi-arid environment.
- Megan Phillips (Masters student): Naturalization to invasion: How do naturalized plants become successful invaders?
Former Post-graduate students of the Murray Lab:
- Carla Harris (PhD student 2005-2008), Thesis: Invasion success of exotic vines in Australia: The importance of life-history, introduction-history and ecological attributes.
Research collaborators:
- Dr Marc Cadotte (University of Toronto)
- Prof. Chris Dickman (University of Sydney)
- Dr Bob Godfree (CSIRO Plant Industry)
- Dr Michelle Leishman (Macquarie University)
- Dr Yiming Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Dr Angela Moles (University of New South Wales)
- Dr Petr Pyšek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
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