Dr Brad Murray

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

~ Attributes of non-native 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 non-native plant species into native vegetation assemblages

~ Synergistic effects of non-native plant species and climate change on ecosystem structure and function

Publications

A list of my peer-reviewed publications can be viewed here.

Current Scientific and UTS Community Activities

Associate Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Subject Coordinator, Ecology (91154)

Subject Coordinator, Advances in Ecology (91162)

Honours Committee, Department of Environmental Sciences

Course Review Committee, Department of Environmental Sciences

~ Current members of my research group:

Andrew Baker (PhD student): The intrusion of pine litter from Radiata Pine plantations into surrounding eucalypt woodland and the intrusive influence on vegetation structure and function

Damian Licari (PhD student): Homogenization of native vegetation assemblages at multiple spatial scales

Megan Phillips (Masters student): Naturalization to invasion: How do naturalized plants become successful invaders?

Tara Vaughan (Honours student): The roles of seed size, temperature and water availability in the establishment of exotic garden escapees

~ Former Post-graduate students of my research group:

Carla Harris (PhD student 2005-2008), Thesis: Invasion success of exotic vines in Australia: The importance of life-history, introduction-history and ecological attributes