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Prof Andersen is Professor (Research Excellence and Impact) in Charles Darwin University’s Office of Research and Innovation, and Professor of Terrestrial Invertebrates in CDU’s Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods. He was previously a Chief Research Scientist with CSIRO Land & Water, and Officer-in-Charge of CSIRO’s Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre in Darwin from 1995 to 2016, leading a team of up to 30 ecologists, socio-ecologists, economists, students and support staff with a mission to deliver environmental, social and economic benefits to people who influence, use and manage Australia’s tropical savannas. Prof Andersen’s primary research interests are in the global ecology of ant communities, where he integrates community ecology, historical and contemporary biogeography, and systematics to gain a predictive understanding of ant diversity, behavioural dominance and functional composition in relation to environmental stress and disturbance throughout the world. He applies this understanding to the use of ants as bioindicators of ecological change. He also has broad research interests in the ecology of tropical savannas, and the ecology and management of fire.
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Beetaloo GBA region Baseline Survey Program
Davis, J., Garcia, E., Andersen, A., Gillespie, G., Kennard, M., Pintor, A. & Ramsey, R.
30/01/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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LP170100305 Planning for sustainable development and biodiversity on the Tiwi Islands
Nicholson, E., Hadden, K., Murphy, B., Ayre, M. & Andersen, A.
1/07/18 → 31/12/22
Project: Other
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Responses of ants to environmental stress and disturbance in Australian tropical savannas: Are communities of different vertical strata decoupled?
Andersen, A. & Brassard, F.
1/09/21 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
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Arboreality drives heat tolerance while elevation drives cold tolerance in tropical rainforest ants
Leahy, L., Scheffers, B. R., Williams, S. E. & Andersen, A. N., Jan 2022, In: Ecology. 103, 1, p. 1-11 11 p., e03549.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fire ecology for the 21st century: Conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire
Nimmo, D. G., Andersen, A. N., Archibald, S., Boer, M. M., Brotons, L., Parr, C. L. & Tingley, M. W., Mar 2022, In: Diversity and Distributions. 28, 3, p. 350-356 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Historical biogeography shapes functional ecology: Inter-continental contrasts in responses of savanna ant communities to stress and disturbance
Andersen, A. N. & Vasconcelos, H. L., Apr 2022, In: Journal of Biogeography. 49, 4, p. 590-599 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Individual and interactive effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic composition and diversity of extrafloral nectary-bearing plants in Brazilian Caatinga
Arnan, X., Silva, C. H. F., Reis, D. Q. A., Oliveira, F. M. P., Câmara, T., Ribeiro, E. M. S., Andersen, A. N. & Leal, I. R., Jan 2022, In: Oecologia. 198, 1, p. 267–277 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Unrecognized Ant Megadiversity in Monsoonal Australia: Diversity and Its Distribution in the Hyperdiverse Monomorium nigrius Forel Group
Andersen, A. N., Brassard, F. & Hoffmann, B. D., Jan 2022, In: Diversity. 14, 1, p. 1-16 16 p., 46.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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