Mr Daniel Gorman

Telephone	+61 8 8303 4684
Position	Postgraduate
Email	daniel.gorman@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8303 4364
Building	Darling
Floor/Room	G 13
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (Sch Earth & Environ Sci)

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Biography/ Background

"Man has only recently come to realise the finite limitations of the coast as a place to live, work and play and as a source of valuable resources. This realisation has come along with overcrowding, overdevelopment in some areas, and destruction of valuable resources by his misuse of this unique environment." Ketchum 1972

Marine macroalgal forests are some of the most productive, diverse and valuable subtidal habitats within temperate seas, but intensification of 'human-induced stressors' (e.g., nutrients, sediments, toxins, over fishing) is leading to their global decline. While the link between human expansion and loss of kelp forest is obvious, ecologists continue to be overwhelmed by the 'ecological surprises' that lead to the ongoing loss of ecosystem integrity and ecological resilience.

Qualifications

2004 -	Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide
2002	Bachelor of Science (1st class Honours), Griffith University

Research Interests

My research focuses on causes and consequences of kelp forest decline:

Biogeographical variation in the strength of top-down v. bottom-up processes to regulate disturbance-recovery cycles
Synergistic effects of human stressors (nutrients and sediments) on resilience in kelp communities
Human alteration of land-to-sea subsidies and their effect on kelp v. turfing algal dominance
Dietary change in subtidal consumers in response to habitat alteration using stable isotope analysis.

Publications

Daniel Gorman, Bayden D. Russell & Sean D. Connell 2008 Land-to Sea connectivity: linking human-derived terrestrial subsidies to altered subtidal systems. In review

Bayden D. Russell, Daniel Gorman, Francesco Colosio, Laura Airoldi and Sean D. Connell 2008 Nutrient and sediment combine to maintain open gaps in algal canopies across multiple seasons. In review

Rod M Connolly, Daniel Gorman & Michaela Guest 2005 Movement of carbon among estuarine habitats and its assimilation by invertebrates. Oecologia 144: 684-691

Rod M Connolly, Jeremy S Hindell & Daniel Gorman 2005 Seagrass and epiphytic algae support nutrition of a fisheries species, Sillago schomburgkii, in adjacent intertidal habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series Vol. 286:69-79

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 7 May 2008

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