Dr Elisa Bone

Biography/ Background

My PhD investigated colonial integration and nutrient transfer mechanisms in encrusting bryozoans. I completed this work at the University of Melbourne, but also spent some time at the University of California (Santa Cruz) on a research visit in 2004. Before my current position at the University of Adelaide, I worked as journal production editor for CSIRO Publishing.

Teaching Interests

In 2008, my teaching interests are focused on delivering improved biology and ecology courses at first-year level. I am demonstrating and tutoring in the level 1 Biology courses Molecules, Genes and Cells and Biology of Organisms, and co-ordinating and lecturing in the Ecological Issues course.

Research Interests

I am generally interested in the biology and ecology of colonial and modular organisms, particularly sessile invertebrates, and completed my PhD work on colonial integration in bryozoans. While at Adelaide, I have two lines of research that I hope to pursue. THe first involves investigating possible movement of sessile invertebrate larvae through the Murray Mouth and into the Coorong lagoon, as well as the population dynamics and salinity tolerance of the serpulid worms that inhabit the Coorong. The second involves factors contributing to the success and dispersal of the invasive alga Caulerpa taxifolia, including potential competitive interactions with endemic Caulerpa species. Outside of these potential projects, I also have an ongoing interest in the management of marine resources in Melanesia and the South Pacific, and worked as a marine ecology instructor in the Roviana lagoon region of the Solomon Islands in 2005.

Publications

Bone, E. K., Keough, M. J. (in press). Competition may mediate recovery from damage in an encrusting bryozoan. Marine Ecology.

Bone, E. K., Keough, M. J. (2005). Responses to damage in an arborescent bryozoan: effects of injury location. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 324: 127-140.

Bone, E. K. (2006). Colonial integration and the maintenance of colony form in encrusting bryozoans. PhD Thesis, The University of Melbourne. 248pp. Available online at http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00003224/

Bone, E. K., Keough. M. J. (in review). Morphological analysis of the bryozoan funicular system: pore patterns across colony regions in three encrusting species. Journal of Morphology.

Bone, E. K. (in prep). Variation in sessile assemblage composition with altered flow around the Murray river mouth and Coorong lagoon.

 

 

Professional Associations

Australian Marine Sciences Association
Ecological Society of America
Ecological Society of Australia
International Bryozoology Association

Entry last updated: Monday, 26 Oct 2009