Dr Thomas Prowse

Biography/ Background

I am a multi-disciplinary biologist/ecologist working in the fields of population ecology, multi-species modelling and climate change impacts. I am currently collaborating with an international team of scientists to develop and test generic tools for complex systems models that incorporate demographic, genetic, behavioural and epidemiological processes.

Previously I have worked on environmental, ecological and biological projects in marine, freshwater and riparian ecosystems. These projects have spanned a diverse range of research fields including evolutionary ecology, pollution biomonitoring, climate change biology, genetics, biochemistry, aquaculture and deep-sea reseach. Through my own research and also two years spent at the Australian Bureau of Statistics I have developed a keen interest in sampling and estimation theory.

Qualifications

PhD Marine Biology

University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

 

BSc (Hons), major in Biological Sciences and specialization in Marine & Environmental Biology

Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Publications

Prowse TAA, Johnson CN, Lacy RC, Bradshaw CJ, Pollak JP, Watts MJ, Brook BW (in review) No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multi-species metamodels. Proc. Roy. Soc. B

Prowse TAA, Byrne M (in review) Evolution of vitellogenin genes: insights from the Echinodermata. J. Mol. Evol.

Bradshaw CJA, McMahon CR, Miller PS, Lacy RC, Watts MJ, Verant ML, Pollak JP, Fordham DA, Prowse TAA, Brook BWB (in press) Novel coupling of individual-based epidemiological and demographic models predicts realistic dynamics of tuberculosis in alien buffalo. J. Appl. Ecol.

Prowse TAA, Brook BW (in press) Climate change, variability and management impacts in Australia. Pacif. Conserv. Biol.

Swanson RL, Byrne M, Prowse TAA, Dworjanyn S, Steinberg PD (in review) Convergent metamorphic pathways in three species of non-feeding sea urchin larvae. Mar. Biol.

Blackburn TM, Prowse TAA, Lockwood JL, Cassey P (2011) Passerine introductions to New Zealand support a positive effect of propagule pressure on establishment success. Biodiv. Conserv. 20: 2189-2199

Prowse TAA, Falkner I, Sewell MA, Byrne M (2010) Long-term storage lipids and developmental evolution in echinoderms. Evol. Ecol. Res. 11: 1069-1083

Soars NA, Prowse TAA, Byrne M (2009) Overview of phenotypic plasticity in echinoid larvae, “Echinopluteus transversus” type vs typical echinoplutei. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 383: 113-135

Byrne M, Sewell MA, Prowse TAA (2008) Nutritional ecology of sea urchin larvae: influence of endogenous and exogenous nutrition on echinopluteal growth in Tripneustes gratilla. Funct. Ecol. 22: 643-648

Byrne M, Prowse TAA, Sewell MA, Dworjanyn S, Williamson JE, Vaïtilingon D (2008) Maternal provisioning for larvae and larval provisioning for juveniles in the toxopneustid sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla. Mar. Biol. 55: 473-482

Prowse TAA, Sewell MA, Byrne M (2008) Fuels for development: evolution of maternal provisioning in asterinid sea stars. Mar. Biol. 153: 337-349

Byrne M, Sewell MA, Selvakumaraswamy P, Prowse TAA (2006) The larval apical organ in the holothuroids Chirodota gigas (Apodida): inference on evolution of the ambulacrarian larval nervous system. Biol. Bull. 211: 95-100

Prowse TAA, Pile AJ (2005) Phenotypic homogeneity of two intertidal snails across a wave exposure gradient in South Australia. Mar. Biol. Res. 1: 176-185

Entry last updated: Friday, 4 Nov 2011