Brett Melbourne

  • Professor
  • Ph.D., Australian National University, 2001
  • EBIO
Address

Ramaley N336 (lab) 

Research Interests

In my lab we use mathematics, computers, and data collected in the field or experimental model systems to figure out why species go extinct and how best to maintain biodiversity.

Selected Publications

  • Proc B 2023 Evolutionary rescue and the extinction vortex
  • PNAS 2020 Interspecific competition sets species' boundaries
  • Proc B 2019 Genomic divergence during range expansion
  • Ecology 2017 Long term experimental habitat fragmentation
  • Nature Comms 2017 Evolution causes variable range expansion
  • PNAS 2017 Rapid evolution in range expansion
  • Ecology 2016 Metacommunity coexistence mechanisms
  • Nature 2016 Productivity-diversity mechanisms
  • PNAS 2015 Three types of rescue can avert extinction
  • Oikos 2015 Differentiating between niche and neutral metacommunities
  • Nature 2014 Herbivores and nutrients control diversity
  • Science 2011 Productivity-diversity relationship
  • Science 2009 Highly variable invasive spread (also see New York Times)
  • Nature 2008 Extinction risk depends on stochasticity (also see Guardian)
  • Ecology Letters 2007 Diversity-invasibility (top 20 most read paper)
  • Ecology 2006 Scale transition theory