"Only in Africa: The Ecology of Human Evolution." African Journal Range & Forage Science, 39(4), pp. 351–352

Geographic variation in pollination ecology is poorly documented, if at all, in many plant-pollinator systems. Great insights could be gained into the abiotic and biotic factors which impact the evolution of floral properties and their potential to lead to speciation by doing so, as both can vary naturally over the geographic range of a plant species. We characterized the pollination ecology of...

David Lambert was born in Toowoomba, Australia and his initial degrees were at the University of Queensland. He later studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for his PhD. He was appointed at the University of Auckland in 1980 and was, until recently, Leader of the Ecology and Evolution Research Group in the School of Biological Sciences and Director of Auckland University...

Earth’s tropical ecosystems have witnessed several extinctions and a dramatic reduction of the range and abundance of large reptile species, which is directly related to the rise of early and modern humans. The occurrence of such extinctions, range reduction, species loss, and the consequences for several paramount ecosystem processes are poorly documented compared to other large vertebrate spe...

Sensory receptor neurons match their dynamic range to ecologically relevant stimulus intensities. How this tuning is achieved is poorly understood in most receptors. We show that in the C. elegans URX O2 sensing neurons two putative molecular O2 sensors, a neuroglobin and O2-binding soluble guanylate cyclases, work antagonistically to sculpt a slowly rising sigmoidal O2 response curve tuned to ...