Associate Professor Phil Bishop
Email phil.bishop@otago.ac.nz
Phone 64-3-479-7990/9618
Teaching
- CELS 191 Cell & Molecular Biology
- BIOL 112 Animal Biology
- WILM 401 Principles of Wildlife Management
Research Interests
- Amphibian behavioural ecology
- Animal communication
- Declining frog populations and frog diseases
- Properties of spider silk and spider locomotion
Potential Postgraduate Projects
- Acoustic communication in Australian and Fijian frogs.
- Communication in New Zealand frogs (Leiopelma spp.).
- The breeding behaviour of Leiopelma frogs.
- A comparative study of the properties of silk from native spiders.
Current Postgraduate Students
- Bastian Egeter – MSc 'Predators of native frogs'
- Michel Ohmer - MSc 'Chytridiomycosis in native New Zealand frogs'
- Emma Shaw - MSc 'Ways of improving husbandry for captive native frogs'
- Jetzabel Gross - MINC 'UVB, metabolic bone disease and captive husbandry of native frogs'
- Jenny Laycock - PhD 'Disease risks to native frogs; anthroogenic dispersal of invasive Litoria species'
- Katie Hector - MSc 'Catch-up growth in Litoria tadpoles'
- Morgan McLean - MSc 'Mate choice and reproductive conditionining in brown tree frogs'
- Helen Nortier - PGDipSci 'Jumping and landing behaviour in NZ frogs'
Recent Research Students
- Jennifer Germano - PhD 2010 'Aspects of the reproductive biology of Leiopelma'
- Sabine Melzer - PhD 2010 'The role of skin secretions in communication, behaviour and defense in New Zealand frogs'
- Sarah Herbert - MSc 2009 'The interplay between climatic variables and chytridiomycosis in frogs in New Zealand'
- Kalinka Rexer-Huber – MSc 2009 'Cold tolerance of brown tree frogs'
- Helen White – MSc 2009 'Chemical communication in tadpoles'
- Kim Delaney - MSc 'Communication in Leiopelmatid frogs'
- Amy Frost - MSc 2008 'The use of footprint tracking in monitoring frogs in New Zealand'
- Jennifer Germano - MSc 2006 'Aspects of the biology of the Maud Island frog (Leiopelma pakeka)'
- Yvonne Bazin - MSc 2006 'Anuran overwintering strategies'
- Jack Mace - MSc 2006 'Acoustic interactions between two species of introduced frog'
- Traci Allen - MSc 2005 'Ecological habitat assessment and spatial mapping of the former range of South Island Leiopelmatids'
Other Links
Please visit the New Zealand Frog Research Group Page
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