Ben Phillips

Effect of habitat permanence on life-history: extending the Daphnia model into new climate spaces

Sally Drapes, Matthew D Hall, Ben L Phillips

Journal article  |  2021  |  EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

We use an Australian freshwater invertebrate species, Daphnia carinata, to assess whether variation in habitat permanence influenc..

Trophic cascade driven by behavioral fine-tuning as naive prey rapidly adjust to a novel predator

Chris J Jolly, Adam S Smart, John Moreen, Jonathan K Webb, Graeme R Gillespie, Ben L Phillips

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGY

The arrival of novel predators can trigger trophic cascades driven by shifts in prey numbers. Predators also elicit behavioral cha..

Parasite management in aquaculture exerts selection on salmon louse behaviour

Andrew Coates, Ingrid A Johnsen, Tim Dempster, Ben L Phillips

Journal article  |  2021  |  EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS

The evolution of pest resistance to management strategies is a major challenge for farmed systems. Mitigating the effects of pest ..

Evolution of salmon lice in response to management strategies: a review

Andrew Coates, Ben L Phillips, Samantha Bui, Frode Oppedal, Nick A Robinson, Tim Dempster

Journal article  |  2021  |  REVIEWS IN AQUACULTURE

Ectoparasitic salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) present a major challenge to Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) aquaculture. The de..

No outbreeding depression in a trial of targeted gene flow in an endangered Australian marsupial

Ella Kelly, Chris J Jolly, Naomi Indigo, Adam Smart, Jonathan Webb, Ben Phillips

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONSERVATION GENETICS

Targeted gene flow is a novel conservation strategy that involves translocating individuals with favourable genes to areas where t..

No behavioral syndromes or sex-specific personality differences in the southern rainforest sunskink (Lampropholis similis)

Celine T Goulet, Wes Hart, Ben L Phillips, John Llewelyn, Bob BM Wong, David G Chapple

Journal article  |  2021  |  ETHOLOGY

Behavioral syndromes, when individuals within a population express consistent behavioral differences across time and context, are ..

Effects of learning and adaptation on population viability

Naomi L Indigo, Chris J Jolly, Ella Kelly, James Smith, Jonathan K Webb, Ben L Phillips

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Cultural adaptation is one means by which conservationists may help populations adapt to threats. A learned behavior may protect a..

Farmed salmonids drive the abundance, ecology and evolution of parasitic salmon lice in Norway

T Dempster, K Overton, S Bui, LH Stien, F Oppedal, O Karlsen, A Coates, BL Phillips, LT Barrett

Journal article  |  2021  |  AQUACULTURE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS

Sea cage fish farming is typically open to the environment, with disease transmission possible between farmed and wild hosts. In s..

Energetic scaling across different host densities and its consequences for pathogen proliferation

Louise Solveig Norgaard, Giulia Ghedini, Ben L Phillips, Matthew D Hall

Journal article  |  2020  |  FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The spread of infectious disease is determined by the ability of a pathogen to proliferate within and spread between susceptible h..

Estimating the benefit of quarantine: eradicating invasive cane toads from islands

Adam S Smart, Reid Tingley, Ben L Phillips

Journal article  |  2020  |  NEOBIOTA

Islands are increasingly used to protect endangered populations from the negative impacts of invasive spicies. Quarantine efforts ..