Climbing in Nepal (photo: C Rai)

Anthony Manea

PhD candidate

Telephone: +61 (02) 9850 8160
Facsimile: +61 (02) 9850 8245

Email: anthony.manea@students.mq.edu.au

Building E8B 103

Department of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Science

Macquarie University

North Ryde, NSW, Australia, 2

Background and research

I completed a Bachelor of Science in Biodiversity and Conservation degree at Macquarie University in 2007. I then completed my honours in 2008 as part of PIREL with Michelle Leishman as my supervisor. My honours looked at the effect elevated carbon dioxide levels has on the competitive interactions between native and invasive exotic plant species in the Cumberland Plain. After my honours I worked as a research assistant in PIREL for a couple of years. During this time I expanded my honours project, assisted in vegetation surveys and looked at the efficacy of glyphosate on invasive grasses under elevated CO2 conditions. I am currently doing a PhD which is looking at temperate grassland responses to climatic extremes under elevated CO2 and shrub encroachment of temperate grasslands under elevated CO2. I am also intrigued by the origin and evolution of hair styles.

Lodestone (photo: A Manea)

Climbing in Peru (photo: M Walker)

Lake Mavis (photo: A Manea)

Publications

Manea, A. and M. Leishman (2011). "Competitive interactions between native and invasive exotic plant species are altered under elevated carbon dioxide." Oecologia 165(3): 735-744.

Manea, A., M. Leishman and P. Downey (2011). "Exotic C4 grasses have increased tolerance to glyphosate under elevated carbon dioxide." Weed Science 59(1): 28-36.

Garden of Eden Ice Plateau (photo: A Manea)