Linda Beaumont

Climate Change Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences,
Macquarie University

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Education Outline:

- Current - PhD Student
- 2001 Bachelor of Science (Advanced Biology) (Honours First Class), Macquarie University
- 1997 Diploma of Biological Techniques (SITU)

Awards, Scholarships:

 - 2001     Australian Postgraduate Award
- 2001     University Medal, Macquarie University
- 2001     Bill Cantwell Prize for Biological Sciences
- 1998     Australian Federation of University Women Prize for 200-level biology
- 1997     State Medal, Diploma of Biological Techniques

Career Outline:

- 2001 to present: Tutor - Geographic Information Systems, Macquarie University
- 2003 Tutor - Ecology, Macquarie University
- 2002 to present: Guest lecturer "GIS and Conservation Biology", Conservation Biology,          Macquarie University
- 1999 - 2000: Research Assistant - Climate change and Plant-Insect Interactions with Dr Lesley Hughes
- 1998: Research Assistant - Palaeobiology, Dr Glenn Brock.

Publications:

          Beaumont L.J., Hughes, L.A., Poulsen, M. (in prep) Selection of climatic parameters in    
          BIOCLIM and its effect on predictions of species distributions.

Thomas C.D., Cameron A., Green R.E., Bakkenes M., Beaumont L.J., Collingham Y.C., Erasmus B.F.N., de Siqueira M.F., Grainger A., Hannah L., Hughes L., Huntley B., van Jaarsveld A S., Midgley G.F., Miles L., Ortega-Huerta M.A., Peterson A.T., Phillips O.L., Williams S.E.  (2004) Extinction risk from climate change.  Nature, 427:45-148. (pdf)

Johns, C.V., Beaumont, L.J., Hughes, L.A. (2003) Effects of CO2 and temperature on development and consumption rates of Octotoma championi and O. scabripennis feeding on Lantana camara.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 108: 169-178. (abstract)

Beaumont L.J., Hughes L. (2002) Potential changes in the distributions of latitudinally restricted Australian butterfly species in response to climate change.  Global Change Biology, 8: 954-971. (pdf)

Beaumont L (2000)  Potential changes in the distributions of endemic Australian butterfly species in response to climate change.  Honours Thesis.  Macquarie University.

Beaumont L (2002)  GIS analysis of the distribution of shorebirds in Botany Bay, Australia.  Honours Thesis.  Macquarie University.

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