Foley, William - The Australian National University

个人简介

Bill Foley obtained a B. Nat Res (Hons) in 1978 (UNE) and worked for several years in water and land management in the NT and in Finland. While traveling in Congo he saw some monkeys eating “poisonous plants” and abandoned water for the trees by way of a PhD in nutritional ecology of leaf eating marsupials back at UNE (1985). Postdocs in Israel (lizards), French Guiana (sloths) and Monash (marsupials) preceded a lecturing position at James Cook University in 1990. He moved to ANU in 1997 and has continued work on interactions between poisonous plants and animals with a very wide focus including animal ecology and physiology, chemical ecology, remote sensing and population & molecular genetics. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Chemical Ecology and Chemoecology and is Chair of the Science Advisory Board of the Canadian White Spruce Genome project ("SMarTForests").

研究领域

The broad aim of our research is to understand the ecology & evolution of interactions between plants and animals in the Australian biota. We span a broad range of disciplines, from physiology and analytical chemistry to molecular and quantitative genetics, from the individual to the landscape scale and focus on both animals and plants.

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Myburg AA, Grattapaglia D, Tuskan GA et al (2014) (+65 authors including Kulheim C, Foley WJ (2014) Genome sequence of Eucalyptus grandis: A global tree crop for fiber and energy. Nature Moore BD, Andrew RL, Kulheim C, Foley WJ, (2014). Tansley Review: Explaining intraspecific diversity in plant secondary metabolites in an ecological context. New Phytologist. 201:733–750 Marsh KJ, Moore BD, Wallis IR, Foley WJ (2014) Continuous monitoring of feeding by koalas highlights diurnal differences in tree preferences. Wildlife Research Marsh KJ, Moore, BD, Wallis IR, Foley WJ (2014) Feeding rates of a mammalian browser confirm the predictions of a “foodscape” model of its habitat. Oecologia doi: 10.1007/s00442-013-2808-3.