Head shot of Brett Melbourne
Professor • Ph.D., Australian National University, 2001
EBIO

Ramaley N336 (lab) 

Research Interests

In my lab we use mathematics, computers, and data collected in the field or experimental model systems to figure out why species go extinct and how best to maintain biodiversity.

Selected Publications

  • 2023 Evolutionary rescue and the extinction vortex
  • 2020 Interspecific competition sets species' boundaries
  • 2019 Genomic divergence during range expansion
  •  2017 Long term experimental habitat fragmentation
  •  2017 Evolution causes variable range expansion
  • 2017 Rapid evolution in range expansion
  •  2016 Metacommunity coexistence mechanisms
  •  2016 Productivity-diversity mechanisms
  •  2015 Three types of rescue can avert extinction
  • 2015 Differentiating between niche and neutral metacommunities
  •  2014 Herbivores and nutrients control diversity
  •  2011 Productivity-diversity relationship
  •  2009 Highly variable invasive spread (also see )
  •  2008 Extinction risk depends on stochasticity (also see )
  •  2007 Diversity-invasibility (top 20 most read paper)
  • 2006 Scale transition theory