BSc (Honours)

Contact details for Miss Ruth Young ruth.young@griffith.edu.au

Thesis

Responses of estuarine biota to the “Sea Change” of south east Queensland

Supervisors

Prof Joe Lee
A/Prof Rod Connolly

Research expertise

• Ecology of estuarine ecosystems
• Ecosystem health responses to human activities
• Cetacean ecology and conservation

Publications

• Lee, S.Y., Dunn, R.J.K., Young, R.A., Connolly, R.M., Dale, P.E.R., Dehayr, R., Lemckert, C.J., McKinnon, S., Powell, B., Teasdale, P.R. and Welsh, D.T. 2006. Impact of urbanisation on coastal wetland structure and function. Austral Ecology 31: 149–163.
• Lee, S.Y., Connolly, R.M., Dale, P.E.R., Dunn, R.J.K., Knight, J.M., Lemckert, C.J., McKinnon, S., Powell, B., Teasdale, P.R., Welsh, D.T. and Young, R. 2006. The impact of urbanisation on coastal wetlands: a case study of Coombabah Lake, southeast Queensland. Technical Report 54. Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management, Indooroopilly, Qld.