PhD; BSc (Hons)

Lecturer, Griffith School of Environment, Nathan
Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Dr Dan Schmidt

Research Expertise

• Application of population genetics to understanding the demography and conservation of freshwater and terrestrial organisms.  
• Investigating the role of interspecific hybridisation in promoting reproductive isolation and speciation in freshwater ecosystems.  
• Testing models of population structure in dendritic habitat networks.  
  

Publications

• Schmidt, D. J. and J. M. Hughes 2006 Genetic affinities among subspecies of a widespread Australian lycaenid butterfly, Ogyris amaryllis (Hewitson) Australian Journal of Zoology 54: 429-446.
• Hughes, J.M., D. J. Schmidt, A. McLean and A. Wheatley (in press) Population genetic structure in stream insects: what have we learned? Chapter 14 in C. Macadam, J. Lancaster, R. Briers, Eds. Aquatic Insects: Challenges to populations CABI Publishers.
• Eastwood, R.,  M. F. Braby, D. J. Schmidt and J. M. Hughes (submitted) Taxonomy, ecology, genetics and conservation status of the Pale Imperial Hairstreak Jalmenus eubulus Miskin, 1876 stat. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): a threatened butterfly from the brigalow belt. Invertebrate Systematics.
• McLean, A.J., D. J. Schmidt and J. M. Hughes (submitted) Do lowland habitats represent barriers to dispersal for a rainforest mayfly, Bungona narilla, in south-east Queensland? Marine and Freshwater Research.