Robert Kooyman

Name
Robert Kooyman

Position
Honorary Research Associate

Email
robert@ecodingo.com.au

Phone
6684 2806

Research interests
Rainforest botany, ecology, plant biology, physiology, genetics, functional traits and environmental gradients

Keywords
botany, ecology, traits, environmental factors, community assembly

Current research projects

• Trait-based approaches to rainforest community asembly
• Genetics, ecology and evolution
• Pollination studies in Proteaceae

Key publications

• Weston, P. and Kooyman, R.M. (2002) Systematics of Eidothea (Proteaceae), with the description of a new species, Eidothea hardeniana, from the Nightcap Range, north-eastern New South Wales. Telopea 9(4), pp. 821-832.
• Rossetto, M. and Kooyman, R.M. (2005) The tension between dispersal and persistence regulates the current distribution of rare palaeo-endemic rainforest flora: a case study. Journal of Ecology 93: 906-917.
• Kariuki, M. and Kooyman, R.M. (2005) Floristic changes and regeneration patterns for a 12-year period during the 3rd and 4th decades following selection logging in a subtropical rainforest. Austral Ecology 30: 844-855.
• Kariuki, M., Rolfe, M., Smith, R.G.B., Vanclay, J.K. and Kooyman, R.M. (2006) Diameter growth performance varies with species functional-group and habitat characteristics in subtripical rainforests. Forest Ecology and Management 225: 1-14.
• Kooyman, R.M. and Rossetto, M. (2006) Factors influencing species selection for littoral rainforest restoration: Do environmental gradients matter? Ecological Restoration and Management 7(2): 113-122.
• Rossetto, M., Kooyman, R.M. Sherwin, W. and Jones, R. (2008) Dispersal limitations rather than bottlenecks or habitat specificity can restrict the distribution of rare and endemic rainforest trees. American Journal of Botany 9(3): 321-329.