Carver, Scott

Scott Carver is interested in anthropogenic environmental change and the impacts that this has on the functioning of ecosystems. He has a background in ecology, physiology and herpetology. Scott is enrolled jointly with the School of Animal Biology and is investigating the ecosystem impacts of dryland salinity on the ecology of Ross River virus. In particular, Scott is looking at the impact of salinity on mosquito and other aquatic invertebrate communities, aquatic invertebrate predator-prey relationships, and terrestrial vertebrate host communities.

PhD topic: The effect of dryland salinity on biodiversity and trophic processes that regulate Ross River virus disease ecology

Supervisors: Prof. Phil Weinstein, Dr Helen Spafford-Jacob, Dr Andrew Storey

Tel +61 8 6488 2976
Fax +61 8 6488 1040
E-mail carves01@student.uwa.edu.au
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Scott also spends lots of time on his bike, swimming, chasing frogs and snakes, and drinking wine…..not necessarily all at once.

Publications

Bell, B. D., Carver, S., Mitchell, N. J., Pledger, S. 2004. The recent decline of a New Zealand endemic: how and why did populations of Archey’s frog Leiopelma archeyi crash over 1996-2001. Biological Conservation, 120: 193-203.

Bell, B. D., Carver, S. and Mitchell, N. J. 2004. Factors influencing the recent decline of frogs in New Zealand with particular reference to the decline of Archey’s frog (Leiopelma archeyi) over 1996-2001.  New Zealand Department of Conservation research investigation 3299.

Carver, S. 2004. Aspects of amphibian decline: the influence of stress on water balance; chytrid infection on skin function; plus biosecurity and chytrid pathogen pollution. Unpublished MSc thesis.  Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Carver, S., Bell, B. D., Waldman, B. 2005.  Chytridiomycosis has no effect on skin function of the Southern bell frog, Litoria raniformis. Proceedings of the Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand.  Abstracts of papers presented at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Society, Springbrook National Park, south-east Queensland, Australia, 7-11 February 2005. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 32: 219-232.