Andrew Krockenberger

Teaching

• BZ 1004 – The Diversity of Animal Life

• SC 1101 – Science, nature and understanding

• BZ 2008 – Animal Adaptation to Environmental Change

• BZ 3705 – The Australian Vertebrate Fauna

Research

I have 20 years experience of research into the ecology and physiology of vertebrates in the lab and field, specialising in the physiology and ecology of marsupials.Recently I have been working on the physiological mechanisms of impacts of changing climates on endemic vertebrates of Australia’s wet tropics, including rainforest ringtail possums and microhylid frogs, as well as the ecology of rainforest marsupial folivores.

Student Supervision

Since 1997 I have supervised 30 student research projects (18 post-graduate and 12 undergraduate).Recent projects include:

PhD Joanne Isaac (2004)	Life history variation and reproductive success in the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula.
PhD Karen Coombes (2005)	The ecology and habitat utilisation of Lumholtz’s tree kangaroos, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, on the Atherton Tablelands, far north Queensland.
PhD Euan Ritchie (2007)	The ecology and conservation of the Antilopine wallaroo, Macropus antilopinus.
PhD Katherine Jones (2007)	Dietary Selectivity in the Green Ringtail Possum Pseudochirops archeri: The Effect of Plant Secondary Metabolites on Food Preference.
PhD Sarah Kerr (2011)	Divergence of a mammal along a habitat gradient.
MSc Gabriel Porolak (2008)	Home range of the Huon tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus matschiei, in cloud forest on the Huon peninsula, Papua New Guinea.

Selected Publications

Krockenberger, A.K., Edwards W. & Kanowski, J. (in press) The limit to distribution of a rainforest marsupial folivore is consistent with thermal intolerance hypothesis Oecologia: in press.

Price-Rees SJ, Congdon BC and Krockenberger AK (in press). Size delays female senescence in a medium sized marsupial: the effects of maternal traits on annual fecundity in the northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus). Austral Ecology (in press).

Laurance, W.F., Dell, B., Turton, S.M., Lawes M.J., Hutley, L.B., McCallum, H., Dale, P., Bird, M., Hardy, G., Prodeaux, G., Gawne, B., McMahon, C.R., Yu, R., Hero, J.-M., Schwarzkopf, L., Krockenberger, A.K., Douglas, M., Silvester, E., Mahony, M., Vella, K., Saikia, U., Wahren, C.-H., Xu, Z., Smith, B. & Cocklin, C. (2011). The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points. Biological Conservation 144(5): 1472-1480.

Pintor, AFV, Winter KL, Krockenberger AK and Seymour JE (2011). Venom physiology and composition in a litter of Common Death Adders (Acanthophis antarcticus) and their parents. Toxicon 57: 68-75.

Andersson M., Krockenberger, A.K. and Schwarzkopf, L. (2010). Experimental manipulation reveals the importance of refuge habitat temperature selected by lizards. Austral Ecology 35(3): 294-299. (Impact factor 1.825).

DeGabriel, J.L., Moore, B.D., Shipley, L.A., Krockenberger, A.K., Wallis, I.R, Johnson C.N. & Foley, W.J. (in press).Inter-population differences in the tolerance of a marsupial folivore to plant secondary metabolites Oecologia 161(3): 539-548.

Ritchie, E.G., Martin, J.K., Krockenberger, A.K., Garnett, S. and Johnson, C.N. (2008). Large herbivore distribution and abundance in the tropics: Intra- and inter-specific niche variation across species’ ranges. Ecological Monographs 78(1): 105-122 (Impact factor 7.102).

Krockenberger, A.K. & Hume, I.D. (2007). A flexible digestive strategy accommodates the energetic demands of reproduction in a free-living folivore, the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). Functional Ecology 21(4): 748-756. (Impact factor 3.149).

Goodman, B.A., Krockenberger, A.K. and Schwarzkopf, L. (2007). Master of them all: performance specialisation does not result in trade-offs in tropical lizards. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9(3): 527-546. (Impact factor 1.785).

Edwards W. and Krockenberger A. (2006) Seedling mortality due to drought and fire associated with the 2002 El Nino event in a tropical rainforest in north-east Queensland, Australia. Biotropica 38(1): 16-26. (Impact factor: 0.977)

Isaac J.L., Krockenberger A.K., Johnson C.N. (2005). Adaptive sex allocation in relation to life-history in the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. Journal of Animal Ecology 74: 552-558. (Impact factor: 3.342)

Krockenberger A.K., Turton S., Kitching R.J. (eds) (2004). Environmental crisis: Climate Change and Terrestrial Biodiversity in Queensland. Rainforest CRC, Cairns.

Peck D.R., Smithers B.V., Krockenberger A.K., Congdon B.C. (2004) Sea-surface temperature constrains wedge-tailed shearwater foraging success within breeding seasons. Marine Ecology Progress Series 281: 259-266. (Impact factor: 2.052)

Krockenberger, A.K. (2003).Meeting the energy demands of reproduction in female koalas, Phascolarctos cinereus: evidence of energetic compensation. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 173:531-540. (Impact factor: 1.525)

Kemp, D.J. and Krockenberger A.K. (2002) A novel method of behavioural thermoregulation in butterflies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15(6): 922-929. (Impact factor: 2.893)

Dawson, T., Munn A., Blaney C., Krockenberger A.K., Maloney S. (2000).Ventilatory accomodation of oxygen demand and respiratory water loss in kangaroos from mesic and arid environments, the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) and red kangaroo (Macropus rufus).Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: 73(3): 382-388. (Impact factor: 1.465)

Krockenberger, A.K., I.D. Hume and S.J. Cork (1998).Production of milk and nutrition of the dependent young of free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus). Physiological Zoology 71: 45-56. (Impact factor: 1.465)

Krockenberger, A. K. (1996).Composition of the milk of the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus: an arboreal folivore. Physiological Zoology 69: 701-718.

Cork S.J. and A.K. Krockenberger (1991).Methods and Pitfalls of Extracting Condensed Tannins and other Phenolics from Plants: Insights from investigations on Eucalyptus leaves. Journal of Chemical Ecology 17(1):123-134.

Full list of Publications