Dr Greg Johnston

Position/s:Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law
Phone: +61 8 82015677
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Location: Biological Sciences (155)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Qualifications

BSc Zoology   University of Adelaide   1989
BSc(Hons)    Anatomy & Histology    University of Adelaide   1990
PhD   Biological Sciences Flinders University    1997

Honours, awards and grants

  • Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ben Gurion University, Israel 1997-1999
  • Smithsonian Research Fellowship 2000
  • Churchill Fellowship 2004
  • Honorary Research Associate, South Australian Museum
  • Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide

Research and consultancy

Publications

Book chapters

Johnston, G. & Wiebkin, A., 2008. Birds of Gulf St Vincent. In Natural History of Gulf St Vincent. Adelaide, South Australia: Royal Society of South Australia, pp. 324-338.

Johnston, G. & Harbison, P., 2005. The Barker Inlet-Port River Estuary. In Adelaide: nature of a city. Adelaide, SA: Biocity: Centre for Urban Habitats, pp. 286-311.

Refereed journal articles

Johnston, G., 2010. Growth and survivorship as proximate causes of sexual size dimorphism in peninsula dragon lizards Ctenophorus fionni. Austral Ecology.

Sanderson, K.J., Napier, G.M., & Johnston, G., 2010. Observations of a large colony of bats roosting in a church. Australian Mammalogy, 32, 161-163.

Caldwell, M.S., Johnston, G., McDaniel, J.G., & Warkentin, K.M., 2010. Vibrational signalling in the agonistic interactions of red-eyed treefrogs. Current Biology, 20(11), 1012-1017.

Stirnemann, i., Johnston, G., Rich, B., Robertson, G.J., & Kleindorfer, S.M., 2009. Phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) response and bill-hue wavelength increase with carotenoid supplementation in Diamond Firetails (Stagonopleura guttata). Emu, 109(4), 344-351.

Young, K.M., Daniels, C.B., & Johnston, G., 2007. Species of street tree is important for southern hemisphere bird trophic guilds. Austral Ecology, 32(5), 541-550.

Johnston, G. & McCarthy, P., 2007. Susceptibility of bush stone-curlews (Burhinus grallarius) to sodium fluoroacetate (1080) poisoning. Emu, 107(1), 69-73.

Johnston, G. & Bouskila, A., 2007. Sexual dimorphism and ecology of the gecko, Ptyodactylus Guttatus. Journal of Herpetology, 41(3), 506-513.

Stuart-Fox, D. & Johnston, G., 2005. Experience overrides colour in lizard contests. Behaviour, 142(3), 329-350.

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Book chapters

Daniels, C.B., Johnston, G., & Gray, C., 2010. Biodiversity of the waterways. In Adelaide : Water of a city. Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield Press, pp. 103-127.

Johnston, G., Read, J., & Morley, T., 2010. Trial reintroduction of the woma python in northern South Australia. In Global Re-introduction Perspectives 2010: Additional case-studies from around the globe. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: IUCB/SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group, pp. 104-107.

Johnston, G. & Wiebkin, A., 2008. Birds of Gulf St Vincent. In Natural History of Gulf St Vincent. Adelaide, South Australia: Royal Society of South Australia, pp. 324-338.

Johnston, G. & Harbison, P., 2005. The Barker Inlet-Port River Estuary. In Adelaide: nature of a city. Adelaide, SA: Biocity: Centre for Urban Habitats, pp. 286-311.

Refereed journal articles

Sanderson, K.J., Napier, G.M., & Johnston, G., 2010. Observations of a large colony of bats roosting in a church. Australian Mammalogy, 32, 161-163.

Caldwell, M.S., Johnston, G., McDaniel, J.G., & Warkentin, K.M., 2010. Vibrational signalling in the agonistic interactions of red-eyed treefrogs. Current Biology, 20(11), 1012-1017.

Johnston, G., 2010. Growth and survivorship as proximate causes of sexual size dimorphism in peninsula dragon lizards Ctenophorus fionni. Austral Ecology.

Stirnemann, i., Johnston, G., Rich, B., Robertson, G.J., & Kleindorfer, S.M., 2009. Phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) response and bill-hue wavelength increase with carotenoid supplementation in Diamond Firetails (Stagonopleura guttata). Emu, 109(4), 344-351.

Young, K.M., Daniels, C.B., & Johnston, G., 2007. Species of street tree is important for southern hemisphere bird trophic guilds. Austral Ecology, 32(5), 541-550.

Johnston, G. & Bouskila, A., 2007. Sexual dimorphism and ecology of the gecko, Ptyodactylus Guttatus. Journal of Herpetology, 41(3), 506-513.

Johnston, G. & McCarthy, P., 2007. Susceptibility of bush stone-curlews (Burhinus grallarius) to sodium fluoroacetate (1080) poisoning. Emu, 107(1), 69-73.

Johnston, G., 2005. Ctenophorus fionni (Peninsula Dragon Lizard). Cannibalism. Herpetological Review, 36(2), 175-175.

Stuart-Fox, D. & Johnston, G., 2005. Experience overrides colour in lizard contests. Behaviour, 142(3), 329-350.

Stuart-Fox, D., Moussalli, A., Johnston, G., & Owens, I., 2004. Evolution of color variation in dragon lizards: quantitative tests of the role of crypsis and local adaptation. Evolution, 58(7), 1549-1559.

Refereed conference papers

Johnston, G., Bird, T., & Sanderson, K.J., 2003. Quantifying calls for conservation: we talk to the animals. Education: the key to conservation.

Journal articles

McGuire, A., Johnston, G., Robertson, G.J., & Kleindorfer, S.M., 2011. Comparison of survey methods for detection of the elusive Western Whipbird, Psophodes nigrogularis, with notes on its distribution. South Australian Ornithologist, 37, 49-59.

Morley, T. & Johnston, G., 2005. An albino Hosmer's Skink, Egernia hosmeri. Herpetofauna, 35(1), 62-62.

Other public research outputs

Johnston, G. & Daniels, C.B., 2006. Austral Ecology Special Issue - City life: new perspectives in urban ecology (Guest editor), Australia: Blackwell.

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Professional and community engagement

Expertise for media contact

  • Animal Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution & Conservation

Subject/s

  • Aggression
  • Animals
  • Behaviour
  • Biodiversity
  • Birds
  • Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Family
  • Lizards
  • Reptiles
  • Wildlife
  • Zoology


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