Doctor Christopher Turbill

Doctor Christopher Turbill

LECTURER IN ANIMAL SCIENCE,
Dean's Unit - School of Sciences and Health

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of New England

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Dean's Unit - School of Sciences and Health

Contact

Email:C.Turbill@uws.edu.au
Extension:1456
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Location:L3.G.06
Hawkesbury
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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Stawski, C., Turbill, C. and Geiser, F. (2008), 'Prolonged torpor use during winter by a free-ranging bat from sub-tropical Australia', Hypometabolism in Animals: Hibernation, Torpor and Cryobiology, University of KwaZulu-Natal 9780620414821.
  • Geiser, F., Drury, R., Kortner, G., Turbill, C., Pavey, C. and Brigham, R. (2004), 'Passive re-warming from torpor in mammals and birds: energetic, ecological and evolutionary implications', Life in the Cold. Evolution, Adaptation and Application, University of Alaska .

Journal Articles

  • Turbill, C. (2012), 'High survival during hibernation affects onset and timing of reproduction', Oecologia, 12.
  • Turbill, C., Ruf, T., Mang, T. and Arnold, W. (2011), 'Regulation of heart rate and rumen temperature in red deer: effects of season and food intake', The Journal of Experimental Biology, 8.
  • Turbill, C. and Ruf, T. (2010), 'Senescence is more important in the natural lives of long- than short-lived mammal species', PLoS One, .
  • Smith, S., Turbill, C. and Suchentrunk, F. (2010), 'Introducing mother's curse: low male fertility associated with an imported mtDNA haplotype in a captive colony of brown hares', Molecular Ecology, 12.
  • Turbill, C. (2009), 'Temperature effects on metabolic rate and torpor in southern forest bats, Vespadelus regulus', Australian Journal of Zoology, 3.
  • Geiser, F. and Turbill, C. (2009), 'Hibernation and daily torpor minimize mammalian extinctions', Naturwissenschaften, 6.
  • Stawski, C., Turbill, C. and Geiser, F. (2009), 'Hibernation by a free-ranging subtropical bat (Nyctophilus bifax)', Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 9.
  • Turbill, C., Kortner, G. and Geiser, F. (2008), 'Timing of the daily temperature cycle affects the critical arousal temperature and energy expenditure of lesser long-eared bats', The Journal of Experimental Biology, 8.
  • Turbill, C. (2008), 'Winter activity of Australian tree-roosting bats: influence of temperature and climatic patterns', Journal of Zoology, 6.
  • Turbill, C. and Geiser, F. (2008), 'Hibernation by tree-roosting bats', Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 9.
  • Turbill, C. (2006), 'Thermoregulatory behaviour of tree-roosting chocolate wattled bats (Chalinolobus morio) during summer and winter', Journal of Mammalogy, 6.
  • Turbill, C. and Ellis, M. (2006), 'Distribution and abundance of the south-eastern form of the greater long-eared bat, Nyctophilus timoriensis', Australian Mammalogy, 6.
  • Turbill, C. (2006), 'Roosting and thermoregulatory behaviour of male Gould's long-eared bats, Nyctophilus gouldi: energetic benefits of thermally unstable tree roosts', Australian Journal of Zoology, 4.
  • Turbill, C. and Geiser, F. (2006), 'Thermal physiology of pregnant and lactating female and male long-eared bats, Nyctophilus geoffroyi and N. gouldi', Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 8.
  • Willis, C., Turbill, C. and Geiser, F. (2005), 'Torpor and thermal energetics in a tiny Australian Vespertilionid, the little forest bat (Vespadelus vulturnus)', Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 8.
  • Turbill, C., Kortner, G. and Geiser, F. (2003), 'Natural use of heterothermy by a small tree-roosting bat during summer', Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 9.
  • Turbill, C., Law, B. and Geiser, F. (2003), 'Summer torpor in a free-ranging bat from sub-tropical Australia', Journal of Thermal Biology, 4.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Oxidative stress as a physiological constraint on the pace of life histories
Years:2012-07-01 - 2015-06-30
ID:P00020659
UWS Researchers:Christopher Turbill
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Energetic consequences of antipredator behaviour in small mammal prey
Years:2012-07-01 - 2015-06-30
ID:P00021016
UWS Researchers:Christopher Turbill
Funding:
  • Hermon Slade Foundation

Supervision

Current Supervision

Title:Can Water Exclusion Limit the Ecological Impacts of Cane Toads?
Field of Research:
Title:A Dingo for the Modern Age?
Field of Research:

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