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Dr Charles Clarke

Lecturer

PhD (University of New England, Australia)
Telephone: +603 - 5514 6097
Fax: +603 - 5514 6364
E-mail: charles.clarke@artsci.monash.edu.my

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Area of Expertise
Research Interest
Selected Publications
Current Research Projects
Prospective Research Projects
Plenary/Keynote Lectures
Area of Expertise:

Animal Community Ecology; Ecosystem Management & Conservation of Biodiversity; Plant Ecology and Taxonomy.
Research Interest:
Research interests include the effects of habitat disturbance on animal communities, broad scale ecosystem management, effective conservation and monitoring of threatened plant and animal species, development of novel tropical fruit crops, ecology and dynamics of heath and peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia, speciation through hybridisation in plants, and virtually anything involving Nepenthes pitcher plants.
Selected Publications:

Clarke CM (2006) Introduction. In: Danser BH (ed) The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands’ Indies. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Malaysia, pp 1-15

Clarke CM, Lee CC, MacPherson S (2006) Nepenthes chaniana (Nepenthaceae), a new species from north-western Borneo. Sabah Parks Nat J 7: 53-66

Clarke CM, Kruger R (2006) Nepenthes tenax (Nepenthaceae) a new species from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Austrobaileya 7: 319-324

Dong TTX, Xiao QM, Clarke CM, Zhong HS, Zhao NJ, Chun KL, Tsim KWK (2003) Phylogeny of Astragalus in China: Molecular evidence from the DNA sequences of 5S rRNA spacer, ITS, and 18S rRNA. J Agric Food Chem51: 6709-6714

Moran JA, Clarke CM, Hawkins BJ (2003) From carnivore to detritivore? Isotopic evidence for leaf litter utilization by the tropical pitcher plant, Nepenthes ampullaria. Int J Plant Sci164: 635-639

Clarke CM (2001) Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Malaysia, 326 pp

Moran JA, Merbach MA, Livingstone NJ, Clarke CM, Booth WE (2001) Termite prey specialization in the pitcher plant Nepenthes albomarginata - evidence from stable isotope analysis. Ann Bot 88: 307-311

Clarke CM (1998) A re-examination of geographical variation in metazoan food webs in Nepenthes. Ecography 21: 430-436

Clarke CM (1997) Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Malaysia, 207 pp

Current Research Projects:

Vertebrate-mediated nutrient inputs in the pitcher plant, Nepenthes lowii, in Sarawak; Dynamics of metazoan food webs from montane pitcher plants in Malaysia; Ecological and Taxonomic monograph on the genus Nepenthes
Prospective Research Projects:

The effects of energy input levels on food chain lengths in metazoan communities.

The role of hybridisation in plant speciation.

Development of novel fruit crops from tropical regions.

The role of atypical pitcher characteristics in prey capture in montane Nepenthes species.
Plenary/Keynote Lectures:

Keynote Lecture

2007: Keynote Address, International Nepenthes Summit, Kuching, Malaysia, August 2007.

Plenary Lectures

2006: School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.

2001: The Sabah Society, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

2000: “The Calhoun Lecture”, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

1999: Royal Geographical Society ( Hong Kong), Hong Kong.