University of Tasmania, Australia

Dr Greg Jordan

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Tas)

Contact Details

Teaching Responsibilities

• KPA215 - Genetics and Evolution

Publications

• Jordan GJ, Bannister JM, Mildenhall DM, Zetter R, Lee DM, 2010, 'Fossil Ericaceae from New Zealand - deconstructing the use of fossil evidence in historical biogeography.', merican Journal of Botany, A 97, 59-70
• Worth JRP, Jordan GJ, McKinnon GE, Vaillancourt RE, 2009, 'The major Australian cool temperate rainforest tree Nothofagus cunninghamii withstands Pleistocene glacial aridity within multiple regions: Evidence from the chloroplast.', New Phytologist, 182, 519-523
• Michael D. Crisp, Mary T.K. Arroyo, Lyn G. Cook, Maria A. Gandolfo, Gregory J. Jordan, Matt S. McGlone, Peter H. Weston, Mark Westoby, Peter Wilf and H. Peter Linder, 2009, 'Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale.', Nature, 458, 754-756
• Jordan GJ, Weston PH, Carpenter RJ, Dillon RA, Brodribb TJ, 2008, 'The evolutionary relations of sunken, covered, and encrypted stomata to dry habitats in Proteaceae', American Journal of Botany, 95, 521–530
• Jordan GJ, 2001, 'An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand', Australian Journal of Botany, 49, 333-340

Full Publication List

Research Interests

I am mainly interested in the evolution of Australia's vegetation and particularly Tasmania's unique flora. This involves both the study of Tasmania's rich fossil record from the last 50 million years, and also studies of the ecology and biogeography of the living flora. Some particular aspects that I concentrate on are: The Quaternary history of Tasmanian vegetation, especially Early Pleistocene Plant extinctions. The relationship of leaf form, to climate and other aspects of the environment. The fossil record of the Proteaceae and other scleromorphic families. The conservation of Tasmanian fossil sites.

Research Areas

• Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation

Research Project/s

• Early Pleistocene plants from Stony Creek Basin, central Victoria (Staff)
• Evolution of stomatal responses (Doctorate)
• Forest influence and beetles (Doctorate)
• Fossil and living leaves of Proteaceae (Staff)
• How the development of leaf veins and stomata responds to environmental cues (Doctorate)
• Late Pleistocene macrofossils (Doctorate)
• Managing variable retention harvesting to maintain forest biodiversity (Post-Doctorate)
• The evolutionary assembly of Australian rainforest (Staff)