Dr Pieter Arnold
Areas of expertise
- Ecological Physiology 060203
- Evolutionary Impacts Of Climate Change 060306
- Comparative Physiology 060604
- Animal Physiological Ecology 060806
- Biostatistics 010402
Biography
- 2018-present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Adrienne Nicotra and Loeske Kruuk in the Research School of Biology, The Australian National University.
- 2017-2018: Research Assistant for Keyne Monro and Craig White in the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
- 2013-2017: PhD in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, supervised by Craig White and Gimme Walter. “Selecting for invasive tendencies: the evolution of morphological, physiological, and movement behaviour traits associated with dispersal”.
- 2012-2013: BSc (Ecology) Honours 1A in the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, supervised by Craig White and Karyn Johnson. “Physiological, metabolic and behavioural consequences of viral infection in Drosophila melanogaster”
- 2011-2012: Intern student placement, Forest Health, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Ecosciences Precinct: “Optimizing Cerambycid pheromone lures”
- 2009-2011: BSc (Ecology) The University of Queensland.
Researcher's projects
- Multi-trait plasticity in response to a changing climate
- Thermal tolerance of land plants
- Is “fitness” related to metabolic rate?
- Quantifying discontinuous gas exchange cycles in insects
- Selecting for invasive tendencies: the evolution of traits associated with dispersal
Publications
- Arnold, P, Kruuk, L & Nicotra, A 2019, 'How to analyse plant phenotypic plasticity in response to a changing climate', New Phytologist, vol. 222, pp. 1235-1241pp.
- Arnold, P, Nicotra, A & Kruuk, L 2019, 'Sparse evidence for selection on phenotypic plasticity in response to temperature', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, vol. 374, no. 1768, pp. 14pp.
- White, C, Marshall, D, Alton, L et al 2019, 'The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals', Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, pp. 598-603.
- Arnold, P, Rafter, M, Malekpour, R et al 2017, 'Investigating movement in the laboratory: dispersal apparatus designs and the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum', Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, vol. 163, pp. 93-100pp.
- Arnold, P, Cassey, P & White, C 2017, 'Functional traits in red flour beetles: the dispersal phenotype is associated with leg length but not body size nor metabolic rate', Functional Ecology, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 653-661pp.
- Hayes, R, Griffiths, M, Nahrung, H et al 2016, 'Optimizing Generic Cerambycid Pheromone Lures for Australian Biosecurity and Biodiversity Monitoring', Journal of Economic Entomology, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 1741-1749pp.
- Arnold, P, Cassey, P & White, C 2016, 'Maturity matters for movement and metabolic rate: trait dynamics across the early adult life of red flour beetles', Animal Behaviour, vol. 111, pp. 181-188pp.
- Arnold, P, White, C & Johnson, K 2015, 'Drosophila melanogaster does not exhibit a behavioural fever response when infected with Drosophila C virus', Journal of General Virology, vol. 96, pp. 3667-3671pp.
- Stevanovic, A, Arnold, P & Johnson, K 2015, 'Wolbachia-Mediated Antiviral Protection in Drosophila Larvae and Adults following Oral Infection', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 81, no. 23, pp. 8215-8223pp.
- Arnold, P, Johnson, K & White, C 2013, 'Physiological and metabolic consequences of viral infection in Drosophila melanogaster', Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 216, pp. 3350-3357.
