Dr Alexandra Pavlova - Researcher Profile

Alexandra Pavlova

Address

School of Biological Sciences
Building 18, Clayton

Biography

Using molecular techniques, Alexandra (Sasha) explores ecological and evolutionary processes on various spatial and temporal scales. She integrates multilocus phylogeography, population genetic, landscape genetic and genomic data with diverse data on behaviour (e.g. acoustics), morphology (e.g. morphometrics, plumage colour), past and current climate or landscape features.

Sasha works on two major ARC linkage projects. The landscape genetic project Birds in Fragmented Landscapes: Genes to Landscapes quantifies the effects of habitat fragmentation on dispersal and other aspects of biology of several southeast Australian native birds. The landscape genomic project Genomics for persistence of Australian freshwater fish focusses on mapping potentially adaptive genetic variation in the attempt to maximize management of fish populations across eastern Australia.

Related Links:

  • Birds in Fragmented Landscapes linkage project
  • Genomics for Persistence of Australian Freshwater Fish linkage project

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: University of Minnesota
Year awarded: 2004
MASTER IN ZOOLOGY
Institution: Moscow State University
Year awarded: 1994

Publications

Journal Articles

Harrisson, K., Pavlova, A., Amos, N., Takeuchi, N., Lill, A., Radford, J.Q., Sunnucks, P., 2012, Fine-scale effects of habitat loss and fragmentation despite large-scale gene flow for some regionally declining woodland bird species, Landscape Ecology [P], vol 27, issue 6, Springer, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 813-827.

Pavlova, A., Amos, N., Goretskaia, M., Beme, I., Buchanan, K.L., Takeuchi, N., Radford, J.Q., Sunnucks, P., 2012, Genes and song: Genetic and social connections in fragemented habitat in a woodland bird with limited dispersal, Ecology [P], vol 93, issue 7, Ecological Society of America, United States, pp. 1717-1727.

Amos, N., Bennett, A., Mac Nally, R., Newell, G., Pavlova, A., Radford, J., Thomson, J., White, M., Sunnucks, P., 2012, Predicting landscape-genetic consequences of habitat loss, fragmentation and mobility for multiple species of woodland birds, PLoS ONE [P], vol 7, issue 2, Public Library of Science, United States, pp. 1-12.

Pavlova, A., Walker, F., Ree, R., Cesarini, S., Taylor, A.C., 2010, Threatened populations of the Australian squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) show evidence of evolutionary distinctiveness on a late pleistocene timescale, Conservation Genetics [P], vol 11, issue 6, Springer, GZ Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 2393-2407.

Norgate, M.B., Chamings, J.R., Pavlova, A., Bull, J., Murray, N., Sunnucks, P., 2009, Mitochondrial DNA indicates Late Pleistocene divergence of populations of Heteronympha merope, an emerging model in environmental change biology, PLoS ONE [P], vol 4, issue 11, Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-13.

Zink, R., Pavlova, A., Drovetski, S., Wink, M., Rohwer, S., 2009, Taxonomic status and evolutionary history of the Saxicola torquata complex, Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution [P], vol 52, Elsevier, USA, pp. 769-773.

Zink, R., Pavlova, A., Drovetski, S., Rohwer, S., 2008, Mitochondrial phylogeographies of five widespread eurasian bird species, Journal fur Ornithologie [P], vol 149, Springer, Germany, pp. 399-413.

Pavlova, A., Zink, R., Drovetski, S., Rohwer, S., 2008, Pleistocene evolution of closely related sand martins riparia riparia and R. diluta, Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution [P], vol 48, Academic Press, USA, pp. 61-73.

Sunnucks, P.J., Blacket, M.J., Taylor, J.M., Sands, C.J., Ciavaglia, S.A., Garrick, R.C., Tait, N.N., Rowell, D.M., Pavlova, A., 2006, A tale of two flatties: Different responses of two terrestrial flatworms to past environmental climatic fluctuations at Tallaganda in montane southeastern Australia, Molecular Ecology, vol 15, issue 14, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford England, pp. 4513-4531.

Zink, R., Pavlova, A., Rohwer, S., Drovetski, S., 2006, Barn swallows before barns: population histories and intercontinental colonization, Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences (Series B) [P], vol 273, issue 1591, The Royal Society, UK, pp. 1245-1251.

Pavlova, A., Rohwer, S., Drovetski, S., Zink, R., 2006, Different post-pleistocene histories of Eurasian parids, Journal Of Heredity [P], vol 97, issue 4, American Genetic Association, USA, pp. 389-402.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Conservation genetics of woodland bird species in southeast Australia.
Supervisors:
Sunnucks, P (Main), Pavlova, A (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Genomics for persistence of Australian freshwater fish.
Supervisors:
Sunnucks, P (Main), Pavlova, A (Associate), Telonis-Scott, M (Associate).