ProfessorJonathan Tonkin

Professor

School of Biological Sciences

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

I teach into the following courses: 

  • BIOL375: Freshwater Ecosystems
  • BIOL377: Global Change Ecology
  • BIOS201: Issues in New Zealand Biosecurity
  • BIOL425: Freshwater Ecology (Coordinator)
  • BIOL424: Community Ecology (Coordinator)

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The role of direct and indirect interactions in structuring communities across environmental gradients
    1 Oct 2023
    Gillis, Anthony
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating the cascading risks in the natural domain with a focus on ecosystems' resilience to climate change-induced risks.
    1 Jul 2023 - 31 Jan 2025
    Sharp, Portia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Interactive effects of non-native fish and environmental conditions on galaxiid demography
    1 Mar 2023
    Heller, Naomi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Eco-evo dynamics in multitrophic parasitoid-host interactions
    1 Feb 2023
    Wang, Li
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Stealing the Holy Grail from the Sleeping Giant - Machine Learning for Functional Ecology and Evolution
    1 Feb 2023
    Shabanov, Ilya
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Deconstructing the role of disturbance and species traits in determining trophic cascade strength
    1 Nov 2022 - 28 Feb 2023
    Anderson, Jack
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Biophysical connections in free-flowing floodplain river systems
    1 Jul 2022 - 31 Oct 2023
    McCabe, Christina
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A meta analysis of demographic compensation
    1 Apr 2022 - 1 Nov 2022
    de Jongh, Elizabeth
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Deconstructing the role of environmental fluctuations in structuring ecological communities in time
    1 Apr 2022
    Hernandez, Daniel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Interactions between introduced trout and native non-migratory galaxiids along a disturbance gradient following a major flood event in Canterbury
    1 Mar 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    Lennox, Rory
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Native Pollinators of the Canterbury Port Hills Restoration Plantings
    1 Mar 2022 - 31 Aug 2023
    Seeley, Sarah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Quantifying the vulnerability of New Zealand’s freshwater fish under climate change
    1 Dec 2021
    Reyes, Ignacio
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Resource dynamics in braided rivers
    1 Sep 2021 - 1 Dec 2025
    Harris, Holly
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Linking ecological processes and biogeographic patterns to forecast biodiversity responses to climate change in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica
    1 Jul 2021 - 28 Feb 2025
    Koerich, Gabrielle
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Trout influences on non-migratory galaxiids under natural and reduced flow conditions
    1 Mar 2021 - 28 Feb 2022
    Hore, Olivia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A numerical simulation (model) of fine sediment dynamics in the lower Rangitata River in response to different flow regimes (with a focus on flood harvesting), with a view to informing flow management of the River and its impact on ecological values
    1 Jul 2020
    Rogers, Justin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Factors Influencing Haul-out Behaviour of Non-reproductive Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) at Cape Royds, Antarctica
    14 Feb 2020 - 31 Jul 2021
    Aspinwall, Arkady
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Emperor penguins, Weddell seals, and their interactions with the environment and each other in the Ross Sea
    18 Feb 2019 - 31 Dec 2024
    Foster, Rose