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\n<\/strong>Rachel Correll<\/h4>\n

My main area of interest is mammalian evolutionary ecology, I\u2019m particularly interested in exploring how biotic and abiotic factors interact to determine differences in body size within Australian mammal species.<\/p>\n

I completed my BSc at Flinders University in 1998, majoring in animal, plant, and environmental biology. The following year, I undertook an Honours degree in southern California under the Flinders Study Abroad Program. My project examined foraging theory using kangaroo rats, a small North American rodent, as a model species. After a long break from study, I returned to do a PhD at Flinders, which I completed in 2016. This examined determinants of body-size variation within several exemplar Australian mammal species. I assessed geographic body-size patterns (e.g., Bergmann\u2019s rule), temporal body-size trends in species of kangaroo post-European arrival in Australia (human-induced body-size evolution), as well as supposedly ubiquitous features of the island rule, e.g., do \u2018small\u2019 mammals get larger and \u2018large\u2019 mammals get smaller when isolated on islands?<\/p>\n

Currently, I am involved with projects that use fossils to look at body-size changes in Australian mammal species throughout the past million years. This is aimed at exploring how such changes track with climate change and human presence. I am also interested in generating more accurate body-size (mass) estimates for some of Australia\u2019s extinct mammalian megafaunal species. I also enjoy teaching in undergraduate biology courses and guiding postgraduates with course tasks, as well as managing modern and fossil collections and processing fossil samples.[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”View profile” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#011c2c” outline_custom_hover_background=”#ffd300″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#011c2c” shape=”square” size=”sm” align=”right” i_align=”right” i_icon_fontawesome=”” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flinders.edu.au%2Fpeople%2Frachel.correll|target:_blank” css=”.vc_custom_1605241355562{margin-right: 32px !important;margin-left: 32px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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