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Dr Adam Munn

Dr Adam Munn

Lecturer
Faculty of Veterinary Sciences
Ph. +61 2 9351 5822
Fax. +61 2 9351 3957
a.munn@usyd.edu.au

Room 620 (via 610)
B19 - R.M.C. Gunn
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Qualifications

  • 1996 BSc., Advanced Science (Zoology) University NSW
  • 2003 PhD University NSW
  • 2005 Post-doc, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks USA

Teaching Areas

  • Thermoregulation, comparative physiology, digestion and nutrition.
  • Lecturer in Animal Structure and Function 3A and 3B

Research Areas

  • Physiological ecology of native wildlife and domestic herbivores - thermoregulation, energetics and nutrition
  • Phenotypic plasticity of the gastrointestinal tract of herbivores - functional significance and biochemical mechanisms

Contribution to the Profession and the Community

  • Councillor - Royal Zoological Society NSW
  • Member of Australian Zoologist Editorial Board
  • Ad hoc Reviewer:
    Journal Experimental Biology, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Journal Comparative Physiology B, Journal of Mammalogy, Austral Ecology, Australian Mammalogy, Australian Zoologist, Wildlife Research, Australian Journal of Zoology.

Selected Publications

  1. Munn AJ. Barboza PS. Could a big gut be too costly for muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in their first winter? Zoology In press
  2. Hayward MW. Munn AJ. Lions and leopards and muskox: a light-hearted look at the ups, downs, ins and outs of a postdoctoral career through the eyes of two zoologists. Australian Zoologist - manuscript series “From the Horse’s Mouth: career insights from working Zoologists”, Munn A.J. (Ed) for the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Australia In Press
  3. Munn AJ. Dawson TJ. Maloney SK. Ventilation patterns in red kangaroos (Macropus rufus Desmarest): juveniles work harder than adults at thermal extremes, but extract more oxygen per breath at thermoneutrality. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 2723-2729. 2007
  4. Munn AJ. Payne N. No appreciable change in kangaroo carcase weights during chiller storage. Australian Zoologist. 34: 184-189. 2007
  5. Munn AJ. Dawson TJ. Forage fibre digestion, rates of feed passage and gut fill in juvenile and adult red kangaroos (Macropus rufus Desmarest): why body size matters. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 1535-1547. 2006
  6. Munn AJ. Dawson TJ. Hume ID. Endogenous nitrogen excretion by red kangaroos (Macropus rufus): effects of animal age and forage quality. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79(2): 424-436. 2006
  7. Munn AJ. Banks PB. Hume ID. Digestive plasticity of the small intestine and fermentative hindgut of a marsupial herbivore, the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Australian Journal of Zoology 54: 287-291. 2006
  8. Rose TA. Munn AJ. Ramp D. Banks PB. Foot-thumping as an alarm signal in macropodid marsupials: a review of prevalence and hypotheses of function. Mammal Review 36 (4): 281-298. 2006
  9. Munn AJ. Dawson TJ. The ecophysiology of survival in juvenile red kangaroos (Macropus rufus): greater demands and higher costs. Australian Mammalogy 26: 161-168. 2004
  10. Munn AJ. Dawson TJ. Energy requirements of the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus): impacts of age, growth and body size in a large desert-dwelling herbivore. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 173: 575-582. 2003
  11. Munn AJ. Dawson TJ. How important is milk for near-weaned red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) fed different forages? Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 173: 141-148. 2003
  12. Munn AJ. Dawson TJ. Thermoregulation in juvenile red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) after pouch exit: higher metabolisms and evaporative water requirements. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 74(6): 917-927. 2001