Dr Adam Munn

B01 - J.D. Stewart Building
The University of Sydney

Selected grants

2009

  • the America Wildlife Society 16th annual conference, Monterey CA. 2009 (Symposium: Trophic Matches and Mismatches for Wildlife in Changing Environments); Munn A; The Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney/Postdoctoral fellow and new academic staff travel funds.

2008

  • Avoiding environmental bankruptcy: the grazing impacts of red kangaroos and sheep in Australias arid rangelands; Munn A, Dickman C; National Geographic Society (USA)/Research Support.

2006

  • Linkage 2005 Round 2 - "Avoiding Environmental Bankruptcy: the grazing impacts of red kangaroos and; Munn A, Dickman C.
  • Avoiding Environmental Bankruptcy: the grazing impacts of red kangaroos and sheep; Dickman C, Thompson M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage.

Selected publications

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Edited Books

  • Lunney, D., Munn, A., Meikle, W. (2008). Too close for comfort:contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters. Mosman: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

Book Chapters

  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2010). Mechanistic explanations for the drought-related mortality of juvenile red kangaroos: implications for population dynamics and modelling. In Graeme Coulson, Mark Eldridge (Eds.), Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-kangaroos, (pp. 117-126). Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
  • Paplinska, J., Bencini, R., Fisher, D., Newell, G., Goldizen, A., Hazlitt, S., Sigg, D., Finlayson, G., Munn, A., Chambers, B., et al (2010). Sperm competition in the Macropodoidea: a review of evidence. In Graeme Coulson, Mark Eldridge (Eds.), Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-kangaroos, (pp. 65-76). Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
  • Lunney, D., Munn, A., Meikle, W. (2008). Contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters: perennial problems needing new answers. In Daniel Lunney, Adam Munn and Will Meikle (Eds.), Too close for comfort: contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters. Mosman: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.
  • Dawson, T., Munn, A. (2007). How much do different sized kangaroos eat?: Implications for harvesting. In Chris Dickman, Daniel Lunney and Shelley Burgin (Eds.), Animals of arid Australia: out on their own?. Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

Journals

  • Munn, A., Tomlinson, S., Savage, T., Clauss, M. (2012). Retention of different-sized particles and derived gut fill estimate in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii): Physiological and methodological considerations. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 161(2), 243-249.
  • Munn, A., Kern, P., McAllan, B. (2010). Coping with chaos: unpredictable food supplies intensify torpor use in an arid-zone marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata). Naturwissenschaften, 97(6), 601-605.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T., McLeod, S. (2010). Feeding biology of two functionally different foregut-fermenting mammals, the marsupial red kangaroo and the ruminant sheep: how physiological ecology can inform land management. Journal of Zoology, 282(4), 226-237.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T., McLeod, S., Croft, D., Thompson, M., Dickman, C. (2009). Field metabolic rate and water turnover of red kangaroos and sheep in an arid rangeland: an empirically derived dry-sheep-equivalent for kangaroos. Australian Journal of Zoology, 57(1), 23-28.
  • Munn, A., Clissold, F., Tarszisz, E., Kimpton, K., Dickman, C., Hume, I. (2009). Hindgut Plasticity in Wallabies Fed Hay either Unchopped or Ground and Pelleted: Fiber Is Not the Only Factor. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: ecological and evolutionary approaches, 82(3), 270-279.
  • Munn, A., Barboza, P., Dehn, J. (2009). Sensible Heat Loss from Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) Feeding in Winter: Small Calves Are Not at a Thermal Disadvantage Compared with Adult Cows. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: ecological and evolutionary approaches, 82(5), 455-467.
  • Munn, A., Barboza, P. (2008). Could a big gut be too costly for muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in their first winter? Zoology, 111(5), 350-362.
  • Munn, A., Streich, W., Hummel, J., Clauss, M. (2008). Modelling digestive constraints in non-ruminant and ruminant foregut-fermenting mammals. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 151, 78-84.
  • Munn, A., Payne, N. (2007). No appreciable change in kangaroo carcase weights during chiller storage. Australian Zoologist, 34, 184-189.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T., Maloney, S. (2007). Ventilation patterns in red kangaroos (Macropus rufus Desmarest): juveniles work harder than adults at thermal extremes, but extract more oxygen per breath at thermoneutrality. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(15), 2723-2729.
  • Munn, A., Banks, P., Hume, I. (2006). Digestive plasticity of the small intestine and the fermentative hindgut in a marsupial herbivore, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Australian Journal of Zoology, 54(4), 287-291.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T., Hume, I. (2006). Endogenous nitrogen excretion by red kangaroos (Macropus rufus): Effects of animal age and forage quality. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: ecological and evolutionary approaches, 79(2), 424-436.
  • Rose, T., Munn, A., Ramp, D., Banks, P. (2006). Foot-thumping as an alarm signal in macropodoid marsupials: prevalence and hypotheses of function. Mammal Review, 36(4), 281-298.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2006). Forage fibre digestion, rates of feed passage and gut fill in juvenile and adult red kangaroos (Macropus rufus Desmarest): why body size matters. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 209(8), 1535-1547.
  • Dawson, T., McTavish, K., Munn, A., Holloway, H. (2006). Water use and thermoregulatory behaviour of kangaroos in arid regions: insights into colonisation of arid rangelands in Australia by the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B: biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 176(1), 45-53.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2004). The ecophysiology of survival in juvenile red kangaroos (Macropus rufus): greater demands and higher costs. Australian Mammalogy, 26(2), 161-168.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2003). 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: biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 173(7), 575-582.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2003). How important is milk for near-weaned red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) fed different forages? Journal of Comparative Physiology B: biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 173(2), 141-148.

Conferences

  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2008). Mechanistic explanations for juvenile kangaroo mortalities: broad implications for the population dynamics of large herbivores during climate change. 4th CPB Meeting in Africa: MARA 2008, Bologna, Italy: Medimond International Proceedings.

2012

  • Munn, A., Tomlinson, S., Savage, T., Clauss, M. (2012). Retention of different-sized particles and derived gut fill estimate in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii): Physiological and methodological considerations. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 161(2), 243-249.

2010

  • Munn, A., Kern, P., McAllan, B. (2010). Coping with chaos: unpredictable food supplies intensify torpor use in an arid-zone marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata). Naturwissenschaften, 97(6), 601-605.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T., McLeod, S. (2010). Feeding biology of two functionally different foregut-fermenting mammals, the marsupial red kangaroo and the ruminant sheep: how physiological ecology can inform land management. Journal of Zoology, 282(4), 226-237.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2010). Mechanistic explanations for the drought-related mortality of juvenile red kangaroos: implications for population dynamics and modelling. In Graeme Coulson, Mark Eldridge (Eds.), Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-kangaroos, (pp. 117-126). Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
  • Paplinska, J., Bencini, R., Fisher, D., Newell, G., Goldizen, A., Hazlitt, S., Sigg, D., Finlayson, G., Munn, A., Chambers, B., et al (2010). Sperm competition in the Macropodoidea: a review of evidence. In Graeme Coulson, Mark Eldridge (Eds.), Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies & Rat-kangaroos, (pp. 65-76). Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing.

2009

  • Munn, A., Dawson, T., McLeod, S., Croft, D., Thompson, M., Dickman, C. (2009). Field metabolic rate and water turnover of red kangaroos and sheep in an arid rangeland: an empirically derived dry-sheep-equivalent for kangaroos. Australian Journal of Zoology, 57(1), 23-28.
  • Munn, A., Clissold, F., Tarszisz, E., Kimpton, K., Dickman, C., Hume, I. (2009). Hindgut Plasticity in Wallabies Fed Hay either Unchopped or Ground and Pelleted: Fiber Is Not the Only Factor. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: ecological and evolutionary approaches, 82(3), 270-279.
  • Munn, A., Barboza, P., Dehn, J. (2009). Sensible Heat Loss from Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) Feeding in Winter: Small Calves Are Not at a Thermal Disadvantage Compared with Adult Cows. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: ecological and evolutionary approaches, 82(5), 455-467.

2008

  • Lunney, D., Munn, A., Meikle, W. (2008). Contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters: perennial problems needing new answers. In Daniel Lunney, Adam Munn and Will Meikle (Eds.), Too close for comfort: contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters. Mosman: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.
  • Munn, A., Barboza, P. (2008). Could a big gut be too costly for muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in their first winter? Zoology, 111(5), 350-362.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2008). Mechanistic explanations for juvenile kangaroo mortalities: broad implications for the population dynamics of large herbivores during climate change. 4th CPB Meeting in Africa: MARA 2008, Bologna, Italy: Medimond International Proceedings.
  • Munn, A., Streich, W., Hummel, J., Clauss, M. (2008). Modelling digestive constraints in non-ruminant and ruminant foregut-fermenting mammals. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 151, 78-84.
  • Lunney, D., Munn, A., Meikle, W. (2008). Too close for comfort:contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters. Mosman: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

2007

  • Dawson, T., Munn, A. (2007). How much do different sized kangaroos eat?: Implications for harvesting. In Chris Dickman, Daniel Lunney and Shelley Burgin (Eds.), Animals of arid Australia: out on their own?. Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.
  • Munn, A., Payne, N. (2007). No appreciable change in kangaroo carcase weights during chiller storage. Australian Zoologist, 34, 184-189.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T., Maloney, S. (2007). Ventilation patterns in red kangaroos (Macropus rufus Desmarest): juveniles work harder than adults at thermal extremes, but extract more oxygen per breath at thermoneutrality. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(15), 2723-2729.

2006

  • Munn, A., Banks, P., Hume, I. (2006). Digestive plasticity of the small intestine and the fermentative hindgut in a marsupial herbivore, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Australian Journal of Zoology, 54(4), 287-291.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T., Hume, I. (2006). Endogenous nitrogen excretion by red kangaroos (Macropus rufus): Effects of animal age and forage quality. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: ecological and evolutionary approaches, 79(2), 424-436.
  • Rose, T., Munn, A., Ramp, D., Banks, P. (2006). Foot-thumping as an alarm signal in macropodoid marsupials: prevalence and hypotheses of function. Mammal Review, 36(4), 281-298.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2006). Forage fibre digestion, rates of feed passage and gut fill in juvenile and adult red kangaroos (Macropus rufus Desmarest): why body size matters. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 209(8), 1535-1547.
  • Dawson, T., McTavish, K., Munn, A., Holloway, H. (2006). Water use and thermoregulatory behaviour of kangaroos in arid regions: insights into colonisation of arid rangelands in Australia by the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B: biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 176(1), 45-53.

2004

  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2004). The ecophysiology of survival in juvenile red kangaroos (Macropus rufus): greater demands and higher costs. Australian Mammalogy, 26(2), 161-168.

2003

  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2003). 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: biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 173(7), 575-582.
  • Munn, A., Dawson, T. (2003). How important is milk for near-weaned red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) fed different forages? Journal of Comparative Physiology B: biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 173(2), 141-148.

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