ProfessorMark Hovenden
(he/him)
Professor
Biological Sciences
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- ProfessorBiological Sciences
- +61 3 6226 2698 (Fax)
- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Biological Sciences, PO Box 805, Sandy Bay, TAS, 7005, Australia
SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy
Teaching expertise
Mark teaches about how plants actually work, how they interact with each other and with other organisms and how these interactions shape ecosystems and control how ecosystems work and change over time. In one of the second year units, the focus is on how plants work and how the external environment influences plant function. In third year, we concentrate on ways to study plants in the field, how they interact with the environment and how ecosystems function and respond to external influences.
Teaching responsibility
KPZ211 - Population and Community Ecology
KPZ301 - Field Ecology
KPZ307 - Ecology of Ecosystems
As the resident plant ecologist for the Discipline of Biological Sciences, Mark has taught and supervised projects across a range of topics. Over recent years, however, he has tended to supervise candidates more directly related to his major research projects.
Teaching keywords: Plant Ecology, Global Change Biology, Plant Ecophysiology, Elevated CO2, Field Botany, Plant Structure and Function, Plant Anatomy, Plant Physiology, Plant Population Ecology, Plant Community Ecology, Ecological Impacts of Climate Change, Ecosystem Ecology, Carbon cycling, Nutrient cycling.
Mark teaches about how plants actually work, how they interact with each other and with other organisms and how these interactions shape ecosystems and control how ecosystems work and change over time. In one of the second year units, the focus is on how plants work and how the external environment influences plant function. In third year, we concentrate on ways to study plants in the field, how they interact with the environment and how ecosystems function and respond to external influences.
Teaching responsibility
KPZ211 - Population and Community Ecology
KPZ301 - Field Ecology
KPZ307 - Ecology of Ecosystems
As the resident plant ecologist for the Discipline of Biological Sciences, Mark has taught and supervised projects across a range of topics. Over recent years, however, he has tended to supervise candidates more directly related to his major research projects.
Teaching keywords: Plant Ecology, Global Change Biology, Plant Ecophysiology, Elevated CO2, Field Botany, Plant Structure and Function, Plant Anatomy, Plant Physiology, Plant Population Ecology, Plant Community Ecology, Ecological Impacts of Climate Change, Ecosystem Ecology, Carbon cycling, Nutrient cycling.
SUPERVISION & TEACHING
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDrivers and management of exotic grass encroachment in Tasmania’s critically endangered native grasslands24 Mar 2026
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSubalpine grassland futures in Tasmania2 Jun 2025
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe winners and losers of disturbance3 Mar 2025
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe ecology and physiology of keeping hardwood plantations sustainable23 Oct 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Impacts of Global Warming on Carbon Cycling in Australia's Highland Grasslands23 Jun 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONEucalypts, Microbes and Invertebrates8 May 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNitrogen Fertiliser use in the Tasmanian Dairy Industry: Managing N surpluses to support a more sustainable future1 Mar 2022
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSubalpine Plant Community Responses to Climate Change23 Nov 2020 - 18 Dec 2025
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONHow Much Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity Can We Lose?21 Sep 2020 - 18 Dec 2025
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONInvestigating the Role of Water Availability on the Physiology, Leaf Growth and Productivity of a Temperate Grassland under Elevated Carbon Dioxide1 Dec 2019 - 28 Jun 2024
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNeighbourhood Effects in a Temperate Eucalypt Forest2 Jul 2018 - 18 Oct 2022
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLeaf, Tree and Stand Responses to Nutrient Supplementation in Eucalyptus nitens21 Dec 2017 - 18 Oct 2022
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Temperate Pasture1 Sep 2015 - 14 Aug 2020
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONTall Eucalypt Forests of Australia: Structure, pattern and process11 Dec 2013 - 18 Dec 2017
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONStalk Forming Fouling Diatoms: A Problem for the Hydro-Electricity Industry9 May 2011 - 14 Aug 2015
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Effects of Soil Water Deficit on Physiological, Morphological and Chemical Traits of Eucalyptus15 Mar 2011 - 15 Dec 2015
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Influence of Plant Species on Soil Processes in a Tasmanian Grassland16 Feb 2009 - 22 Mar 2013
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONEffects of Ploidy Level on the Reproductive Biology of Tropical Acacia Species7 Jul 2008 - 3 Oct 2012
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONEffects of Variable Retention Harvesting on Productivity and Growth in Wet Eucalypt Forests18 Sep 2007 - 29 Apr 2013
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONEcophysiological, Morphological and Genetic Differences between Two Southern Ocean Morphotypes of the Coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi (Lohm.) Hay and Mohler (Haptophyta)20 Feb 2006 - 22 Apr 2010
- COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISIONThe Survival Strategies of Microphytobenthos: Behaviour and Physiology17 Feb 2005 - 23 Mar 2009
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMorphotaxonomy, Genetic Affinities and Ecology of Australian and Antarctic Populations of the Potentially Fish Killing, Heterotrophic Dinoflagellates Cryptoperidiniopsis brodyi and Pfiesteria piscicida15 Jul 2002 - 31 Dec 2006
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLimits to Plant Regeneration in Alpine Vegetation on Tasmania's Central Plateau30 Mar 2000 - 14 Nov 2007
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Reproductive Ecology of Vascular Plants on Subantarctic Macquarie Island1 Feb 2000 - 14 Nov 2005
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONImpacts of increased water availability on photosynthesis of the continental Antarctic lichen Usnea sphacelata12 Mar 1999 - 2 Nov 2004