Professor Catherine Lovelock

ARC Laureate Fellow

School of the Environment
Faculty of Science
c.lovelock@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52304

Overview

Professor Lovelock's research focusses on the influence of environmental change, including climate change, on the ecology of coastal and marine plant communities and in providing knowledge to underpin conservation and restoration of these ecosystems now and in the future.

Research Interests

  • Mangrove forest physiology and ecology
  • "Blue Carbon"

Publications

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book Chapter

  • Friess, Daniel A., Chen, Luzhen, Cormier, Nicole, Krauss, Ken W., Lovelock, Catherine E., Raw, Jacqueline L., Rogers, Kerrylee, Saintilan, Neil and Sidik, Frida (2024). Mangrove forests and climate change. Climate change and estuaries. (pp. 381-400) edited by Michael J. Kennish, Hans W. Paerl and Joseph R. Crosswell. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781003126096-22

  • Wear, Stephanie, Cunningham, Samantha, Feller, Ilka C., Fiorenza, Evan A., Frielaender, Ari, Halpern, Benjamin S., Hirashiki, Claire, Lamb, Joleah, Lovelock, Catherine E., McLean, Josette, Nichols, Ross C., Rogers, Ryan, Silliman, Brian, Silva, Denise da Piedade, Tuholske, Cascade, Thurber, Rebecca V. and Wenger, Amelia (2023). Wastewater Pollution Impacts on Estuarine and Marine Environments. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. (pp. 434-466) Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-323-90798-9.00084-6

  • Rogers, Alex D., Appeltans, Ward, Assis, Jorge, Ballance, Lisa T., Cury, Philippe, Duarte, Carlos, Favoretto, Fabio, Hynes, Lisa A., Kumagai, Joy A., Lovelock, Catherine E., Miloslavich, Patricia, Niamir, Aidin, Obura, David, O’Leary, Bethan C., Ramirez-Llodra, Eva, Reygondeau, Gabriel, Roberts, Callum, Sadovy, Yvonne, Steeds, Oliver, Sutton, Tracey, Tittensor, Derek P., Velarde, Enriqueta, Woodall, Lucy and Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio (2022). Discovering marine biodiversity in the 21st century. Advances in marine biology. (pp. 23-115) edited by Charles Sheppard. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/bs.amb.2022.09.002

  • Sidik, Frida, Kusuma, Denny Wijaya, Priyono, Bayu, Proisy, Christophe and Lovelock, Catherine E. (2021). Managing sediment dynamics through reintroduction of tidal flow for mangrove restoration in abandoned aquaculture ponds. Dynamic sedimentary environments of mangrove coasts. (pp. 563-582) edited by Frida Sidik and Daniel A. Friess. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-816437-2.00004-5

  • Serrano, Oscar, Kelleway, Jeffrey J., Lovelock, Catherine and Lavery, Paul S. (2019). Conservation of blue carbon ecosystems for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Coastal wetlands: an integrated ecosystem approach. (pp. 965-996) edited by Perillo, G. M. E., Wolanski, E., Cahoon, D. R. and Hopkinson, C. S.. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63893-9.00028-9

  • Johnson, Beverly J., Lovelock, Catherine E. and Herr, Dorothée (2018). Climate regulation: salt marshes and blue carbon. The Wetland book: I: structure and function, management, and methods. (pp. 1185-1196) Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_213

  • Rogers, Kerrylee, Boon, Paul, Lovelock, Catherine and Saintilan, Neil (2017). Coastal halophytic vegetation. Australian Vegetation. (pp. 544-569) edited by David Keith . Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

  • Johnson, Beverly J., Lovelock, Catherine E. and Herr, Dorothée (2016). Climate regulation: salt marshes and blue carbon. The wetland book. (pp. 1-12) edited by C. Max Finlayson, Mark Everard, Kenneth Irvine, Robert J. McInnes, Beth A. Middleton, Anne A. van Dam and Nick C. Davidson. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_213-1

  • Lovelock, Catherine E., Krauss, Ken W., Osland, Michael J., Reef, Ruth and Ball, Marilyn C. (2016). The physiology of mangrove trees with changing climate. Tropical tree physiology: adaptations and responses in a changing environment. (pp. 149-179) edited by Guillermo Goldstein and Louis S. Santiago. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-27422-5_7

  • Lovelock, Catherine E., Ruess, Roger W. and Feller, Ilka C. (2014). CO2 efflux from cleared mangrove peat. Carbon capture and storage: CO2 management technologies. (pp. 268-276) edited by Amitava Bandyopadhyay. New York, NY, United States: Apple Academic Press. doi: 10.1201/b16845

  • Woodrofe, Colin D., Lovelock, Catherine E. and Rogers, Kerrylee (2014). Mangrove shorelines. Coastal environments and global change. (pp. 251-267) Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom: wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781119117261.ch11

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Bell-James, Justine, Foster, Rose and Lovelock, Catherine E. (2022). Key priorities for integrating coastal wetland ecosystem services into law and policy – results of an empirical study in Australia. Australian Mangrove and Saltmarsh Network Conference, Ballina, NSW, Australia, 4-7 October 2022.

  • CSIRO Marine and Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster, Serrano, Oscar, Alongi, Daniel, Arias, Ariane, Cherukuru, Nagur, Connolly, Rod, Duarte, Carlos, Esteban, Alba, Eyre, Bradley, Ford, Phillip, Garcia-Orellana, Jordi, Grierson, Pauline, Hayes, Matthew, Rozaimi, Mohammad, Kendrick, Gary, Larkum, Anthony, Lavery, Paul, Lee, Shing Yip, Lovelock, Catherine, Macreadie, Peter, Marba, Nuria, Masque, Pere, Mazarrasa, Ines, McGowan, Hamish, Oubelkheir, Kadija, Petrou, Katherina, Ralph, Peter, Robertson, Alistar, Samper-Villarreal, Jimena ... Trott, Lindsay (2013). Carbon sequestration, stoichiometry and storage potential of Australian coastal and marine ecosystems*. AMSA 2013: Australian Marine Science Golden Jubilee Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 7-11 July 2013. Kilkivan, QLD, Australia: Australian Marine Science Association (AMSA).

  • Samper-Villarreal, Jimena, Mumby, Peter, Lovelock, Catherine E. and Saunders, Megan (2013). Carbon storage in seagrass meadows across gradients in water quality. AMSA 2013: Australian Marine Science Golden Jubilee Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 7-11 July 2013. Kilkivan, QLD, Australia: Australian Marine Science Association (AMSA).

  • Saunders, Megan I., Baldock, Tom, Brown, Christopher J., Callaghan, David P., Golshani, Aliastair, Hamylton, Sarah, Leon, Javier, Lovelock, Catherine E., Lyons, Mitchell B., O'Brien, Katherine R., Mumby, Peter J., Phinn, Stuart R. and Roelfsema, Christiaan M. (2013). Direct and indirect impacts of predicted sea level rise on seagrass. AMSA 2013: Australian Marine Science Golden Jubilee Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 7-11 July 2013. Kilkivan, QLD, Australia: Australian Marine Science Association (AMSA).

  • Tucker, O., Lovelock, C., Acevedo, L. and Koster, M. (2012). Business as unusual - The key subsurface challenges in sequestration in a depleted gas field. 3rd EAGE CO2 Geological Storage Workshop: Understanding the Behaviour of CO2 in Geological Storage Reservoirs, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 26 - 27 March 2012. Houten, Netherlands: European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE. doi: 10.3997/2214-4609.20143815

  • Snippe, J., Wei, L., Lovelock, C. and Tucker, O. (2012). Reactive transport modeling for CO2 storage in a depleted North Sea gas field. 3rd EAGE CO2 Geological Storage Workshop: Understanding the Behaviour of CO2 in Geological Storage Reservoirs, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 26 - 27 March 2012. Houten, Netherlands: European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE.

  • Clech-Goods, C., Schooler, S., Lovelock, C. and Schmidt, S. (2008). Does plant response to the limiting resource explain invasibility? An experimental test using two invasive weeds and their non-invasive native congeners. 16th Australian Weeds Conference, Cairns, Australia, 18-22 May. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Weeds Society.

  • Swales A., Bentley S.J., Lovelock C. and Bell R.G. (2007). Sediment processes and mangrove-habitat expansion on a rapidly-prograding Muddy Coast, New Zealand. 6th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, New Orleans, LA, May 13, 2007-May 17, 2007. doi: 10.1061/40926(239)111

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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Completed Supervision