Travis Ingram's Research Group

Ecology and Evolution in New Zealand's Freshwaters

Travis Ingram

niche variation, adaptive radiation,

phylogenetic comparative methods,

food web interactions

People in the Lab

Principal Investigator

Graduate Students



Lab Alumni


Grace Fortune-Kelly (Ph.D.)

food webs and smelt diet in Chatham Island lakes


Anusha Beer (Ph.D.)

evolutionary assembly of Rēkohu lake communities


Eva De Jong (M.Sc.)

Gravel extraction effects on fish communities


Nathan Silcock (M.Sc.)

effects of perch on diet of tuna (eel) populations


Tyler Kleyzen (M.Sc.)

role of common smelt in estuarine food webs


Amirah Norhayati (M.Sc.)

microplastics in lake food webs


Sam Lynskey (B.Sc.(Hons))

smelt adaptation to eel predation


Mitra Mohammadi Darestani (Ph.D.)

landlocking and life history variation in kōaro


Motia Gulshan Ara (Ph.D.)

morphological and genetic variation in NZ smelts


Marine Richarson (Ph.D.)

individual niche specialisation and biotic interactions


Nicky Kerr (M.Sc.)

relationship between individual variation in resource use and individual behavioural traits


Grace Yee (M.Sc.)

(co-supervised by Priscilla Wehi, Landcare Research)

niche overlap between Polynesian rat kiore and shiprats


Rose Holloway (Ph.D.)

(primary supervisor: Gerry Closs)

fish communities in restored wetlands


Scott Morrison (M.Sc.)

life history and resource use in galaxiid fishes


Oly Hall (PG.Dip.Sci.)

wetland eel population monitoring


Josh Cowles (PG.Dip.Sci.)

using otoliths to infer early life history of kōaro


Leonardo Maia Durante (Ph.D.)

(primary supervisor:  Steve Wing)

fisheries and coastal food web structure


Jason Augspurger (Ph.D.)

(primary supervisor: Gerry Closs)

Life histories of diadromous and lake-rearing koaro populations


Pavel Mikheev (Ph.D.)

(primary supervisor: Gerry Closs)

life history and migrations of brown trout


Raul Costa Pereira (visiting PhD student)

community structure and niche variation in frogs


Christina Service (visiting PhD student)

niche variation and salmon use in black and 'spirit' bears


Grégoire Saboret (visiting MSc student)

carryover effects of larval life history and migration


Undergraduate students and RA's

Nick Kelly

Taylor Hamlin

Zuri Burns

Steph Bennington

Lucian Funnell

Alex Connolly

Jolyn Chia

Olivia McPherson

Leonardo Maia Durante


Visiting interns

Amélie Hoste

Victor Bailhache

Audrey Bony

Ludovic Vincent

Jules Travert