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Dr Lukas Schuster

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Centre for Integrative Ecology
School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Deakin University
221 Burwood HWY, VIC 3125

l.schuster@deakin.edu.au

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Lukas' research

Lukas is an environmental scientist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at Deakin’s Blue Carbon Lab. His research focuses on ‘Teal Carbon’ ecosystems, which are non-tidal freshwater systems.

Within Dr Malerba’s research team, Lukas focuses on quantifying carbon emissions from various teal carbon ecosystems (e.g., farm dams, wetlands etc.) and developing sustainable management strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon holding capacities to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Keywords

farm dams, wetlands, carbon emissions, greenhouse gases, teal carbon

Career Highlights

  • PhD, Monash University, Australia (2016-2020)
  • MSc, University of Vienna, Austria (2013-2016)
  • BSc, University of Vienna, Austria (2010-2013)

Selected publications

Malerba, M. E., de Kluyver, T., Wright, N., Schuster, L., & Macreadie, P. I. (2022). Methane emissions from agricultural ponds are underestimated in national greenhouse gas inventories. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 1-7.

Malerba, M. E., Lindenmayer, D. B., Scheele, B. C., Waryszak, P., Yilmaz, I. N., Schuster, L., & Macreadie, P. I. (2022). Fencing farm dams to exclude livestock halves methane emissions and improves water quality. Global Change Biology.

Schuster, L., Cameron, H., White, C.R., Marshall, D.J. (2021). Metabolism drives demography in an experimental field test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Schuster, L., White, C.R., Marshall, D.J. (2021). Plastic but not adaptive: Habitat‐driven differences in metabolic rate despite no differences in selection between habitats. Oikos.

Schuster, L., White, C.R., Marshall, D.J. (2021). Metabolic phenotype mediates the outcome of competitive interactions in a response‐surface field experiment. Ecology and Evolution.

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  • Home
  • About
    • What we are about
    • Who we are
      • Professor Peter Macreadie
      • Dr Paul Carnell
      • Dr Stacey Trevathan-Tackett
      • Dr Maria M. Palacios
      • Dr Pawel Waryszak
      • Dr Melissa Wartman
      • Dr Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa
      • Dr Noyan Yilmaz
      • Dr Martino Malerba
      • Dr Lukas Schuster
      • Dr Tanveer Adyel
      • Dr Valentina Hurtado-McCormick
      • Dr Elodie Camprasse
      • Dr Sabiha Marine
      • Dr Vincent Raoult
      • Dr Jacqui Pocklington
      • Interns and Volunteers
      • Alumni
  • Research
    • Wetland Carbon
      • Blue Carbon
        • Seychelles Blue Carbon
        • Queensland Blue
        • Victoria’s Blue Carbon
        • Blue Carbon Management
      • Teal Carbon
        • Farm dams
        • Floating wetlands
        • Revitalising Australia’s Freshwater Wetlands
      • Tea Composition H2O
    • Ecosystem services
    • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Coastal Wetland Restoration
        • The Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration Program
        • Regenerating Our Coasts
        • Towards Blue Carbon Australian Carbon Credit Units
      • Kelp restoration
      • Freshwater Wetland Restoration
    • Citizen science
      • HSBC citizen science
      • GeelongPort citizen science
    • Microplastics
    • Marine Biosecurity
    • Decommissioning Infrastructure
  • Services
    • Wetland Carbon Assessments
    • Environmental Assessments
    • Environmental Restoration
    • Citizen Science
    • System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA)
    • Feasibility Assessments
    • Remote Sensing
    • Microbial Analysis
    • Marine Biosecurity
  • Publications
  • Vacancies
  • News
  • Donate
  • Contact
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