Current activities

Dr Muhammad Abdul Wahab is a Research Scientist - Benthic Ecology at the Australian Institute of Marine Science based in Darwin.

Background

Dr Abdul Wahab's research seeks to understand biological, ecological and environmental processes that contribute to the population maintenance and dynamics of marine invertebrates, in particular filter feeder communities and sponges. He is interested in a broad scope of research questions which encompasses taxonomy and systematics, biodiversity, reproduction, larval and early life-history ecology (behaviour, dispersal, recruitment and responses to stresses), in situ growth and mortality, and organism responses to environmental and the effects of anthropogenic stressors

Academic qualifications

Dr Abdul Wahab completed his PhD at James Cook Univeristy Townsville in 2015.