During this time, Lebel undertook a two-year sabbatical on the Ross Beever Memorial Fellowship at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (2012-2014).
Lebel is currently (2020-) Senior Botanist and Curator Cryptogams at the State Herbarium of South Australia.
[1] The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 1200 specimens collected by Lebel, the majority truffle-like fungi.
[2] Research interests include: the taxonomy, systematics, diversity and biogeography of Australian macrofungi, in particular the truffle and truffle-like fungi; the effects of disturbance such as fire, logging, introduced weedy macrofungi, and loss of dispersal agents on macrofungal diversity and community structure; plant-fungal-animal-insect interactions, including ectomycorrhizae, mycophagy and co-evolution and arms-races.
Communication of research to the general public, students, educators and managers in intriguing ways.
[3] Lebel T, Davoodian N, Bloomfield MC, Syme K, May TW, Hosaka K, Castellano MA.
A mixed bag of truffle-like fungi from five different families: Boletaceae, Russulaceae, Psathyrellaceae, Strophariaceae, and Hysterangiaceae.
Boxshall AG, Birch JL, Lebel T, Symonds MRE, Callahan DL.
A field-based investigation into Agaricus xanthodermus (Xanthodermatei) toxicity variation in southern Australia.
Investigating galling midges (Asphondylia), associated micro fungi and parasitoids in chenopod plant hosts (Amaranthaceae) in south-eastern Australia.
Arthropod-Plant Interactions 15: 747-771. doi.org/10.1007/s11829-021-09853-1 Lebel T, Douch J, Tegart L, Vaughan L, Cooper JA, Nuytinck J (21).
Intra-species genetic variability drives carbon metabolism and symbiotic host interactions in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus microcarpus.
Two new species of Pisolithus (Sclerodermataceae) from Australasia, and an assessment of the confused nomenclature of P. tinctorius.
Dating the emergence of 13 major lineages of sequestrate basidiomycete fungi in Australia using an augmented meta-analysis.
Australian Systematic Botany 29, 284–302 Dickie I, Nuñez MA, Pringle A, Lebel T, Tourtellot SG, Johnston PR.
Biological Invasions doi:10.1007/s10530-016-1243-x Vellinga EC, Kuyper TW, Ammirati J, Desjardin DE, Halling RE, Justo A, Læssøe T, Lebel T, Lodge DL, Matheny PB, Methven AS, Moreau P-A, Mueller GM, Noordeloos ME, Nuytinck J, Ovrebo CL, Verbeken A.
‘Cort short on a mountaintop’ – Eight new species of sequestrate Cortinarius from sub-alpine Australia and affinities to sections within the genus.
Smith JE, Molina R, Huso MMP, Luoma DL, McKay D, Castellano MA, Lebel T, Valachovic Y (2002).
Species richness, abundance, and composition of hypogeous and epigeous ectomycorrhizal fungal sporocarps in young, rotation-age, and old-growth stands of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in the Cascade Range of Oregon, USA.
History and current trends in the study of the taxonomy of sequestrate macrofungi from Australia and New Zealand.
Commensalism between an epizoic limpet, Patelloida nigrosulcata, and its gastropod hosts, Haliotis roei and Patella laticostata, on intertidal reef platforms off Perth, Western Australia.