Multidisciplinary research
Anne Eichholtzer (PhD). Wildlife to Wellbeing; the multiple values of citizen science and new technology.
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Lachlan Howell (Post-doc). Use of emerging technologies for native wildlife population assessment and management. Collaborators; Desley Whisson, Dan Ierodiaconou, Euan Ritchie, Mike Weston, Blake Allan, Shuddha Rafiq, Thanh Nguyen, Robin Doss, Danny Rogers,
Movement, spatial population dynamics, conservation in fragmented landscapes
Parvathi Prasad (PhD) Movement ecology and human-wildlife conflict; elephants in northern India. Collaborators: Matt Symonds (Deakin), Varun Goswami and Divya Vasudev (Conservation Initiatives, India)
Biang Syiem (PhD) Community forest management in northern India; effects on bird communities. Collaborators: Varun Goswami and Divya Vasudev (Conservation Initiatives, India)
Kendrika Gaur (PhD) Terrestrial eDNA for reptile and amphibian conservation.
On the brink. Threatened species
Muhammad Jawad Jilani (PhD) Evaluation of role of Habitat Degradation, Drought and Chytrid fungus on decline of Myobatrachid Frogs, Collaborators: Muhammad Rais PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi.
Kim Lewandowski (Hons). Frogs of Western Victoria. Collaborators: Beyond Bolac.
Restoration and invasive species
Sally Burgemeestre (PhD) Engaging landholders to understand the impacts of feral herbivores on post-fire recovery and persistence. Collaborators: Desley Whisson, Geoff Kay and Donna Hazel Biodiversity Conservation Trust, NSW.
Eilysh Thompson (PhD) The ecological effects and management of large feral herbivores in alpine ecosystems and the influence of dingos. Collaborators: Euan Ritchie, Susanna Venn
Fire ecology, forest ecology
Darcy Watchorn (PhD). Do artificial refuges improve survival of small mammals after fire. Collaborators: Tim Doherty, Barbara Wilson (Deakin)
Kristina MacDonald (PhD). Response of reptile communities to the interaction between fire and invasive predators (foxes, cats), and potential for artificial refuges to reduce their impact. Collaborators: Tim Doherty, Bronwyn Hradsky (Melbourne Uni)
Completed!!!
Completed! Movement, spatial population dynamics, conservation in fragmented landscapes
PostDoc
Tim Doherty (Alfred Deakin Post-Doctoral fellow) Spatial and movement ecology in fragmented and burnt landscapes.
PhD
Sara Balouch (2021) Impact of Agriculture Land Management on Reptiles in Chakwal Pakistan, and central NSW Australia. Collaborators: Tim Doherty, Muhammad Rais (Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan)
Tim Garvey (2021) Devising commercial forest practices that support metapopulations of threatened Tasmanian frogs L. raniformis and L. peronii. Collaborators: Pep Turner, Amy Koch (Tas Forest Practices Authority)
Nicole Hansen (PhD, 2018) Herpetofauna responses to agricultural matrix management
Kat Ng (PhD 2018) Beetle responses to agricultural matrix management
Stephanie Pulsford (PhD 2017) Reptile and frog responses to different farm management practices in grazing landscapes
Geoff Kay (PhD 2016) Development of agri-environment schemes for the conservation of reptiles in a highly fragmented woodland ecosystem
Nélida Villaseñor (PhD 2016) Better urban development designs; a study of frogs and mammals across a forest-urban gradient.
John M Evans (PhD 2015) Does dispersal influence extinction risk in a fragmented landscape? Beetles in the Wog Wog fragmentation experiment. Collaborators: Sam Banks, Kendi Davis and Brett Melbourne (University of Colorado, Boulder).
Martin Westgate (PhD 2014) Landscape Ecology of Amphibians in Booderee National Park
Nicole Sweaney (PhD 2014) Landscape Transformation; Impact on Butterflies and Beetles in South-Eastern Australia. Collaborators: David Lindenmayer, Nick Porch
Sacha Jellinek (PhD 2012) The value of revegetated linear strips and patches of habitat for faunal conservation: Reconciling ecological and landholder perspectives. Collaborators: Kirsten Paris, Brendan Wintle,
Honours Projects
Madison Cassie (Hons 2019) Impacts of agricultural intensification on frogs
Charles Fist (Hons 2018) Movement patterns of the eastern bearded dragon in a fragmented agricultural landscape: the effects of sex, size and strips.
Samantha Wallace (Hons 2018) Is agricultural intensification a threat to frogs? Collaborators: Anthony and Michelle Cassanova.
Nicole Sweaney (Hons 2010) Influence of fire, large logs, and their interaction on beetle biodiversity in Mountain Ash forests of Victoria. Collaborators: David Lindenmayer
Kat Ng (Masters 2013) Detectability of the global weed Hypochaeris radicata is influenced by species, environment and observer characteristics
Stephanie Pulsford (Hons 2012) What’s left behind? The impact of biological legacies on beetle populations after fire.
Sacha Jellinek (Hons 2003) Reptiles in urban forest remnants
Mitchell Barbara (Hons 2012) Temporal responses of small mammals to matrix transformation. Collaborator; Sam Banks.
Amber Liaw (Hons 2005) Phylogeography of the thick-tailed gecko (Nephrurus milii). Collaborator: Steve Donnellan.
Adam Schutz (Hons 2006) Connectivity and Condition of Fragments influence the Reptile Fauna in a fragmented agricultural landscape
Brooke Swaffer (Hons 2006) Plant species recruitment & colonisation after fire in mallee ecosystems
Joel Williams (Hons 2011) Roadside connectivity does not increase reptile abundance or richness in a fragmented mallee landscape
Completed: On the brink. Threatened species
PhD
Tom Burns (PhD, 2021) Mapping chytrid risk and disease vulnerability in the critically endangered Baw Baw frog.
Ben Scheele (PhD 2014). How ecology intervenes in the impact of chytrid on amphibians.
Honours projects
Danielle Wallace (Hons 2018) Disease and disturbance: investigating the factors that drive amphibian reservoir host occurrence and distribution
Matt Sleeth (Hons 2017) Home range ecology and microhabitat use of the invasive wolf snake (Lycodon capucinus) of Christmas Island
Ben Scheele (Hons 2010) Climate Drying Causes the Rapid Decline of a Threatened Frog species in South-Eastern Australia
Completed! Restoration and invasive species
PhD
Kris Bell (2021) The ecology and function of a keystone structure Triodia scariosa in degraded landscapes. Collaborators: Tim Doherty
David Johnson (PhD 2018) Managing forb diversity in temperate grassy ecosystems
Andrew O’Reilly-Nugent (PhD 2019) Identifying impacts of invasive grasses on native species. Collaborators: Richard Duncan, Jane Catford
Honours projects
Bek Cherubin (Hons 2018) Impacts of feral horses on broad toothed rat and alpine water skink. Collaborators: Euan Ritchie, Tim Doherty, Susanna Venn
Alice McDougall (Hons 2014) Restoration of Aprasia parapulchella (pink-tailed legless lizard) habitat in the Molonglo Valley. Collaborators: Annabel Smith
Nick McKenzie (Hons 2003) Fox baiting techniques for Tasmania
Completed! Fire ecology, forest ecology
PhD
Juliana Lazzari (PhD 2019) Fire and fragmentation interactions: effects on reptiles and small mammals in modified semi-arid landscapes
Annabel Smith (PhD 2012) Reptile dispersal and demography after fire: process-based knowledge to assist fire management for biodiversity
Rebecca Gibson (PhD 2013) Processes controlling fuel dynamics and fire regimes across environmental gradients in the Mediterranean region of south eastern Australia
Bianca Dunker (PhD 2014) Direct and genetic evaluation of the influence of fire on seed dispersal.
Laurence Berry (PhD 2015) Unburnt forest patches as refuges for mammals.
Amy Koch (PhD 2007) Forest size structure and tree hollow occurrence
Honours projects
Emma O’Dwyer-Hall (Hons 2019). How does fire influence the autumn-breeding frog Pseudophryne semimarmorata?
Dylan Lees. (Hons 2019) Microhabitat selection by Antechinus agilis and Rattus fuscipes in response to fire
Laurence Berry (Hons 2011) The Effects of Fire Mosaic Patchiness on Bird Species Distribution
Luisa Teasdale (Hons 2010) Post-fire succession in an Australian mallee invertebrate community highlights some needs of fauna for fire management
Kwan Ling Ho (Hons 2013) The effects of permanent and temporary fire refugia on the distribution of invertebrates
Zohara Claire Lucas (Hons 2013) Interactions between habitat isolation and fire influence invertebrate communities.
Sally South (Hons 2010) Do dragons respond to fire? Natural history and spatial ecology of Amphibolurus norrisi in southern Australia.