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Megan Edwards

PhD Candidate
School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
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Featured projects Duration
Australian mammals’ naivety towards predators: innovative solutions
Drivers of intra- and interspecies variation in predator avoidance training success
The in situ use of microchip-automated devices for wildlife

Publications

Journal Articles (3)
Conference Papers (9)

Journal Articles

Edwards, Megan C., Hoy, Julia M., FitzGibbon, Sean I. and Murray, Peter J. (2020) Relaxed predation theory: size, sex and brains matter. Biological Reviews, .doi:10.1111/brv.12611
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., Fitzgibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2019) Training a wild-born marsupial to use microchip-automated devices: The brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) as proof of concept. Australian Mammalogy, 41 2: 279-282. doi:10.1071/AM18017
Megan Edwards (2018) Are Queensland brush-tailed phascogales different?. Australian Mammalogy, 40 2: 297-300.doi:10.1071/AM17025

Conference Papers

Edwards, M. C. (2019). Tracking the success of predator avoidance trained bandicoots. In: EIANZ Ecology: Special forum on tracking wildlife, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD, (). 27 March 2019.
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., FitzGibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2019). Catch me if you can! Microchip-automation to avoid introduced predators. In: Student Conference on Conservation Science, Brisbane, QLD Australia, (). 3-10 July 2019.
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., FitzGibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2019). Why run when you can eat? Recognition of predators by northern brown bandicoots, Isoodon macrourus. In: Australasian Wildlife Management Society Annual Conference, Darwin, Australia, (). 3-5 December 2019.
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., FitzGibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2018). Bandicoot bunkers: training bandicoots to use microchip-automated doors and avoid introduced predators. In: Ecological Society of Australia Annual Conference, Brisbane, Australia, (). 25-29 November.
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., FitzGibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2018). Could predator avoidance training increase the reintroduction success of bandicoots?. In: 17th International Behavioural Ecology Congress, Minneapolis, United States of America, (). 11-16 August 2018.
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., FitzGibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2018). The very hungry bandicoot: how food may affect the success of predator avoidance training. In: RSPCA Animals in Focus, Brisbane, Australia, (). 4-5 October 2018.
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., FitzGibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2018). Creating panic rooms for wildlife: training northern brown bandicoots to access safe refuge using microchip-automation. In: Australian Mammal Society 64th Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, (). 1-5 July 2018.
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., FitzGibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2018). To eat or not to eat: a bandicoot's dilemma when facing predation. In: Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference, Brisbane, Australia, (). 12-14 July 2018.
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., Martin, S., Fitzgibbon, S. and Murray, P. J. (2017). Knock knock, who’s there? Microchip-automation for individualised animal access. In: Proceedings of the 30th Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference. Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference: 30th Annual Conference Wildlife Management: Past, Present and Future, Katoomba, NSW, Australia, (29-29). 5 - 7 December 2017.