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Dr Megan Edwards

Behavioural Ecology & Conservation
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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 (8)
Conference Papers (10)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Watson, Shania J., Hoy, Julia M., Edwards, Megan C. and Murray, Peter J. (2021). In situ training of brushtail possums to use microchip‐automated doors. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 45 (3), 390-395. doi: 10.1002/wsb.1217
Edwards, Megan C., Hoy, Julia M., FitzGibbon, Sean I. and Murray, Peter J. (2021). Relaxed predation theory: size, sex and brains matter. Biological Reviews, 96 (1) brv.12611, 153-161. doi: 10.1111/brv.12611
Watson, Shania J., Hoy, Julia M., Edwards, Megan C. and Murray, Peter J. (2021). First use of a microchip-automated nest box in situ by a brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa). Australian Mammalogy, 44 (1), 139. doi: 10.1071/am20046
Edwards, Megan C., Ford, Caitlin, Hoy, Julia M., FitzGibbon, Sean and Murray, Peter J. (2021). How to train your wildlife: a review of predator avoidance training. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 234 105170. doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2020.105170
Edwards, Megan C., Hoy, Julia M., FitzGibbon, Sean I. and Murray, Peter J. (2020). Monitoring with microchips: microchip‐automated doors as a potential novel method for tracking the survival of released Northern Brown Bandicoots. Ecological Management and Restoration, 21 (3) emr.12434, 254-256. doi: 10.1111/emr.12434
Edwards, M. C., Hoy, J. M., FitzGibbon, S. I. and Murray, P. J. (2020). Bandicoot bunkers: training wild-caught northern brown bandicoots (Isoodon macrourus) to use microchip-automated safe refuge. Wildlife Research, 47 (3), 239-243. doi: 10.1071/wr19151
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
Edwards, M. C. (2018). Are Queensland brush-tailed phascogales different?. Australian Mammalogy, 40 (2), 297-300. doi: 10.1071/AM17025

Conference Papers

Edwards, Meg, Hoy, Julia, FitzGibbon, Sean and Murray, Peter (2020). Catch me if you can: using traps and predator scat to determine recognition of predators by Australian mammals. Australian Mammal Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Virtual, 16-18 November 2020.
Edwards, M. C. (2019). Tracking the success of predator avoidance trained bandicoots. 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). Why run when you can eat? Recognition of predators by northern brown bandicoots, Isoodon macrourus. Australasian Wildlife Management Society Annual Conference, Darwin, Australia, 3-5 December 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. Student Conference on Conservation Science, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 3-10 July 2019.
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. RSPCA Animals in Focus, Brisbane, Australia, 4-5 October 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. Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 12-14 July 2018.
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. Ecological Society of Australia Annual Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 25-29 November.
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. 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). Could predator avoidance training increase the reintroduction success of bandicoots?. 17th International Behavioural Ecology Congress, Minneapolis, United States of America, 11-16 August 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. Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference: 30th Annual Conference Wildlife Management: Past, Present and Future, Katoomba, NSW, Australia, 5 - 7 December 2017. Katoomba, NSW, Australia: Australasian Wildlife Management Society.

Thesis

Edwards, Megan (2020). Prey naivety of Australian mammals and innovative solutions to improve conservation translocation success. PhD Thesis, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/76dd013
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