Ongoing projects

Captive research

Technological advances in conservation

• Microchip-automated technology in wildlife conservation
• The in situ use of microchip-automated devices for wildlife

Wildlife pre-release strategies

• Australian mammals’ naivety towards predators: innovative solutions
• Drivers of intra- and interspecies variation in predator avoidance training success

Ecology / ecosystem research

Pest and threat management

• Red fox relative abundance and survey method efficacy
• Fox control using para-aminopropiophenone armed M-44 ejectors: efficacy and non-target impacts
• Mata Hari Judas females
• Development of the Mata Hari Judas canid

Habitat condition and restoration

• The effectiveness of stem-injected chemical and biological herbicides for the management of invasive woody weeds in environmentally sensitive habitats
• Biodiversity in remnant, regrowth and pasture landscapes
• Using seed-based restoration to restore a degraded system
• Koala habitat use in modified landscapes 
• Melaleuca irbyana regeneration

Effective long-term ecological condition monitoring

• Designing condition multi-metrics for surrogates of biodiversity
• In situ animal classification on embedded devices for biodiversity surveys

Sustainable land uses

• The impact of human landscapes on wildlife-pathogen dynamics
• Ecosystem restoration and management, balancing conservation and land use
• Ecotourism/wildlife tourism: what are the visitor’s perceptions? 

Ecosystem and trophic dynamics

• Reintroduction of Rufous bettongs (Aepyprymnus rufescens) and/or other potoroids and digging ‘critical weight range’ mammals to Old Hidden Vale and Spicers Peak Stations and the investigation of ecosystem effects. 
• Competition and predation of brushtailed rock wallabies 
• Koala behavioural ecology and implications for their conservation

Restoration and dynamics of top-order predators (e.g. dingoes and spotted-tailed quolls)

• Feasibility of reintroducing spotted-tailed quolls (D. m. maculatus) to connected habitat through the Little Liverpool Range and/or broader Scenic Rim
• Spotted-tailed quoll spatial ecology in South East Queensland