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