Fields of Research

Behavioural ecology
Wildlife and habitat management
Animal behaviour
Terrestrial ecology
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
Conservation and biodiversity

Research Objectives

Terrestrial biodiversity
Biodiversity in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in terrestrial environments
Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Activity and social interactions in a wideranging specialist scavenger, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), revealed by animalborne video collars; PLOS ONE
Dietary partitioning of Australia's two marsupial hypercarnivores, the Tasmania devil and the spotted-tailed quoll, across their shared distributional range; PLoS One
Differing effects of productivity on home range size and population density of mammalian carnivores; Wildlife Research
Space use and temporal partitioning of sympatric Tasmanian devils and spotted-tailed quolls; Austral Ecology
Sympatric predator odour reveals a competitive relationship in size-structured mammalian carnivores; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Use of anthropogenic linear features by two medium-size carnivores in reserved and agricultural landscapes; Scientific Reports

Research Projects

Predator dynamics: the effect of top predator decline on mesopredators; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)

Research Candidate Supervision