Fields of Research

Conservation and biodiversity
Terrestrial ecology
Environmental rehabilitation and restoration
Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
Forestry management and environment
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)

Research Objectives

Terrestrial biodiversity
Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems
Rehabilitation or conservation of terrestrial environments
Other environmental management
Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Assessing the value of restoration plantings for wildlife in a temperate agricultural landscape; Restoration Ecology
Changing bird communities of an agricultural landscape: Declines in arboreal foragers, increases in large species; Royal Society Open Science
Chronic stress in superb fairy-wrens occupying remnant woodlands: are noisy miners to blame?; Austral Ecology
From communities to individuals: using remote sensing to inform and monitor woodland restoration; Ecological Management and Restoration
Habitat amount and quality, not patch size, determine persistence of a woodland-dependent mammal in an agricultural landscape; Landscape Ecology
Research supporting restoration aiming to make a fragmented landscape ‘functional’ for native wildlife; Ecological Management & Restoration

Research Projects

Measuring chronic stress in superb fairy-wrens of the Tasmanian Midlands; Australian Wildlife Society (AWSoc)
Using a novel approach to assess microhabitat use under predation risk of declining ground-foraging birds in fragmented farmland; British Ornithologist's Union (BOU)

Research Candidate Supervision