Fields of Research

Conservation and biodiversity
Wildlife and habitat management
Terrestrial ecology
Genetics
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
Host-parasite interactions
Zoology
Population ecology
Behavioural ecology
Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
Animal behaviour
Genomics
Ecosystem function
Ecology
Biological adaptation
Veterinary epidemiology
Animal physiological ecology
Forestry management and environment
Environmental rehabilitation and restoration
Evolutionary biology
Environmental management
Infectious agents
Life histories
Veterinary immunology
Genetic immunology
Animal physiology - biophysics
Cell metabolism
Gene mapping
Microbial ecology
Veterinary diagnosis and diagnostics
Ecological physiology
Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
Molecular evolution
Landscape ecology
Tumour immunology
Animal physiology - cell
Palaeoecology
Biological mathematics
Speciation and extinction
Land use and environmental planning
Animal immunology
Education policy
Vertebrate biology
Pollution and contamination
Animal developmental and reproductive biology
Proteomics and intermolecular interactions (excl. medical proteomics)
Agricultural land management
Applied statistics
Environmental law
Forest biodiversity
Sustainability accounting and reporting
Agricultural land planning
Environmental studies in animal production
Rural sociology
Bioavailability and ecotoxicology
Veterinary parasitology
Comparative physiology
Sustainable agricultural development
Biogeography and phylogeography
Animal reproduction and breeding
Applied immunology (incl. antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies)
Photogrammetry and remote sensing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges
Environment and resource economics
Microbial genetics

Research Objectives

Terrestrial biodiversity
Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in terrestrial environments
Other environmental management
Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Rehabilitation or conservation of terrestrial environments
Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems
Marine biodiversity
Economic issues in tourism
Biodiversity in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in coastal and estuarine environments
Forestry
Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use
Disease distribution and transmission (incl. surveillance and response)
Measurement and assessment of freshwater quality (incl. physical and chemical conditions of water)
Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions
Clinical health
Environmentally sustainable plant production
Assessment and management of freshwater ecosystems
Coastal or estuarine biodiversity
Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
Gender aspects in education
Health education and promotion
Tourism services
Environmentally sustainable information and communication services
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Environmental policy, legislation and standards
Native forests
Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)
Recreational services
Surface water quantification, allocation and impact of depletion
Management of water consumption by plant production
Environmentally sustainable commercial services and tourism
Other health
Other plant production and plant primary products

Career Best Publications

A nose for death: integrating trophic and informational networks for conservation and management; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Ancient DNA tracks the mainland extinction and island survival of the Tasmanian devil; Journal of Biogeography
Applying an animal-centric approach to improve ecological restoration; Restoration Ecology
Character displacement in Australian dasyurid carnivores: size relationships and prey size patterns; Ecology
Coexistence of temporally partitioned spiny mice: Roles of habitat structure and foraging behavior; Ecology
Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its implications for transmission of devil facial tumour disease; Ecology Letters
Convergence in ecomorphology and guild structure among marsupial and placental carnivores; Predators with Pouches: The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials
Disease-induced decline of an apex predator drives invasive dominated states and threatens biodiversity; Ecology
Hope and caution: Rewilding to mitigate the impacts of biological invasions; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Infectious Cancers in Wildlife; New Directions in Conservation Medicine
Life-history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations; National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America. Proceedings
Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils; Nature Communications
The role of connectivity in Australian conservation; Pacific Conservation Biology
To lose both would look like carelessness: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease; Public Library of Science Biology
Top carnivore decline has cascading effects on scavengers and carrion persistence; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Research Publications

Sarcophilus harrisii (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae)
A decade of restoring a temperate woodland: Lessons learned and future directions; Ecological Management & Restoration
A native apex predator limits an invasive mesopredator and protects native prey: Tasmanian devils protecting bandicoots from cats; Ecology Letters
A new PCR assay for reliable molecular sexing of endangered Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) from non-invasive genetic samples; Conservation Genetics Resources
A nose for death: integrating trophic and informational networks for conservation and management; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils; Science
A triple threat: high population density, high foraging intensity and flexible habitat preferences explain high impact of feral cats on prey; Royal Society of London. Proceedings. Biological Sciences
Academic parenting: work-family conflict and strategies across child age, disciplines and career level; Studies in Higher Education
Active adaptive conservation of threatened species in the face of uncertainty ; Ecological Applications
Activity and social interactions in a wideranging specialist scavenger, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), revealed by animalborne video collars; PLOS ONE
Age-related variation in the trophic characteristics of a marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii; Ecology and Evolution
Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia's tropical savannas; Wildlife Research
An Australian perspective on rewilding; Conservation Biology
An exotic woody weed in a pastoral landscape provides habitat for many native species, but has no apparent threatened species conservation significance; Ecological Management and Restoration
Ancient DNA tracks the mainland extinction and island survival of the Tasmanian devil; Journal of Biogeography
Anthropogenic selection enhances cancer evolution in Tasmanian devil tumours; Evolutionary Applications
Antigen-presenting genes and genomic copy number variations in the Tasmanian devil MHC; BMC Genomics
Application of metabolomics and proteomics for biomarker discovery and development of therapies for the transmissible cancer, Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease; 22nd Annual Lorne Proteomics Symposium 2017
Applying an animal-centric approach to improve ecological restoration; Restoration Ecology
ARC-Funded Researchers 2007-2008
Assessing the value of restoration plantings for wildlife in a temperate agricultural landscape; Restoration Ecology
Australia's surviving marsupial carnivores: threats and conservation; Carnivores of Australia: Past, Present and Future
Beyond the disease: is Toxoplasma gondii infection causing population declines in the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus)?; International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Biologically meaningful scents: a framework for understanding predator–prey research across disciplines; Biological Reviews
Biting injuries and transmission of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease; Journal of Animal Ecology
Blood parasites in endangered wildlife-trypanosomes discovered during a survey of haemoprotozoa from the Tasmanian devil; Pathogens
Body temperatures and activity patterns of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) and eastern quolls (Dasyurus viverrinus) through a subalpine winter; Physiological Zoology
Boldness towards novelty and translocation success in captive-raised, orphaned Tasmanian devils; Zoo Biology
Calcium mobilization, water balance, and growth in embryos of the agamid lizard Amphibolurus barbatus; Journal of Experimental Zoology
Carnivore concerns: Problems, issues and solutions for conserving Australasia's marsupial carnivores; Predators with Pouches: The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials
Carnivores, Coexistence and Conservation in a Contemporary World; International Wildlife: Contemporary Challenges in a Changing World
Case Study - Translocations to Maria Island; Australian Islands Arks: Conservation, Management and Opportunities
Changes in spatial organization following an acute epizootic: Tasmanian devils and their transmissible cancer; Global Ecology and Conservation
Changing bird communities of an agricultural landscape: Declines in arboreal foragers, increases in large species; Royal Society Open Science
Character displacement in Australian dasyurid carnivores: size relationships and prey size patterns; Ecology
Characteristics of mammal communities in Tasmanian forests: exploring the influence of forest type and disturbance history; Wildlife Research
Chronic stress in superb fairy-wrens occupying remnant woodlands: are noisy miners to blame?; Austral Ecology
Coexistence of temporally partitioned spiny mice: Roles of habitat structure and foraging behavior; Ecology
Comparative landscape genetics reveals differential effects of environment on host and pathogen genetic structure in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) and their transmissible tumour; Molecular Ecology
Conservation implications of limited genetic diversity and population structure in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii); Conservation Genetics
Conservation management of Tasmanian devils in the context of an emerging, extinction-threatening disease: Devil Facial Tumor Disease; EcoHealth
Conservation of marsupial carnivores; The Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials
Conservation trade-offs: island introduction of a threatened predator suppresses invasive mesopredators but eliminates a seabird colony; Biological Conservation
Conserving adaptive potential: lessons from Tasmanian devils and their transmissible cancer; Conservation Genetics
Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its implications for transmission of devil facial tumour disease; Ecology Letters
Contemporary and historical selection in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) support novel, polygenic response to transmissible cancer; Royal Society of London. Proceedings. Biological Sciences
Contemporary demographic reconstruction methods are robust to genome assembly quality: a case study in Tasmanian devils; Molecular Biology and Evolution
Context and trade-offs characterize real-world threat detection systems: A review and comprehensive framework to improve research practice and resolve the translational crisis; Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Convergence in ecomorphology and guild structure among marsupial and placental carnivores; Predators with Pouches: The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials
Darwin, the devil, and the management of transmissible cancers; Conservation Biology
Demography, disease and the devil: life-history changes in a disease-affected population of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii); Journal of Animal Ecology
Demonstration of immune responses against devil facial tumour disease in wild Tasmanian devils; Biology Letters
Density and home range of feral cats in north-western Australia; Wildlife Research
Density trends and demographic signals uncover the long-term impact of transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils; Journal of Applied Ecology
Detecting selection on temporal and spatial scales: a genomic time-series assessment of selective responses to devil facial tumor disease; PLoS One
Development of a SNP-based assay for measuring genetic diversity in the Tasmanian devil insurance population; BMC Genomics
Devil declines and catastrophic cascades: is mesopredator release of feral cats inhibiting recovery of the eastern quoll?; PLoS ONE
Devils and disease in the landscape: the impact of disease on devils in the wild and on the Tasmanian ecosystem; Saving the Tasmanian devil: recovery using science-based management
Diet overlap and relative abundance of sympatric dasyurid carnivores: a hypothesis of competition; Journal of Animal Ecology
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
Discovery of biomarkers for Tasmanian devil cancer (DFTD) by metabolic profiling of serum; Journal of Proteome Research
Discovery of serum biomarkers for Tasmanian Devil cancer (DFTD); The Australian & New Zealand Metabolomics Conference (ANZMET)
Disease induced changes in gene flow patterns among Tasmanian devil populations; Biological Conservation
Disease swamps molecular signatures of genetic-environmental associations to abiotic factors in Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) populations; Evolution
Disease-induced decline of an apex predator drives invasive dominated states and threatens biodiversity; Ecology
Distribution and impacts of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease; EcoHealth
Dominant carnivore loss benefits native avian and invasive mammalian scavengers; Royal Society of London Proceedings B Biological Sciences
Ecosystem restoration - a public health intervention; EcoHealth
Emerging disease and population decline of an island endemic, the Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii; Biological Conservation
Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife: a critical perspective; Trends in Parasitology
Evaluation of selective culling of infected individuals to control Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease; Conservation Biology
Evidence that disease-induced population decline changes genetic structure and alters dispersal patterns in the Tasmanian devil ; Heredity
Evolution and lineage dynamics of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils; PLoS Biology
Extensive population decline in the Tasmanian devil predates European settlement and devil facial tumour disease; Biology Letters
Extracellular vesicle proteomes of two transmissible cancers of Tasmanian devils reveal tenascin-C as a serum-based differential diagnostic biomarker; Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Extraterritorial hunting expeditions to intense fire scars by feral cats; Scientific Reports
Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video; PLoS ONE
Foraging behavior and microhabitat use by spiny mice, Acomys cahirinus and A. russatus, in the presence of Blanford's fox (Vulpes cana) odor; Journal of Chemical Ecology
Genetic diversity and population structure of Tasmanian devils, the largest marsupial carnivore; Molecular Ecology
Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered marsupial Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil); National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America. Proceedings
GPS collars are more efficient when collecting high-frequency data; Australian Mammalogy
Guild structure of the large marsupial carnivores in Tasmania
Habitat amount and quality, not patch size, determine persistence of a woodland-dependent mammal in an agricultural landscape; Landscape Ecology
Harnessing the power of ecological interactions to reduce the impacts of feral cats; Biodiversity
Hematologic and serum biochemical changes associated with Devil Facial Tumor Disease in Tasmanian Devils; Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Hematologic and serum biochemical reference intervals for wild Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii); Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Historical Ecology for Conservation Managers
Home range size scales to habitat amount and increasing fragmentation in a mobile woodland specialist; Ecology and Evolution
Hope and caution: Rewilding to mitigate the impacts of biological invasions; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Immunoglubolin dynamics and cancer prevalence in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii); Scientific Reports
Individual and temporal variation in pathogen load predicts long-term impacts of an emerging infectious disease; Ecology
Infection of the fittest: devil facial tumour disease has greatest effect on individuals with highest reproductive output; Ecology Letters
Infectious Cancers in Wildlife; New Directions in Conservation Medicine
Infectious disease and sickness behaviour: Tumour progression affects interaction patterns and social network structure in wild Tasmanian devils: Sickness behaviour in Tasmanian devils; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Influence of genetic provenance and birth origin on productivity of the Tasmanian devil insurance population; Conservation Genetics
Is anti-predator behaviour in Tasmanian eastern quolls (Dasyurus viverrinus) effective against introduced predators?; Animal Conservation
Isotopic niche variation in Tasmanian devils Sarcophilus harrisii with progression of devil facial tumor disease; Ecology and Evolution
Landscape genetics of the Tasmanian devil: implications for spread of an infectious cancer; Conservation Genetics
Landscape management of fire and grazing regimes alters the fine-scale habitat utilisation by feral cats; PLoS One
Large-effect loci affect survival in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) infected with a transmissible cancer; Molecular Ecology
Learning to live with cancer: insights from local adaptations in Tasmanian devils and transmissible tumours; Saving the Tasmanian devil: recovery using science-based management
Life-history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations; National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America. Proceedings
Long-distance movements of feral cats in semi-arid South Australia and implications for conservation management; Animals
Low MHC class II diversity in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii); Immunogenetics
Making the connection: expanding the role of restoration genetics in restoring and evaluating connectivity; Restoration Ecology
Management of invasive mesopredators in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia: effectiveness and implications; Wildlife Research
Managing Urban Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Human Health
MHC gene copy number variation in Tasmanian devils: implications for the spread of a contagious cancer; Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Microsatellites for the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus laniarius); Molecular Ecology Notes
New insights into the role of MHC diversity in devil facial tumour disease; PLoS One
Niche differentiation among sympatric Australian dasyurid carnivores; Journal of Mammalogy
Predators with Pouches: The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials; CSIRO Publishing
Protecting islands from pest invasion: optimal allocation of biosecurity resources between quarantine and surveillance; Biological Conservation
Protecting islands from pest invasion: Response to Greenslade et al; Biological Conservation
Quantifying 25 years of disease-caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread; Ecology Letters
Quantifying extinction risk and forecasting the number of impending Australian bird and mammal extinctions; Pacific Conservation Biology
Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils; Nature Communications
Rate of intersexual interactions affects injury likelihood in Tasmanian devil contact networks; Behavioral Ecology
Reconstruction of the predatory behaviour of the extinct marsupial thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus); Journal of Zoology
Reduced effect of Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease at the disease front; Conservation Biology
Reduced genetic variation and the emergence of an extinction-threatening disease in the Tasmanian devil; Conservation and the genetics of populations
Reducing the Incidence of Wildlife Roadkill: Improving the visitor experience in Tasmania
Reintroduction of Tasmanian devils to mainland Australia can restore top-down control in ecosystems where dingoes have been extirpated; Biological Conservation
Reintroduction of Tasmanian devils to mainland Australia can restore top-down control in ecosystems where dingoes have been extirpated: A response to Baker et al. 2016 and Fancourt & Mooney 2016; Biological Conservation
Relaxation of risk-sensitive behaviour of prey following disease-induced decline of an apex predator, the Tasmanian devil; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Research supporting restoration aiming to make a fragmented landscape ‘functional’ for native wildlife; Ecological Management & Restoration
Reversible epigenetic down-regulation of MHC molecules by devil facial tumour disease illustrates immune escape by a contagious cancer; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Road upgrade, road mortality and remedial measures: impacts on a population of eastern quolls and Tasmanian devils; Wildlife Research
Seasonal, demographic and density-related patterns of contact between Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii): Implications for transmission of devil facial tumour disease; Austral Ecology
Sex bias in ability to cope with cancer: Tasmanian devils and facial tumour disease; Proceedings from the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences
Short-term pain before long-term gain? Suppression of invasive primary prey temporarily increases predation on native lizards; Biological Invasions
Simulating devil facial tumour disease outbreaks across empirically derived contact networks; Journal of Applied Ecology
Sins of omission and sins of commission: St Thomas Aquinas and the devil; Australian Zoologist
Space use and temporal partitioning of sympatric Tasmanian devils and spotted-tailed quolls; Austral Ecology
Spatial variation in gene expression of Tasmanian devil facial tumors despite minimal host transcriptomic response to infection; BMC Genomics
Sperm competition drives the evolution of suicidal reproduction in mammals; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Spontaneous tumor regression in Tasmanian devils associated with RASL11A activation; Genetics
State-space modeling reveals habitat perception of a small terrestrial mammal in a fragmented landscape; Ecology and Evolution
Strongly interactive carnivore species: maintaining and restoring ecosystem function; Carnivores of Australia: Past, Present and Future
Structurally complex habitat and sensory adaptations mediate the behavioural responses of a desert rodent to an indirect cue for increased predation risk; Evolutionary Ecology Research
Sympatric predator odour reveals a competitive relationship in size-structured mammalian carnivores; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Tasman-PCR: A genetic diagnostic assay for Tasmanian devil facial tumour diseases; Royal Society Open Science
Tasmanian Devil; A fragile balance: the extraordinary story of Australian marsupials
Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: ecology and evolution of an uncommon enemy; Wildlife Disease Ecology: Linking Theory to Data and Application
Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii
Telomere length is a susceptibility marker for Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease; EcoHealth
Temporal partitioning of activity: rising and falling top-predator abundance triggers community-wide shifts in diel activity; Ecography
Testing the role of climate change in species decline: is the eastern quoll a victim of a change in the weather?; PLoS ONE
The Devil is in the detail: Conservation biology, animal philosophies and the role of animal ethics committees; Science Under Siege: Zoology under Threat
The devil is in the details: Genomics of transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils; PLoS Pathogens
The Devil's Cancer
The ecology and evolution of wildlife cancers: Applications for management and conservation; Evolutionary Applications
The effects of weather variability on patterns of genetic diversity in Tasmanian bettongs; Molecular Ecology
The function of vigilance in sympatric marsupial carnivores: the eastern quoll and the Tasmanian Devil; Animal Behaviour
The genomic basis of tumor regression in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii); Genome Biology and Evolution
The Hobart Declaration on EcoHealth: Ecological restoration that supports human health
The impact of disease on the survival and population growth rate of the Tasmanian devil; Journal of Animal Ecology
The role of connectivity in Australian conservation; Pacific Conservation Biology
The role of connectivity in Australian conservation; Connectivity Conservation
To lose both would look like carelessness: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease; Public Library of Science Biology
Top carnivore decline has cascading effects on scavengers and carrion persistence; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Tracing the rise of malignant cell lines: distribution, epidemiology and evolutionary interactions of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils; Evolutionary Applications
Transcriptomics of Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) ear tissue reveals homogeneous gene expression patterns across a heterogeneous landscape; Genes
Transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils: localized lineage replacement and host population response; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Transmission dynamics of Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease may lead to disease-induced extinction; Ecology
Trophic cascades following the disease-induced decline of an apex predator, the Tasmanian Devil; Conservation Biology
Trophic rewilding establishes a landscape of fear: Tasmanian devil introduction increases risk-sensitive foraging in a key prey species; Ecography
Two decades of the impact of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD); Integrative and Comparative Biology
Untangling the model muddle: Empirical tumour growth in Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease; Scientific Reports
Use of anthropogenic linear features by two medium-size carnivores in reserved and agricultural landscapes; Scientific Reports
Variants in the host genome may inhibit tumour growth in devil facial tumours: evidence from genome-wide association; Scientific Reports
Wildlife disease ecology in changing landscapes: Mesopredator release and toxoplasmosis; International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

Research Projects

Agricultural Innovation Hubs Program; Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment (DAWE)
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF FORESTRY PLANTATION MACROPOD CULLING PROGRAMS ON LEAD EXPOSURE IN TASMANIAN DEVILS; Paddy Pallin Foundation (PadPF)
Can Tasmanian devils survive by adapting to Devil Facial Tumour Disease?; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Can Tasmanian Devils survive by adapting to devil facial tumour disease?; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Collaborative Research: Effects of top scavenger declines from microbes to ecosystems; National Science Foundation (NSF)
Demographic history of the Tasmanian devil from Pleistocene to present; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Demography and epidemiology of Tasmanian devil populations and DFTD in long-diseased areas; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Demography and epidemiology of Tasmanian devils and facial tumour disease in long-diseased areas; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Demography and epidemiology of Tasmanian devils and facial tumour disease in long-diseased areas; Devils in Danger Foundation Inc (DIDF)
Developing and Applying Non-invasive Methods for Conserving Tasmanian Devils and Quolls Threatened with Extinction; Ian Potter Foundation (IPF)
Development of an early diagnostic test for Devil facial tumour disease; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Distribution, prevalence and epidemiology of DFTD and DFT2 on the d Entrecasteaux channel area; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Does differential growth rate of tumour strains contribute to the variant epidemic patters of facial tumour disease in northwest Tasmania?; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Drought Resilience Tasmania - Actionable Knowledge and Solutions for Sustainable Prosperity; Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment (DAWE)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Australian Wildlife Society (AWSoc)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (RZSNSW)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Trust of M.A. Ingram (INGRAM)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Wildlife Disease Association - Australasian section (WDAA)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Drought, disease or destiny? Identifying the causes of decline of the eastern quoll ; Norman Wettenhall Foundation (NWF)
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of disease-induced apex predator decline; National Science Foundation (NSF)
Ecological restoration for Critical Weight Range Mammals in Tasmania's Midlands; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Ecosystem Impacts of Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD); Ecological Society of Australia Limited (ESAI)
Ecosystem Impacts of Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD); Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Elucidate the Reproductive Biology of the Threatened Swift Parrot; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Emergence, transmission and evolution of Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease; National Science Foundation (NSF)
Environmental Restoration: Linking Science and Governance; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics of the Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD); Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Evaluating epidemiological and population dynamics in response to devil translocations; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Evaluating temporal and spatial changes in genetic diversity of the Tasmanian Devil; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (RZSNSW)
Evaluating temporal and spatial changes in genetic diversity of the Tasmanian Devil; Ecological Society of Australia Limited (ESAI)
Evaluating temporal and spatial changes in genetic diversity of the Tasmanian Devil; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Evaluating the benefits in Tasmanian devils of immune responses to transmissible cancer; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Evaluating the impact of land management practices on the risk for Tasmanian devils of disease spillover from invasive and domestic animals; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Evaluation of temporal and spatial changes in genetic diversity of the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii); Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE)
Evolution of Cancer Transmission; National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Evolution, Disease and Extinction - Using Ancient and Modern Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) to Investigate Molecular Evolution in the Tasmanian Devil; Australian Research Council (ARC)
From epidemic to endemic? Modelling coexistence and evolutionary adaptations in Tasmanian devils and devil facial tumour disease; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Habitat requirements and the ecology of marsupial carnivores; Trust of M.A. Ingram (INGRAM)
Immunology, Ecology and Management of the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease; Ian Potter Foundation (IPF)
Impacts of DFTD on nuclear genetic diversity in the Tasmanian Devil ; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Interactions among predators and impacts on prey on Maria Island: Devils, cats, possums and seabirds; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Interspecific competition of super-invasive black rats and native swamp rats; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Investigating Causal Factors Underlying Changes in Genetic Diversity in Tasmanian Devils associated with Population Decline from Devil Facial Tumour Disease; Australian Academy of Science (AASc)
Investigating the genomic basis for heterogeneity in susceptibility of Tasmanian devils to a novel infectious cancer; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Is the Felixer cat trap safe for native carnivores?; Experiment (EXP)
Keystone effects of Australia's top predators: dingoes, devils and biodiversity; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Landscape and conservation genetics of Tasmanian bettongs; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Landscape Ecology of the Spotted Tailed Quoll; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Landscape Ecology of the Spotted Tailed Quoll; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Landscape Ecology of the Spotted-Tailed Quoll; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (RZSNSW)
Landscape Ecology of the Spotted-Tailed Quoll; Ecological Society of Australia Limited (ESAI)
Landscape Ecology of the Spotted-Tailed Quoll; Trust of M.A. Ingram (INGRAM)
Linking spatial movements and social contacts to understand the transmission of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Linking spatial movements and social contacts to understand the transmission of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease.; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Long-term ecological effects of Tasmanian devil decline; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Managing Tasmanian Devil Populations Affected by the Devil Facial Tumour Disease; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Measuring chronic stress in superb fairy-wrens of the Tasmanian Midlands; Australian Wildlife Society (AWSoc)
National Environmental Science Program 2: Resilient Landscapes Solutions Hub; Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment (DAWE)
Optimising biodiversity conservation in managed forest landscapes; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Optimising Captive Reproduction of the Tasmanian Devil and Spotted Tailed Quoll; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Postgraduate Scholarship - Rowan Alden; Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Predator Dynamics: the effect of top predator decline on mesopredators; University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Predator dynamics: the effect of top predator decline on mesopredators; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Rapid Evolution in Disease-ravaged Tasmanian Devil Populations; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Rapid Evolution in Disease-Ravaged Tasmanian Devil Populations to Inform Development of Conservation Management Strategies; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Restoring resilience in wildlife populations; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Restoring resilience in wildlife populations: devils, quolls and cats in the Tasmanian Midlands; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Restoring resilience in wildlife populations: devils, quolls and cats in the Tasmanian Midlands; Ecological Society of Australia Limited (ESAI)
Restoring resilience in wildlife populations: devils, quolls and feral cats in the Tasmanian Midlands.; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (RZSNSW)
Saving the Tasmanian Devil from extinction in the wild through understanding the interaction between the devil and its contagious tumour; Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (MBZSCF)
Science to conserve wildlife at landscape-scales: rabbits control cats; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Social networks, behaviour and transmission of facial tumour disease in the Tasmanian devil; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Tasmanian devil conservation physiology: Role of devil immune system in Devil Facial Tumour Disease progression; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
The effects of plantation forestry operations on Tasmanian devil behaviour and health; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Understanding the relationships between landscape change, and invasive and native mammal predator and prey species in Tasmania; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Understanding variant disease susceptibility to save the Tasmanian devil and the biodiversity it protects from extinction; National Geographic Society (NGS)
Using a novel approach to assess microhabitat use under predation risk of declining ground-foraging birds in fragmented farmland; British Ornithologist's Union (BOU)
What are the mechanisms by which eastern barred bandicoots persist with cats?; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Arthur River long-term eco-system monitoring project
Assessment of adequacy of possible high conservation Tasmania eucalypt forest
Bruny Island Cat Management Scholarship
Desktop Environmnet Assessment & Scoping Study for Tasmanian Animal Road Kill
Ecological science for recovery of eastern barred bandicoots
Managing Tasmanian Devil Populations Affected by the Devil Facial Tumour Disease
Menna Jones Wildlife Conservation Research - Disease, Evolution and Extinction in the Tasmanian Devil
Research Funding for Shannon Troy
The effects of plantation forestry operations on Tasmanian devil behaviour and health
The effects of plantation forestry operations on Tasmanian devil behaviour and health
Conservation biology of spotted-tailed quolls in fragmented forest landscapes
Life history and sexual selection in a large dasyurid
Safeguarding Tasmania's quolls and their ancient forest home: Practical conservation outcomes for the threatened spotted-tailed quoll in fragmented forest landscapes in Tasmania, Australia.
Sexual selection in a large dasyurid marsupial
Social structure and dispersal of the largest marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil
Social structure and dispersal of the largest marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil

Research Candidate Supervision

A multifaceted approach towards the development of a protective vaccine for DFTD
Co-infection, Stress and Contagious Cancer in the Tasmanian Devil
Density, Movements and Hunting of Feral Cats in Relation to Fire and Grazing in Northern Australia
Ecological Effects of Disease-induced Apex Predator Decline- The Tasmanian Devil and Devil Facial Tumour Disease
Exploring the Influence of Disturbance History and Forest Type on an Arboreal Marsupial, the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), using a Multi-disciplinary Approach
Interactions Between Predatory Mammals in Tasmania (Spotted Tailed Quolls, Tasmanian Devils and Feral Cats) and the Effects on Behaviour and Abundance within Very Differenct Environments in Central Northwest Tasmania
Landscape genetics of Tasmanian mammals vulnerable to foxes and land alteration
Molecular Evolution of the Tasmanian Devil
Population Decline in Eastern Quolls
Predator Dynamics- the Effect of Top Predator Decline on Mesopredators
Reproductive Physiology of the Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus Harrisii) and Spotted-Tailed Quoll (Dasyurus Maculatus)
Restoring resilience in wildlife populations- Critical Weight Range marsupial carnivores
Restoring resilience to wildlife populations - bats and owls
Social networks, behaviour and transmission of facial tumour disease in Tasmanian devils
Spatial Ecology of the Tasmanian Spotted-Tailed Quoll
The Ecology and Epidemiology of Devil Facial Tumour Disease
The Ecology of Feral Cats in a Marsupial Carnivore Guild with Decline of the Apex Predator, the Tasmanian Devil
The Immune Responses of the Tasmanian Devil (Sarchphilus harrissi) and the Devil Facial Tumour Disease
The microbial ecology of transmission sites of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease