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Diana Fisher

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Associate Professor

Diana Fisher

Email: : d.fisher@uq.edu.au

Phone: : +61 7 334 69004

Positions

Affiliate of Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining : Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining : Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Academic Director, Hidden Vale Research Station (HVRS) : School of the Environment : Faculty of Science

Associate Professor : School of the Environment : Faculty of Science

Affiliate of Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science : Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science : Faculty of Science

Overview

Background

My research interests include causes and detectability of extinction and decline, conservation ecology of threatened and declining marsupials (especially dasyurids and macropods), and tropical mammals, evolutionary ecology, mating systems and life history evolution, especially associations between life histories and seasonality, climate and sexual selection.

My long-term interest in conservation and evolutionary ecology of carnivorous marsupials started at The University of Sydney, where I was an Honours student of Chris Dickman. I did a PhD on ecology of bridled nailtail wallabies at The University of Queensland with Craig Moritz and Anne Goldizen. My research fellowships and programmes since then have investigated ecology and evolution of mammals: a Royal Society fellowship at the University of Aberdeen with Xavier Lambin, an ARC APD fellowship at ANU with Andrew Cockburn, and an ARF fellowship, and a Future Fellowship and UQ Fellowship at The University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences.

I have worked in state environment agencies and the Australian Museum at times before joining UQ in 2007. I am co-chair of the IUCN Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group (with Professor John Woinarski), chair of the Australasian Mammal Taxonomy Consortium (affiliated with the Australian Mammal Society), and winner of the 2020 ESA Australian Ecology Research Award.

History:

Principal Research Fellow / Deputy Academic Director UQ Hidden Vale Research Station/ Associate Professor, School of the Environment / Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, UQ. Jan 2022-

UQ Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Conservation and life history evolution of mammals in Australia and Melanesia. January 2016 – December 2018.

ARC Future Fellow / Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Life history evolution, extinction and conservation ecology of carnivorous marsupials. January 2012 – December 2015.

ARC Australian Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Causes of animal extinction and rediscovery, detection of extinction and trajectories of decline in mammals with respect to the spread of invasive predators. January 2007 – December 2011.

Natural Heritage Trust, federal Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra. Collating published data on threats to nationally endangered vertebrates under the EPBC Act, for the Species Profiles And Threats database. Part time, January- December 2006.

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra. Testing hypotheses to explain the evolution of polyandry, using antechinuses. April 2002 to February 2006 (maternity leave December 2004 – October 2005).

Royal Society Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen. Behavioural mechanisms of density-dependent immigration and implications for population dynamics in the water vole. Jan 2000 - April 2001 (maternity leave April 2001 – April 2002).

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland. Ecological correlates of marsupial life histories, behaviour and social organisation. 1999 - 2000.

PhD. The Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, supervised by Professor Craig Moritz and Dr Anne Goldizen: Behavioural ecology and demography of the bridled nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata 1994 - 1998.

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Availability

Associate Professor Diana Fisher is: : Available for supervision : Media expert

Fields of research

Ecology Zoology

Qualifications

Research interests

Population ecology & biogeography of mammals, especially in Australia & Melanesia. Life history evolution of animals: drivers and mechanisms. Causes and detectability of extinction. Conservation ecology of threatened and declining marsupials, bats, tropical mammals. Evolutionary ecology of mammals: sexual selection, mating systems, life histories Behavioural ecology of mammals: social organisation and maternal care strategies.

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Research impacts

Co-chair Australian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission 2019-Australian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group

Australian Mammal Taxonomy Consortium Chair 2023- Australian Mammal Taxonomy Consortium

Australian Ecology Research Award (AERA) 2020. Australian Ecology Research Award

Senior Editor, Cambridge University Press Journal Prisms: Extinction 2021- Cambridge Prisms Extinction

Member of the ARC College of Experts 2019-2021

Associate Editor of Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2013-

Associate Editor of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 2015-2021.

Media:

The Conversation AMTC checklist of Australian mammals

How the AMTC is contributing to conservation

The Conversation evolution of semelparity in male Antechinus

Nature- beyond the glamour of conservation

Science- sexual selection

Nature- extinct species rediscovery

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Works

Search Professor Diana Fisher’s works on UQ eSpace

All (104) Book (1) Journal Article (89) Other Outputs (5) Book Chapter (9)

Featured

2024

Journal Article

Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals

Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation, 298 110772, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772

Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals

Featured

2023

Journal Article

Marsupial position on life-history continua and the potential contribution of life-history traits to population growth

Ferreira, Mariana Silva, Dickman, Christopher R., Fisher, Diana O., Figueiredo, Marcos de Souza Lima and Vieira, Marcus Vinícius (2023). Marsupial position on life-history continua and the potential contribution of life-history traits to population growth. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290 (2005) 20231316, 1-9. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1316

Marsupial position on life-history continua and the potential contribution of life-history traits to population growth

Featured

2013

Journal Article

Sperm competition drives the evolution of suicidal reproduction in mammals

Fisher, Diana O., Dickman, Christopher R., Jones, Menna E. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2013). Sperm competition drives the evolution of suicidal reproduction in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (44), 17910-17914. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1310691110

Sperm competition drives the evolution of suicidal reproduction in mammals

Featured

2011

Journal Article

Correlates of rediscovery and the detectability of extinction in mammals

Fisher, D. O. and Blomberg, S. P. (2011). Correlates of rediscovery and the detectability of extinction in mammals. Proceedings of The Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1708), 1090-1097. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1579

Correlates of rediscovery and the detectability of extinction in mammals

Featured

2007

Journal Article

Rarity of a Top Predator Triggers Continent-wide Collapse of Mammal Prey: Dingoes and Marsupials in Australia

Johnson, Christopher N., Isaac, Joanne I. and Fisher, Diana O. (2007). Rarity of a Top Predator Triggers Continent-wide Collapse of Mammal Prey: Dingoes and Marsupials in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 274 (1608), 341-346. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3711

Rarity of a Top Predator Triggers Continent-wide Collapse of Mammal Prey: Dingoes and Marsupials in Australia

Featured

2006

Journal Article

Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild

Fisher, Diana O., Double, Michael C., Blomberg, Simon P., Jennions, Michael D. and Cockburn, Andrew (2006). Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild. Nature, 444 (7115), 89-92. doi: 10.1038/nature05206

Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild

Featured

2004

Journal Article

The comparative method in conservation biology

Fisher, Diana O. and Owens, Ian P. F. (2004). The comparative method in conservation biology. Trends In Ecology & Evolution, 19 (7), 391-398. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.05.004

The comparative method in conservation biology

Featured

2003

Journal Article

Extrinsic versus intrinsic factors in the decline and extinction of Australian marsupials

Fisher, Diana O., Blomberg, Simon P. and Owens, Ian P. F. (2003). Extrinsic versus intrinsic factors in the decline and extinction of Australian marsupials. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 270 (1526), 1801-1808. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2447

Extrinsic versus intrinsic factors in the decline and extinction of Australian marsupials

2026

Journal Article

New observations of the western long-beaked echidna on the Vogelkop Peninsula, Indonesian New Guinea

Arobaya, Agustina Yohana Setyarini, Paa, Onesimus, Lagu, Ari, Jitmau, Marthen, Fisher, Diana O., Alzair, Nur, Darwis, Fajar F.D., Riadhi, Mohamad R. and Pattiselanno, Freddy (2026). New observations of the western long-beaked echidna on the Vogelkop Peninsula, Indonesian New Guinea. Oryx, 1-5. doi: 10.1017/s0030605325000420

New observations of the western long-beaked echidna on the Vogelkop Peninsula, Indonesian New Guinea

2025

Other Outputs

Antechinus vandycki, Tasman Peninsula Dusky Antechinus

Fisher, D.O., Woinarski, J.C.Z. and Baker, A. (2025). Antechinus vandycki, Tasman Peninsula Dusky Antechinus. Gland, Switzerland: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Antechinus vandycki, Tasman Peninsula Dusky Antechinus

2025

Other Outputs

Antechinus mimetes, Mainland Dusky Antechinus

Fisher, D.O., Woinarski, J.C.Z. and Baker, A. (2025). Antechinus mimetes, Mainland Dusky Antechinus. Gland, Switzerland: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Antechinus mimetes, Mainland Dusky Antechinus

2025

Journal Article

Relegating species descriptions to electronic supplementary information puts critical data for taxonomy at risk

Fisher, Diana O., Jackson, Stephen M., Travouillon, Kenny J., Umbrello, Linette S., Baker, Andrew M., Eldridge, Mark D. B., Frankham, Greta J., Lavery, Tyrone H. and Australasian Mammal Taxonomy Consortium Steering Committee (2025). Relegating species descriptions to electronic supplementary information puts critical data for taxonomy at risk. Ecology and Evolution, 15 (10) e72234, 1-3. doi: 10.1002/ece3.72234

Relegating species descriptions to electronic supplementary information puts critical data for taxonomy at risk

2025

Other Outputs

Antechinus swainsonii, Tasmanian Dusky Antechinus

Woinarski, J.C.Z., Fisher, D.O. and Baker, A. (2025). Antechinus swainsonii, Tasmanian Dusky Antechinus. Gland, Switzerland: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-1.RLTS.T217028576A217028679.en

Antechinus swainsonii, Tasmanian Dusky Antechinus

2025

Other Outputs

Antechinus arktos, Black-tailed Dusky Antechinus

Fisher, D.O., Woinarski, J.C.Z., Baker, A. and Gomes Batista, Paula S. (2025). Antechinus arktos, Black-tailed Dusky Antechinus. Gland, Switzerland: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Antechinus arktos, Black-tailed Dusky Antechinus

2025

Journal Article

Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

Humphreys, Aelys M., Fisher, Diana O., Witts, Naomi A., Silvestro, Daniele and Antonelli, Alexandre (2025). Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions. New Phytologist nph.70552. doi: 10.1111/nph.70552

Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

2025

Journal Article

Habitat use and survival of the endangered northern bettong (Bettongia tropica) after prescribed fire

Pocknee, Christopher A., Legge, Sarah M., McDonald, Jane and Fisher, Diana (2025). Habitat use and survival of the endangered northern bettong (Bettongia tropica) after prescribed fire. Wildlife Research, 52 (8) WR24174, 1-13. doi: 10.1071/WR24174

Habitat use and survival of the endangered northern bettong (Bettongia tropica) after prescribed fire

2025

Journal Article

Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis

Bruce, Tom, Amir, Zachary, Allen, Benjamin L, Alting, Brendan F., Amos, Matt, Augusteyn, John, Ballard, Guy‐Anthony, Behrendorff, Linda M., Bell, Kristian, Bengsen, Andrew J., Bennett, Ami, Benshemesh, Joe S., Bentley, Joss, Blackmore, Caroline J., Boscarino‐Gaetano, Remo, Bourke, Lachlan A., Brewster, Rob, Brook, Barry W., Broughton, Colin, Buettel, Jessie C., Carter, Andrew, Chiu‐Werner, Antje, Claridge, Andrew W., Comer, Sarah, Comte, Sebastien, Connolly, Rod M., Cowan, Mitchell A., Cross, Sophie L., Cunningham, Calum X. ... Luskin, Matthew S. (2025). Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis. Biological Reviews, 100 (2), 530-555. doi: 10.1111/brv.13152

Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis

2024

Journal Article

Conservation prioritisation of genomic diversity to inform management of a declining mammal species

von Takach, Brenton, Cameron, Skye F., Cremona, Teigan, Eldridge, Mark D.B., Fisher, Diana O., Hohnen, Rosemary, Jolly, Chris J., Kelly, Ella, Phillips, Ben L., Radford, Ian J., Rick, Kate, Spencer, Peter B.S., Trewella, Gavin J., Umbrello, Linette S. and Banks, Sam C. (2024). Conservation prioritisation of genomic diversity to inform management of a declining mammal species. Biological Conservation, 291 110467, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110467

Conservation prioritisation of genomic diversity to inform management of a declining mammal species

2024

Book Chapter

South-east Queensland post-fire fauna recovery

Maitz, Natalya and Fisher, Diana O. (2024). South-east Queensland post-fire fauna recovery. Eyes on recovery: a large scale collaborative camera survey initiative tracking the recovery of Australian wildlife after the 2019-2020 bushfires. (pp. 3-6) edited by Tracy M. Rout and Emma M. Spencer. Sydney, NSW Australia: WWF Australia.

South-east Queensland post-fire fauna recovery

2023

Book Chapter

Bridled nail-tailed wallaby: Onychogalea frenata

Augusteyn, J., Fisher, D. O., Lowry, J., Evans, M. and Melzer, R. (2023). Bridled nail-tailed wallaby: Onychogalea frenata. Strahan's Mammals of Australia. (pp. 373-375) Wahroonga, NSW Australia: New Holland Publishers.

Bridled nail-tailed wallaby: Onychogalea frenata

Funding

Current funding

Improving monitoring and community-led awareness for koala conservation.

Community Sustainability Action - Qld Dep Env Science

Open grant - 2023 - 2026

Pathways to semelparity versus early maturity in animals and plants

ARC Discovery Projects

Open grant

Past funding

Eyes on Recovery: Monitoring fauna recovery post-fire

World Wide Fund for Nature Australia

Open grant - 2021 - 2023

Habitat restoration methods to conserve hollow-dependent threatened mammals and birds

WIRES National Grant Program

Open grant - 2021 - 2023

Recovery of SEQ rock-wallabies and quolls after fire and drought

Community Sustainability Action Grant

Open grant - 2018 - 2021

Conservation of threatened and endemic terrestrial mammals of Manus Island, PNG

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources - Oceania

Open grant - 2018 - 2021

Biodiversity Assessment and Awareness Building in the Kunua and Mt Balbi Key Biodiversity Area of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Open grant - 2018 - 2021

Using performance to predict the survival of threatened mammals

ARC Discovery Projects

Open grant - 2018

Status and conservation of the Ontong Java flying fox: a data deficient endemic of a disappearing Pacific atoll

The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

Open grant - 2017 - 2018

Community conservation of threatened mammals and frogs in Bougainvile

Auckland Zoo Conservation Fund Small Grants Programme

Open grant - 2017 - 2021

Predation impacts and responses by prey species to feral cats

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry

Open grant - 2016 - 2019

The ecology of trace metal contamination in native Australian mammals

ARC Linkage Projects

Open grant - 2016 - 2018

Sustainable management of ngali nut trees and threatened flying foxes in the Solomon Islands

Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Open grant - 2016 - 2018

Ecology, conservation and life history evolution of mammals in Australia and Melanesia

UQ Fellowships

Open grant - 2015 - 2018

Conservation ecology of Sharman's rock wallaby

Everyone's Environment Grants

Open grant - 2015 - 2016

Ecology and conservation of Guadalcanal's monkey-faced bats

Bat Conservation International

Open grant - 2015 - 2016

Improved survey methods to reveal population shifts and inform conservation of the endangered bridled nailtail wallaby

Everyone's Environment Grants

Open grant - 2015 - 2017

How does habitat complexity drive motor ageing and fitness in wild mammals?

ARC Discovery Projects

Open grant - 2014 - 2021

NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub

National Environmental Science Program

Open grant - 2014 - 2016

Status and conservation of the Solomon Islands' most threatened endemic terrestrial vertebrates

Conservation International

Open grant - 2014

Evolutionary ecology of male reproduction in an arid zone mammal with an extreme life history

UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award

Open grant - 2013 - 2017

Conservation of the New Georgia monkey-faced bat and its occurrence in proposed community protected areas, following large scale deforestation in the Solomon Islands

Lubee Bat Conservancy

Open grant - 2013 - 2015

Conserving endemic tropical lowland forest bats in the western Solomon Islands.

Australia & Pacific Science Foundation

Open grant - 2012 - 2015

The role of life history and food supply in the extinction of carnivorous marsupials

ARC Future Fellowships

Open grant - 2009 - 2010

Conservation Ecology of the Kultarr (Antechinomys laniger)

Australian Academy of Science

Open grant - 2009 - 2011

ResTeach 2009 0.2 FTE School of Biological Sciences

UQ ResTeach

Open grant - 2007 - 2008

Implications of post-mating competition for the enigmatic mating system of antechinuses

UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund

Open grant - 2007 - 2011

Extrinsic threats and biological predisposition in animal extinction and rediscovery

ARC Discovery Projects

Open grant

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Supervision

Availability

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Available projects

The red fox Vulpes vulpes is likely to have been responsible for many of the >30 mammal species extinctions on mainland Australia between the 1860s and 1950s, and the range decline (population loss) of about 40% of surviving mammal species. Medium-sized mammals declined the most and are the preferred prey size of foxes. Evidence from museum collectors and expeditioners of European descent, and First Nations accounts suggest rapid decline and local extinction of susceptible native mammal species as the fox encountered them in its spread from its introduction site in Victoria northwards and westwards. For example, in early 20th century administrative districts in New South Wales, a detailed study of bettong and fox records showed that bettongs disappeared within five years of fox arrival in each district (Short 1998). A set of mammals on the Nullabor plain including a bettong, a bandicoot and a species of mulgara went extinct in the 1920s when the fox reached this region of WA (Newman-Martin et al. 2025). A recent analysis by PhD student Natalya Maitz in my group found that fox density predicted loss of brush-tailed rock wallaby populations in eastern Australia. Studies in 2018 and 2025 provide detailed coordinates and dated records of the trajectory of fox invasion. I have a database of coordinates and dated records of mammal decline trajectories. This project would analyse the mean and variability of the lag time between fox arrival and population loss of Australian mainland mammals that have declined, and test correlates of this lag time (body size, climate zone, phylogeny etc).

Read more Read less - #### Identifying causes of initial bias to improve the Threatened Species Index

Overall Threatened Species Index (TSX) curves and individual time series and taxa show a glitch in the first two or three years- the curve nearly always drops or rises before it settles into a more consistent trajectory (https://tsx.org.au/). This project would test the potential reasons for this. These glitches might be due to a sampling bias artefact related to the choice of initial sampling site. Many studies have addressed spatial bias, such as surveying mainly near roads. Few studies have addressed bias that comes from sampling at certain times in the trajectory of a fluctuating population. Over-sampling of one phase of a fluctuating population (e.g. at a time and place of maximum abundance) is demographic sampling bias. Demographic sampling bias comes from researchers typically choosing thriving populations to study (so that their projects are feasible, or because these are most likely to be detected). In these cases most short term studies will report declines, because fluctuating populations with stable long-term means tend to decline in the short term following a peak (this is 'regression to the mean'). Overestimated declines are also expected if researchers preferentially monitor populations in steady decline and ignore stable ones- this might also be likely in the TSX time series. However, regression to the mean implies that underestimates of decline will ensue if studies focus on recently-declined populations, as these are likely to be in a short term increase phase. This project can use aggregated data to find which curves have which pattern, and understand why this initial glitch occurs. We have access to metadata for the TSX curves and can see which types of studies increase or decrease initially. We might expect that single-species studies might be more likely to initially decline from a peak, and community studies that have not chosen a site based on single species abundance might not show this pattern, as the site was not chosen based on that species. Some researchers provided data later than the start of a long-term study, and some fro the start. Birds and mammals would be good data sets to test this.

Read more Read less - #### Projects on life history evolution including - sexual selection in animals with male-only semelparity

An analysis in this paper https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1310691110 tested if semelparous marsupials (that reproduce once in a lifetime) have larger testes and longer mating duration than iteroparous marsupials in the same families (that reproduce repeatedly). They did- this is evidence that intense post-mating male competition is a component of the evolution of life history in these taxa. All other animals with male-only semelparity are arthropods. This project would analyse species in Families of ants, bees, mantids and spiders that contain some species with male-only semelparity, to test if greater semelparity (fewer males surviving after mating) is associated with indices of higher male reproductive investment in sperm volume and mate guarding, that indicate intense sperm competition. This project would involve 1) measuring body parts of museum specimens (pedipalp size and body size) as well as specimens of insects and spiders that you collect in the field (pedipalp size, body size, testes size of mature males / spermatophore volume where available), 2) measuring body parts of digital images of insects and spiders from published sources, 3) using published data on testes size in mature males and the loss of body parts during mating, to calculate male investment in mating (testes size accounting for body size, proportion of body mass lost, time). The main analyses are phylogenetic regressions. This project is part of an ARC grant, there is a PhD student and a postdoc in my group working on other aspects of the evolution and implications of animal semelparity. There would be a co-supervisor who is a specialist in behavioural and evolutionary ecology of spiders and insects.

Read more Read less - #### Northern bettong demography and conservation

Projectson the population dynamics and ecology of northern bettongs in the Lamb Range are being developed by the recovery team and will be available in future

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Supervision history

Current supervision

##### The ecology and conservation of fishing cats in urban landscapes in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Principal Advisor - Doctor Philosophy

##### Strategic conservation of a priority species

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Hugh Possingham - Doctor Philosophy

##### Evolution of semelparity in male animals

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Simone Blomberg - Doctor Philosophy

##### Feral Cat Control for Threatened Mammal Recovery in Central Queensland

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Dr John Dwyer - Master Philosophy

##### Mammal conservation and ecological refuges in FarNorth Queensland

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Hugh Possingham - Doctor Philosophy

##### Optimal running speeds during predator-prey interactions

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Robbie Wilson - Doctor Philosophy

##### Using Barn Owls to detect Endangered or cryptic species in western Queensland

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor James Watson - Doctor Philosophy

##### Modelling the fine-scale behaviour, movement, and habitat use of free-range Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in southeast Queensland to predict and prevent risk of mortality

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Robbie Wilson - Doctor Philosophy

##### An analysis of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) population dynamics in its southern African stronghold ofBotswana

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Berndt Janse Van Rensburg - Master Philosophy

##### Non-Invasive Abundance Monitoring of Captive Mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus) Using Proximal Remote Sensing

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Alina Bialkowski, Dr Lorna Hernandez Santin

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Completed supervision

Doctor Philosophy

##### Fire, cats, and the northern bettong

Principal Advisor - 2020

Doctor Philosophy

##### Using native rodents to understand mammalian evolution and shape diversity in Australia

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Gilbert Price - 2019

Doctor Philosophy

##### Conservation ecology of Sharman's rock-wallaby (Petrogale sharmani)

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Hugh Possingham - 2019

Doctor Philosophy

##### Conservation of Australian insectivorous marsupials: biogeography, macroecology and life history

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Robbie Wilson - 2018

Doctor Philosophy

##### Understanding the impact of invasive ants Wasmannia auropunctata on arthropods, and consequences for agriculture in the Solomon Islands

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Michael Furlong - 2017

Doctor Philosophy

##### Ecology and predator associations of the northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) in the Pilbara

Principal Advisor - 2016

Doctor Philosophy

##### Systematics and taxonomy of tube-nosed fruit bats, subfamily Nyctimeninae

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Lisa Pope - 2015

Doctor Philosophy

##### Sex allocation, terminal investment and the effects of environmental constraints on maternal investment in subtropical antechinus

Principal Advisor - 2014

Doctor Philosophy

##### Phylogeny and extinction risk in mammals

Principal Advisor

Other advisors: Dr Simone Blomberg - 2024

Doctor Philosophy

##### Conservation of mammals in a biodiversity hotspot on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Salit Kark - 2021

Doctor Philosophy

##### Behavioural and physiological traits of the endangered marsupial, the northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus)

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Robbie Wilson - 2018

Doctor Philosophy

##### Predicting the movement speeds of animals in natural environments

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Robbie Wilson - 2017

Doctor Philosophy

##### Conserving Australia's predator-threatened mammals

Associate Advisor

Other advisors: Professor Richard Fuller - 2014

Doctor Philosophy

##### The mammals of northern Melanesia: biogeography, speciation and ecology

Associate Advisor - 2013

Doctor Philosophy

##### Social organisation of a fission-fusion species, the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), in Etosha National Park, Namibia

Associate Advisor

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