A5024094755- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Marine animal studies overview
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
Environmental Earth Sciences
2014-2024
UNSW Sydney
2012-2024
Griffith University
2011-2024
Center for Large Landscape Conservation
2024
Atlas of Living Australia
2023
University of Massachusetts Boston
2023
Boston University
2023
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2023
Hudson Institute
2018
New York Academy of Sciences
2018
Little is known about the effects of temperature extremes on natural systems. This increasing concern now that climate models predict dramatic increases in intensity, duration and frequency such extremes. Here we examine behaviour demography vulnerable wild flying-foxes ( Pteropus spp.). On 12 January 2002 New South Wales, Australia, temperatures exceeding 42°C killed over 3500 individuals nine mixed-species colonies. In one colony, recorded a predictable sequence thermoregulatory behaviours...
Anthropogenic environmental change is often implicated in the emergence of new zoonoses from wildlife; however, there little mechanistic understanding these causal links. Here, we examine transmission dynamics an emerging zoonotic paramyxovirus, Hendra virus (HeV), its endemic host, Australian Pteropus bats (fruit or flying foxes). HeV a biosecurity level 4 (BSL-4) pathogen, with high case-fatality rate humans and horses. With models parametrized field laboratory data, explore set probable...
During recent decades, pathogens that originated in bats have become an increasing public health concern. A major challenge is to identify how those spill over into human populations generate a pandemic threat
Seasonal movements of 22 Pteropus poliocephalus, from two maternity camps in north-eastern New South Wales, were monitored January to June 1989 using radiotelemetry. The animals moved independently time and space among various communal roosts located 8-610 km the camp sites. Generally, P. poliocephalus a near rainforest (Currie Park, Lismore) remained within 50 site. These localised attributed continued availability fruits throughout study. Animals surrounded by sclerophyll forest (Susan I.,...
Flying-foxes (Pteropodidae) are large bats capable of long-distance flight. Many species threatened; some considered pests. Effective conservation and management flying-foxes constrained by lack knowledge their ecology, especially movement patterns over spatial scales. Using satellite telemetry, we quantified movements the grey-headed flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus among roost sites in eastern Australia. Fourteen adult males were tracked for 2–40 weeks (mean 25 weeks). Collectively, these...
Abstract In the Australian subtropics, flying-foxes (family Pteropididae) play a fundamental ecological role as forest pollinators. Flying-foxes are also reservoirs of fatal zoonosis, Hendra virus. Understanding flying fox foraging ecology, particularly in agricultural areas during winter, is critical to determine their transmitting virus horses and humans. We developed spatiotemporal model flying-fox intensity based on patterns 37 grey-headed ( Pteropus poliocephalus ) using GPS tracking...
Bats provide important ecosystem services such as pollination of native forests; they are also a source zoonotic pathogens for humans and domestic animals. Human-induced changes to habitats may have created more opportunities bats reside in urban settings, thus decreasing forests increasing transmission. In Australia, fruit (Pteropus spp. flying foxes) increasingly inhabiting areas where feed on anthropogenic food sources with nutritional characteristics phenology that differ from habitats....
The Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus has an expansive range. However, the species actually occupies a relatively restricted and continuously changing habitat area, which is primarily d...
Abstract Recent range shifts towards higher latitudes have been reported for many animals and plants in the northern hemisphere, are commonly attributed to changes climate. Relatively little is known about such southern although it has suggested that latitudinal distributions of fruit‐bats Pteropus alecto poliocephalus changed during 20th century response climate change eastern Australia. However, historical these species not examined systematically. In this study we obtained locality...
A novel Hendra virus variant, genotype 2, was recently discovered in a horse that died after acute illness and Pteropus flying fox tissues Australia. We detected the variant urine, pathway relevant for spillover, supporting an expanded geographic range of risk to horses humans.
Aging is a ubiquitous component of the life history and biological function all species. In wildlife studies, estimates age are critical in order to understand how species’ ecology, biology behaviour vary parallel with its life-history events. Longitudinal studies that track individuals as they limited fruit bats, recapture difficult for vagile species nomadic lifestyles. Most estimate by broad categorisation similar characteristics or morphometrics into classes (e.g. sub-adult adult). this...
Abstract The effects of logging on three species common skinks were estimated from censuses in four age classes forest: unlogged, just logged, 1‐year logged and 10–15 year regrowth. topography (ridge gully) examined each class. Afire November 1980 occurred fust after the initial census was completed. Another taken December to assess its immediate effects. Further carried out 1981 1984. An intense drought overlapped 1983 with period. Lampropholis guichenoti about equal numbers unlogged...
This study of the effects logging on small mammals in Mumbulla State Forest south coast New South Wales included a fire November 1980 and drought throughout period from June to 1983. Rattus fuscipes was sensitive change: had significant impact its numbers, response ground cover, recapture rate; more severe effect, retarded post-fire recovery population. The three species dasyurid marsupials differed markedly their canopy fire. Antechinus stuartii distributed evenly through all habitats not...
Abstract Fruit bats (Pteropodidae) have received increased attention after the recent emergence of notable viral pathogens bat origin. Their vagility hinders data collection on abundance and distribution, which constrains modeling efforts our understanding ecology, dynamics, spillover. We addressed this knowledge gap with models occurrence nectarivorous fruit populations at 3 day roosts in southeast Queensland. used environmental drivers nectar production as predictors explored relationships...
Abstract The Grey‐headed flying fox Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck 1825 is the only mammalian frugivore to occupy substantial areas of subtropical rainforests eastern Australia. composition P. diet and specialization in species are therefore pertinent studies trophic structure, seed dispersal evolutionary processes these forests. During a three‐year study, used fruits from 44 canopy edge plants. Their taxonomically diverse was dominated by Myrtaceae Moraceae. Dietary examined using two...
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Abstract The spatial organization of populations determines their pathogen dynamics. This is particularly important for communally roosting species, whose aggregations are often driven by the structure environment. We develop a spatially explicit model virus transmission within roosts Australian tree‐dwelling bats ( Pteropus spp.), parameterized to reflect Hendra virus. mirrors three study sites, and viral between groups in trees was modelled as function distance roost trees. Using levels...
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of wildfires in many regions world. Changing fire regimes have been shown to delay vegetation recovery shift distribution ecosystems, importance understanding short-and long-term impacts these changes. The unusually severe 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season has linked climate on wildlife ecosystems are still being studied. We use remotely sensed thermal data assess differences between annual seasons from 2012 2019 eastern Australia...