A5016336472- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Mining and Resource Management
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Marine and fisheries research
Charles Darwin University
2020-2024
Tharawal Aboriginal
2012-2017
University of Canberra
2006-2015
ACT Government
2015
Parks and Wildlife Service
2015
Patch mosaic burning, in which fire is used to produce a of habitat patches representative range histories ('pyrodiversity'), has been widely advocated promote greater biodiversity. However, the details desired mosaics for prescribed burning programs are often unspecified. Threatened small medium-sized mammals (35 g 5.5 kg) fire-prone tropical savannas Australia appear be particularly fire-sensitive. Consequently, clear understanding properties most instrumental influencing savanna mammal...
Abstract Strategies for mitigating climate change through altered land management practices can provide win–win outcomes the environment and economy. Emissions trading greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement in Australia's remote, fire‐prone, sparsely populated tropical savannas provides a financial incentive intensive fire that aims to reduce frequency, severity, extent, it supports important social, economic, opportunities remote communities, conservation agencies, pastoralists. These programs now...
Context The decline of the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis), or Ngarlgumirdi (Yawuru), like other critical-weight range Australian mammals, is believed to be primarily due synergetic impacts predation by feral cats and foxes, habitat disturbance caused large introduced herbivores, increases in frequency intensity wildfires. Although it has been demonstrated that low-intensity prescribed burning mosaics some habitats have potential benefit including Ngarlgumirdi, creating with sufficient...
Northern Australia has undergone significant declines among threatened small and medium-sized mammals in recent decades. Conceptual models postulate that predation by feral cats is the primary driver, with changed disturbance regimes from fire livestock decades reducing habitat cover exacerbating declines. However, there little guidance on what scale attributes are most important for mammals, elements of mosaics actually support mammals. In this study, we test a series hypotheses regarding...
Abstract Sustainable commercial use of native wildlife is an alternative economic means land by Indigenous people in remote rural areas. This situation applies within large tracts owned across northern Australia. The saltwater crocodiles Crocodylus porosus a growing industry Australia's Northern Territory. Although sell crocodile eggs and hatchlings, the majority harvesting incubation done non-indigenous from less One community has been heavily involved this now manages its own harvest...
Populations of carpet pythons Morelia spilota have declined across much inland Australia, apparently because anthropogenic disturbances, yet continue to persist in areas that been heavily modified by humans along the eastern seaboard Australia. To help clarify this paradox, we undertook a radio-telemetric study M. semi-arid, agricultural landscape making comparisons at two spatial scales. First, compared activity and space use local regional level, between an area high human modification:...
Access to land and resources has not, in itself, been sufficient for improving the wellbeing of Indigenous people living remote regions Australia. Much limited potential mainstream market-based economic development. However, some Australians have able use wildlife commercially realise opportunities enhance their capacity engage natural resource management on land. In this paper, a case study is presented one such enterprise which managed crocodile egg-harvesting operation from township...
Summary We investigated the influence of duration inundation‐induced diapause, incubation temperature and clutch origin on survivorship eggs Snake‐Necked Turtle, Chelodina rugosa , from wet–dry tropics northern Australia. Eggs C. survive at least 25 weeks’ inundation, almost 6 months, with a clear optimal inundation weeks. not held under water suffered same mortality as inundated for Underwater nesting is facultative capacity but, rather, essential embryos. Inundation had profound effect...
Abstract Apex predators are fundamentally important in regulating many ecosystems, and perturbations of their populations frequently implicated ecosystem declines or collapses. In considering small mammal northern Australia, most attention has focused on interactions between a mammalian apex predator—the dingo Canis —and meso-predator, the feral cat— Felis catus . Little consideration been given to possible implications changed reptilian predator assemblages resulting from invasion by toxic...
Abstract Woodland and forest degradation, driven predominately by agricultural pastoral production, is a crisis facing many species globally, in particular hollow‐dependent fauna. Large predatory play important roles both ecosystems conservation strategies, but few studies have examined habitat selection of such intensively human‐modified landscapes. We quantified resource use large, top‐order threatened snake (carpet python, M orelia spilota ), between adjacent areas high low anthropogenic...