A5041271272- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Australian National Wildlife Collection
2022-2024
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2022-2024
Australian National University
2024
University of Canberra
2019-2022
ACT Government
2019-2022
Kenya Wildlife Service
2017-2020
Institute of Primate Research
2019
University of Nairobi
2017-2019
Scat DNA metabarcoding is increasingly being used to track the feeding ecology of elusive wildlife species. This approach has greatly increased resolution and detection success prey items contained in scats when compared with other classical methods. However, there have been few studies that systematically tested applicability reliability this study diet large felids species wild. Here we assessed effectiveness cheetah Acinonyx jubatus. We how scat degradation, meal size, consumed day (the a...
Resource availability is a key component in animal ecology, yet the manner which carnivore populations respond to spatial and temporal fluctuations of resources remains unclear. We take population‐level approach determine how resource pulses, this case temporary hyper‐abundance prey, influence densities space‐use cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus . The Maasai Mara Kenya experiences an annual migration > 1.4 million wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus large numbers zebras Equus quagga Thomson's...
Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts, 1898, is a serious pest of stored grain products globally. Environmental DNA (eDNA)-based methods offer sensitive detection tools used to inform biosecurity officers on the presence high-risk pests. This study tested laboratory and portable molecular technologies detect khapra beetle environmental extracted from dust samples collected during responses (Tuggeranong Fyshwick) incursions in Australia. Airborne floor were opportunistically using...
Abstract Competition is an important ecological factor influencing the population dynamics of carnivores especially as shifts in prey selection could have negative consequences for other members carnivore guild. It therefore to determine a species' resource requirements help understand potential degree and competition. Cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus compete over resources with larger carnivores, such lions Panthera leo . While cheetahs generally favour smaller than lions, male frequently occur...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an increasingly popular tool for detection, monitoring and characterising biodiversity. However, implementing eDNA-based approaches in terrestrial environments more complex than aquatic due to the many potential substrates, low variable detection probabilities, lack of standardised sampling laboratory protocols, contamination biases, interpretation challenges. Here, we provide tips help vertebrate biologists natural resource managers better implement eDNA...
Introduction Accurately quantifying the diet of species has implications for our understanding their ecology and conservation. Yet, determining dietary composition threatened elusive in wild is often difficult. Methods This study presents first assessment tjakura ( Liopholis kintorei ) using non-invasive sampling scats high-throughput sequencing techniques. Results The Uluru consumed 48 invertebrates, 27 plants, two vertebrate taxa. Fruit flies Leucophenga spp.), beetles Harpalus spp....
The black rhino sanctuaries system has played a key role in repopulating and starting new subpopulations Kenya.If this is efficiently managed it may save the rhinoceros from local extinction.Understanding genetic status of endangered species most elemental sine qua non animal breeding conservation.It therefore important to determine diversity populations, especially nucleus populations that are used as source individuals for translocation supplementation programs.We assessed one pioneer...
Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) are highly endangered due to poaching and other anthropological reasons their protection rebound the numbers genetic improvement necessary remedial measures defined by Rhino International Union of Conservation for Nature Red List (IUCN). In Kenya black rhino declined from approximately 20,000 in 1970s fewer than 400 1982. Wildlife conservation managers effected strategies manage/breed remaining populations Eastern Southern Africa within regional...
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms ( SNPs ) are now popular for a myriad of applications in animal and plant species including, ancestry assignment, conservation genetics, breeding, traceability products. The objective this study was to develop customized cost-effective SNP panel genetic characterisation Macrobrachium Cameroon. identified previous characterization were screened as viable candidates the reduced panel. Starting from full set 1,814 SNPs, total 72 core chosen using conventional...
Geographic overlap of Olive-backed Oriole O. sagittatus and the Green flavocinctus is extensive in northern Australia, but they generally are separated by habitat. They New Guinea, however, where their habitat distinction much reduced. Genetic methods an earlier study detected unexpected hybridisation between two species Guinea. Here, we ask whether may have gone unnoticed genetic again detect it, this relate to management conservation. We find no evidence for Australia conclude that its...
Abstract The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of the tjaku□a, Liopholis kintorei was obtained using next-generation sequencing, making it first recorded mitogenome genus and Tiliquini . is 16,844bp in length with a base composition A (31.7%), T (24.4%), G (14.6%), C (29.3%) + content 43.9%. contains 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA two ribosomal genes (12S 16S), three non-coding fragments, consisting putative control region mitochondrially encoded heavy strand origin...
Abstract Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms ( SNPs ) are now popular for a myriad of applications in animal and plant species including, ancestry assignment, conservation genetics, breeding, traceability products. The objective this study was to develop customized cost-effective SNP panel genetic characterisation Macrobrachium Cameroon. identified previous characterization were screened as viable candidates the reduced panel. Starting from full set 1,814 SNPs, total 72 core chosen using...