Our people

Our people

Academic and research staff

Research students

Alumni

Postgraduates

• Casey Taylor (PhD 2022, USYD) – Ecological drivers of human-tick encounters in urban environments
• Amelia Saul (PhD 2021, USYD) – Exploring the density benefit relationship of alien species
• Kyla Johnstone (PhD 2021, USYD) – Behavioural mechanisms of detection bias in applied ecology and wildlife management
• Cristian Gabriel Orlando (PhD 2021, USYD) – The links between information, patch use and decision making by foraging mammal herbivores at small spatial and temporal scales (primary supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Anushika Herath (PhD 2021, USYD) – Personality and its influence on diet and parasitic load of mammalian herbivores (primary supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Katie Wat (PhD 2019, USYD) – Linking animal personality to space use and problem solving by common brushtail possums, and urban exploiter (primary supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Henry Lydecker (PhD 2018, USYD) – (primary supervisor Prof. Dieter Hochuli)
• Hayley Bates (PhD 2017, UNSW) – Assessing environmental correlates of populations of the endangered mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales (primary supervisor Prof. Michael Archer)
• Megan Callander (PhD, UWS) – (primary supervisor A/Prof. Ricky Spencer)
• Rebecca Stutz (PhD 2016, USYD) – Plant drivers of foraging behaviour in a generalist browser (primary supervisor A/Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Helen Smith (PhD 2015, USYD) – When commensals go wild: the ecological consequences of exotic black rats (Rattus rattus) invading beyond the urban boundary
• Valentina Mella (PhD 2014, USYD) – The role of personality in response to predation risk and plant toxins in the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) (primary supervisor A/Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Alexandra Carthey (PhD 2013, USYD) – The role of prey naiveté in vulnerability to alien predators
• Amanda Guy (PhD 2013, UNSW) – Rehabilitation and reintroduction of vervet monkeys
• Miguel Bedoya Perez (PhD 2013, USYD) – Foraging responses of swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor) to plant chemistry, vegetation composition and diversity (primary supervisor A/Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Catherine Price (PhD 2011 submitted, UNSW) – Novel techniques to improve reintroduction success for endangered wildlife
• Caragh Threlfall (PhD 2011 submitted, UNSW) – Insectivorous bat diversity in urban landscapes: possible mechanisms influencing persistence
• Romane Cristescu (PhD 2011 submitted, UNSW) – Wildlife use of rehabilitated mine sites (with Prof. Frank Carrick UQ)
• Carolyn Nersesian (PhD 2010 submitted USYD) – Herbivore foraging: balancing plant nutrients, toxins and predation risk (primary supervisor A/Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Vera Nedved (PhD 2010 submitted, UNSW) – Sex allocation in captive animal populations
• Nelika Hughes (PhD 2008, UNSW) – Dangerous liaisons in animal signaling
• Vicki Stokes (PhD 2007, UNSW) – Ecological role of feral black rats in Australia (with Dr. Roger Pech, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems)
• Ben Russell (PhD 2006, UNSW) – The ecology of alien and native predator and prey behavioural interactions
• Peter Brown (PhD 2005, UNSW) – The dynamics of compensation in population processes (with Dr. Grant Singleton, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems)
• Matt Hayward (PhD 2003, UNSW) – The ecology of the mainland Quokka metapopulation
• Karen Fey (PhD 2008, University of Turku) – Alteration of top down and bottom processes by feral mink in the ecology of vole populations (primary supervisor Prof Erkki Korpimaki)
• Pälvi Salo (PhD 2009, University of Turku) – Ecology of feral mink in Finnish Archipleago (primary supervisor Prof Erkki Korpimaki)

• Hannah Harris (MPhil 2022, USYD) – Foraging problem-solving performance in common brushtail possums: the roles of behaviour and individual traits (primary supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Wendy Gleen (MSc 2013, USYD) – Life on the edge: Population and behavioural responses of the native bush rat to invasive species at the urban edge
• Malith Weerakoon (MPhil 2011, UNSW) – Detecting rodent movement across an urban/bushland interface using Rhodamine B
• Nicole Hansen (MPhil 2011, UNSW) – The sociobiology of rodent pest control (with Dr. Nelika Hughes, AWC)
• Rachel Miller (MSc 2007, UNSW) – Ecology & impacts of pest rodents in the Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines
• Roy Wilson (MSc 2004, UNSW) – Ecology of southern-brown bandicoots
• Elke Venstra (MSc University of Amsterdam 2004) – Are urban bandicoots caught in an ecological trap?

Honours graduates

• Bianca McBryde (Hons 2023, USYD) – Part-time Predators: the unexpected role of a native herbivore as a threat to an endangered species
• Irene Teh (Hons 2023, USYD) – Kicking a habit: how black rats (Rattus rattus) alter foraging with pre-exposure to unrewarding food odours of differing nutritional value
• Celine Partridge (Hons 2023, USYD) – Investigating the potential impacts of an introduced rodent on amphibians in peri-urban ecosystems
• Martin Boer-Cueva (Hons 2023, USYD) – Life in the big smoke: terrestrial vertebrate assemblages and their drivers in Sydney, Australia (Primary supervisor A/Prof. Thomas Newsome)
• Katrina Kaverzine (Hons 2022, USYD) – Mice and canola: Are behavioural approaches needed to protect buried seeds?
• Callum Simpson (Hons 2022, USYD) – Relationships between pathogens, rats and native wildlife in Sydney’s Northern Beaches
• Gabrielle Jarvis (Hons 2022, USYD) – Decoy deception: Using phantom decoys to alter foraging behaviour of mammalian herbivores (primary supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Helen Ratcliff (Hons 2022, USYD) – The forgotten sense: The importance of auditory cues in prey identification and location by predators (Primary supervisor Dr. Catherine Price)
• Angeline Anastasia (Hons 2022, USYD) – Testing the potential of two essential oils to mask Eucalyptus punctata seedlings from browsing swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor) (Primary supervisor Dr. Catherine Price, Associate supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Benjamin Reay (Hons 2021, USYD) – Bandicoot bungalows: how artificial structures can improve foraging by long-nosed bandicoots (Perameles nasuta) post-fire
• Laura Grant (Hons 2021, USYD) – Using olfactory misinformation strategies to reduce the browsing impacts of mammalian herbivores on plants (Primary supervisor Dr. Catherine Price, Associate supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Liam Guest (Hons 2021, USYD) – Can plant odour associations shape herbivore foraging decisions? (Primary supervisor Dr. Catherine Price, Associate supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Annabelle Lee (Hons 2020, USYD) – The effect of decoys on foraging decisions in the invasive black rat (Rattus rattus) (primary supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Finn Parker (Hons 2019, USYD) – Weaponising wildlife: using predator training to make more effective and motivated predators against alien prey
• Nicole Lynch (Hons 2019, USYD) – The impact of animal personality on problem-solving ability in wild rodents (primary supervisor Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Edward Brand (Hons 2018, USYD) – Fire as a potential management strategy for Sydney’s Northern Beaches tick infestations
• Rebecca O’rourke (Hons 2017, USYD) – Reintroducing natives into an alien’s domain
• Annabel Ellis (Hons 2017, USYD) – Ecology of invasive rodents on islands: does marine-subsudused overabundance impact a restoring plant community?
• Maree Williams (Hons 2016, USYD) – Mechanisms of olfactory learning in free-living predators: do generalist predators use generalist odours when searching for food? (with Dr. Catherine Price)
• Britany Etheridge (Hons 2016, USYD) – The host ecology of the paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyckus, in urban environments, Northern Beaches, Sydney
• Georgina Barron (Hons 2016, USYD) – Ecological benefits of invasive plants in novel ecosystems: does lantana provide habitat for urban sensitive species? (primary supervisor A/Prof. Dieter Hochuli)
• Charlotte Fletcher (Hons 2014, USYD) – Bats, boxes and birds in an urban bushland matrix
• Amelia Saul (Hons 2013, USYD) – Aliens replacing natives: are black rats effective substitutes for extinct native mammalian pollinators?
• Jordan Krucler (Hons 2013, USYD) – Quantifying ecologically relevant personality traits and their link to movement patterns in wild common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) (primary supervisor A/Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Deborah Romero (Hons 2012, USYD) – Reinvasion of black rats across the urban/bushland interface: a test of ideal-free distribution models
• Andrew Daly (Hons 2012, USYD) – What is the scent of death?
• Elyce Coluccio (Hons 2012, USYD) – Foraging strategies of bush rats and black rats in response to food and fear (primary supervisor A/Prof. Clare McArthur)
• Erica Pankhurst (Hons 2012, UWS) – The effects of the removal of Rattus fuscipes on the population and community dynamics of Australian small mammals
• Blake Sneddn (Hons 2011, UNSW) – Habituation in olfactory foraging in black rats
• Margarita Goumas (Hons 2011, UNSW) – Competitive interacrtions between an alien invasive (Rattus rattus) and a native competitor (Hydromys chrysogaster)
• Steve Heavener (Hons 2010, UNSW) – Olfactory communication in heterospecific rodents
• Stephanie Martin (Hons 2010, UNSW) – Effects of bush regen on black rat habitat use
• Edith King (Hons 2010, UNSW) – Reproductive investment in the house mouse (primary supervisor Prof. Rob Brooks)
• Rowena Hamer (Hons 2009, UNSW) – Olfactory communication in frogs
• Viyanna Leo (Hons 2009, UNSW) – Interspecific olfactory communication in sympatric native rodents
• Alex Carthey (Hons 2007, UNSW) – Spatial gradients in prey cues and the foraging success of predators
• Alexis Watson (Hons 2007, UNSW)
• Andrew Lothian (Hons 2007, UNSW) – Long term dynamics of an endangered urban bandicoot population
• Jenna Bytheway (Hons 2005, UNSW) – The role of odour in the foraging behaviour of rodents
• Jessica Bryant (Hons 2005, UNSW) – Ecological impacts of dog walking
• Rochelle Basham (Hons 2005, UNSW5) – Bats in Sydney’s urban fragments
• Candida Barclay ((Hons 2004, UNSW) – Mechanisms of road crossing behaviour in small mammals
• Tania Rose (Hons 2004, UNSW) – Ecology and impacts of black rats at North Head Sydney
• Brian Hawkins (Hons 2004, UNSW) Mapping habitat for the endangered Yellow-bellier Glider across the Gosford LGA
• Nelika Hughes (Hons 2003, UNSW) – Habitat selection of an endangered bandicoot population across an urban/bushland interface
• Bruce Mitchell (Hons 2004, UNSW) – Interactions between foxes and wild dogs in the Blue Mountains National Park
• Joanne Lenehan (Hons 2003, UNSW) – Mechanisms of browsing deterrents to protect plants from marsupials
• Louise Pastro (Hons 2003, UNSW) – House mouse responses to chemical signal exploitation in predator-prey interactions
• Fiona Powell (Hons 2002, UNSW)
• Anissa Kellie (Hons 2000, UNSW)