lab members

academic staff

Anne Goldizen (associate professor)
• vertebrate social and mating systems, cooperative breeding, parental care patterns and conservation biology.

Lexa Grutter (senior lecturer)
• coral reef ecology and evolution; fish and their parasites; cleaning symbioses.

Jiro Kikkawa (emeritus professor)
• behaviour, ecology and evolution of island birds and rainforest birds.

Michael Noad (senior lecturer)
• acoustic and behavioural ecology of humpback whales.

Diana Fisher (ARC QEII postdoctoral fellow)
• behavioural ecology of marsupials, conservation of declining Australian mammals, and causes of extinction.

postdoctoral research staff

Tamsin Barnes (postdoctoral researcher)
• epidemiology of wildlife disease, prevention of hydatid disease in macropods.

Karen Cheney (ARC postdoctoral fellow)
• fish behaviour and ecology, mimicry in coral reef fish, animal signaling, cleaning symbioses.

Rebecca Dunlop (postdoctoral researcher)
• humpback whale bioacoustics, behaviour and ecology.

Guido Parra (postdoctoral fellow)
• population, behavioural and molecular ecology of marine megafauna, particularly marine mammals.

postgraduate students

Kerryn Carter (PhD)
• social bonds of female giraffes.

Gillian Clague (honours)
• long-term effects of cleaner fish on the reef community.

Chris Dudgeon (PhD)
• ecology of the leopard shark.

Ellen Garland (PhD)
• behavioural ecology, bioacoustics, cetacean conservation and metapopulation dynamics.

Anna Kearns (PhD)
• phylogeography and evolutionary history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds (Cracticus spp).

Shelly Lachish (PhD)
• managing Tasmanian devil populations affected by the Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD).

Kristen Lee (PhD)
• genetics and disease of koalas and other marsupials.

Zhi Zhao Lim (honours)
• investigating individual variation in sociability in female eastern grey kangaroos.

Peggy Macqueen (PhD)
• effects of historical and contemporary fragmentation on population genetics of pademelons.

Justine Murray (PhD)
• modelling metapopulation dynamics in the brush-tailed rock-wallaby using demographic, genetic and spatial data.

Kris Murray (PhD)
• the ecology and effects of chytrid fungus infecting rainforest frogs.

Dave Putland (PhD)
• cultural evolution, bioacoustics, sexual selection, cooperative breeding and rainforest ecology.

Melinda Rekdahl (PhD)
• social communication in humpback whales: stability, progressive change and function of song and social sounds.

Josh Smith (PhD)
• acoustic and behavioural ecology of humpack whales.

Mayuko Tosa (honours)
• animal behaviour, conservation biology, female choice and male quality in subtropical antechinus.

Joanne Towsey (honours)
• understanding individual differences in vigilance behaviour in female eastern grey kangarooos.

Sara Tromp (PhD)
• behavioural ecology, population genetics and social structure of the black mongoose, Glarella nigrata.

collaborators

Mark Eldridge (Macquarie University)
• conservation genetics of endangered macropods, genetic consequences of fragmentation.

David Green (Simon Fraser University)
• the role of individual behaviours in determining the structure and dynamics of avian populations.

Stefan Klose (University of Ulm)
• behaviour and physiology of flying foxes.

Elsie Krebs (Centre for Wildlife Ecology, Simon Fraser University)
• parent-offspring communication and conflict, population ecology.

Peter Jarman (University of New England)
• macropod ecology, ecosystem management.

Darryl Jones (Griffith University)
• behavioural ecology, suburban ecology and wildlife management.

Andy Lowe (University of Adelaide)
• ecological and evolutionary genetics.

James Nicholls (University of Edinburgh)
• molecular and evolutionary ecology, bioacoustics.

Olivier Pays (University of Angers)
• vigilance of herbivores.

Hugh Possingham (The Ecology Centre, UQ)
• applied population ecology, metapopulation dynamics, reserve design and obsessive bird watching.

Jennifer Seddon (School of Veterinary Science, UQ)
• molecular markers in phylogenetics, phylogeography and population genetics.

past members

Justine Becker (PhD)
• the ecological significance of interactions between cleaner shrimp and fishes on coral reefs.

Ben Bravery (honours)
• patterns of painting behaviour in satin bowerbirds.

Alecia Carter (honours)
• patterns of association and kinship among female eastern grey kangaroos.

Kerryn Carter (honours)
• mating system, social behaviour and ranging patterns of brush-tailed rock-wallabies.

Sean FitzGibbon (PhD)
• life in the suburbs: the ecology of the northern brown bandicoot in suburban Brisbane.

Stephanie Hazlitt (PhD)
• behavioural ecology and population genetics of vertebrates.

Shelly Lachish (honours)
• territorial behaviour in buff-banded rails.

Rebecca Laws (honours)
• mating system, social behaviour and ranging patterns of brush-tailed rock-wallabies.

Fiona Manson (PhD)
• the social system and breeding biology of the buff-banded rail at Heron Island.

Tammie Matson (PhD)
• behavioural ecology of the black faced impala in Namibia: implications for management.

James Nicholls (PhD, postdoc)
• molecular and evolutionary ecology.

Amanda Niehaus (PhD)
• effects of thermal instability on the behaviour and physiology of frogs in dry environments.

Jessie Oliver (honours)
• resource holding potential and signal honesty in male Australian slender crayfish (Cherax dispar).

David Pavlacky (PhD)
• avian patch occupancy and population genetics of logrunners (Orthonyx temminckii) in fragmented subtropical rainforests.

Melinda Rekdahl (honours)
• a comparison of the vocalizations of captive, wild provisioned and wild non-provisioned bottlenose dolphins.

Tim Robson (PhD)
• sexual selection in the satin bowerbird: what's in it for the females?

Sunny Sanderson (MPhil)
• population dynamics in hybrid gibbons: an analysis of the call structure of Hylobates agilis albibaris X H. muelleri.

Dominique Sigg (postdoctoral researcher)
• population genetics of endangered macropods.

Elisa Tack (honours)
• geographic variation in the advertisement song of the satin bowerbird.

Vicki Thompson (honours)
• genetic structure of an eastern grey kangaroo population.

Sara Tromp (honours)
• perception of risk by black-faced impala: what environmental and social factors affect their hesitation to approach waterholes?

Chris Wiley (honours)
• the endocrine control of aggression in a year-round territorial tropical bird, the buff-banded rail.

Janine Wojcieszek (honours)
• understanding the complex stealing behavour of satin bowerbirds: why do males differ and what determines the relationship between males?

Naomi Wynd (honours)
• female breeding biology and the survival of pouch young in the brush-tailed rock-wallaby.