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ProfessorMathew Crowther

Professor of Quantitative Conservation Biology

Faculty of Science

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  • Professor of Quantitative Conservation Biology
    Faculty of Science

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Professor Crowther'sresearch covers a wide range of topics in the quantative analysis of the ecology and evolution of vetebrates. These include:

  • Responses of fauna to climate change, fire and predation.
  • Evolution, taxonomy and ecology of small mammals
  • Behavioural, population and landscape ecology of koalas
  • Ecosystem regulation by apex predators.
  • Responses of rodents to predator odour
  • Conservation biology and ecology of mammals, birds and reptiles.
  • Population control in pest mammals.
  • Using ecological methods in the study of football
  • Use of remote sensing to predict habitat

Professor Crowther's research aligns with the Faculty of Science Research Strengths - Understanding Life on Earth, Data and Decisions, Earth and Space Exploration and Technologies.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Air bears: Predicting koala habitat by combining leaf chemistry with hyperspectral imagery
    Faculty of Science1 Jan 2022
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    Impacts and drivers of chlamydial disease in the koala: relationships between the host, pathogen and environment
    Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW)1 Jan 2019
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    Vaccination against Chlamydiosis: An effective disease management tool in wild populations
    Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW)1 Jan 2019
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  • GRANT
    3000-level Interdisciplinary Project: Wildlife and Resource Conservation
    DVC Education1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Casson-Medhurst D,
    • Crowther M
  • GRANT
    Incorporating movement and behavioural ecology to understand habitat use of a specialist herbivore, the koala
    Equity Trustees Limited1 Jul 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rus A,
    • Crowther M
  • GRANT
    "The Dingo Menace" - a cross-continental and comparative study of farmer attitudes and behaviour towards dingoes to improve management
    Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales1 Mar 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dickman C,
    • van Eeden L,
    • Newsome T,
    • Crowther M
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    Learning to live with dingoes: improving wildlife management by understanding social and political constraints on coexistence with carnivores
    Equity Trustees Limited1 Mar 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • van Eeden L,
    • Dickman C,
    • Crowther M,
    • Newsome T
  • GRANT
    Mechanisms underlying the repellent effects of predator odours in rodents
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2016 - 30 Dec 2019
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    Rehabilitating a changing landscape: using the latest advances in koala ecology to direct adaptive management
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jun 2015 - 31 Dec 2019
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    A dingo for the modern age
    Australia & Pacific Science Foundation1 Jul 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Crowther M,
    • Letnic MM,
    • Fillios M
  • GRANT
    Potential for resource competition between brush-tailed rock-wallabies and sympatric macropods
    Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW)1 Jan 2006
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    Food Webs and Forest Functioning: The Influence of Mammalian Predation
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Crowther M