ProfessorMathew Crowther

Professor of Quantitative Conservation Biology

Faculty of Science

Research projects & supervision summary

  • Ecosystem regulation by apex predators
  • Movement of koalas in response to roads and vegetation
  • Koala population ecology in response to disease
  • Prediction of koala habitat using aircraft and hyperspectral imagery
  • Reponses of rodents to predator odour
  • Differentiation of small mammals using odour profiles

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A matter of life and death: extending scavenger ecology from species to systems
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Dietary shifts in vertebrates: factors affecting seed selection in desert rodents
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Dingoes goats and riparian vegetation in semi-arid Western Australia: investigating a potential trophic cascade
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating eastern quoll reintroductions - improving success ‘beyond the fence’
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Learning to live with dingoes: improving wildlife management by understanding social constraints on coexistence with carnivores
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Movement patterns and spatio-temporal use of patches by a specialist herbivore, the koala, in a fragmented agricultural landscape
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimised Monitoring to Support Kangaroo Management in Australia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Scavenging Dynamics of the Australian Alps
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Scavenging Ecology in the Australian Alps
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The long-term impacts of invasive cane toads on reptilian predators in Australia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Using Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imagery to Predict Koala Habitat: A Case Study from the Liverpool Plains New South Wales