Feral pigs 'deliberately' released in South Australia, Limestone Coast authorities say abc.net.au/news/2023-08-2…

Platypuses are hard to spot in the wild, but their DNA helps researchers track their presence and disappearance Here, Emily McColl-Gausden + Andrew Weeks (University of Melbourne) sampled 118 rivers + creeks before and after the Black Summer bushfires, searching for platypus DNA. theconversation.com/even-platypuse…

We are hiring! Postdoc in population biology, starting next year. Applications close late December 2023: staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancies/…

New paper from my PhD out in Biological Invasions. Lots of existing research on drivers of invasive predator and native prey occupancy in this neck of the woods, so here I brought some big datasets together to try a slightly different modelling approach. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Today’s Channel Country win protects this from oil and gas. Nice work Steven Miles Leanne Linard MP 👍 📷Kerry Trapnell

Can we stop looking at histograms of animal diel activity and trusting our gut to classify species diel behavior (e.g., nocturnal)? Yes! Out today in Journal of Animal Ecology we present a research methods guide for the Diel.Niche R package! #openaccess #rstats 1/7 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New paper: Dynamic shifts in predator diel activity patterns across landscapes and threat levels. doi.org/10.1111/oik.09…

Allowing duck hunting to continue in Victoria is shameful and part of a disturbing trend theconversation.com/allowing-duck-… - @JackHPascoe

Two of Australia's apex predators meet! #dingo #wedgetaileagle #australianalps #wildoz

We’re looking for a PhD candidate to lead a project on the movement ecology of kangaroos as it relates to their management on large conservation reserves. Reach out/see add for details In conjunction with Stephan Leu Bush Heritage @nswdpi Environment Institute - University of Adelaide Please retweet

Ecological factors influencing invasive predator survival and movement: insights from a continental-scale study of feral cats in Australia - Vishnu R Menon doi.org/10.1007/s10530…

Now my PhD chapters are all published and the burnout has subdued, I wrote a summary of my findings in the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand with Bron Hradsky. Managing interacting invasive predators to protect wildlife is hard work.

Controlling foxes? Keep an eye on those 'brazen' feral cats. 👀 After analysing photos from 3,667 camera traps in southwest Victoria, Matthew Rees (CSIRO) + Bronwyn Hradsky (University of Melbourne) found feral cats were more abundant in areas where foxes were baited. theconversation.com/baiting-foxes-…

Australia ranks fifth after Brazil, India, Indonesia and Tanzania for deforestation! On average, we destroy over 400,000 hectares of native forests each year. Surely we can protect what’s left. I walked in this remnant Red Gum coastal forest on Darkinjung Country NSW today.

🚨Out now in Ecological Applications🚨 "Eradicating an invasive mammal requires local elimination and reduced reinvasion from an urban source population" 🔗doi.org/10.1002/eap.29… 🧵

The first paper from my PhD is now on bioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. We incorporated temporal dynamics into the movement, selection and memory processes of an SSF, resulting in dynamic simulations that replicated behaviours of water buffalo #animalmovement

I've found it almost impossible to get an ecology paper through peer-review without comparing 50 different models using AIC. This paper is another nice example of why that's problematic. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Very pleased to announce that the {mvgam} #rstats 📦, which fits State-Space dynamic GAMs to time series, has been released to CRAN. Here is a short blog post to describe current features and future plans: ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/mvgam-on-…

We're very proud to share that Trevor Meldrum, Chair of our Board, has been named as one of six Biosecurity Mates ambassadors for Queensland. The new ambassadors will raise community awareness of biosecurity threats to Queensland's unique and precious environment.

📢New publication! AWMS members Sebastien Comte, Andrew Bengsen, Dave Forsyth and colleagues recently published a paper examining the effectiveness of professional culling for control of introduced rusa deer in eastern Aust. Read their paper: doi.org/10.1007/s10530…