Research Specialisation
Conservation Biology
Within the CEM, we have developed a broad range of skills and research
interests in the realm of conservation biology and management. Our research
focuses both on the conservation biology of plants and animals.
THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
Professor William Stock
Emeritus
Professor Harry Recher
Dr Kristina
Lemson
Dr Dorian
Moro
CURRENT POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS
PAST POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS
- Muriel Brasseur
- Suzanne Cumming
- Graham Fulton
- Blair Hardman
- Phillip Mayes
- Amanda Spooner
- Scott Thompson
- Alexander Watson
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Diversity, Evolution and Conservation of south western Heaths (Epacridaceae).
- Diseases of House Mice on subantarctic Macquarie Island.
- The genetic consequences of translocating social mammal species.
- The use of genetics to assist decisions related to species conservation.
- Recovery of the endangered marsupial Dibbler through captive breeding and translocation.
- Lizards and small mammals as indicators of rehabilitation success.
- Foraging ecology and habaitat selection of the Western Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria griseogularis) in a Wandoo Woodland, Western Australia: Conservation ecology of a decling species.
- Response to translocation of the endangered rufous hare wallaby, or mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus), and banded hare wallaby (Lagotrophus fasciatus), reintroduced to the arid Peron Penninsula, Shark Bay, Western Australia.
- Conservation genetics and managment
of humpback whales off Western Australia
