Featured in (the journal of) Behavioural Ecology!

We recently got word that our study on koala communication will be published in the widely-acclaimed journal Behavioral Ecology. Great news! Here's a copy of the abstract (or summary) for the paper, written by W Ellis, F Bercovitch, S FitzGibbon, P Roe, J Wimmer, A Melzer, and R Wilson.

(names in bold are part of our Koala Ecology Group at UQ)

Bill in the field. Photo by Malcolm Ludgate

ABSTRACT (a summary of our study)

Acoustic communication mediates sociality in a variety of animals. One of the more ubiquitous vocal signals to have evolved is the sexual advertisement

Ami Finishes Honours!

Congratulations to Ami for finishing up her (awesome) study on urban koalas, handing in a (stellar) thesis and presenting a (fantastic) research seminar to the School of Biological Sciences here at UQ!

Congratulations!

Every year, the University of Queensland awards 5 academics with the UQ Excellence in Teaching Award. It's a way to acknowledge innovative, forward-thinking ideas, as well as the ability to pull the ideas off in a classroom context.

Photo from UQ News (all 5 winners are shown with commendation awardees as well)

This year, our very own Robbie Wilson won one of these awards! (That's him on the left ... )