Death After Sex in the Australian Bush

Charleston wasn't just about pizza and beer, though with any scientific conference that's always a part of it ...

First up, we'll hear about Jaime's poster. Jaime did a 1st class honours degree in the lab, studying the way Rhinella marinus (cane toad) tadpoles respond to the presence of predators in their environment. But that's not what she was presenting here ... Jaime also recently was accepted into the PhD program at UQ to study quolls on Groote Eylandt, and she was keen to get the word out there about her new study system.

Now. More about quolls and sex and the bush, as conveyed by Jaime and her co-authors on the talk, Robbie and Billy {with clarifications from me along the way}

Koala Home Ranges

In the last post, we talked a bit about what home ranges are ... now it's time to see what the home ranges of urban koalas look like!

The home range of one (female) koala.
Note there's a road between the 2 areas she inhabits!

As part of her honours research, Ami tracked the home ranges of 6 koalas here in Brisbane. She can use this data to extrapolate to the wider koala population - her study basically

Koalas in Housing Developments - The Pilot Study

We've been working on the ecology of koalas in urban environments for a number of years - but we wanted to share with you some of the data we got in a pilot study a few years ago. It told us a lot about how urban koalas make

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!