Holsworth alumni theses

Behavioural Responses of Varanids to Mine Site Restoration – Sophie Louise Cross (Curtin University)

Response of Australian Boobooks (Ninox boobook) to threatening processes across urban, agricultural, and woodland ecosystems – Michael T. Lohr (Edith Cowan University)

Establishing, improving, and adapting the whole-sediment toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) for use in Australia – Tyler Mehler (The University of Melbourne)

Do anthropogenic changes to marine ecosystems result in the formation of ecological traps? – Valeriya Komyakova (The University of Melbourne)

A non-invasive tool for assessing pathogen prevalence in koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) populations: detection of Chlamydia pecorum and koala retrovirus (KoRV) DNA in genetic material sourced from scats –
Faye Wedrowicz1,2 • Tom Saxton1 • Jennifer Mosse2 • Wendy Wright2 • Fiona E. Hogan

Can the native Rusty Fig, Ficus rubiginosa, beat climate change? – K. David Mackay

Differentiating pollutant-induced effects from non-contaminant stress responses in aquatic midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) – Bryant Samuel Gagliardi

Cooperative breeding in the Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala): The role of genetic relatedness, sex, extra-pair paternity and acoustic signals – Ahmad Barati

Comparing the Anti-Predator Behaviour of Australian Arid-Zone Birds with a Model Species, the Zebra Finch – Nicole E. Butler

Determining Cetacean – Cephalopod Trophic Interactions – An Isotope Approach – Christine Heather Jackson

The evolutionary significance of parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction in the Australian spiny leaf insect, Extatosoma tiaratum – Yasaman Alavi

Interactions between invasive predators, native mammals and fire in a forest ecosystem – Bronwyn Alexsandra Karla Hradsky

Effects of natural iron fertilisation by baleen whales and Antarctic frill on the Southern Ocean carbon cycle – Lavenia Ratnarajah