We all know our actions have an impact on wildlife, but we don’t often understand all the details. Through its Student Research Grants Program, Wildlife Queensland, funded by its Endangered Species Trust, supports the research of university students designed to help fill the knowledge gaps around our ecosystems.
Eligible research projects are those which investigate methods of addressing or reversing the decline in native plant and animal species or their habitat, or other applied conservation outcomes in Queensland.
The program continues to attract excellent applications, the most successful of which are awarded funding for their research projects, listed below.
| Adriana Uzqueda James Cook University |
Conservation of the spotted-tailed quoll across the Wet Tropics mountaintops. |
| Catherine Hayes University of Queensland |
Conservation ecology of Sharman’s rock-wallaby. |
| Huiying Wu University of Queensland |
The influence of leaf chemistry on the dietary choice and habitat quality of the koala in western Queensland. |
| Melinda Greenfield James Cook University |
The diversity and functional role of fungi in the Australian ant-plant (Myrmecodia beccarii) |
| Tegan Whitehead James Cook University |
Microhabitat use and movement patterns of the endangered northern bettong: influence of resource availability and predator density |
| Jessica Cappadonna Queensland University of Technology |
How to engage community members with nature through identifying vocalisations of threatened and elusive bird species |
| Laura Brannelly James Cook University |
Amphibian epidermal turnover rate and its influence on amphibian chytrid fungal infection |
| Avril Underwood James Cook University |
Population Genetics, distribution and density of the arboreal mammal community of the Wet Tropics |
| Eugene Mason Queensland University of Technology |
Distribution, Genetic Structure and Ecology of a new species of Carnivorous Marsupial, the Silver-Headed Antechinus (A. Argentus) |
| Melanie McGregor Griffith University |
Fauna passages as successful means to reconnect fragmented urban wildlife populations |
| Charlotte Hurry Griffith University |
Does isolation signal eradication? Genetic techniques to aid conservation of two endangered freshwater crayfish |
