Alumni

Dr Patricia Ramirez

2017 | Behavioural patterns of two native Leiopelma frogs and implications for their conservation

Dr Stephanie Price

2016 | Using conservation translocations to assess the impact of anthropogenic climate change on a cold-adapted reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)

Dr Anna Carter

2015 | Modelling the incubation microclimate to predict offspring sex ratios and hatching phenology in tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)

Dr Lindsay Mickelson

2015 | Corticosterone secretion in tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus): Influential factors and conservation applications

Dr Helen Taylor

2014 | Detecting inbreeding depression in a severely bottlenecked, recovering species: The little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii)

Dr Rachael Abbott

2013 | Behavioural mechanisms affecting the success of translocations. An investigation using New Zealand’s rarest ratite, the Rowi

Dr Ilse Corkery

2012 | Interspecific Interactions: A Case Study using the Tuatara-Fairy Prion Association

Dr Danielle Middleton

2012 | The Ecological and Immunological Relationships Between Salmonella and Tuatara

Dr Kimberly Miller

2009 | Founding Events and the Maintenance of Genetic Diversity in Reintroduced Populations

Dr Jennifer Moore

2008 | Fitness Implications of the Mating System and Reproductive Ecology of Tuatara

Dr Jo Hoare

2006 | Novel Predators and Naïve Prey: How Introduced Mammals Shape Behaviours and Populations of New Zealand Lizards

Ellen Irwin

2017 | Breeding biology and post-fledging dispersal of red-crowned parakeets (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) translocated to a fenced mainland sanctuary

Vaughn Stenhouse

2017 | Modelling the distribution of an oviparous skink, Oligosoma suteri

Emma Dent

2016 | The impacts of an introduced mammalian predator (Mus musculus) on tree weta (Hemideina trewicki) and skinks (Oligosoma polychroma, Oligosoma infrapunctatum and Oligosoma lineoocellatum) in Cape Sanctuary, Hawkes Bay

Shanna Rose

2015 | The role of New Zealand endemic lizards in Salmonella transmission in the takahē translocation network

Amelia Geary

2010 | Harvest and Conservation of Sooty Shearwaters (Puffinus Griseus) in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand

Cielle Stephens

2004 | Plant Succession, Ecological Restoration and the Skinks of Stephens Island / Takapourewa

Joanna Wilson

2010 | Population Viability and Resource Competition on North Brother Island: Conservation Implications for Tuatara (Sphenodon Punctatus) and Duvaucel's Gecko (Hoplodactylus Duvaucelii)

Laura Woerner

2009 | Aggression and Competition for Space and Food in Captive Juvenile Tuatara (Sphenodon Punctatus)

Katherine McKenzie

2008 | Returning tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)to the New Zealand mainland

Marianna Terezow

2006 | Circadian and ontogenetic changes in activity and anti-predator responses of captive juvenile tuatara (Sphenodon spp.)

Kevin Woo

2004 | Acquisition of a learned operant and critical flicker fusion rate in tuatara (Sphenodon).

BSc Honours

Willian Batson

Susannah Cooper

Richard Romijn

Joanna Carpenter