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DR SIMON WARD



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Organization: Zoology
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1982
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University 31-Dec-1988

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Female choice and sexual selection in Antechinus Principal Supervisor ANZ EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEE COMPANY LTD Postgraduate Student Research Grants (HOLSWORTH WILDLIFE RESEARCH FUND) 01/01/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Eastern pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus (Geiffroy & Desmarest, 1817)
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Mammals of Australia
    Publisher: Reed New Holland(Chatswood, NSW)
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  • Feathertail Glider Acrobates pygmaeus (Shaw, 1794)
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Mammals of Australia
    Publisher: Reed New Holland(Chatswood, NSW)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Effects of drought on weight, survival and breeding success of agile antechinus (Antechinus agilis), dusky antechinus (A. swainsonii) and bush rats (Rattus fuscipes)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Wildlife Research
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 437-442
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  • Fine-scale microhabitat selection for dense vegetation in a heathland rodent, Rattus lutreolus: Insights from intraspecific and temporal patterns
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 315-325
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  • Olfactory cues, genetic relatedness and female mate choice in the agile antechinus (Antechinus agilis)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1075-1079
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Genetic similarity, not male size, influences female mate choice in the agile antechinus (Antechinus agilis)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 54
    Page numbers: 319-323
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Multiple paternity and communal maternal care in the feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 79-85
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  • Preliminary investigation of the costs of incubation in the Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) breeding in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: EMU
    Volume: 105
    Page numbers: 137-144
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • The effects of habitat fragmentation due to forestry plantation establishment on the demography and genetic variation of a marsupial carnivor, Antechinus agilis
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 581-597
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Distribution and conservation status of possums and gliders in Victoria
    Year: 2004
    Book: The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders
    Publisher: Surrey Beatty & Sons(Sydney)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Biased sex ratios in litters of carnivorous marsupials: why, when and how?
    Year: 2003
    Book: Predators with Pouches
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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Journal Articles

  • Paternity success and the direction of sexual selection in a field population of a semelparous marsupial, Antechinus agilis
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Molecular Ecology
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 475-484
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Factors influencing paternity success in Antechinus agilis: last-male sperm precedence, timing of mating and genetic compatibility
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 100-107
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • Multiple paternity in a field population of a small carnivorous marsupial, the agile antechinus, Antechinus agilis.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 84-91
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • The occurrence of gliding possums in old-growth forest patches of mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans)
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 77-88
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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